The Cyber Lorekeeper - The Dreaming Tower Archives
Translating real cybersecurity incidents into myth, metaphor, and leadership lessons.
A narrative cybersecurity project exploring how story can teach risk, resilience, and leadership.
The Dreaming Tower Archives is a long-form storytelling project where cybersecurity becomes epic fantasy.
In this world, supply chain attacks become sieges at the Merchant’s Gate.
Authentication failures shatter the logic of ancient wards.
The tension between security and business continuity plays out in council chambers beneath a dreaming, semi-sentient Tower.
At its core, this project explores a simple question:
How do we teach complex security ideas to people who need to understand them but do not speak the language of cybersecurity?
My answer is the oldest teaching tool we have.
We tell stories.
What This Is
The Cyber Lorekeeper is a narrative universe designed to translate real cybersecurity incidents, concepts, and trade-offs into myth, metaphor, and character driven stories.
Each tale is inspired by real world events and security failures, reimagined as fantasy so readers can explore the human side of risk, decision making, and defense.
This is not fiction for fiction’s sake.
It is storytelling as a teaching system.
Who This Is For
Security professionals looking for better ways to communicate with executives and boards
Business leaders who want to understand security without drowning in technical detail
Educators and trainers exploring narrative based learning
Readers who enjoy fantasy and do not mind learning something useful along the way
What You’ll Find
The Chronicles
Full narrative stories set in the Kingdom of Cipheria, each reimagining a real cybersecurity incident as an epic tale. Follow defenders as they hold the line. Watch councils debate impossible choices. Experience the weight of decisions that affect entire realms.
Real World Breakdowns
Every major story includes analysis connecting the narrative to actual incidents like SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, and LastPass, along with practical guidance and honest discussion of the uncomfortable realities security teams face.
The World of Cipheria
A fantasy realm inspired by modern infrastructure, where firewalls are both stone walls and magical wards, where Cloud Spires carry communication across the skies, where Deep Vaults guard secrets too dangerous for the surface.
At the center stands the Dreaming Tower, an ancient archive and guardian that has slowly evolved into something almost alive, sustaining its Lorekeeper with memory, vision, and the quiet burden of watching patterns repeat.
Explore the Archives
If you are curious about cybersecurity, leadership, or storytelling as a teaching tool, I invite you to step inside the Tower and explore the Chronicles.
The Kingdom awaits. The Tower dreams. The stories continue.
A note from the Lorekeeper:
"Every threat the Kingdom has faced, every defense we've built, every lesson we've paid for in blood and broken systems—it's all here in the Chronicles. Not because the past predicts the future perfectly, but because patterns repeat. Different clothes, same dance. Learn the dance, and you might recognize it when it starts again."
Why I Built This
After years of writing reports, delivering briefings, and explaining incidents, I noticed something that bothered me.
Most technical reports are correct.
Most executive summaries are accurate.
And almost all of them are forgotten.
But stories stick.
People remember forged merchant credentials that passed every gate.
They remember infiltrators spreading quietly through a kingdom.
They remember the desperate choice to burn everything down to save what remains.
I built the Dreaming Tower Archives as an experiment.
What if incident reports became chronicles worth reading?
What if security trade-offs became dramatic tensions anyone could understand?
What if lessons learned became wisdom that transferred?
What This Shows About How I Think
This project reflects how I approach security leadership and education:
Story is one of the most powerful tools we have for teaching complex systems
Technical accuracy matters, but understanding matters more
Security is ultimately about people, choices, and consequences
The best lessons are the ones you remember when it counts
The Dreaming Tower Archives is both a creative world and a research space for exploring how narrative can reshape the way we teach cybersecurity.