The Draig Dispatch
Fantasy imprint · Series one — Den
Real, physical letters, delivered each month directly to your home. Den writes from the far side of the mountain, and the post brings it to you.
Read the lore and the letter-writer's note before you decide.
What the post brings
Sealed by hand, Sagasmith LLC
What arrives
Four to six pages in Den's own hand, folded, addressed to you by name. Nothing is reprinted online.
A pressed leaf, a ticket stub, a torn map corner. Small evidence that the mountain is real.
Wax, pressed with the Draig crest. It breaks once, and only for you.
Series one
Twelve letters from a keeper of a dying beacon, written across one turning of the year. Begin at letter one whenever you join.
Lore · the Fantasy imprint
A mountain kingdom that keeps its records in letters because its roads are too poor for anything else. Den keeps the last beacon on the northern ridge. His post takes eleven days to reach the coast, which is why yours takes a month.
Three things to know
A history in four turns
The dragon is seen once, over the northern ridge, and the beacons are built to watch for it.
Caer Fain wins the right to tax the light. Six beacons go dark within a decade.
The Ferrymen take the post routes. Letters become the only record the kingdom keeps.
Den writes to a stranger on the coast, because a beacon-keeper is not permitted to write to anyone at home.
From letter one
Every subscription starts at letter one, whatever month you join. The arc closes twelve letters later.
You will not know me, and I have been told that is the point. The Ferrymen take one letter a month from this station and I am permitted to fill it however I like, so long as I name no one in the valley.
So: the fire is lit, the winter is coming in from the west, and there is something on the ridge that is not weather.
About
The Draig Dispatch began with a question: what if a story arrived the way news from a friend does — slowly, in an envelope, in handwriting you come to know. Each series is written to be read once a month, at the pace it was set down.
There is no app, no feed, and no archive. If you miss a letter we will post it again. Sagasmith LLC does business as The Draig Dispatch, from a small room with a very large map on the wall.
What we hold to
One letter a month is the whole product. Nothing is dripped, bundled, or upsold.
Paper, ink, wax, stamp. Written to be kept in a drawer, not a folder.
Den has a name, a village, and a debt. The world is drawn narrow so it can be drawn well.
Contact
Missing letter, changed address, a question for Den. One person reads all of it, usually within two days.
Subscribe
We've noted the order — nothing is actually charged on this preview site. Watch the post at the start of next month.