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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…

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…

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…

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…

.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…

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,…

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…