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• First update for the Antagonists page

  By Timothy on June 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  There’s a brief update of the page for Antagonists, discussing inspirations. I’ll be adding extra material as time allows in the next few weeks.

• Mythic Sicily: Sometimes the Web Just Hands it To You on a Plate

  By Timothy on June 7, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  With my Sicily writing I’m kind of stalled because I didn’t study the geography enough going in.  So, I started looking for Sicilian maps.  Sometimes the Internet just hands you random awesome.  Check out the second map at   http://www.bestofsicily.com/roadmap.htm and note that each… Read More ›

• Ars Magica note: a charm, a curse, a villain and a vis source

  By Timothy on June 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Our final, and longest, visit to Arthur Machen’s The White People gives us a villainess, a hero, a vis source and a basic story outline. I hope you’ve enjoyed our visits to Machen’s novella. Nurse said there was once a… Read More ›

• Ars Magica note: Making a clay figurine to channel faerie powers

  By Timothy on May 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Further material from Machen’s The White People: Then we went on a little way till we came to a little brake growing right down into the road, and nurse stopped, and looked up the road and down it, and then… Read More ›

• In Mythic Sicily, you need to know how to use your fists

  By Timothy on May 21, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Most magi, when they head out into the world, take shield grogs with them. The average shield grog has light armor and inexpensive weapons, but some go further. The point man may be sheathed in metal, to soak up damage…. Read More ›

• Ars Magica note: folk magical ritual

  By Timothy on May 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Again, from Machen’s The White People: So when once everybody had come, there was no door at all for anybody else to pass in by. And when they were all inside, round in a ring, touching each other, some one… Read More ›

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