Creating the Next Harry Potter Book Series – Day 237: I learned about leather, the animal’s skin.

Where the journey began.. (All my previous documented days are on X/Twitter)
https://x.com/sebastianmehl__?s=21

🪉 About This Channel

For you if you are new:
I’m building a 6-book fantasy series from nothing, and documenting the entire journey as it happens.

This channel is a long-term record of:
• learning the craft of fantasy writing
• building discipline and creative consistency
• developing a fictional world from the ground up
• and turning writing into a real career

Everything you see here is part of that process: the struggles, the breakthroughs, and the slow progress most people never show.

If you’re interested in fantasy, self-improvement, or what it actually takes to build something meaningful over years, you’re in the right place.

🎭🎬 The World I’m Creating (Behind the Scenes)

The story follows Roman Peterson, a 15-year-old boy living in modern-day London with his overprotective mother, Jane, and his outwardly kind, but privately cruel stepfather, David.

In 2025, his life is abruptly torn apart.

On his fifteenth birthday, Roman is marked with a glowing red symbol that appears on his left arm, a mark that reveals his location to a hidden society buried deep within the Norwegian forests. That same day, he is taken from his home.

This society enforces an ancient obligation tied to his bloodline — one Roman never knew existed.

He is forced to attend Northwatch, a brutal warrior school where every marked child must spend six years training to become what they were born to be.

The problem is simple:
Roman is afraid.

He has spent his life avoiding conflict, escaping into video games, and hiding from discomfort. Now, stripped of modern distractions and thrown into a world that values strength, discipline, and honor, he must confront everything he’s been running from.

The world he enters is shaped by:
Norse mythology
Nordic culture and philosophy
ancient traditions hidden beneath the modern world

Power here is earned, not given.Weakness is tolerated, but only temporarily.

And whether Roman survives depends on whether he can become more than he has ever allowed himself to be.

For generations, the society behind Northwatch has lived in imposed order, not because the world is safe, but because Norway is the only place where the world is cut deep.

Its fjords and mountains are ancient scars, deep enough to let old forces surface where they cannot anywhere else.
Long ago, when such beings emerged and ordinary people paid the price, a small group chose a different path: to bind what rose from the land through blood, rituals, and unending duty, so the rest of the world would never have to fight them again.

That order begins to collapse when Garrick Thorne escapes imprisonment beneath Northwatch, interfering with bindings that were never meant to be disturbed.

As the land starts to wake, Roman is thrown into a society built on sacrifice, just as the cost of that sacrifice begins to rise.

My Book Series Schedule: (To showcase my exact doings)

22:00 Bedtime
Wake Up Naturally (Often 7:30 ish)
10m for Toilet, clothes, basics
I Set a 30m Timer for a Morning Ritual:
The ritual consists of lighting a candle, getting my MacBook ready, drinking water + coffee at the desk while day journaling.
When timer goes off, I start 1h of minimum daily writing session.
In the session, I note creative problems that appear.
Afterward I follow my curiosity by looking at the problem list I have created, and I research interactively with ai, (ChatGPT) learn new things, and apply it to my Book Series World by noting it down into my Worldbuilding document or putting the learnings into a scene.