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Christian A. Larsen

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  • From Thieves to Sleuths: Reimagining AD&D 1e Classes

    The character classes of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition are more than game mechanics. Their names are artifacts of fantasy history: a mixture of… Read more.

  • Fire the Headcanon: Sauron’s Failed Successor

    Note: This account is not drawn from the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and is not part of the established legendarium. It is a work of… Read more.

  • After The Odyssey, Hollywood Should Look to Wagner’s The Valkyrie

    The early enthusiasm surrounding Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey points to something easy to overlook in an era of cinematic universes and algorithmically optimized entertainment: audiences… Read more.

On the Michigan shore…

Christian A. Larsen

Speculative fiction (J.R.R. Tolkien, Rod Serling, Stephen King) is my jam, but I also dig literary fiction (John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald).

I write better than I publish. Losing Touch and The Blackening of Flesh are both out of print. :(

The Author

Freshly-Imagined Sightlines in Fantasy, Myth, and Legend

—Enjoy! Or not.

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  • From Thieves to Sleuths: Reimagining AD&D 1e Classes

    Jul 26, 2026
  • Fire the Headcanon: Sauron’s Failed Successor

    Jul 19, 2026
  • After The Odyssey, Hollywood Should Look to Wagner’s The Valkyrie

    Jul 12, 2026

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