An original dark contemporary fantasy trilogy

Draugameistari

Draugameistari sigil with a face at its centre

Benedicta Mors

Discover the first novel

When the gods Tear the Veil and rampage in the world of humans, what could go wrong? Apparently everything.

The first novel

Draugameistari · Book I

The Sentinel
of Spirits

Dark contemporary / urban fantasy

Unpublished manuscript

There is no drama like family drama.

Thirty years after the gods tore the world apart, Cassandra Smith wants nothing more than to be left alone with a good cup of coffee. If only she could get some.

A burnt-out Icelandic necromancer hiding in the Scottish Highlands, Cas has spent years avoiding her past. But when one dark night an old friend with an old debt comes knocking and brings a mysteriously bland stranger to her doorstep, she finds herself dragged into a dangerous search for the evasive Draugameistari, the ruler of the dead, and a lost grimoire of forbidden magic.

And in a world where magic is abundant and gods run rampant, you can't trust anything. Even your own dreams.

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The author

The person behind the world

Kaisa-Leena
Arola

Finnish author · Writing in English

Ever heard of chimeric twins? Or Gottskálk the Cruel?

They are real things, although the author might have tweaked it a bit.

You see, she's a plotter. She's been plotting since she was a child, but instead of plotting for world domination, she went for a more stable career and has been working as a physician this past decade.

That didn't stop her from plotting, though. On the contrary, it made her better at it.

The author also finally has the tools to actually search through 17th- to 19th-century handwritten Icelandic ciphered grimoires since, sadly, paleography wasn't a subject taught at Finnish medical school, and her Icelandic is a bit rusty.

But all those years of obsessing over Icelandic galdr, dark folklore, history, Terry Pratchett's Death, psychology, and weird glitches of biology didn't go entirely to waste. The world of Draugameistari has been born.

The Sentinel of Spirits is the first novel in the trilogy. It is currenty unpublished.

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