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Seán
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Irish fantasy writer and wizard enjoyer. Posting from the dungeons deep beneath Planet Dracula in the Carpathian Galaxy.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello! It's me! I'm Seán, dark fantasy writer and wizard enjoyer. Talk to me about kung fu movies, Souls games, and dungeon synth.

I write Shadows & Sorcery, a weekly dark fantasy flash fiction publication on Substack, plus a monthly serial novel, The Path of Poison. I also draw sometimes.
Logo for my dark fantasy flash fiction publication, Shadows & Sorcery on Substack. The name is written in a stylized gothic font surrounded by a white crescent. Some kinda scary wraith in armour! Gene freak barbarian found in the bowels of a lost generation ship. Mutated and adapted for brutal combat in the cramped halls. Atmospheric sketch of the Loch Ness Monster in silhouette set against clouds, mist, and hills.
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templeinacity.bsky.social
Lil sneak preview of who’s coming to you soon in our Joy micro issue. Expect it out soon. templeinacity.com/joy/ templeinacity.com/joy/
Temple in a City literary journal
Contributors to JOY, a special pop-up edition of Temple in a City literary journal.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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mycelialwriter.bsky.social
✨Star of Shalik✨

Welcome to a world of

⭐ Star-born magic
🖤 A demon king of starlight + shadow
🌙 A realm of dreams w/a starry palace + mythical sea
🌿 Bioluminescent forests
💫 A conscript w/an extraordinary destiny
⚔️ A stoic warrior plagued by an incurable malice


💫Coming Winter 2026💫
#FantasyBooks
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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wizardhill.bsky.social
#NovemberWorldbuilders
12. Saint Setting stories haven't really featured villains. They're investigations about some obscure cult in that world. But a villain would be no different from anyone else in intent: express their saint's power. It's just that power might be horrible.
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 12h
Hey there, #NovemberWorldbuilders! It's GOOD and EVIL week. Today, tell me about the ethics/morals of your VILLAIN. If you don't have one of those, talk about another character, particularly one who might deviate from protagonist's moral philosophy
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 2: Good and Evil 12. Villain's (or other important character's) ethics The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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wizardhill.bsky.social
The last member of a dying race quests across the world to pay a divine debt. Want to join in? Read the full tale in Shadows & Sorcery #188

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#fantasy #flashfiction #fantasyreads #indieauthor 💙📚
Shadows & Sorcery #188
This week, the last member of a dying race quests to pay a divine debt at an Eternal Altar, we take an atmospheric journey into the Northern Woods, and the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops ...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
#NovemberWorldbuilders
12. Saint Setting stories haven't really featured villains. They're investigations about some obscure cult in that world. But a villain would be no different from anyone else in intent: express their saint's power. It's just that power might be horrible.
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 12h
Hey there, #NovemberWorldbuilders! It's GOOD and EVIL week. Today, tell me about the ethics/morals of your VILLAIN. If you don't have one of those, talk about another character, particularly one who might deviate from protagonist's moral philosophy
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 2: Good and Evil 12. Villain's (or other important character's) ethics The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
wizardhill.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my fantasy flash fiction publication by the entire first entry. Share yours if you want.

From the practically primordial Edition Zero of Shadows & Sorcery.
Frontier Shrine When men began to rise from death, they were taken and sent out into the unexplored realms of the continental interior. There they wandered and eventually settled, beyond life and humanity. But alas, their curse followed them and took root in the earth, creating sparse lands of tireless winds and ashen mountains. The Undead venerated no gods of living men, gods who had abandoned them, but were desperate to hold fast and minimize their suffering. So they held communion with whatever forces they could beckon in the cold lands, building grim shrines of cyclopean stone and carving faceless idols, wherein dwelt things with no names, who began to demand vile offerings. The Undead could not be destroyed, but for every reanimation, they retained less and less of their corporeal forms. Their zeal for sacrifice, in exchange for promised powers and reinstated life, but rarely delivered, ultimately created a land of hollow ghosts. Eventually, the Frontier was all but abandoned and only the darkly curious would venture out into the sere wastes. Those who returned whispered fearfully that whatever the Undead had called down still remained in the deserted frontier, a place now home only to a race of enslaved phantoms.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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💥RELEASE DAY💥

It’s official: After 5 years of dedication & passion, Ballad’s End, the thrilling finale to The Faumen War Chronicles, is now released!

Feel free to pick up a copy from your favorite retailer via the below universal link⬇️
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The front cover of Ballad’s End, the final book of The Faumen War Chronicles.
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
Watched Demon City Shinjuku (1988)

This is pure A N I M E. I'm trying to articulate what is it about 80s/90s OVAs that grabs me in a way much modern anime doesn't. Animation quality? The stylistic sensibilities of the times? It's hard to define. But it's SO FUCKING COOL, EVERY SINGLE TIME.
shot of a red lit city sundered by two massive glowing cracks, a massive bolt of lightning descends from a colossal black cloud into toppled skyscrapers a man and woman stand before multiple large screen bearing an older woman's face, she's demanding, angry, and wears round red glasses shot a menacing man's face in deep shadow with strong, striking rim lighting and a tall red collar a man stands atop a stone mount in which is embedded a curved sword lit by a single ray of light, a collapsed building serves as a background
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
wizardhill.bsky.social
Best track in the game

NOWHERE TO RUN
IT'S ALL UNDONE
EVERYTHING BURNS
EVERYTHING BURNS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfUo...
CYBERPUNK 2077 - RESIST AND DISORDER by Rezodrone (Jason Charles Miller & Jamison Boaz)
YouTube video by Lakeshore Records
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November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
The last member of a dying race quests across the world to pay a divine debt. Want to join in? Read the full tale in Shadows & Sorcery #188

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#fantasy #flashfiction #fantasyreads #indieauthor 💙📚
Shadows & Sorcery #188
This week, the last member of a dying race quests to pay a divine debt at an Eternal Altar, we take an atmospheric journey into the Northern Woods, and the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops ...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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wizardhill.bsky.social
Second in what may be a series of heinous, hideous witch knights, given leave by their murderous liege lord to immerse themselves in foul sorcery towards the end of a decades long civil war

#art #myart #fantasyart
Pen drawing of an armoured warrior in spiked pauldrons, ribbed breastplate, tattered peaked hood entirely covering the head, and bearing a mace with very long spikes
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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i try not to be prescriptive for media but i have never once said "i hate that this game has a bestiary that lets you rotate the models."
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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wizardhill.bsky.social
In SHADOWS & SORCERY #188, the last of a dying race quests to pay a divine debt, we take an atmospheric journey into the Northern Woods, and the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops to battle his fiercest foe yet…

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#Fantasy #FlashFiction 💙📚
Shadows & Sorcery #188
This week, the last member of a dying race quests to pay a divine debt at an Eternal Altar, we take an atmospheric journey into the Northern Woods, and the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops ...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
wizardhill.bsky.social
#NovemberWorldbuilders
11. Candorick and Rudge are the MCs of the Saint Setting stories, agents of a government minister investigating cults. They are, by and large, good guys. But Candorick has overly obsequious tendencies, while Rudge's attitude teeters on faithlessness (actually a problem here).
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 1d
Greetings, #NovemberWorldbuilders. Tell me about the ethics of your MC or any character who is important in your world's lore. Are they morally good? Morally grey? Do they have a belief contrary to what others around them believe in? Are there any acts they refuse to do?
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 2: Good and Evil MC's (or other important character's) ethics The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
Watched A Scanner Darkly

Curious how time can distort perception of a film's visual style. In 2006, this movie rotoscoping technique was novel. Today, to me, it looks like a dogshit instagram filter. I hate saying that due to the sheer work put in, but I found it ugly and not in a good way.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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November #EpicFantasy author newsletter coming soon! Sign up for these reasons! 👇🏻😁⚔️
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
Every time I release a new S&S I scream "HACK THE PLANET" as if my life depended on it. S&S is free because I aint jumping through the hoops of Irish bureaucracy, I just want people enjoying my nonsense. In this way, reading S&S is an act of rebellion, so stick it to The Man!!!!!
wizardhill.bsky.social Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 2d
I kinda hope no one thinks me going "all of shadows & sorcery is free" is a flex

I'd probably charge for it if it didn't mean me having to set up as an entire business or go through constant complex income declaration nonsense, I tried that, it's shit

So S&S is free cuz fuck the system tbh
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
#NovemberWorldbuilders
10. A lot of faiths can be construed either way. The solar cult of the Communion is a necessary but sometimes brutish faith. Outside of the Communion, the blackfire faith is almost universally reviled, but 100% necessary. There's a lot of nasty stuff out there they deal with.
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 2d
Heya, #NovemberWorldbuilders. The last two days were for characters seen as pure good or evil. Now for the morally grey stuff: are there any historical figures or events that are debatable whether they were good or bad? Who are the controversial people/events in your world's history?
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 2: Good and Evil A morally grey act/event/historical figure that people in your world debate about The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
Second in what may be a series of heinous, hideous witch knights, given leave by their murderous liege lord to immerse themselves in foul sorcery towards the end of a decades long civil war

#art #myart #fantasyart
Pen drawing of an armoured warrior in spiked pauldrons, ribbed breastplate, tattered peaked hood entirely covering the head, and bearing a mace with very long spikes
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
Some dumb fuck on substack followed me claiming they "write with AI as a creative collaborator, pushing fiction into strange new territory"

Hit the block button so fast multiple people were obliterated in the impact
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
I kinda hope no one thinks me going "all of shadows & sorcery is free" is a flex

I'd probably charge for it if it didn't mean me having to set up as an entire business or go through constant complex income declaration nonsense, I tried that, it's shit

So S&S is free cuz fuck the system tbh
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
wizardhill.bsky.social
In SHADOWS & SORCERY #188, the last of a dying race quests to pay a divine debt, we take an atmospheric journey into the Northern Woods, and the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops to battle his fiercest foe yet…

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#Fantasy #FlashFiction 💙📚
Shadows & Sorcery #188
This week, the last member of a dying race quests to pay a divine debt at an Eternal Altar, we take an atmospheric journey into the Northern Woods, and the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops ...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
wizardhill.bsky.social
The Carloman story (coming within the next few hours btw) is 2000+ words long

Enjoy your whole ass short story, friends
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
This game's questlines might be some of the worst I have ever seen in my life, the conditions for NPCs straight up dying is esoteric at best and broken at worst. The best part is Miyazaki made them worse in Elden Ring.
wizardhill.bsky.social Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 4d
The DS3 weapon buff spell only playthrough is going surprisingly smoothly. So far, I've had enough casts, enough blue estus (one flask!), and enough damage to deal with everything. Abyss Watchers were tricky but I don't like them normally, so it's not the build. Carthus Flame Arc btw...my beloved...
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
wizardhill.bsky.social
New Shadows & Sorcery out later
-the last member of a dying race's quest to pay a divine debt
-an atmospheric journey into The North
-the red wizard Carloman faces off against one of the greatest threats yet

Sign up free, I do this for funsies

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

#FlashFiction #Fantasy
Shadows & Sorcery | Sean Hill | Substack
Weekly fantasy flash fiction right to your inbox. Click to read Shadows & Sorcery, by Sean Hill, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM