The faerie queen began to kneel before us. Our minstrel’s song was crushing her, binding her in, and her physical form sagged under its metaphysical weight. Through constricted lungs she choked out a final question: “Why are you doing this?” Achlys answered her. “The strong do as they will. The weak do as they must.”,…
Read MoreMirarion : Chapter 1 : Names
Oh, I didn’t really choose my name. I know many young magi do, as their first act of independence. They stand with their new robe and hold up their shiny sigil before the Tribunal and say “I am called Maximus Magnus!” and we laugh, or politely sigh and then after a few years they discover a…
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The Vaults of the Order
Last time, I mentioned I was kicking off the November Ars Magica community projects early. Well, the site is up, although the material is not yet in place. If you’re a fan of the game, please consider contributing to The Vaults of the Order. The hope is for 50 submissions, and things you have used…
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Grimgroth Awards and the Hermetic Museum
Thanks to all of the Ars Magica fans who voted for the Grimgroth Awards. I’d like to thank CJ and his henchpeople for all of the effort involved. I’d particularly like to congratulate Ben McFarland for the Dragon Abbott. I remember reading the draft of it and thinking “This is brilliant and I have never thought…
Read MoreMirarion : Preface
The Mirarion was a fiction piece I started last year and has stalled due to my health issues. I do hope to get back to it eventually. This was my first shot at a beginning. I think it’s too slow, so you’ll see the proper beginning next week. *** He asked me what I remembered…
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On War : Clausewitz and Mythic Europe
I recently finished recording the final volume of On War by Carl von Clausewitz for Librivox. Librivox recordings are legally available for free, and are in the public domain so you can reuse them for other projects. I’m really proud of how it has turned out, and the enormous effort that Linda and I put…
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Belphegor notes
One of the posters over on the Ars board is doing some great stuff with Baal-peor’s mystery cult initiations. Check them out. A few suggested additions for your saga: In later demonology Belphegor is the demons of inventiveness, so he’s the one who knows where all of the Original Research is lost. He may also…
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A quick note to spread the word on three vlog posts
I’ve added a few extra vlog posts to my YouTube channel. They are not fantastic, but I’m still learning how the equipment works. I apologize if you get two Google+ or Facebook notifications about this post (one from WordPress and one from Youtube. I’m going to have that sorted for the next video. The first is…
Read MoreI’m very pleased to see the cover of “Alliances”, which is the French version of “Covenants”
I’m not sure how much of my stuff made it through the translation process, or if they just wrote from scratch, but the cover of Alliances is floating around the web and it fills me with pride. I’m not sure what Ludogames’s policy on sharing their graphics is, so if they want me to take…
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A note on the new vlog
I’m doing some practice vloging, with an Ars Magica sort of theme. My current plan is to load one of these a week, on Friday, Australian time. The current plan is Introduction (which is up) Cookbook (which is about the writing process for Covenants, and is recorded) and then some material suggested by commenters. The…
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Games From Folktales 