The Morrowdeep
Wyrm
Potipher is officially done with grief. After years of hiding away in his underground hollow, the lonely wyrm is finally ready to rejoin the world.
His grand plan? Rebuilding the long-abandoned theater in the cozy village of Morrowdeep. It’s a wildly impractical project, but it gives him something he’s never truly had before: a purpose, and perhaps, a community.
But raising a theater from the ruins is no easy feat. Between navigating local bureaucrats, wrangling gloriously overdramatic actors vying for center stage, and convincing a village full of fae that wyrms are not gods, Potipher has his claws full.
As the stage takes shape, however, so does the past he tried to leave behind. Potipher is about to learn that while rebuilding a theater takes hard work, mending a broken heart takes a village — and he might just find his home among the cast of characters along the way.
The curse is real, yet the show must go on.
Potipher the wyrm has made Morrowdeep his home, and The Rose has been waiting in the wings long enough. He must raise a new theater from the ground up, keep a troupe of eccentric performers from unraveling, and end a string of unfortunate theatrical mishaps before the curtain rises.
To break the curse, he must stage Macbeth. The only way out is through.
A shipment of starwood, the rarest and most prized building material known to fae, is finally on its way. But so is trouble: a mayor who gives with one hand and takes with the other, a faebabe in his care who deserves a better father than he’s getting, and a leading lady who is starting to see Potipher for exactly who he is.
Will The Rose finally bloom? Or will the curse have the last word?
The play’s the thing.
Potipher is turning 500 and wants absolutely nothing to do with his birthday. He spends his days in the eccentric village of Morrowdeep doing director-y things, working to prove that his dream theater, The Rose, is worthy of his late wife who inspired it.
When the mayor mandates that the gaudy Ms. Morrowdeep Pageant must be held at The Rose, Potipher and Onna are forced to juggle a chaotic beauty contest alongside their premiere of Much Ado in the Underbrush.
What a farce!
In an act of shared lunacy, they decide to mount both productions back-to-back. While managing the chaos of a double production, they’ll encounter a selfless switcheroo, a villainous bureaucrat with a broken heart to grind, spectacular and dangerous talents including bare-foot fire-walking, a half-millennium celebration, and a few budding… feelings.
Will Potipher pull it off? Or will a final tragedy bring the curtain down on his dreams for good?