How it all began—Nature’s inspirations
The vision began here—kayaking Kingdom Lake, British Columbia, Canada—the moment I understood what had always been there: a jagged rock rising from the water like an ancient Sphinx, and I named it Maalik, Chief of the Dark Angels. Its malformed bite, grim malocclusion, seeping pus and blood—legs sinking into the depths—hulking, primeval, watching. The rock loomed, its jagged snout jutting into the water, rough yet unmistakable: a prehistoric sentinel, a beast carved from the bones of the world, etched into the Cascade Mountains along the Pacific Ring of Fire. From there, The Lost World of Mythoamphibia was born.
Michael J. Meraw (Major, Retired), CD, MBA, BComm, AGDM, SCPM (Stanford University) is an author whose work delves into the dark intersection of environmental collapse, existential reckoning, and humanity’s unrelenting impact on the planet and on the vulnerable lives caught inside its systems of power. As a former military pilot and corporate aerospace leader, he brings a hard-won perspective on survival, control, and power dynamics that shapes his exploration of humanity’s tenuous hold on the natural world.
He channels these experiences into narratives that challenge the myth of human dominance. His stories trace what happens when the earth stops forgiving us—when rivers remember, forests reclaim, species speak back, and when human-made systems like cartel camps become closed ecosystems of inherited violence.
As a foreigner now living in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, he writes from inside the region that shapes Cartel Babies and the everyday lives lived in its shadow. This gives him a ground-level view of Mexico’s “third face” of cartel power—the quiet majority who navigate fear, loyalty, and survival while trying to protect their families inside a system they did not choose.
All of Meraw’s fiction unfolds within the interconnected EᴠØ-Myth Universe™, a transmedia world of games, films, and novels where conscience evolves, creation keeps score, and every species bears the cost of what only one species created.
EᴠØ-Myth™ and EᴠØ-Myth Universe™ are trademarks of Michael J. Meraw.