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Ars MagicaOctober 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Cheshire : Three Vis Sources

Moston Dragon I wanted to wrote up the Moston Dragon as a a monster of the month, but the folklore surrounding it is not detailed enough to extend it past variation on the generic stats given in Realms of power Faerie (page). It is suitable for a combat encounter. The creature’s lair was at Dragon…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsSeptember 11, 2025

Venice’s Faerie Market: The Master of the Bridge of Fists

Petrus Pontium is a bridge troll who has adapted to Venetian custom. He runs a stick-fighting and wrestling school near the canal end of the Merceria. He rarely defends the bridges during official mob-style matches, but will meet challengers for single combat. When fighting or teaching Petrus wears armor, and carries a shield, weaved from…

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Ars Magica Librivox Podcast transcriptsApril 21, 2025

The Book of Beasts by Edith Nesbit

We had one of Edith Nesbit’s ghost stories last week, so this week one of her tales for children. This comes from The Book of Dragons, which I compulsively re-read in primary school. I waited for it to hit public domain in the United States, planning to grab it the first weekend it was available,…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsFebruary 16, 2025

Heather Ale by Robert Louis Stevenson

This poem contains a Herbam, or even Corpus, vis source created by a race of faeries that are being driven to extinction by the invading humans. Robert Louis Stevenson collected this story in Galloway, and added a note to make sure his readers knew this was an older, and false, historiography. The Picts were not…

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Ars MagicaJanuary 18, 2025January 18, 2025

Personal Vis Sources by Tom Nowell

For only the second time, Games From Folktales welcomes a guest author. Tom Nowell is one of the presenters for the other Ars Magica podcast, Arcane Connection. This article has been purchased for the new Mythic Europe Magazine, which is still accepting submissions. Before reading you Tom’s piece I want to flag a couple of…

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Ars Magica Librivox MagonomiaJanuary 3, 2024January 31, 2024

The Ogre of Rashomon by Yei Theodora Ozaki

I missed this one. I went through the backlog of Librivox material, looking for monsters and I missed this one because it had a non-European setting. But if you look at it, this is just Beowulf but with more samurai. You can turn this into a role-playing scenario for a wide variety of fantasy games.…

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Podcast transcriptsNovember 21, 2023January 30, 2024

The Child who Went with the Fairies by J Sheridan Le Fanu

For our Monster of the Month, we’re returning to the works of J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Weirdly, I’m starting this story halfway through. The reason I’m doing that is because Le Fanu was an Irish author writing for an English audience, and he spends the first half of his story explaining that you can keep…

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