Lore of the Lost
Your guide to the worlds of The Shadows of the Lost series
Official Works of
Shadows of the Lost
(in chronological order)
The Girl Who Dreamed of Ash (A Novella) – Available October 2025
The Mirror Sleeps No More (Short Story)
Salt, Silence, and Shard (Short Story) – Coming Soon
What You Lost When You Let Down Your Guard (Short Story) – Coming Soon
All the Lives I’ve Never Lived (Short Story) – Coming Soon
Blade Without Mirror (Short Story) – Coming Soon
The Drowned Beneath (Book One) – Coming January 2026
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Blade Without Mirror
Blade Without Mirror will appear alongside my other Kendra Kelly shorts in the upcoming collection The Girl Who Dreamed of Ash. This volume gathers her earliest trials—her origin story, her acceptance into the Sacred Ordinance, and the first missions that shaped her bond with Nova.
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The Mirror Sleeps No More
Then the whisper came: not sound, but thought. A wordless knowing. Not compulsion, not memory—something older.
Come see.
The door opened inward, revealing a chamber untouched by light. And yet she saw everything.
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The Folded Moment
The Folded Moment That cold rush at the back of your neck.The sudden stillness in the air.A conversation you swear you’ve already had. In the world of Shadows of the Lost, déjà vu is no ordinary sensation. It’s a Veil phenomenon—what the Sacred Ordinance calls a Type II Residual Echo Event. A ripple in time’s…
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Whispers of the Mirrorlock
Whispers of the Mirrorlock There is a spell older than memory.A design etched not into parchment, but into reality itself. The scholars of Pergamon call it the Mirrorlock Array—a ritual so complex it was only ever cast once, and only by one man: Velin Thorne, the Mirrorwright. They say he created the Array to hold…
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What is Illusion Magic?
What is Illusion Magic?Shaping Belief, Bending Truth In The Shadows of the Lost series, illusion magic is not a trick of light or a sleight of hand—it is a metaphysical art, a weaponized philosophy. Known also as Veilcraft, Reflectionwork, or Dreamweaving, it manipulates not matter, but meaning. Its practitioners don’t change the world. They change…
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Lore: What are Echoes?
What Are Echoes? (And why do they whisper when no one else will?) They say a ghost is the soul of a dead person, left behind.They say a haunting is unfinished business, clinging to walls, mirrors, and memories.They’re not entirely wrong. But the truth is older—and much, much stranger. An Echo is not a ghost.…
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Character Profiles
Character Profile: Nova
“Some spirits guard. Others remember. Nova does both.” Who (or what) is Nova?Nova is one of the most enigmatic figures in the Shadows of the Lost universe. Officially, he’s a Lythian—a rare, magical creature bound by deep resonance to a Veilwalker named Kendra Kelly. Unofficially? He’s something else entirely. Wise, protective, and unsettlingly perceptive, Nova…
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