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All articles filed in January 2026

Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJanuary 26, 2026

Robert Herrick: To His Lovely Mistresses

People say Herrick was the last Elizabethan poet, but in this poem he goes the full Byron by suggesting his mistresses form a mystery cult to worship him. In Ars Magica if you pulled this off you’d complete apotheosis and become a daimon of some variety, but if you missed no-one would know because this…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJanuary 18, 2026January 19, 2026

Mirrored life

Sometimes the Cheshire Cat, Alan Moore, and Hank Green smash together. Could a magical fumble create a new apocalypse, that’s at the fringes of modern science? Life on Earth is made of proteins and these could theoretically be either the type we have, or a second type which is a mirror image of the ones…

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Podcast transcriptsJanuary 11, 2026

Some notes for the new year

Happy new year! A few interesting things in the community. Darkwing has a thread on the Atlas Forum where people are discussing his ideas on materials they’d like authors in the community to work on. May I ask you to seriously consider participating in this? https://forum.atlas-games.com/t/30-days-of-product-ideas/176549 Mythic Europe MagazineSubmissions are open and I’ve accepted and…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJanuary 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Mythic Cheshire: Frederick Woods 2

Here are a few pieces of useful material from Further Legends and Traditions of Cheshire by Frederick Woods, that suit Ars Magica games. Birkenhead Hall The lady of the hall became convinced her husband was having an affair with the maid. After seething for a while, she pushed the maid over the bannisters and fled…

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