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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

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Moonsign (S07E05)

2026/11/04

Cullen’s hidden fear is no longer content to remain hidden. For days, something has been pulling at him beneath the surface: dreams that do not feel like dreams, anger that burns too hot, strength that should not be there, and a moon he can sense even when he cannot see it. He kept the truth from Sharael—perhaps to protect her, perhaps because naming it would make it real. Now Karakus is closer than Cullen wants to believe, and the signs are becoming impossible to conceal. When Sharael finally sees what Cullen has been carrying, love gives way to terror, betrayal, and a question no one is ready to answer. How much of Cullen is still his own—and what happens if the answer changes before morning? Listen: https://www.mikecarmel.ca/streamcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/tdrc/feed.xml

The Shadow Behind Him (S07E04)

2026/10/28

Cullen leaves Larose with Corbin’s words still echoing and the road to Silandria stretching ahead. Sharael is closer than ever, the company travels in rare good spirits, and for a few bright hours the burden of duty begins to loosen. Then Cullen feels a darkness gathering behind them. As his body answers with impossible strength, sharpened senses, and a hunger he cannot explain, the promise he made to keep no more secrets becomes the hardest promise to honour. In Book Four, Season Seven of The Dark Razor Chronicles: Streamcast, a peaceful journey becomes an inward battle between trust and fear. Is Cullen being hunted by the shadow on the road—or changed by something already inside him? Listen: https://www.mikecarmel.ca/streamcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/tdrc/feed.xml

The Name He Gives (S07E03)

2026/10/21

After the terror of the Prime Taper, Sharael retreats from the world, but not from the memories rising inside her. What once felt like one life is beginning to separate into two histories: her own, bound to the Costa Novacula, and Arael’s, shaped by war, power, and faith. Cullen offers what comfort he can, but a quiet prayer carries Sharael somewhere deeper. The answer brings love, grief, and a name she has never heard before—along with truths that may change what the Dark Razor means to the Circle. In Book Four, Season Seven of The Dark Razor Chronicles: Streamcast, public fear gives way to private revelation. Is Sharael being guided toward freedom, or prepared for a role she never chose? Listen: https://www.mikecarmel.ca/streamcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/tdrc/feed.xml

By Her Favour (S07E02)

2026/10/14

The Oath Sworn are preparing to leave Rivett by the safer road south, but the stranger Krista Smithy has appeared again—and her interest in Cullen and the Dark Razor is becoming harder to dismiss. At the same time, Shawn’s devotion has begun to draw new believers to Sharael. What should feel like hope instead raises a dangerous question: what happens when a new faith takes root inside the established Church of Arael? Seeking answers, Sharael and Cullen enter the Prime Taper, where private belief becomes public recognition. In Book Four, Season Seven of The Dark Razor Chronicles: Streamcast, faith offers strength, identity, and belonging—but it can also make someone impossible to hide. Listen: https://www.mikecarmel.ca/streamcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/tdrc/feed.xml

The Price of Duty (S07E01)

2026/10/07

For one fleeting morning in Rivett, prophecy, war, and ancient obligations feel far away. Sharael has discovered a future she wants for herself, while Cullen begins to understand that reaching Silandria may demand a loss neither of them is prepared to accept. The Razor still has to reach the White Circle. A familiar stranger has appeared again. And Sharael’s questions about the oath she made centuries ago can no longer be postponed. If she returns to service, the Circle may gain the power it needs—but the life she has begun with Cullen could disappear with her. In Book Four, Season Seven of The Dark Razor Chronicles: Streamcast, love, identity, and duty pull against promises that have outlived everyone who first made them. How much of the present can an ancient oath demand? Listen: Streamcast hub: https://www.mikecarmel.ca/streamcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kXMLe2uC8JAoOvZDEsHh2 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-razor-chronicles-streamcast/id1831423259 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad3707b1-fd5f-4745-a5ba-baab04365465 YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ByfAg2lBV-ZjRjP1B-PPuwAjjfya5c RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/tdrc/feed.xml

The Seeing Salts (S06E10)

2026/07/22

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: [email protected]

Ash and Laughter (S06E09)

2026/07/15

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.

The Weight of Names (S06E08)

2026/07/08

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.

SPELL KEEPER (S06E07)

2026/07/01

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: [email protected]

The Betrayer’s Foothold (S06E06)

2026/06/24

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: [email protected]

Brood Mother (S06E05)

2026/06/17

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: [email protected]

Direth Station (S06E04)

2026/06/10

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: [email protected]

The World Behind the Wood (S06E03)

2026/06/03

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

Beneath a Broken Luna (S06E02)

2026/05/27

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

The Thirteenth Point (S06E01)

2026/05/20

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: [email protected]