The Frostfair
From Friday to Monday the Frostfair comes to Assay House. Fill frost orders, collect 30 tokens and take home a Winter bell.
A fantasy series by Justin Meadows
The Halvenar Chronicles
Novels, games and the news of a river city, all set in one original world where every kind of magic costs something.
The world in one breath
Ten thousand years ago, seventy-three refugees found heaven, and shut the door behind them on everyone they could not save. Now the door is knocking.
Three ways in
Book one
iPhone & iPadPrinted weekly
Read it, play it, walk its streets
Book oneThe Wildheart
An elf the testing stone found nothing in, and the thing that came down from the forest.
About the book →iPhone & iPadThe Games
A dark gamebook under a ruined shrine, and a cozy mystery in a ruined assay house.
See the games →Printed weeklyThe Chronicle
Letters, songs and street news from Rivercross, printed above a paper shop.
Read an issue →
Posted on the Carried Board
Every weekend
November 2026
Every week
Coming soon
News from the Paper Stair
Assay House in testing
The shop is open to testers, with eleven Game Center achievements and an Orders Filled leaderboard. The App Store comes next.
A new Chronicle
In The Hollow Bell, a fresh issue of the Rivercross Chronicle unlocks each week you play. Six are free to read here.
The Wildheart
Book one is in its final revision. The Lamp Row Letter hears the release date first.
News by letter
The Lamp Row Letter
On Lamp Row, when someone hasn’t come home, they leave a lamp dark and lay one more bowl. This is the letter for the people who keep a bowl out for the next book.
Your email app should open with the request ready. Press Send to join. If it didn’t open, write to letter@halvenar.com with the subject “Lamp Row Letter”.
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About one letter a month. What’s in it