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Michael Roberti

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About Michael Roberti

From the time I was young, I loved books and words.
I was born in Maryland, and lived there until I was 9. Early on in my educational experience I found a love of books and poems, and the librarians of Laurel, Maryland knew me by name.

Later, I moved to Florida with my family. I continued my love of books and have fond memories of ignoring teachers’ lessons, so I could pillage their classroom libraries.

Eventually, I started a punk band with my best friend and we put out a few EPs and even did a full Florida tour. I started as a lyrics writing bass player, and eventually got the confidence to become the vocalist.

My band eventually broke up, and I did the only two things I could think to do: learn how to play Dungeons and D About Michael Roberti

From the time I was young, I loved books and words.
I was born in Maryland, and lived there until I was 9. Early on in my educational experience I found a love of books and poems, and the librarians of Laurel, Maryland knew me by name.

Later, I moved to Florida with my family. I continued my love of books and have fond memories of ignoring teachers’ lessons, so I could pillage their classroom libraries.

Eventually, I started a punk band with my best friend and we put out a few EPs and even did a full Florida tour. I started as a lyrics writing bass player, and eventually got the confidence to become the vocalist.

My band eventually broke up, and I did the only two things I could think to do: learn how to play Dungeons and Dragons and go to college.

I graduated from Appalachian Stare University in Boone North Carolina with a degree in English, Secondary Education in 2011. Somewhere in this adventure I decided to stay in NC.

Over the last 10+ years I’ve been: teaching, getting married, having two kids, and playing tons of DnD.

I came up with the world that would become Aithe in 2013, and the basic plot for The Traitors We Are in 2015, but could never find the motivation to write. For years these thoughts only coalesced into lore for the world I was DMing. In 2021, I decided to get serious about writing and Traitors was born.

The question I get asked the most is, “What gave you the idea to write about a world where writing disappears when someone dies?”

That’s tough to answer. I remember when the idea occurred to me, and I think there are two parts to it. The first is that history is already manipulated by the “winners” and those that write it down. How much of what we “know” is actually true?

The other thought was that there is already so much lost knowledge in our world. How much more would be lost if we lived on a world like Aithe? Even small wonders of technology would seem like magic if they had been lost for centuries. The words themselves would become the real magic.

So, that’s me. I love writing and words and believe in their power. I hope you join me on this journey as I attempt to make some magic of my own. ...more

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“Repeat a lie enough times, and it became the truth. Carve a lie into wood or stone, and it became history.”
― Michael Roberti, The Revenge of Thousands

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“The world is a grey place. A place of half-truths. Of half-wrongs and half-rights. Yet there are things worth fighting for, and they must be pursued with all our vigour and commitment. Half-measures achieve nothing.’ ‘What”
― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country

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“Remember this well. That is as much as anyone can tell you; the rest you must learn for yourself. Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― John Piper, Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

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“I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD” (Ezekiel 18:32).”
― John Piper, Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

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“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would we feel sorrowful for not feasting fully on His beauty?”
― John Piper, Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

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