This is an ongoing project exploring Appalachian settings, folklore, and
history through the lens of fantasy. The goal is not romanticization, but
respect for place, labor, and memory.
Guiding Ideas
Fantasy rooted in real geography and material conditions
Folklore as lived practice, not aesthetic flavor
Power, extraction, and survival
Magic that costs something
Notes & Fragments
The mountains remember. Not in a mystical sense, but through scars:
strip mines, abandoned towns, altered rivers. Any magic here should
operate the same way.