Category Archives: Setting

Protect your home – with spare animal bits!

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Confanity

Guardian Charms The Guardian Charms are a family of rituals used during the construction of houses. The primary charm involves burying a horse’s skull beneath the door frame, which makes it difficult for certain malevolent spirits (such as vampires) to … Continue reading →

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Magic Monday – Thaumaturgic Tuesday? – They’re the faces of the stranger, but we love to try them on

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Confanity

Animal Mask “Animal Mask” is a generic term used in Order record-books for innumerable spells in which the caster takes the form of… a wild animal. To prepare for this spell, the caster must first venture into the Dreamlands (in … Continue reading →

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Ode of the Battle Poet

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Confanity

Ode of the Battle Poet Chop chop chop chop Chop chop chop chop Chop chop chop chop Stab. (Found jotted in charcoal on a piece of leather after the Skirmish of Round Rock)

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Friday Forge – Term Project Break Version

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Confanity

I’m not planning on making this a regular or weekly feature – it’s just that it’s going to be Friday when this goes up, and I still like alliteration. Anyway, I’m taking a brain break from some pretty intense data-gathering … Continue reading →

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Magic Monday – Hearing is believing

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Confanity

Mouth of Baen Even the most upright of wizards is tempted at times to use this persuasive device. The caster must make a hand sign and speak in a certain tone of voice while pronouncing a short sentence or phrase. … Continue reading →

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Magic Monday: Double illumination

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Confanity

– Two for the price of one this week! Variations on the basic “light spell” theme. The second owes a pretty obvious debt to Gandalf’s staff in Lord of the Rings. Werelight The caster summons a small ball of light … Continue reading →

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Magic Monday: Finally, a spell!

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Confanity

Sight from Darkness Three hundred and nine number the words of Ekarmadedgon’s Whisper. Eleven of them, recited slowly, will bend the caster’s eyes: they will catch the light, not of this world, but of its Shadow, and see all things in … Continue reading →

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A Tale from Clevaria

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Confanity

In the time of the god-king, lord of the sky, director of rain, clouds, and wind, whose name was secret, emissaries came from the plains to Clevaria. They worshipped strange gods of earth, and carried one with them in a … Continue reading →

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Creation Legend (Retold from the Ailu)

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Confanity

When the titan Ghan scooped out the Armhold Valley and built up the mountains around, he did so as a playpen for his three children: the twin brothers Thahn and Thahr, and their sister Eyyafel. But unknown even to the … Continue reading →

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Setting Idea – Animism / Spontaneous Generation

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Confanity

There was a time when human knowledge of biology was underpinned (and dragged down) by the theory of “Spontaneous Generation” – the idea that living organisms need not necessarily be born, but may spring wholly formed from some appropriate substrate, … Continue reading →

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