Creator of The Bloodlines of SAHAEL®
Dwayne A. Madry
Dwayne A. Madry is the creator and author of The Bloodlines of SAHAEL®, an expansive dark fantasy saga built around history, identity, culture, power, bloodlines, and the consequences that echo across generations.
A Utah native with a strong interest in history and chemistry, Dwayne has always been drawn to the forces that shape people and civilizations: how societies rise, how belief systems take hold, how conflict changes cultures, and how the past continues to influence the present.
That fascination became the foundation of SAHAEL®.
Why SAHAEL® Exists
Growing up, Dwayne rarely encountered heroes in fantasy who looked like him.
That absence stayed with him.
Over time, it became a promise: if he ever had the opportunity, he would create the kind of world he had wanted to discover himself.
Not a world where representation was added at the edges.
A world where it stood at the center.
That promise became SAHAEL®.
What began as a personal creative project evolved into a far larger undertaking: a mythology with its own histories, civilizations, bloodlines, migrations, conflicts, cultures, legends, and consequences.
The result is a world designed to feel ancient, lived-in, and larger than any single character or book.
A World Built From Questions
At its core, SAHAEL® is driven by questions.
What do people inherit from those who came before them?
How does power reshape history?
What causes societies to divide?
What happens when hatred survives longer than the people who created it?
Who controls the stories that are remembered?
And what happens when the past refuses to stay buried?
Through dark and historical fantasy, The Bloodlines of SAHAEL® explores these questions through generations of characters whose choices become the foundations, burdens, and conflicts inherited by those who follow.
The series draws inspiration from history, the African diaspora, migration, identity, culture, and the complicated ways human beings organize themselves around blood, belief, power, and belonging.
More Than Representation
For Dwayne, SAHAEL® was never simply about placing different faces inside a familiar fantasy formula.
The ambition was larger.
Build another mythology.
Create civilizations with their own histories.
Create characters shaped by cultures that existed before they were born.
Create conflicts whose origins may stretch back generations.
Create a world where no kingdom, bloodline, belief, or victory exists without consequence.
That philosophy is woven throughout The Bloodlines of SAHAEL®.
Every story belongs to something larger.
Every generation inherits something.
And every choice leaves something behind.
The Mission
The first responsibility of SAHAEL® is to tell a compelling story.
To create characters worth following.
Mysteries worth uncovering.
Conflicts worth caring about.
And a world readers want to return to.
But beneath the story is another purpose: curiosity.
Curiosity about history.
Curiosity about identity.
Curiosity about the stories civilizations tell about themselves.
Curiosity about whose voices survive.
And curiosity about how decisions made long ago can shape people who were not yet born when those decisions were made.
At its heart, The Bloodlines of SAHAEL® is a saga about people, power, inheritance, identity, and consequence.
Enter the World
The Bloodlines of SAHAEL® is designed as a long-form, interconnected saga.
Each book reveals another part of the world, its history, its people, and the forces shaping its future.
For new readers, there is only one place to begin:
Volume One, Book One.