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The Dark Razor Chronicles A fantasy–science fiction podcast series The Dark Razor Chronicles is a serialized dark fantasy audio drama blending epic fantasy with science fiction. Adapted from Mike Carmel’s twelve-novel saga, it follows Sharael Maldeen and Cullen Aven through a world of ancient technology, magic, demons, fractured timelines, gods, monsters, oaths, and war. This is a world where nothing stays buried. Not memory. Not power. Not the past. Forged before history, the Costa Novacula—the Dark Razor—is a soul-reactive weapon with hidden potential. It is not cursed. It does not thirst. It waits. Some believe it judges the worthy. Others believe it simply reveals the truth. Throughout the ages of humanity’s greatest empires, its greatest leaders, discoveries, and weapons—it was there. The story begins with: Sharael Maldeen — a woman betrayed, bent to task, Magis of the White Circle. Cullen Aven — sworn to an oath his family no longer remembers, bound by loyalty and guilt, drawn toward something he cannot name. They are searching for truth. Tangled in time. Hunted. Marked. Remembered. Their fates are intertwined by something older than magic—older than time. What to Expect This podcast is a chapter-by-chapter audio adaptation by the original author, Mike Carmel, and supported by immersive production. All writing and storytelling are original works by the author. Proofreading and formatting were completed with AI assistance, and portions of the audio were generated using ElevenLabs Technology. It blends high fantasy emotion with speculative science fiction scale, featuring: Magic and swordplay Time travel and ancient machines Werewolves and monsters Gods, demons, and hunters Emotionally rich, character-driven storytelling

Recent Episodes

End of Book 3 (S06E20)

In S06E20 — End of Book 3, the revelations of Rivett begin to settle into consequence. After Doontry Cliveborne’s explanations about the Contingentiam, the nine streams, the Razor, and the shared nature of souls across worlds, Cullen, Sharael, and DagGar leave with more truth than certainty. Cullen presses further on the Garans and learns that the threat rising in the Garden may be tied to the deepest past of the world itself. DagGar receives answers of his own, and they are no less strange. Back at Tagot’s, the emotional centre of the finale takes hold. Sharael stands before the Oath Sworn and confesses what she has hidden: that while she is truly Arael Maldeen, she is not the same Arael who ruled this stream. Shawn’s faith returns in force. Farthen offers loyalty with warmth rather than fear. And Cair, after all his doubt, conflict, and wounded honour, accepts what he can, asks to be released from service, and prepares to return to the war beyond Rivett. Book 3 ends not with final peace, but with clarity, love, shifting allegiances, and the unmistakable sense that the next chapter will demand even more from them all. Listen & Follow: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ByfAg2lBV-ZjRjP1B-PPuwAjjfya5c Rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform — it helps more than you think. Support the show and get side stories and bonus lore: patreon.com/c/DarkRazorChronicles Official site: mikecarmel.ca Contact: [email protected]

54 MIN

The Ninth Incarnation (S06E19)

In S06E19 — The Ninth Incarnation, the search for answers in Rivett finally reaches Doontry Cliveborne — and what he reveals changes everything. After Cair’s certainty about Sharael is broken in a private confrontation, he leads Cullen, Sharael, and DagGar through Rivett’s night market to an old, hidden shop on the east wall of North Chamber Square. There, Doontry confirms what Cair could not accept: Sharael is Arael Maldeen. But that truth is only the beginning. Over tea and in the shifting calm of Doontry’s rooms, the deeper explanation emerges. The Contingentiam is not merely a spell of time displacement. It is creation. This world is not simply altered from the one Sharael remembers — it is the ninth incarnation, one of nine streams born from the first. The Razor alone endures unchanged, while souls, lives, histories, and even identities echo and diverge across the streams. For Sharael, the revelation is devastating and clarifying at once. She did not soil this world. She created it. Book 3 opens wider than ever here, into theology, metaphysics, identity, and the terrifying possibility that all of this is only the first step in a much larger design. Listen & Follow: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ByfAg2lBV-ZjRjP1B-PPuwAjjfya5c Rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform — it helps more than you think. Support the show and get side stories and bonus lore: patreon.com/c/DarkRazorChronicles Official site: mikecarmel.ca Contact: [email protected]

41 MIN

Rivett Reckoning (S06E18)

In S06E18 — Rivett Reckoning, the company finally reaches the city they have been chasing since leaving the road behind. After days of tension, quiet revelations, and uneasy travel, Cullen, Sharael, Cair, Shawn, Farthen, and DagGar arrive in Rivett — a city of stone walls, towering structures, gas lamps, and old names that may finally offer the answers they need. For Cullen and Sharael, the arrival carries a rare flicker of possibility: a room of their own, a bath, a brief pause, and the chance that Doontry Cliveborne may soon unravel the mysteries surrounding the Razor, the Contingentiam, and the fractured history of the Garden. But Cair is no longer willing to wait. In a private confrontation over dinner, he reveals that he has drugged Shawn to keep him out of the way and presses once more on the question of Sharael’s identity. What should have been a quiet arrival becomes another fracture point — one that leaves grief, anger, and reckoning hanging over the table before the true answers have even begun. Book 3 enters Rivett with grandeur, strain, and the unmistakable sense that the hardest truths are still ahead. Listen & Follow: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ByfAg2lBV-ZjRjP1B-PPuwAjjfya5c Rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform — it helps more than you think. Support the show and get side stories and bonus lore: patreon.com/c/DarkRazorChronicles Official site: mikecarmel.ca Contact: [email protected]

32 MIN

Valley of Craters (S06E17)

In S06E17 — Valley of Craters, the company gets its first true look at the scale of the war spreading through the Garden. After distant Garan weapon fire forces them to break camp in darkness, Cullen, Sharael, Cair, Shawn, Farthen, and DagGar move off the road and through the woods at first light, trying to avoid whatever lies ahead. When they reach the ridge, they find a valley destroyed: huge craters gouged into the earth, scorched rings of purple-black damage, and the bodies of hundreds of High Goblins scattered across the killing field. The enemy is gone, but its methods remain. As the company studies fragments of metal and strange alchemical casings left behind, the reality of Garan power becomes impossible to ignore. Yet even in the shadow of war, more intimate truths continue to surface. Cullen presses DagGar for answers about Corbin and Azrael, while Sharael opens more of her family history, tracing the origins of her divine line back through Sias, Corbin, and the rise of Silva Sterling. Book 3 widens again here — into battlefield aftermath, ancient theology, and the unnerving sense that the world is changing faster than anyone can contain. Listen & Follow: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ByfAg2lBV-ZjRjP1B-PPuwAjjfya5c Rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform — it helps more than you think. Support the show and get side stories and bonus lore: patreon.com/c/DarkRazorChronicles Official site: mikecarmel.ca Contact: [email protected]

46 MIN

What Do You Mean, Contingentiam? (S06E16)

In S06E16 — What Do You Mean, Contingentiam?, the aftermath of Cullen’s victory over Cair forces the company into a more dangerous kind of honesty. With the duel ended and Cair’s allegiance publicly yielded, Cullen chooses not to deepen the fracture. Instead, he tries to restore some working balance to the group. Farthen confesses that Billy likely spiked his drink at the Halfway Inn, shedding new light on the ambush. Old friendships, old accusations, and the long shadow of the stolen Razor all begin to surface in conversation. Most importantly, Cullen finally shares more of the truth with Cair: that he and Sharael come from nearly two centuries in the future, that history has shifted around them, and that everything may hinge on the spell known as Contingentiam. Cair does not believe easily. But he listens. As the company settles at a shared campsite that night, tension remains in the air — from the thinning, from DagGar’s warning of something unseen in the dark, and from the first distant reports of Garan weapons sounding through the trees. Book 3 continues with uneasy trust, buried truth, and the growing sense that the war ahead is drawing near. Listen & Follow: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ByfAg2lBV-ZjRjP1B-PPuwAjjfya5c Rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform — it helps more than you think. Support the show and get side stories and bonus lore: patreon.com/c/DarkRazorChronicles Official site: mikecarmel.ca Contact: [email protected]

52 MIN