A dark fantasy world is opening here first.

Start with the book.Everything else can wait a moment.

Lead with the story. Let visitors enter the book immediately, then discover the songs, systems, and experiments that orbit it.

4chapter arcs staged
72pages ready to read
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Ben Garrard

Featured reading

Mordred's Tale

A dark fantasy novel. Morgana, Jack, and the threads of fate.

Current focus

The site now opens like a threshold into the world: story first, songs in orbit, technical depth farther in.

Read now

Enter Mordred's Tale

Mordred's Tale lives between myth and street-level survival: cursed bloodlines, old magic, scavenged relics, and people trying to stay human while power keeps asking for more.

Morgana, Jack, and the machinery of fate drive the first published reading path.

The web experience should feel like stepping into a living manuscript, not browsing a resume.

Songs will sit beside the text as companion pieces, sketches, and emotional mirrors for the world.

Reader

Read here on the front page

The homepage should stage the book and route into the real reader surface. The dedicated book reader page is the stable runtime, so the front page now works as the launch surface instead of mounting a second reader instance here.

4

Structured chapter directories already exist in the repo.

72

Markdown pages are already flowing through the EPUB build pipeline.

Book selector

Reader launch

Open Mordred's Tale in the full reader

The in-browser reader that works reliably lives on the dedicated book route. Use the selector above, then jump straight into the actual reading surface.

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Mordred's Tale

Ready

This book has a built EPUB and an active reader page.

mordreds_tale

Use the dedicated route for the stable reading session and saved progress.

Listen

Songs that live beside the pages

Music belongs here as part of the same world-building practice. For now, these tracks act as working signals for tone, pressure, and atmosphere while the catalog grows.

Visit the listening room
Companion trackRock2:50

Demon Child - (See it My Way)

A sharp-edged introduction to the emotional pressure around the book: confrontation, appetite, and the feeling of a voice refusing to be handled gently.

Defiant, theatrical, fevered

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Field noteHip Hop2:10

Greed 3.0

A more urban and hard-edged sketch. This lane can hold songs that feel like the underside of the world: ambition, corrosion, and motion under pressure.

Tense, hungry, direct

Open on BandLab

Blog, docs

The public trail should stay simple.

Beyond the reader and the music, the two places we should keep directing people are the blog and the documentation.

8 posts

Blog

Essays, build notes, and publishing posts from the workshop side of the practice.

Latest note: Building a File-Based Portfolio with Next.js and MDX: Admin System & Migration Deep Dive

Open blog

36 docs

Documentation

Planning loops, architecture notes, requirements, and implementation docs.

Recently updated: Book reader (EPUB)

Open documentation