Sometimes I splurge on one of Libsyn’s larger packs for a month, and it lets me check my stats on an episode by episode basis. I noticed no-one had downloaded the excellent “Tale of Thangobrind” by Lord Dunsany in the last six months. Checking it, I notice it was set to load then expire, so…
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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…
Read MoreYet another episode went live early
So, the episode to replace “The Ash Tree”, which went live early, has also gone live early. The write-up for it will come out in October, and I’ll add a microepisode to patch that week.
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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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The Angels With Leaden Feathers: A Verditus Mystery Cult
Why do so many Verditus magi make submersibles? We have focused, in the published books, on magical submarines, but let’s think about something else. Let’s think about bathyspheres. Imagine a sphere that is lowered into the dark. It must be a perfect sphere. if it has a flaw, it will collapse and you will be…
Read MoreA quick note on the Cornish material
The Cornwall Gazetter for Ars Magica is at the stage where all the primary material is gathered and it’s time to push for a rough draft, but there is a brand new book out about the folklore of Bodmin Moor and I don’t want to cut my draft down further until I’ve had the chance…
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Dunsany short stories: Time and the tradesman
What would the embodiment of Time be in Ars Magica? Mechanically it could be of any Realm. What could its embodiment be? Any story can be a faerie, an a demon can claim to be anything, but Time, in various mythologies is the thing that comes before the Magical powers of creation, which come before…
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Games From Folktales 