Tales Born of You | Yew

The name of the YouTube channel was chosen for its double meaning. While the channel explores worldbuilding using the author’s own world as an example (inevitably connecting it to her Evynlore series), its primary focus is on encouraging and supporting the creation of other worlds—your worlds.

The title, Tales Born of You, is fitting because it directly refers to you and the worlds you create for your stories. However, Tales Born of You also reflects the meaning behind Evynlore—"The Tales Born of Yew," as in the spelling of the yew tree's name. The name Evyn is a variant spelling of Evan, which is a modern English adaptation of Eòghann, an ancient Scottish Gaelic name meaning "born of the yew tree." Yew trees symbolize longevity, death, and rebirth due to their extraordinary lifespan, making them a fitting representation of Evynlore’s themes of cyclical history, prophecy, and the connection between past and future generations.

In the author's stories, there is a place called the Planes Between the Worlds, where every world ever created is represented by a tree atop a hill. The tree standing atop the hill for Earth is—you guessed it!—a yew tree. Evynlore is the only world the Maker ever created in the image of another. It is an alternate dimension to Earth and was, in a sense, "born of the yew tree."

Thus, Evynlore represents the lives, the stories, and the tales of the second world—the one born of the yew tree.