Lien Gwerin is a magazine that retells Cornish folk stories, so a lot of the material has already been claimed for the gazetteer project through its trawling of Victorian collectors of Cornish material. Similarly, its editor is Alex Livingstone, and there’s some crossover of material with his book, which has already been harvested for story…
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Dunsany : the unpasturable fields
This is a bonus episode that is using up some spare minutes in my monthly podcast plan. It is unscripted, so apologies for the incoherence. I’ve just got home from Adelaide, a city in the far south of Australia. I took my children on a plane for the first time, and as I did, I…
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Octopus: a bonus episode
Thanks to all of the Patreons and listeners who have kept the podcast going for two years. This is a brief, bonus episode to celebrate the anniversary. For the 100th episode of Games From Folktales I posted a poem by Charles Swinburne that contained the initiation script for Dolores, the Infernal Saint of Sorrow. When…
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Magus design for new Ars Magica players
Hi, and welcome. I’m Timothy Ferguson, and I was one of the most prolific authors for the last edition of Ars Magica. Here are some hints to designing a character you’ll enjoy. Play style Get your group to decide if they are going to do the suggested thing, which is that each story has one…
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Cornwall: “From Granite to Sea” notes
Alex Langstone recently published a book of folklore focused on eastern Cornwall. It uses some of the same sources as the Cornwall Project, so there’s some repetition of material, but I’ve managed to pull four pages of notes out of it. Most of them are going to just slot into the previously done material, adding…
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Dunsany short stories : Tales of Three Idols
In Ars Magica, idols are ways for the stories the fuel faeries to be preserved, and restarted. That being said, some idols are linked to darker powers…and some dark powers are linked, merely, to idols. I hope you enjoy these three stories. THE LONELY IDOL I had from a friend an old outlandish stone, a…
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Heraclitus The Obscure
Heraclitus was an ancient Greek philosopher who said everything was made of fire. Why, in Mythic Europe, do the Flambeau not revere him as a spiritual ancestor? As always for the episodes dealing with philosophers, we begin with an infodump. Heraclitus was a prince from Ephesus in modern Turkey who abdicated to follow a philosopher’s…
Read MoreEpisode 147 went live early
I haven’t had time to write the statistics for episode 147 (The Ash Tree) because it was meant to go live on October 11. I’m sure I’ll have them complete by then. On October 11, you’ll also get a replacement podcast episode. It’s a humorous little story about a grog with a magic word.
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Dunsany: The fortress unvanquishable save for Sacnoth
This story is what started our lengthy quest through Lord Dunsany. I wrote up the demon crocodile Tharagavverug and Sacnoth for Sub Rosa magazine issue #18, and that gave me the impetus to do the rest of his works. I don’t believe he was well received when written up – there aren’t a lot of…
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