Wes Al-Dhaher
@wesaldhaher.bsky.social
Director of Tales of Khayr and publisher of "The Brotherhood of the Wolf" comic series. Click here to learn more :https://talesofkhayr.com
Goblin Slayer is one of my guilty-pleasure anime. Might lack the narrative density and pathos of something like AoT, but it scratches the itch for tactical RTS autists like me.
a knight with a red ponytail is wearing armor and a helmet .
ALT: a knight with a red ponytail is wearing armor and a helmet .
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December 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Goblin Slayer is one of my guilty-pleasure anime. Might lack the narrative density and pathos of something like AoT, but it scratches the itch for tactical RTS autists like me.
My amusing sh*tposting aside, we at Tales of Khayr care about the product, experience, and story. That's why you won't get any trauma dumping here.
December 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My amusing sh*tposting aside, we at Tales of Khayr care about the product, experience, and story. That's why you won't get any trauma dumping here.
Your manga villains get sympathy.
In my world, they get their throats opened.
talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
-Cem Demirci , Brotherhood of the Wolf
In my world, they get their throats opened.
talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
-Cem Demirci , Brotherhood of the Wolf
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Your manga villains get sympathy.
In my world, they get their throats opened.
talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
-Cem Demirci , Brotherhood of the Wolf
In my world, they get their throats opened.
talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
-Cem Demirci , Brotherhood of the Wolf
For everyone who ordered copies of Brotherhood of the Wolf (Issues#1 and#2), thanks so much for your patience.
Books are finishing up at the press now and heading into fulfillment. Most readers can expect their copies to arrive in early January. Appreciate you all being part of this world.
Books are finishing up at the press now and heading into fulfillment. Most readers can expect their copies to arrive in early January. Appreciate you all being part of this world.
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
For everyone who ordered copies of Brotherhood of the Wolf (Issues#1 and#2), thanks so much for your patience.
Books are finishing up at the press now and heading into fulfillment. Most readers can expect their copies to arrive in early January. Appreciate you all being part of this world.
Books are finishing up at the press now and heading into fulfillment. Most readers can expect their copies to arrive in early January. Appreciate you all being part of this world.
Muslim fiction usually collapses into two camps: preachy moralism or total nihilism.
But we deserve a third lane: stories that face the darkness honestly without surrendering to it.
This is the world I’m building, inshaAllah.
But we deserve a third lane: stories that face the darkness honestly without surrendering to it.
This is the world I’m building, inshaAllah.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Muslim fiction usually collapses into two camps: preachy moralism or total nihilism.
But we deserve a third lane: stories that face the darkness honestly without surrendering to it.
This is the world I’m building, inshaAllah.
But we deserve a third lane: stories that face the darkness honestly without surrendering to it.
This is the world I’m building, inshaAllah.
Most Muslims struggle with their deen not because they lack knowledge (although that is certainly a big factor, if Muslim Twitter is any indication!), but because they're fighting an enemy they can't see.
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Most Muslims struggle with their deen not because they lack knowledge (although that is certainly a big factor, if Muslim Twitter is any indication!), but because they're fighting an enemy they can't see.
Brotherhood of the Wolf has a lot of things (including a dwarf). But it doesn't have this, I'm afraid....
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Brotherhood of the Wolf has a lot of things (including a dwarf). But it doesn't have this, I'm afraid....
In the dying light of the Byzantine Empire, a cowardly Janissary is sent to collect the Sultan’s blood tax.
But the villages are empty.
Something else has come to claim the children first.
Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax:https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
But the villages are empty.
Something else has come to claim the children first.
Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax:https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
October 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In the dying light of the Byzantine Empire, a cowardly Janissary is sent to collect the Sultan’s blood tax.
But the villages are empty.
Something else has come to claim the children first.
Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax:https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
But the villages are empty.
Something else has come to claim the children first.
Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax:https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
Brotherhood of the Wolf respects its readers enough to have some romance amidst the swashbuckling adventures without bogging down the action with 🌽.
(Excerpt below from our upcoming False Light novella. Something might be blossoming between Tahsin and Jelena, a Serbian tavern owner.)
(Excerpt below from our upcoming False Light novella. Something might be blossoming between Tahsin and Jelena, a Serbian tavern owner.)
October 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Brotherhood of the Wolf respects its readers enough to have some romance amidst the swashbuckling adventures without bogging down the action with 🌽.
(Excerpt below from our upcoming False Light novella. Something might be blossoming between Tahsin and Jelena, a Serbian tavern owner.)
(Excerpt below from our upcoming False Light novella. Something might be blossoming between Tahsin and Jelena, a Serbian tavern owner.)
For years, fantasy readers were told what they wanted: brooding immortals, mortal girls with destiny issues, prophecies of love and doom, etc. Logic said this was right, of course. You write what sells.
October 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
For years, fantasy readers were told what they wanted: brooding immortals, mortal girls with destiny issues, prophecies of love and doom, etc. Logic said this was right, of course. You write what sells.
You can never have too much Brotherhood of the Wolf in your life, so here’s a little more...on us!
Check out the link for exclusive FREE trailer for newsletter subscribers, giving you a first glimpse of the Blood Tax arc and the dark world behind the Veil: talesofkhayr.com
Check out the link for exclusive FREE trailer for newsletter subscribers, giving you a first glimpse of the Blood Tax arc and the dark world behind the Veil: talesofkhayr.com
Tales of Khayr
talesofkhayr.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can never have too much Brotherhood of the Wolf in your life, so here’s a little more...on us!
Check out the link for exclusive FREE trailer for newsletter subscribers, giving you a first glimpse of the Blood Tax arc and the dark world behind the Veil: talesofkhayr.com
Check out the link for exclusive FREE trailer for newsletter subscribers, giving you a first glimpse of the Blood Tax arc and the dark world behind the Veil: talesofkhayr.com
Writers love to dream up worlds and type “The End.” Few like pruning tropes. I cut Koja, my iron-masked giant as the main character; it hurt but the story bloomed with Tahsin, a coward made hero. Sanderson warns: clichés choke books. Fantasy thrives only when we pull weeds. Sharpen your shears.
October 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Writers love to dream up worlds and type “The End.” Few like pruning tropes. I cut Koja, my iron-masked giant as the main character; it hurt but the story bloomed with Tahsin, a coward made hero. Sanderson warns: clichés choke books. Fantasy thrives only when we pull weeds. Sharpen your shears.
My business, independent fantasy publishing (graphic novels, prose, video games) revolves around the public’s stubborn belief that originality must lie in the avoidance of “tropes,” that if purged of enemies-to-lovers, fated mates, or fae courts, the genre would suddenly feel fresh again.
October 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
My business, independent fantasy publishing (graphic novels, prose, video games) revolves around the public’s stubborn belief that originality must lie in the avoidance of “tropes,” that if purged of enemies-to-lovers, fated mates, or fae courts, the genre would suddenly feel fresh again.
The Challah Speaks: A Haiku
August heat thickens—
her courtroom scent: rising dough.
The jury gags, laughs.
August heat thickens—
her courtroom scent: rising dough.
The jury gags, laughs.
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Challah Speaks: A Haiku
August heat thickens—
her courtroom scent: rising dough.
The jury gags, laughs.
August heat thickens—
her courtroom scent: rising dough.
The jury gags, laughs.
Laura's Yeast: A Haiku
Summer kitchen war—
her sword of wet bread rises…
a throne of toast crumbs.
Summer kitchen war—
her sword of wet bread rises…
a throne of toast crumbs.
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Laura's Yeast: A Haiku
Summer kitchen war—
her sword of wet bread rises…
a throne of toast crumbs.
Summer kitchen war—
her sword of wet bread rises…
a throne of toast crumbs.
They said I’d need to crowdfund—I bankrolled it myself.
No ads. No distributor.
Just a story worth reading and enough skin in the game to make it dangerous.
Showed up with physical copies. Didn’t pitch to suits—pitched to readers.
No ads. No distributor.
Just a story worth reading and enough skin in the game to make it dangerous.
Showed up with physical copies. Didn’t pitch to suits—pitched to readers.
May 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
They said I’d need to crowdfund—I bankrolled it myself.
No ads. No distributor.
Just a story worth reading and enough skin in the game to make it dangerous.
Showed up with physical copies. Didn’t pitch to suits—pitched to readers.
No ads. No distributor.
Just a story worth reading and enough skin in the game to make it dangerous.
Showed up with physical copies. Didn’t pitch to suits—pitched to readers.
They tell you the main character has to be likable.
Relatable. Morally clean. Easy to root for.
But likable isn’t unforgettable.
Relatable. Morally clean. Easy to root for.
But likable isn’t unforgettable.
May 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
They tell you the main character has to be likable.
Relatable. Morally clean. Easy to root for.
But likable isn’t unforgettable.
Relatable. Morally clean. Easy to root for.
But likable isn’t unforgettable.
Everyone’s pitching “great worldbuilding” and “cool magic systems.”
That’s why nobody’s getting hooked.
Worldbuilding isn’t the product. Neither is magic.
The product is wonder. Transport. Obsession.
You’re not buying what’s in the book.
You’re buying what happens to your heart—on page one.
That’s why nobody’s getting hooked.
Worldbuilding isn’t the product. Neither is magic.
The product is wonder. Transport. Obsession.
You’re not buying what’s in the book.
You’re buying what happens to your heart—on page one.
May 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Everyone’s pitching “great worldbuilding” and “cool magic systems.”
That’s why nobody’s getting hooked.
Worldbuilding isn’t the product. Neither is magic.
The product is wonder. Transport. Obsession.
You’re not buying what’s in the book.
You’re buying what happens to your heart—on page one.
That’s why nobody’s getting hooked.
Worldbuilding isn’t the product. Neither is magic.
The product is wonder. Transport. Obsession.
You’re not buying what’s in the book.
You’re buying what happens to your heart—on page one.
Everyone thinks the hard part is writing a story.
It’s not.
The hard part is weaving every scene, subplot, and beat into a unified emotional symphony.
It’s not.
The hard part is weaving every scene, subplot, and beat into a unified emotional symphony.
May 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Everyone thinks the hard part is writing a story.
It’s not.
The hard part is weaving every scene, subplot, and beat into a unified emotional symphony.
It’s not.
The hard part is weaving every scene, subplot, and beat into a unified emotional symphony.
Everyone’s a “fantasy book” now.
Translation: There’s no plot, no voice, no stakes—just a pretty cover, a trope checklist, and a viral TikTok.
Real stories don’t scream for attention. They take it—and don’t let go.
Translation: There’s no plot, no voice, no stakes—just a pretty cover, a trope checklist, and a viral TikTok.
Real stories don’t scream for attention. They take it—and don’t let go.
April 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Everyone’s a “fantasy book” now.
Translation: There’s no plot, no voice, no stakes—just a pretty cover, a trope checklist, and a viral TikTok.
Real stories don’t scream for attention. They take it—and don’t let go.
Translation: There’s no plot, no voice, no stakes—just a pretty cover, a trope checklist, and a viral TikTok.
Real stories don’t scream for attention. They take it—and don’t let go.
Yes......I talked to literal witches🪄
Watch it before the next " mystic fantasy" you read turns out to be another re-skinned D&D campaign.
youtu.be/KUH4uNz1F4o?...
Watch it before the next " mystic fantasy" you read turns out to be another re-skinned D&D campaign.
youtu.be/KUH4uNz1F4o?...
S1E35 Challenging Fantasy Tropes: A Journey Through Islamic Mysticism
YouTube video by Seeking The Light Of A Thousand Suns
youtu.be
April 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Yes......I talked to literal witches🪄
Watch it before the next " mystic fantasy" you read turns out to be another re-skinned D&D campaign.
youtu.be/KUH4uNz1F4o?...
Watch it before the next " mystic fantasy" you read turns out to be another re-skinned D&D campaign.
youtu.be/KUH4uNz1F4o?...
A decade ago, $100M could buy you a Hollywood hit. Today, it barely buys you a script where Muslims aren’t the villains.
April 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A decade ago, $100M could buy you a Hollywood hit. Today, it barely buys you a script where Muslims aren’t the villains.
Everybody wants to fall for the “complex character.”
Here’s the problem...
Half the time, you’re not connecting with "depth" — you’re connecting with quirks and chaos you recognize.
The magic isn’t in their backstory.
It’s in the feeling you get when they walk on screen.👇
Here’s the problem...
Half the time, you’re not connecting with "depth" — you’re connecting with quirks and chaos you recognize.
The magic isn’t in their backstory.
It’s in the feeling you get when they walk on screen.👇
April 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Everybody wants to fall for the “complex character.”
Here’s the problem...
Half the time, you’re not connecting with "depth" — you’re connecting with quirks and chaos you recognize.
The magic isn’t in their backstory.
It’s in the feeling you get when they walk on screen.👇
Here’s the problem...
Half the time, you’re not connecting with "depth" — you’re connecting with quirks and chaos you recognize.
The magic isn’t in their backstory.
It’s in the feeling you get when they walk on screen.👇
Fantasy used to be mythic.
Then it got gritty with grimdark.
Then it got flirty with fae boys and “morally grey” queens.
Now?
You’re reading 700 pages of therapy speak with a sword emoji.
If it crumbles the second you pull out the trauma subplot…
maybe it was never a real story to begin with.
Then it got gritty with grimdark.
Then it got flirty with fae boys and “morally grey” queens.
Now?
You’re reading 700 pages of therapy speak with a sword emoji.
If it crumbles the second you pull out the trauma subplot…
maybe it was never a real story to begin with.
April 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Fantasy used to be mythic.
Then it got gritty with grimdark.
Then it got flirty with fae boys and “morally grey” queens.
Now?
You’re reading 700 pages of therapy speak with a sword emoji.
If it crumbles the second you pull out the trauma subplot…
maybe it was never a real story to begin with.
Then it got gritty with grimdark.
Then it got flirty with fae boys and “morally grey” queens.
Now?
You’re reading 700 pages of therapy speak with a sword emoji.
If it crumbles the second you pull out the trauma subplot…
maybe it was never a real story to begin with.