Christopher Hannon · Author & creator
A world
between the pages.
Begin with The King’s Road, Volume I of The First Chronicle: Stone and Oath.
Scroll into the story ↓A world
The novel · Prologue
The Watcher
“Wood cracked in the fire. Heimdall heard the break before the flame found it.”
A first glimpse from the public reading sample. The book opens beside the Bifröst, with Heimdall keeping watch.
Beyond the page
A city begins
to wake.
“Below the bridge, water ran through a channel between the houses. Heimdall heard the first doors open.”
Asgard visual-development study. An illustration of the world being built, not finished screen footage.
The road ahead
Follow the story.
An eastern patrol has fallen silent. Thor rides out to find the missing men and bring his warriors home.
Read the opening →Page and screen. “The Watcher” is the novel’s prologue title and the title of the television pilot. They are distinct works within Echoes of Asgard. This introduction quotes only the public book sample; it does not publish the screenplay.
Welcome transcript & visual notes
The book cover is the published artwork. World images are existing Unreal visual-development studies. The page-opening effect is a lightweight visual presentation, not a fully navigable 3D environment.
Hearth Studios · Official Broadcast Board
Dispatches from the Realm
Curated announcements for readers, production partners, and visiting bookshops. Use the board controls to step through current posters at your own pace.
Official announcements · broadcast only
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About Christopher and his work
The writing room / Christopher Hannon
Christopher
Hannon.
I went looking for the people behind the gods.
Author of The King’s Road and creator of Echoes of Asgard. Stories, research and the ordinary lives underneath mythology.
01 / The author · Christopher Hannon
Old questions / New ways to tell them
From the hearth
to the screen.
Earth, timber, ink. A voice. A world built with today's tools. Follow the story through the forms it takes, and the human questions that carry it.
- The beginning · Available
Read the words.
Meet the people on the road before their names become legends. Start with the prologue and Chapter One.
Request the free opening - The questions · Explore
Look beneath them.
Who grows the food? Who carries the water? What does a promise cost when a civilization is under strain?
Enter The King’s Road - The voice · In development
Listen for the person.
The audiobook is being developed. Breath, silence and the sound of a sentence offer another way into the writing.
Follow the audio journey - The visual world · In development
See what they inhabit.
Explore the production environments and the television project in development, with their status kept visible.
Explore the visual work
A story can meet you on the page, through a voice, or in a place you can see.
Inside this approach to storytellingFrom the notebook02Research → interpretation → story
Writing & interpretation
A different word.
A different world.
What changes when a translator writes “spring” rather than “well”? A note on research, everyday details, and knowing when the invention begins.
Read the latest essayInside the process
A city needs to work
How do people obtain water? Where do they go? What connects the places where they live?
Explore the question →Where invention begins
Research asks what the source supports, what remains disputed, and where the writer is making a decision for the novel.
Read the reflection →“Then I began to look at the stories completely differently.”
Available now on Amazon · October 27, 2026
The King’s Road
An eastern patrol has fallen silent. Thor rides out to find the missing men and bring his warriors home. Along the King’s Road, the signs of trouble are small at first. The farther they travel, the harder those signs become to ignore.
Behind them, Asgard keeps working. Workshops open. Families wait. Water moves through the channels that sustain the city. The trouble beyond the walls will not stay there.
Published October 27, 2026. See Amazon for current edition prices and availability.
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The King’s Road · October 27, 2026
The first road into Echoes of Asgard.
The Kindle edition is available now. Read the launch announcement, explore the press kit and request the next official updates.
The seed
It was supposed to be a few YouTube shorts.
The project grew because the questions kept getting better.
I had been fascinated by Norse mythology for a long time. I was studying it because it mattered to me personally, not because I was trying to build a franchise.
The first idea was simple. I wanted to make short educational reenactments. Put Odin on screen as a person. Then Thor. Then Tyr. Give people something factual and grounded instead of another superhero imitation.
To do that well, I had to ask what was around them. Who built the hall? Who kept the roads passable? Who decided what happened when someone powerful broke the law? Who grew the food while the stories were busy remembering kings, gods and battles?
That was the turn. I stopped seeing isolated myths and started seeing the remains of a civilization.
The technology changed. The names changed. People did not change nearly as much as we like to think.
That idea sits underneath the books and the television series now. If you recognize your own pride, fear, family, grief, certainty or bad decisions in these people, that is the point. Maybe there is a god or goddess in all of us. Maybe that was part of the moral all along. I do not pretend to know. I’m just here to discover.
Building Asgard
A world has to work before it can look impressive.
These are current development captures from the Echoes production world. Roads, work, settlement and movement are treated as story infrastructure rather than scenery.
The King's Road West
Launching a book while crossing the country.
Gloucester to Tucson. The book was published October 27, 2026. Follow the journey west.
GloucesterVirginia
LynchburgVirginia
Pigeon ForgeTennessee
NashvilleTennessee
Little RockArkansas
DallasTexas
New MexicoWestbound
TucsonArizona
Selected writing
The rabbit hole has a paper trail.
Long-form writing about mythology, civilization, injury, production and what happens when research changes the story you thought you were telling.
November 5, 2026 · Road journal
We’ve Landed in Texas
After a nine-hour drive, an arrival update from Texas as work continues on The King’s Road and Echoes of Asgard.
Read the Texas update →Journal · October 27, 2026
What Does Surreal Feel Like?
Christopher Hannon reflects on the launch of The King’s Road, the people beside him, and finding happiness in the pursuit.
Read the journal →Creator Essay · Echoes
Civilization Before Mythology
Why Asgard needed to become a working society before the mythology could carry any weight.
Read on Echoes →Creator Essay · Echoes
Before They Were Gods
People, mythology, living traditions and the limits of what surviving evidence allows us to claim.
Read on Echoes →Production Essay · Echoes
Why the Road Has to Lead Somewhere
How geography, logistics and Unreal Engine became part of the storytelling process.
Read on Echoes →