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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsNovember 1, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall: Romances of the fishers

This is a chunkier chapter, so the temptation is there to break it up into sections to meet the requirements of a post a day. I’ll give it complete, but can’t promise the other 29 posts will all be of this length! For this post, I’m working from notes, not directly from Hunt, so there’s…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsOctober 26, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall : Fire worship

This chapter is mostly worthless: what a disappointment. Hunt does mention some places that need fleshed out for a gazeteer. The places are: Sacrificing Rock at Carn Brae Main (or Men) Rock in Constantine The altar rocks in Treen and Rokestall The Garrick Zans (“Holy Rock”) in Ecols – a local family is cursed, after…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsSeptember 28, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall: The Lost Cities

When researching a new work, you collect bits of trivia until eventually they click into a structure. I think this chapter is the one which draws Hunt’s work together for roleplayers. I can’t detail it here, more research is required, but this is the chapter about Lyonesse, and for us, Lyonesse is the low hanging…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsAugust 31, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall: Merrymaids

Merrymaids is one of those podcasts which is made of layers of inculcations.  It makes more sense in a graphical format, so I hope you’ll pardon the jpgs extracted from the monthly digest.

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsAugust 24, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall: The Romance of the Rocks

Yet another bonus episode due to an early release. On the first pass this was the least promising chapter or Hunt’s book, but elements of it are useful as vis sources and environmental modifiers.  It’s also our first introduction to Ambrose Merlyn, who we’ll need to keep an eye on. The stones The Cornish in…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsAugust 17, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall : The Damned Soul of Tregeagle

.Following the tremendously long section on the tribes of the fae, Hunt, whose text we are following, narrows his focus to a single person: the damned soul of Jan Tregeagle. There is not a lot known about the life of Tregeagle. He is said to be one of the family that owned Trevorder, near Bodmin. He lived…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsAugust 12, 2017November 23, 2017

The Extended Mind and Hermetic Magic

When the podcast does these episodes on philosophy, it’s often necessary to begin by explaining terms. In 1998, Clark and Chalmers released a book called “The Extended Mind” in which they posited that material objects beyond the skull or skin  could be part of  an environment which, when coupled with the mind, formed a system,…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJuly 27, 2017November 23, 2017

Faeries of Cornwall : Four More Tribes

This is the first time I’ve done a two part episode.  Last week I covered Cornwall’s Small People, who are the faerie tribe with the greatest footprint in Hunt’s Popular romances from the west of England. This week, the other four of Hunt’s tribes. I’d repeat that Hunt’s taxonomy clearly doesn’t include at least two…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJuly 20, 2017July 2, 2017

Faeries of Cornwall : Introduction and the Small People

This is the second in  series of posts designed to flesh out Cornwall as a setting for Ars Magica troupes. . It uses as its core text Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and superstitions of old Cornwall by Robert Hunt. Hunt divides Cornish faeries into five types: small people, spriggans, piskies, buccas…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJune 29, 2017May 14, 2017

Cornwall : Graveyard of Giants

Announcing a new column for Games From Folktales. Once a month, you’ll get some Cornish material. At the end I hope it’ll assemble into something like a gazetteer you can plug into Heirs to Merlin and the Vanilla Covenant project. For those wanting to play along my source text is Popular romances of the west of England;…

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