The Cyber Lorekeeper - The Dreaming Tower Archives
A Narrative Cybersecurity Project by Victoria Mosby
The Cyber Lorekeeper is a storytelling universe where cybersecurity becomes epic fantasy—where supply chain attacks become sieges at the Merchant's Gate, authentication failures become paradox breaches that shatter the very logic of verification, and the eternal tension between security and business continuity plays out in Council chambers beneath a dreaming, semi-sentient Tower.
At its heart, this project addresses a critical challenge in cybersecurity: how do we communicate complex threats and defenses to people who need to understand them but lack technical backgrounds? The answer is the oldest teaching method humanity has: we tell stories.
What You'll Find
The Chronicles — Full narrative tales from the Kingdom of Cipheria, each one a complete story that reimagines real cybersecurity incidents as fantasy adventures. Watch the Secret Council debate impossible choices. Follow defenders as they hold the line against threats that evolve faster than defenses can adapt. Experience the weight of decisions that affect thousands of lives.
Real-World Breakdowns — Every major story includes detailed analysis connecting the narrative to actual cybersecurity incidents (SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, LastPass), practical guidance for organizations, and honest discussion of the uncomfortable truths that security professionals face.
The World
The Kingdom of Cipheria exists in the Digital Realm—a place where firewalls are both physical walls AND magical wards, where the Cloud Spires float overhead carrying communication traffic, where the Deep Vaults hold secrets too sensitive for the surface, and where the Glitchborne emerge from the wild lands in endless, evolving variety.
At the center stands the Dreaming Tower, an ancient structure that monitors, archives, and protects. Over a thousand years, it has evolved from simple tool to something approaching consciousness—a being that communicates through visions and sensations, that sustains its Lorekeeper's life as long as they can bear the weight of memory, and that has learned, in recent decades, to play.
Why Storytelling?
Because stories stick.
A technical report about supply chain compromise gets filed and forgotten. A tale about forged merchant credentials that passed every check, about seven coordinated infiltrators positioning across critical infrastructure, about the desperate choice to purge everything and accept the data loss—that stays with you. When you encounter a similar situation, you remember.
The Cyber Lorekeeper transforms:
Incident reports into chronicles worth reading
Security concepts into characters with motivations and flaws
Technical trade-offs into dramatic tensions anyone can understand
Lessons learned into wisdom that transfers
Who This Is For
Security professionals seeking better ways to communicate with executives, boards, and non-technical stakeholders.
Business leaders who need to understand security concepts without drowning in technical detail.
Anyone curious about cybersecurity who learns better through narrative than documentation.
Readers who simply enjoy fantasy and don't mind learning something useful along the way.
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."