With your help we can produce more episodes of the newest season of this epic 2D fantasy series - every reward purchased helps us achieve this goal! Come join us on the epic journey of Tales of Alethrion!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Christmas and New Year Update + sneak peeks!
3 months ago
– Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 11:15:02 AM
Greetings travellers
I hope you all had some amazing holidays and celebrated the new year like Champions. I can’t thank you enough for supporting this epic and crazy universe and characters. Your backing is what makes it possible for us to keep telling Tales of Alethrion stories and pushing the project forward. We hope you enjoyed the Ballad of Halima episode and are ready for some more this year.
We made a little update video for you that gives an idea of where we are with shipping, production and some teases of upcoming films / episodes ( like “Power of Resurrection - part 2” and the full intro song called “Alethrion Rhapsody”. We have poured our hearts and souls into it, so we hope it will be worth the wait. The next one is the second episode of a greater arc called Power of Resurrection, and it is as you know centered around the demon Greed and Mik. Here in the beginning of the year we start making character introductions of the new characters and mini episodes leading up to the new one.
See the update video below *replace Merry Christmas with Happy New year ¬ᴗ¬˵
We are still in production and post-production this Spring, and will come with a release date when we are closer to finish - montage music and score is beginning in the next couple of weeks.
As I wrote in our previous update, we are late with the shipping for the pledges, but we do our best to get everything out to you here in the Spring of 2026.
Thanks for being part of this journey - you all rock and roll. We hope we can add a little epicness to your 2026. Help us by sharing, commenting and liking our videos so we can get more eyes on the films.
Grandest of High Fives.
Mikkel Mainz & the Skjaldborn team
Get ready for Ballad of Halima!
6 months ago
– Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 10:58:43 AM
Greetings traveler!
The waiting time is almost over. Ballad of Halima will premiere on October 8th – together with the new intro!
Ballad of Halima will premiere on Tales of Alethrion's YouTube Channel - lust follow the LINK. The countdown has begun!
This will be an episode following the events of Power of Resurrection, but also explaining some deep lore from the universe. We are super excited to share the new episode and intro with you and hear what you think!
Check out the teaser for Ballad of Halima to get your hype up before the release!
Festival season
Ballad of Halima has already had its first encounter with the audience at both the Odense International Film Festival and the children's and youth festival, Buster, in Denmark. At Buster we actually screened all the main episodes of Tales of Alethrion for the first time on the big screen – it was truly amazing!
Mikkel is presenting 'Tales of Alethrion' during Buster.
Before the screening, the audience could explore the universe through creative workshops. It was amazing to see that also children like the world of Alethrion!
Next up
October is already here, meaning soon it’s time for the annual ALETHRION CHALLENGE! in November.
The Alethrion Challenge will be a Dungeons and Dragons like dungeon crawl theme - do you have any suggestions for the prompt list below?
1: dungeon entrance
2: monster, low level
3: fumble
4: critical hit
5: spell
6: trap
7: familiar
8: merchant
9: npc
10: magical weapon
11: bard
12: monster, mid level
13: puzzle
14: secret room
15: potion effect
16: level up
17: sneak attack
18: slight of hands
19: deep dungeon
20: avoiding guardian
21: vampire
22: monster, high level
23: portal
24: impossible feat
25: treasure
26: boss
27: escape
28: camp
29: twist
30: reward gained
In November we’ll also be participating at the Danish Comic Con with our very own Tales of Alethrion stand and doing an interactive storytelling event – more about this later on.
As teased in the last update, we are also doing a “radio edit” of the intro song, and we gotta say: it’s suuuuuper epic! We plan to release this in November as well.
To be continued…
The next chapter of Power of Resurrection is going strong with the animation looking really nice.
Exploration design from Power of Resurrection part 2. Made by Anna Fischer-Larsen.
We’ve been really ambitious with this one and might launch a new Kickstarter campaign next year to help us finalize the storyline of Power of Resurrection – because we simply cannot wait to show you what we’re brewing on!
We regularly post artwork and bts videos on our social media platforms, so don’t hesitate to click follow and get the latest updates!
Thank you for your support! We wish you a Spookytober!
High fives!
Mikkel Mainz & Tales of Alethrion Team!
Skjaldborn Studio
Postcard from Alethrion
8 months ago
– Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 03:59:12 AM
Greetings traveller!
We hope you enjoy your summer and are excited for the coming releases. Here is an update on where we are on the journey.
First stop: Annecy
In June we travelled to Annecy Festival to connect with fellow animation enthusiasts, explore the latest trends in the animation world, and pitch our own projects.
Making new friends in Annecy.
It is so amazing to meet people from around the world that know about Tales of Alethrion and love the show and universe — it’s really humbling and such an honor!
Next stop: Odense and Fredrikstad
Ballad of Halima is finally ready, and we can’t wait to share the new episode with you.
It is a very different type of episode and more complicated than other episodes. Therefore, it was also a very cool surprise when it recently got selected for multiple festivals, including Odense International Film Festival and Fredrikstad Animation Festival that takes place later this year.
Revisiting Tohan
The next chapter of Power of Resurrection is on full speed: The production is going strong, and we aim at releasing the episode during spring next year. In this episode we’ll visit both new and previously explored areas of Alethrion such as Tohan — the town where we met both Wilhelm, Vito, Mik, and Ken in The Reward.
Here is a little sneak peek of a tavern in Tohan:
Last stop: The Netherlands
Since our last update, we’ve sent out the steam keys for the Tales of Alethrion video game and are now collecting the digital rewards for you.
Also, Mikkel Mainz had the pleasure to visit our collaboration partners, De Tinnen Roos, in The Netherlands who are doing the figures — super talented people! The prototypes have been made, and we are now waiting for the final fixes.
Watch the short video from the trip and get a first look of the new mini figures!
This was a little update from Alethrion — but we regularly post artwork and bts videos on our social media platforms, so don’t hesitate to click follow and get the latest updates!
Thank you for your support! We wish you a wonderful summer!
High fives!
Mikkel Mainz & Tales of Alethrion Team!
Skjaldborn Studio
PS:The new intro is also such a banger that we are making a full song out of it. More on that and a teaser in our next update ✨
Animation by Kenneth Ladekjær, made for Skjaldborn's new website: skjaldborn.com.
Happy Easter!
11 months ago
– Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 06:40:27 AM
Greetings travellers! Spring has arrived, and Tales of Alethrion is blooming!
We are almost there…
Ballad of Halima is soon reaching the finish line with composer Mathias Valiant making an EPIC soundtrack as we speak!
We have also recorded the “voices” for the characters, including the many pooches from the doggo tribe which has caused some … let’s say experimental voice acting… here Mikkel is trying to manifest his inner Doggo.
For Power of Resurrection - Part 2 we've moved on to the animation phase, and it’s amazing to finally watch the characters come to life!
But the episodes of course needs an intro, and luckily we’ve also made some great progress here.
Below you can see some of the new environments we’ll visit both in the intro and in the episodes to come.
We aim for a release of Ballad of Halima and the new intro this fall.
New tariffs
Since our last update, the political situation in the US has changed drastically, which has, among other things, led to the introduction of 20% tariffs. As a Denmark-based production company, this change will unfortunately result in significant price increases for our American backers. Right now, the tariffs are paused, but we'll keep an eye open and assess the situation as we prepare the parcels in the Fall. We'll keep you posted.
And speaking of parcels! Besides from directing the coming episodes of Tales and Alethrion (and writing season two of the children’s show ‘Høj’), Mikkel is also making drawings and signing art books, getting ready to pack the rewards.
Mikkel has signed 200 art books and added a special drawing in each of them.
For the digital rewards we’re planning on having the deliveries ready by fall together with Ballad of Halima.
For those of you who have acquired the Tales of Alethrion video game, we’ll send out the steam keys to your email addresses during the next couple of weeks.
Stay tuned
We regularly post artwork and bts videos on our social media platforms, so don’t hesitate to click follow and get the latest updates!
Thank you so much for your amazing patience and support!
High fives!
Mikkel Mainz & Tales of Alethrion Team!
Initial sketches of Urracca's bird tower.
Beautiful concept art.
And atmospheric background design.
Have a Heroic Christmas and an Epic New Year!
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:06:57 AM
End of the year update!
Greetings travellers! It's been a few months since our last update, and boy oh boy, we got some news for you!
The #AlethrionChallenge!
November was a crazy and amazing month on Tales of Alethrion's social platforms, where our amazing followers posted artwork of different monster prompts throughout the month as part of the yearly #alethrionchallenge.
Visit our Instagram profile @talesofalethrion and watch the story highlights TOAChallenge'24 to see some of the amazing creations.
Status on the coming episodes
The next episode, Ballad of Halima, is almost finished with compositing and are moving into the final edit and sound designing phase.
We are very happy with the atmosphere in 'Ballad of Halima'!
For Power of Resurrection - Part 2 we've finished storyboarding and have made some cool concept art for the new locations we'll be visiting in the episode.
We are trying to fit in part 3 by applying for further funding, but we might have to save that for a future Kickstarter campaign.
Concept art of Urracca's Bird Tower
Besides that, we are also brewing on a new format and continuation of the Choose Their Path series where we'll follow Blenn and Jarna from Outcast's Journey.
Last, but not least, the production of the new intro is on full speed and will feature both the existing storylines and some of the future ones, including the story about Vito and Gaya's children, Molp and Agni. Below you can see some of the concept art for the intro.
Concept art of Molp and Agni.
Concept art of Blenn and Jarna.
Making of The Reward(s)!
Since our last update we've collected most of the digital rewards for you, but we want to include as much artwork as possible so we want to wait a bit longer before sending them out.
For the figurines we are still waiting to receive the prototypes from the manufacturer. They are truly awesome at their work and we are excited about the collaboration.
More comics coming!
You might remember the comic Unexpected Visitors that was released in 2022, where Gaya gives birth to Molp and Agni. Now we've added some sound and music and made it into an animated comic, that will be released on YouTube next year.
But we also have another comic coming: The next chapter of Ice Cave of Scales, where we follow Wilhelm and Tira into a forgotten grotto,is also finished and will be published on our social platforms next year.
Update video
To summarise everything that's been happening at the Skjaldborn studio and on Tales of Alethrion in 2024, we've made an Update Video where we've gathered more artwork from the coming episodes and invite you to meet the team!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Alethrion and Skjaldborn Team!
Happy New Year from the Skjaldborn characters! Made by Elmer Lødemel
