Author name: Vaelen Thornwyrd
Vaelen Thornwyrd is a comparative mythologist and game lore archivist with a PhD in Narrative Systems from the University of Uppsala. He has consulted on worldbuilding for seven AAA fantasy RPGs and co-founded the Lore Cartography Project, mapping intertextual myth motifs across 200+ game universes. Certified by the International Game Studies Association, he lectures globally on diegetic coherence and oral tradition adaptation in interactive fiction.
