I’m trying to work through the backlog of monster statistics, so here are a batch for this month. Thanks to jason72 and Ignes Fesitvus for reminding me where these statistics were, and for the suggestion to use a mongoose as the base for ferret statistics. Srendi Vashtar – Tiny Faerie God Faerie Might: 5 (Animal)…
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Dunsany short stories: The Worm and the Angel
The Worm and the Angel As he crawled from the tombs of the fallen a worm met with an angel. And together they looked upon the kings and kingdoms, and youths and maidens and the cities of men. They saw the old men heavy in their chairs and heard the children singing in the fields.…
Read MoreLittle Demons ashcan
Is there any point in these sorts of “stats only” collections? Can you use the monsters without the fiction that they are drawn from, which gives them context? The attached file says it is for Episode 175 – that’s still the plan, with more monsters, and possibly the source stories as well.
Read More“A Lay of St Nicholas” from the Ingoldsby Legends
A bonus episode to celebrate the Feast of St Nicholas, on December the Fifth. I’ve cut the earlier part of the lay, because it doesn’t serve storytelling. I’d note that he’s the saint for merchants, seafarers, and thieves. The thieves sometimes call themselves the “clerks of St Nicholas”.
Read MoreThe self portrait of Julia Stone – a revener
Reveners are demons that reanimate corpses. Julia Stone is unusual in that her corpse stays safely tucked away in its tomb, only stepping out into the world through her painting
Read MoreCanon Alberic’s Familiar
For me, one of the basic questions to ask about the demon in Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book is: what does it think it is doing when it puts its hand on the table? Why not, for example, just strangle the narrator from behind? I suggest it is because the creature is bound in service to whomever…
Read MoreChaucer’s Demonic Bailiff Statistics
In The Friar’s Tale this creature is sometimes called a “summoner”. This just means a court bailiff in the story, so I’m using that term to avoid confusion with mystical summoners.
Read MoreGolgothan Dancers
Minor creatures, released from Hell for a foolish soul. Their relatively powerlessness and lack of physical detail are in deliberate mockery of the artist who sacrificed everything to give his painting life.
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Dunsany: a moral little tale
A quick Lord Dunsany story. The Puritanical Devil is a sort of inverse of the Merry Devil which I wrote up for Realms of Power : Infernal (p.73). It is likely hated not only by the angels, but a lot of faeries as well. A Moral Little Tale There was once an earnest Puritan who…
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Washington Irving: Adventures of the German Student
I thought this story was folklore, but it turns out it’s fiction by Washington Irving. Statistics for the creature at the end. *** On a stormy night, in the tempestuous times of the French Revolution, a young German was returning to his lodgings, at a late hour, across the old part of Paris. The lightning…
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Games From Folktales 