About

Dùthchas to Arbroath is a daily fiction project set in Scotland between 1286 and 1320.

Thirty-four years. Alexander III rides off a cliff in the dark near Kinghorn and Scotland's succession collapses with him. What follows is invasion, occupation, and resistance: Edward I massing armies at Berwick; Wallace on the bridge at Stirling; Bruce murdering his chief rival at a church altar, then fighting his way back from nothing; the Declaration of Arbroath, one of the earliest documents to assert that sovereignty belongs to a people and not a crown.

This is not Braveheart. The English are not simply monsters — they are a military and administrative power doing what empires do. The Scottish resistance is not simply heroic — it is fractured, strategic, driven as much by land and title as by anything we would call national identity. The people in these stories calculate. They fear. They act anyway, or they don't.

The project

Each day brings a new piece: a short story, a letter, a dispatch, a character study. The history is real. The voices are imagined.

The project is automated — a publishing pipeline generates a new piece each day and delivers it to subscribers by email. There is no editor at a desk. There is no merchandise or Discord or community to join. There is only the daily piece and the history it reaches toward.

The word dùthchas moves through these stories without explanation. Let it mean what it comes to mean.

If that sounds like something you want, you know what to do.