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Edgecumbe Stanley’s history if the dogeressas has a lengthy section on the election of the first doge, but it’s not of great interest to us. I’ve cut it down so it contains only the pieces which Ars Magica characters, six hundred years later, might interact with. “The Greek protection of Veneto and the lagunes was…

I’m recording a biography of the Dogaressas of Venice over at Librivox, and as I’m going I’m pulling out folklore which is of particular interest to Ars Magica players. In this episode, the author of the biography goes to some length to describe the militancy of the forebears of the Venetians. Venice’s history begins with…

This week an introduction to Venetian women, as part of the ongoing series of Venetian episodes. When I originally designed the Venetian episodes, I was going to write a cumulative story like “Thirty Objects of Desire” or the Rosaline stories. As such there was a twist at the end and I’d been keeping the twist…

Have you heard the story of the rotting princess? She usually gets a paragraph in the histories of Venice. Just a small one, near the beginning. She’s a useful starting point. She’s where you can say things started to careen off course. She’s to blame for all of the vanities of Venice. She was an…