Study breaks of the famous
This is another of those posts which just reads better in pdf, so please check out the monthly digest. Photo credit: A Gude via Foter.com / CC BY-SA
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Does literary criticism exist in Mythic Europe?
How do magi know what to read? Your magus helps out another covenant and, in thanks, they let your character study from their library for a season. In the real world, the Storyguide hands you a sheet of titles, each marked with level and quality, and you pick the one you’d like your magus to…
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Dunsany fragments: the Sack of Emeralds
I have a theory that Lord Dunsany’s tales are the reminiscences of a redcap, perhaps recorded in “The Book of Places You Must Not Go”. Over the next few months, let’s test that theory. If you have a favourite Dunsany story, comment on the blog. The Fall of Babbulkund was in an earlier episode. The Bureau d’Change will be…
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Pastoralis: the forbidden comedy of Silvestris of Diedne
An overheard discussion of Marco the Redcap, recorded by his grand-daughter. “It is against the law to believe the story I am about to tell you. It breaches the damnatio memoraie applied by the Quaesitores after the War. You may not, must not, believe what I am about to say to be true. Fortunately I’m widely…
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Does vis bioaccumulate?
In early versions of Ars Magica, the pawn of vis was a quantum: you wither had a pawn, or you did not. There were no fractions of a pawn of vis. I can’t recall how early this was broken, but I certainly recall a vis source being given which was a cave of bats, with…
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Games From Folktales 