A 2025 Independent Publishers GOLD Award, Best in Fantasy.
A 2025 National Indie Excellence Finalist in Fiction.
An ancient people discover the brutality of peace in The Plain of Pillars, a sweeping mythological (Irish) fantasy and climate sci-fi series that "weaves a vibrant tapestry of hope, resilience, and magik" (Literary Titan), and interrogates the roots of colonialism and heritage.
Book I: A subversive retelling of Celtic mythology and Irish fairytales and legends.
A melody once existed. It created the Rim of the World where life lives humbly and as the limbs of the land's many colors. It was primal, untamed, and boundless. A boy, born from the yellowing mane of a horse, enters a world where gods walk with mortals, trees whisper secrets to stones, and stones morph into glistening tapestries red as blood. But it did not last...
The People of Síraide's bond is tested in the fires of slavery and war, and together they must uncover an ancient secret held in the heart of them all.
About the Author :
D. Firth Griffith is a wandering Irishman and walks the dreams of his ancestors, stumbling often but attempting to be an honorable heir in a world on the edge. He is a father, horse-drawn woodwright, magikal storyteller, and award-winning indie author of many books on kincentric rewilding and eco-mythology.He is the co-founder of Timshel Wildland, a kincentric rewilding and relational conservation project in Virginia, raising cattle, goats, sheep, and wild children with our community. Daniel lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.
Review :
"The Plain of Pillars retells Celtic myths and revitalizes ancient folkloric traditions, weav[ing] a powerful critique ... of colonization, apathy, and individualism. Griffith demonstrates a mastery of genre fiction and mythology, employing narrative techniques that are both lyrically impressive and philosophically engaging." - INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW
"A captivating retelling of Celtic mythology that will resonate with modern readers...the novel itself feels like a form of resistance against colonization and cultural extinction." - KIRKUS REVIEWS
"The prose itself is a triumph, a stunning reinterpretation of Celtic mythology. The lyrical tone lends a dreamlike quality to the narrative, beautifully blending the mythical and the emotional. Griffith bridges antiquity and the present, weaving a vibrant tapestry of hope, resilience, and magic." - LITERARY TITANS
"Griffith's wonderful work, The Plain of Pillars, transports the reader into ancient Ireland, a misty dream like world through the genesis story of a people who come from the stars...that is strikingly like other ancient narratives that proves to me that we are all indeed related." - TAYLOR KEEN, author of Rediscovering Turtle Island
"Written in stunningly beautiful, descriptive prose, The Plains of Pillars uses ancient myth to illuminate modern day issues." - JANET ROBERTS, author of What Lies We Keep
"An extraordinary book, The Plain of Pillars enchanted me into silence. A great many people should read this book and become just as enchanted. It is potent and activating, a stirring, a remembering of ancient bones and so much more and I feel this is a part of it all, it's timing is without a doubt divine." - CHELITA Kahutianui o-te-Rangi ZAINEY, indigenous Māori storyteller
"We need old myths told in new ways and Griffith's outstanding book, The Plain of Pillars, offers us a grand, beautiful, enchanting story, winding back and forth through plains of ideas and being." - MANDA SCOTT, author of Any Human Power and host of the Accidental Gods podcast.
"Shivers across the body, palpitations of emotion, struck by thoughts of awe, captivated by words-this book is felt! Weaving from a space before time, The Plain of Pillars is a poetic blueprint for reverence and morality. A great gift for a world in need." - DANE SCOTT, indigenous Māori storyteller, Taonga Pūoro musician, and filmmaker.
"Griffith weaves an epic, dreamlike mythopoesis - a powerful, deeply inspired, animist folktale for our imperiled times." - MAREN MORGAN, Death in The Garden.
