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THE DARK RAZOR CHRONICLES STREAMCAST

Mike Carmel

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

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S6 · E19
Wednesday · 41 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
#28
September 16 · 32 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E17
September 9 · 46 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E16
September 2 · 52 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E15
August 26 · 26 min
Challenge of the Razor (S06E15)
In S06E15 — Challenge of the Razor, the company’s fragile unity finally begins to tear. On the road south, a lone call from the hillside reveals a trap: Billy and a band of high goblins step out to claim the Dark Razor. What follows is a brutal roadside fight, with DagGar’s lightning, Cair’s battlefield cunning, Farthen’s axe, Sharael’s steel, and Cullen’s hard-won survival all tested at once. But the worst moment comes after the battle. When a wounded goblin flees, Cullen orders mercy. Cair refuses. The act cracks open everything that has been building between them. In the aftermath, Cair denounces Cullen’s authority, calls Sharael an impostor, and openly demands the Razor for himself. Book 3 turns sharply here — from tension beneath the surface to open challenge inside the company itself. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E14
August 19 · 33 min
The Lost Believer (S06E14)
In S06E14 — The Lost Believer, the road south grows heavier as belief begins to fracture inside the company itself. After a morning of uneasy honesty between Cullen and Sharael, deeper questions rise about Corbin, the old gods, and the missing pieces in Sharael’s own past. But before those answers can settle, a more immediate loss strikes: Shawn’s faith in her falters, and the wound lands harder than either of them expects. As the company prepares to leave the Halfway Inn behind, Cair and Shawn’s private conversation reveals just how deep the divide has grown. Cair does not trust Cullen. He does not believe Sharael is who she claims to be. And the history he carries — buried for years beneath duty and honour — may be shaping every choice he makes now. On the road, Sharael tries to reclaim what she has lost. But doubt, once planted, is not easily undone. Book 3 continues here with suspicion, heartbreak, divided loyalty, and the dangerous truth that belief can be as fragile as any oath. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E13
August 12 · 50 min
By Her Favour (S06E13)
In S06E13 — By Her Favour, the emotional aftermath of the Halfway Inn begins to unfold. After Sharael finally tells Cullen more of the truth about herself, the Razor, and the mistake that helped unravel the White Circle’s power, the night gives way to uneasy dreams, troubling visions, and a dawn that feels far less stable than it should. Cullen wakes shaken by Tonana’s latest visit and a strange fugue-like episode that leaves him unsettled even in daylight. Meanwhile, Sharael experiences something very different: the first strengthening return of faith in her own name. What begins as a morning bath becomes a moment of divine confirmation, and with it, a fragile hope that all may not yet be lost. As the two of them reconnect outside the Halfway Inn, the journey turns again toward older questions — about gods, history, inheritance, and the world that once stood under Sias’s favour. Book 3 continues here with tenderness, unease, awakening power, and the sense that truth is only making the road stranger. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E12
August 5 · 33 min
The Halfway Inn (S06E12)
In S06E12 — The Halfway Inn, the company reaches shelter at last and finds that warmth can be as unsettling as danger. After emerging from the underway and skirting the edge of Sefla’s Deep, Cullen, Sharael, Cair, Shawn, Farthen, and DagGar arrive at a bustling roadside inn where food, music, small beer, and familiar road-weary comfort offer a brief return to ordinary life. But even in laughter and song, tension moves beneath the surface. Sharael’s jealousy catches her off guard. Cullen’s care remains steady. Cair watches more than he says. And by the time the night narrows down to a private room, moonlight, and quiet conversation, the real conflict of the episode is no longer external. It is emotional. As Cullen asks what will happen to them once the journey ends, Sharael stands at the edge of a confession she has feared for far too long. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E11
July 29 · 25 min
Sefla’s Deep (S06E11)
In S06E11 — Sefla’s Deep, the company is forced out of the underway and back into the open world. After a morning shaped by strange dreams, quiet questions, and the lingering effects of the Seeing Salts, Cullen and the others press onward through the underground route — only to find the way ahead completely collapsed. With no path forward beneath the earth, DagGar scouts a narrow route through the debris and discovers an escape leading out toward Sefla’s Deep, a massive sinkhole that swallowed an entire settlement decades before. What follows is a dangerous climb through a cramped stone passage, a steep rope descent onto a cliff path, and a breathtaking return to open air. But even outside Direth, the threat has not vanished. From the rim of the Deep, the company can still see the glow of the thinning in the north. Book 3 continues with height, exhaustion, wonder, and the growing sense that there may be no easy way back to the world they thought they knew. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E10
July 22 · 36 min
The Seeing Salts (S06E10)
In S06E10 — The Seeing Salts, the company finally finds a moment to breathe. After days of steady travel through the underway, with no sign of pursuit and only the endless rhythm of corridors, exits, and campsites to mark the passing time, Cullen and the others settle in beside a working fire. Farthen shares a powerful dwarven family spirit known as the Seeing Salts, and for one rare evening the tension breaks. Songs are traded. Laughter returns. Old grief softens at the edges. But relief never lasts for long beneath Direth. When the fire burns low and the group drifts toward sleep, the night turns. Strange sounds rise at the barricades. The sunstone shows a full Luna where none should be. Claws scrape at the doors, howls answer from both directions, and the company is forced awake into another fight for survival. A rare quiet chapter becomes a haunted one, as fellowship, fatigue, fear, and prophecy begin to blur together in the dark. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E9
July 15 · 29 min
Ash and Laughter (S06E09)
S06E09 — Ash and Laughter As the group prepares to leave the safety of the ancient elfin quarters, the weight of the journey ahead presses in. Cullen wrestles with a disturbing shift in his dreams—Tonana’s message no longer a temptation, but a threat. You will join Him. Yet in the face of that darkness, something unexpected happens. A shared meal becomes a moment of levity. Tension fractures into laughter. And for the first time in days, the group feels… human again. But the journey forward offers no comfort. The thinning reaches deeper than expected. The tunnels stretch endlessly. And whatever lies ahead is closing in. Still— sometimes survival isn’t just about strength. Sometimes, it’s about holding onto the moments that keep you from breaking.
S6 · E8
July 8 · 43 min
The Weight of Names (S06E08)
S06E08 — The Weight of Names In the aftermath of Sha’Rayna’s passing, the group descends deeper into the ancient underway—an elfin corridor untouched by chaos, yet heavy with silence. As they regroup, rest, and resupply, a different tension begins to emerge. Cullen is no longer just a companion. He is being seen as something more. First Parthis. Through quiet conversations and uneasy observations, the weight of that title begins to take form—shaped not by Cullen’s understanding, but by the belief of others. Meanwhile, Sharael wrestles with grief, memory, and reverence for a dragon unlike any she has ever known. And beneath it all, something darker lingers—carried not in the world around them, but in Cullen’s dreams. A shift has begun. And not all of it is visible.
S6 · E7
July 1 · 42 min
SPELL KEEPER (S06E07)
In S06E07 — SPELL KEEPER, the company’s flight through Direth Station ends at a sealed chamber and a revelation none of them were prepared for. With the cave-pedes surging behind them, Cullen, Sharael, Cair, Shawn, Farthen, and DagGar are forced through the doors of Chamber #5, where they discover a vast domed archive buried beneath the station — and at its centre, a dying dragon named Sha’Rayna, curled atop a mountain of books, scrolls, and lost records. Wounded by the “Weird Ones” and failing quickly, Sha’Rayna reveals that her duty must be passed on before it is too late. But before trust can be given, she tests Cullen and the Razor itself. What follows is part judgement, part confession, and part farewell, as Sharael recounts the long path that led them here and Sha’Rayna breathes her last. Book 3 turns again here — from pursuit and underground horror toward myth, loss, and the burden of old responsibilities no one else is left to carry. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E6
June 24 · 32 min
The Betrayer’s Foothold (S06E06)
In S06E06 — The Betrayer’s Foothold, the company survives the brood mother attack — but the deeper consequences of Sansa finally begin to emerge. After a tense night spent barricaded inside an ancient common room, Cullen and the others wake to find the cave-pede horde gone and the corridor outside coated in drying slime. With the way briefly clear, they prepare to continue south through Direth Station. But before they go, Sharael reveals more of what truly happened in Sansa. The demon she bargained with was no ordinary infernal creature. As Cullen learns the name Juhada Iscahrot, the Betrayer, the scale of the threat changes. What happened in Sansa may not have been a passing corruption or a contained disaster. It may be the beginning of something far worse. And still, the tunnels offer no peace. The company moves on through dim corridors and rising tension, with faint hissing in the distance and the ever-present fear that the danger below may not be finished with them yet. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E5
June 17 · 41 min
Brood Mother (S06E05)
In S06E05 — Brood Mother, the descent through Direth Station grows hotter, deadlier, and far more claustrophobic. Moving south through the cooling ring, Cullen and the others discover the collapsed edge of a cavern filled with cave-pedes, the bodies of fallen South Blades, and evidence that the Garans are using devastating projectile weapons unlike anything most of the company has seen before. Ancient corridors branch through hot service tunnels, abandoned rooms, and common areas still filled with relics of the old world. But even in the middle of exhaustion, curiosity, and uneasy wonder, danger keeps pace with them. When the group pauses in what looks like a defensible common room, the furniture proves not to be furniture at all. A massive cave-pede brood mother rises from the room itself, and the company is thrown into sudden close-quarters battle. Book 3 continues with buried war, old technology, and a fight in the dark that leaves no room to retreat. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E4
June 10 · 28 min
Direth Station (S06E04)
In S06E04 — Direth Station, the company is forced off the forest path and into the ancient infrastructure hidden beneath Dire Wood. After Sharael confirms the terrible truth behind the thinning and the fate of Sansa, Cullen and the others realise they are being boxed in. The strange fracture in reality floats just above the forest floor, cutting off every route except one: back to the old-world structure Shawn found earlier, a place known as Direth Station #66 — Cooling Ring. With distant screams rising behind them and no safe road left through the woods, the group descends into the station’s metal stairwell and into a buried network of corridors, glow bulbs, pipes, damp brickwork, and failing ancient systems. But the deeper they go, the more oppressive the place becomes. The air grows colder. The smell worsens. Something brittle crunches underfoot. And ahead, in the dim corridor, something waits just out of sight. Book 3 continues with pressure, claustrophobia, and a descent into the buried bones of a forgotten age. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S6 · E3
June 3 · 34 min
The World Behind the Wood (S06E03)
In S06E03 — The World Behind the Wood, Dire Wood’s distortions deepen from mystery into terrifying pattern. After the revelation of Direth Station and the hidden duties tied to the South Blades, Cullen, Sharael, Cair, Shawn, and DagGar continue south through the strange preserved paths of the forest. But as the orange glow intensifies and the unease around them grows, their journey is interrupted by the arrival of Farthen Feltlen — one of the Original Five, answering Sharael’s call. Farthen brings more than reinforcement. He brings confirmation. His account of moving through a second overlapping world — one filled with war, fractured sky, fleeing creatures, centaurs, and impossible terrain — reveals that the visions in Dire Wood are becoming more than brief glimpses. Something in the forest is layering one reality over another, and it may already be closing in on the camp. As Book 3 unfolds, the danger is no longer only pursuit. It is perception, prophecy, and the terrifying sense that the world behind the wood is pressing through. 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
S6 · E2
May 27 · 26 min
Beneath a Broken Luna (S06E02)
In S06E02 — Beneath a Broken Luna, the road through Dire Wood grows stranger, darker, and far more dangerous. With Razor Hunters still behind them, Cullen, Sharael, Cair, Shawn, and DagGar break camp and press deeper into the forest. Along the way, they witness impossible scenes: a brimstone-tainted mirage of centaurs running through phantom fire, an ancient hidden route known as Magi’s Pass, and an old-world ruin that seems tied to something far worse. When Shawn investigates the structure alone, he returns shaken by a vision of a burning world and Luna shattered across the sky. The revelation strikes Sharael hard, and in the aftermath, the company is left with more fear than certainty. What Dire Wood is showing them remains unclear. Memory, prophecy, fracture, or warning — whatever it is, the world feels closer than ever to the brink. Listen & Follow: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259
S6 · E1
May 20 · 34 min
The Thirteenth Point (S06E01)
S06E01 — The Thirteenth Point opens Book 3: Oath Sworn with pursuit, dread, and the first sign that larger powers are moving. After escaping the burning chaos of Larose, Cullen and his companions flee into Dire Wood, a place of unnatural light, shifting dread, and thinning reality. Pursued by Razor Hunters and haunted by the weight of what they’ve already lost, the group is pushed deeper into a forest that feels less like refuge and more like a warning. As Cullen stands watch through the long night, his thoughts turn to bloodshed, duty, Sharael, and the growing power of the Dark Razor. But before dawn breaks, the Oath’s beacon shifts from thirteen points to twelve, revealing a grim truth: one of the White Circle has fallen. A new book begins with flight, fear, prophecy, and a world moving closer to the brink. 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: mike.carmel@gmail.com
S5 · E27
May 13 · 22 min
The Oath Taken (S05E09)
Finale - The Razor’s hiss comes before the trouble does; I keep my hand near steel and my eyes on the crowd as old rules wake hungry. Sharael carries centuries in her bones and the White Circle’s expectations in her amulet—we carry her and whatever the Razor decides to name rightful. I hold position between a relic that judges intent and a city that remembers blood. In Marta’s house and down the boardwalk, rumours, challengers, and men who smell the Dark Razor gather; Cair, Shawn, DagGar, and Terrance all test the edges of loyalty. Leaving for Silandria feels urgent and fragile—every step could be a challenge, every salute a signal. I try to keep Sharael safe while the contract-bound sword and the Circle’s authority start sorting who stands and who falls. — Listen & Follow: https://feed.podbean.com/tdrc/feed.xml podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Explore More: mikecarmel.ca/streamcast New here? Start from the beginning or jump in with this episode. Follow the show to get new episodes as they release. — The Dark Razor Chronicles Streamcast, Season 5 — an epic fantasy audio series. Links: Podcast / RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/tdrc/feed.xml Website / Streamcast: https://mikecarmel.ca/streamcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ByfAg2lBV-ZjRjP1B-PPuwAjjfya5c Newsletter: https://mikecarmel.ca Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579112888726 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikecarmeltdrc/ X: https://x.com/MikeCarmelTDRC Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/thedarkrazorchronicles Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DarkRazorChronicles ⭐ Rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform — it helps more than you think.

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