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A non-comprehensive list of the honourifics of the Bird Kings: Kings of the Earth; Kings of the Eight Lands; Those Who Rule Where Others Claim to Rule; Kings of Kings; Those of...
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The Old Capital was the ruling power in the Barony before the Barony was a thing - its collapse was what birthed the Barony into political existence around 200 years ago. It...
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Following on from this post. Like Dogs and Cats, you cannot talk, use ropes or ladders, or manipulate anything that requires fingers. You can't wear gear that has not been...
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Every so often, rarely, something is born that looks human but isn't. They have bright eyes and crystal minds, and they can make people do things. The control is usually...
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Once upon a time, Arnold K wrote a fantastic class. It happens pretty regularly, but this one was one of the things that got me thinking about writing my own blog for whatever...Linked by the ring
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I've been working on a construction site again, and have been dissociating quite intensely/dreaming of terrible and awful things. Here are some excellent assassins, the GLOG...
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The White City infamously welcomes both Angels and Demons into its citizenry. They live among the population, take part in the image games, and vote as human citizens vote -...Linked by the ring
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If your dreamlands don't look like Gustave Moreau paintings you are canonically doing it wrong. Jupiter and Semele, Gustave Moreau, 1895. I wrote about orcs and goblins...
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When people are subjected to the predations of warfare, of bands of soldiers and deserters, thieves and killers, the trauma stays with them. The feelings of helplessness and...
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I've put together a more up-to-date version of the BARONY document, incorporating a lot of the stuff that has appeared on here over the last two months.You can read it here,...
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Ella, Fighter A/Artist AA headstrong young woman, and a fast-rising star in the Baronial Capital's fashion scene. Has intense ideas about her autonomy. Bartholomew and Kismet...
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CW - engraving depicting human cannibalism below. In the Barony there are monsters but there are also Monsters.Monsters have the stats of commoners, because a lot of them are...
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Gustave Doré, Les SaltimbanquesPLAYING YOUR ACADEMIC/ARTISTAcademics have contact with as many entities as they can speak pattern languages. Artists have a single entity, which...Linked by the ring
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Quick one on guns, because I have been slapped around by this excellent post and can no longer ignore the fact that you can and should buy a brace of handguns in the...
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THE TOMBS OF THE MAZE BUILDERSLevel OneThe tombs are built from large black stone blocks, very different from the construction of Magda's prison complex. The ceilings are 10ft...
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With thanks to PRIMEUMATON and Loch for the stimulating ogre chat. Gustave Doré's illustrations for Rabelais' Gargantua and PantagruelOGRERequirements: Fighter AB, Poet AB, CON...
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Initial movements towards a bestiary for THIS environment.-Garden of MouthsColony organism that lives in holes bored into the iron beneath the surface of the water. Simple, 2ft...
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Far above in the darkness of the sky and the storm there are obscure beings whose bodies are composed and ordered by great sets of parallel lines that stretch away into the...
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All of these notes continue from the outline in this document.-The Reverse NeedleThe reverse needle is built from five identical iron rooms, which stretch downwards from the...
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The fact that the church has innocent people killed sometimes is an open secret, but one with a significant amount of cognitive dissonance attached - a rough analogue would be...
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I love Buster KeatonThe actors are an ancient organisation that long predate the Barony. There are records of their performances dating from before the Old Kingdom, and for...
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DOGS OF WARThe Barony is nominally controlled by the central authority in the capital, but in reality there are many regional nobles and other powers who maintain small armies,...
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There are tiny, vaguely magical things that live in the wild places of the Barony. People call them 'motes' or 'fairies', and the academics argue about what exactly they are....Linked by the ring
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The very great John Blanche, probably the single most potent visual influence on my teenage imaginationChaosThe Maze of IronThe descent into Chaos leads eventually (it takes...
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More coherent notes on the Underworld. The idea is that these three points of interest are arranged around an enormous open cavern area, with multiple oil lakes and fissure...
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There is a horror story that no one remembers any more.This is because it was told by a culture alien to the ones that currently inhabit the Barony, and because the human...Linked by the ring
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Quick notes for the White Ape Monastery, after having rewatched the superlative The Raid: Redemption again last night.Honestly, look at this shit.Anyway, the Monastery. It is...
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Level ThreeThe third floor is larger and more complex again. This is where King Mag kept the demons and other future-beings that he imprisoned over the years. When exploring...
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Every setting needs them!Modrons are not well understood, and many academics prefer to treat them as a myth. They are not entities in any straight forward sense, and if they...
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Working on an Underworld ecosystem/random encounter table to go with the White Ape Monastery, the Terrible Cuckoos, the Zombie Pilgrims, the Tombs of the Serpent Men, and all...