The Guide to Lumen Procellae will serve as a brief introduction to the main areas of this isle which have prose descriptions or stories. In other words, this will eventually be a navigational and factual guide to the entire world.

The stories are listed in their main sequences/threads/areas, but as you read, you will find that the tags cross-refer other areas. This is because the story-threads overlap and intersect. Also bear in mind that these threads exist in a less formal storytelling structure, but this will change/transform when the novel is eventually written.

Domus Exsulis

Home of Exiles, where the Caretaker of Lumen Procellae resides. The Caretaker was appointed by the Guardian to look after matters on the Isle as she “disappeared”. This is the main area within this storytelling web, home for the records and the main storytellers for Lumen Procellae.

Expository Fragments

En Route To Domus Exsulis
In Search of a Mystery
A Madwoman, The Fens and a Creepy Man
House Slippers and a Swerving Corridor

Areas With Stories

The Librarium

Home to Yildie’s sequence (to be part of the Domus Exsulis Novel W-I-P, Watermaidens)

A Refugee from the Protectorate
Chess for the Season and All Things Unresolved
Yildie and the Arbitrator
In Which The Arbitrator Speaks of Story-Theft

A Secluded Corner at the Bottom of the Garden
The rivermaiden and the kitsune triad
At the Garden’s Bottom

The Kitchen
The Kitchen Witch Grumbles

The Courtyard
In a Real Rose Garden, The Roses Dream

Home to the Gaernic Exiles sequence, set in Gaeirn, where Deiranetta di Gaeirn ran a court before the ravages of war and political backstabbing caused her fall from grace. The tales have been removed to be re-written and perhaps re-envisioned when it comes to medium.

Areas Without Stories (YET)

The Grounds
Antechamber
A Lamia’s Bedchamber

The Mycologos Protectorate

Formerly named “The Mushroom Glade” by the erstwhile self-styled Guardian of Stormlight, currently an independent city-state run by citizens of the Glade who wanted autonomy from the Guardian’s “protection”.

Entering the Mycologos Protectorate (Introduction)
Better than Magicians
Grisette’s Book Alcove and Occultarium

UPDATES: The Assassin Within novella has been taken down, as it will be the part of a new Domus Exsulis compilation which will be released as a decently formatted e-chapbook via Kindle and epub formats. Look out in the next few months for The Caretaker’s Tale & The Dragon Who Thought She Was A Tree, with never-before read bonus short stories!

Alta Exsilii (incorporating the Lagoon of Secrets)

The Sea of Exiles is a body of water that encircles the faerie isle that the Guardian called “StormLight” and which the Caretaker rather cautiously dubs “Lumen Procellae”. The Lagoon of Secrets and the Siren’s Reef are both areas named by the Guardian and which are a part of Alta Exsilii.

Swimming in Alta Exsilii (from the Guardian’s Journal/fragment)

The Lagoon of Secrets (from the Guardian’s Journal/fragment)

Camena Draconis

“Dragon Mountain” was dubbed “The Volcano of Songs” by the Guardian, rather mockingly as she could not endure the sounds made by the congregation of dragons at every Festival of Songs.

Introduction (from the Guardian’s journal) (fragment)
The Gradon becomes a Fragment of Dreaming

Most of the original Festival of Songs novella has been removed as it is slated to be massively revisited in The Caretaker’s Tale & The Dragon Who Thought She Was A Tree, although some parts of this story-fragment (as with the Caretaker’s) weaves through other parts of this storytelling web. Please do stay tuned for more!

Nemus Animae

The woods of the soul are where the faeries may be found. Erroneously dubbed “The Faerie Grove” by the Guardian, it appears that the woods are far larger and far more dense than she may have originally supposed.

Entering the Woods of the Soul
Nemus Animae: The Faerie Tribes
A Select Dramatis Personae and Spotter’s Guide
In which Ipede discovers a flaw in his geas

Nemorosum Somnium

One of the oldest places in Lumen Procellae, this forest of dreams and dreaming has grown only stronger and more potent with time.

Introduction (from the Guardian’s journal) (fragment)
The Wild Maiden of the Trees (short fiction) (complete)
Ackbroll of the Silver Spear (short story) (complete) [1] [2] [3]
The Gradon becomes a Fragment of Dreaming *
Of Dreaming Trees with Identity Crises
In which a fortuitous projectile fractures something other than its target

* intersection with the Camena Draconis novella, as may be obvious to those who have been following the tale since 1997.

Silva Atra

Fireflies in the Wood of Spectres: Conrad’s introduction
Wages for a Spy-in-Residence; a tale of three forests*

* intersection with the Camena Draconis novella, also with Nemorosum Somnium and Nemus Animae, as is implied by the title.