SOLAS BEATHA Scots Gaelic for Light of Life
• Fantasy Writing• Art & Photography • •Mythic Storytelling •Beyond Trivar Legendarium•
WHAT IS SOLAS BEATHA:
Solas Beatha is a mythic, nature-filled, creative world where story, art, photography, and seasonal wonder gather around a welcoming hearth.
It is a place of:
•Whisper‑soft storytelling•Peaceful nature•
•Celtic wisdom•Mythic Wonder•Ancestral remembrance•
•Forest, water, and mountain calm•
•Stories that bring us home•
Here, story is a way of seeing. Nature is a teacher. And creativity is a gentle, seasonal rhythm.
Welcome Dear One,
I'm L.M. (Lilly) Christenson, a fantasy writer, artist, photographer, and creator of the Beyond Trivar Legendarium.
My creative world is shaped by the landscapes that raised me: the forests and waters of the Pacific Northwest, the wild foothills of Colorado, and the enduring echoes of my Scottish Highland homeland.
Through stories, paintings, photography, and interconnected mythic worlds, I explore the threads that connect nature, memory, wonder, and belonging.
Solas Beatha, Scots Gaelic for Light of Life, is the creative hearth where these worlds gather. It is home to my novels, artwork, photography, mythology, and the stories still waiting to be told.
Within Solas Beatha, many tales are carried by Grandma Mae, the mythic grandmother and storykeeper of this world. She is not the creator of these stories, but their guide, welcoming readers and listeners to the fireside, keeping the old tales alive, and illuminating the hidden paths that weave through myth, memory, and imagination.
Whether through novels, faerietales, paintings, photographs, or fireside reflections, I hope these stories bring a little more wonder, beauty, and light into the world.
Welcome to the stories that bring us home.
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I am a mythic storyteller, artist, and photographer whose creative voice is shaped by ancestry, nature, history, and the old stories.
My imagination is deeply influenced by the Celtic Highlands, the Scottish Isles, the Norse sagas, and the landscapes that have shaped my life.
My mind works in constellations, weaving intuition, symbol, emotion, and logic into a single tapestry. I do not write in straight lines. I write in mythic spirals, where every story echoes another and every world intertwines with the next.
I am the author of Beyond Trivar, the first novel in my interconnected legendarium, and the creator of Solas Beatha, a mythic storytelling world where nature, ancestry, and imagination meet.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and live in Colorado, surrounded by mountains, rivers, and forests that echo the landscapes of my ancestral homelands. Seasons and these landscapes influence and inspire me.
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Grandma Mae is the mythic grandmother of Solas Beatha,
a warm, wise, timeless storyteller who carries ancient tales across generations and realms.
She is not a character I perform.
She is a story‑keeper, a lore‑bearer, and the narrative bridge between my creative worlds.
Her voice is:
• warm • gentle • humorous • mythic • grounded • timeless
Her presence feels like:
• a cottage at the edge of the forest • candlelight on a winter night
• a grandmother who knows the old stories • a guide through mythic landscapes
She appears throughout Solas Beatha:
• reading myths and faerietales on YouTube • writing lore cards for the apothecary
• guiding seasonal touchstones • whispering the old stories behind my novels
• weaving ancestral memory into every corner of this world
She is the hearthfire. You are welcome at her table.
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Several Scottish clans appear repeatedly in my family history and continue to influence the themes found throughout my writing and artwork.
• Shaws - Wolf Clan
Intuition, liminality, the unseen threads, protectors of Caledonian Forests.
• MacDuffs - Keepers of Ancient Rights, Crowning Kings of Scotland,
Sovereignty, sacred duty, moral clarity.
• MacIntoshes - Chiefs of Clan Chattan, Unity, resilience, the weaving of many into one.
• MacAlpines - The Old Kings of Scotland, Ancient memory, the merging of worlds.
Explore the Hearth
•From the Mists of Alba Veil
Stories, reflections, photography, short videos, and the journey behind the legendarium.
• From the Mists of Alba Veil - fireside reflections and mythic conversations on a Grandma Mae Blog
•Beyond Trivar & The Legendarium
Maps, lore, worlds, characters, creatures, and the growing mythic ecosystem.
• Art & Photography
Paintings, annual favorites, and a collection of my most meaningful photographic work.
• YouTube Storytelling - Grandma Mae guided Faerie Stories & Mythic Reading of old peaceful readings, Faerie Story, Celtic lore, whisper‑soft narration
