#lost knowledge

Wizard of Madeira is a series of mystical chronicles set on the enchanted island of Madeira, where mist-shrouded forests, ancient mountains, and forgotten histories intertwine.

Set across multiple centuries, travelers, pirates, lovers, wanderers, and dreamers encounter strange coincidences, haunting memories, and moments of impossible recognition. These stories explore eternal recurrence, déjà vu, love and loss, hidden worlds within nature, and the mysterious forces that seem to guide human destiny.

Blending gothic atmosphere with magical realism and real historical events from Madeira’s past, the chronicles invite readers into a mystical landscape where myth and memory blur.

Have you ever noticed how blood, innocence, and power keep showing up in the same stories?

I’m not talking about the gothic fantasy of vampires. Not the Dracula kind of vampirism but something much older than that. Something that is quieter. Something that feeds.

Something like psychological vampirism.

Across ancient civilizations long before modern empires there were stories of a parasitic force that couldn’t create life of its own, only attach itself to it. A presence spoken of in myth, in early religions, even in Babylonian and pre-Babylonian cosmologies.

Systems like this don’t survive by creating anything of their own. They survive by feeding on fear, on control, on attention, on emotional charge, on innocence.

Reading, 2010

@ Praça da Fruta, Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal