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The castle is fraught with peril. Members of the strange Amber family, some insane, some merely deadly, lurk around every corner. Somewhere in the castle is the key to your escape, but can you survive long enough to find it?"</i></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="503" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZo8T8dcx9UdxKa59_8SN-z3lgPJr9GKHRZ5o5pKXXW5cVHvkI6u85ksvoZFKHUUcENJMYDvRbeuYprrK0DucOAJ_J4fmVNzf0BCCRfALiUFlE96r42q7IrMAL9RiRdPxUu7KKYmlYPg/s640/DnDX2CastleAmber.jpg" width="502" /><br /><br /><a href="http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/07/into-wastelands-with-clark-ashton.html">My review & overview of Greg Gorgonmilk's latest Clark Ashton Smith book</a> has me thinking about X2 Castle Amber by Tom Moldvay.X2 is Tom Moldvay's love<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> l<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">etter to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">C<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">la<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rk Ashton<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Smith's<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> work as an adventure & <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its a deadly adventure at that<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">X2: Castle Amber (Chateau d' Amberville)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a fan favorite </span></span> Wiki has a bit of background history;<br /><b>"Castle Amber</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_modules" title="List of Dungeons & Dragons modules">adventure module</a> designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Moldvay" title="Tom Moldvay">Tom Moldvay</a>. This was the second module designed for use with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Expert_Set" title="Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set">Expert D&D set</a>. The module is in part an adaptation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a>'s Averoigne stories, and set in the fictional medieval French province of that name.<b>Castle Amber</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_modules" title="List of Dungeons & Dragons modules">adventure module</a> designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Moldvay" title="Tom Moldvay">Tom Moldvay</a>. "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chateau d' Amberville is surrounded by a da<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ngerous & deadl<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y mist making it on par with Ravenloft. The<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">se mists <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">n adventu<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">re <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">device I<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'ve used many times <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to get PC's from various <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dimen<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sions & planes on to the grounds of the Chateau<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Because of the deep connection of X2 to Ave<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">roi<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gene <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">such PC's may find themselves in way over their heads. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clar<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">k Ash<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ton Smith<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'s Averoigne <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">c<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ycle is <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">connec<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ted with the Arthurian l<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iterature<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Averoigne</b> is a fictional counterpart of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_France" title="Provinces of France">historical province</a> in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a>. Smith may have based Averoigne on the actual province of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auvergne_%28province%29" title="Auvergne (province)">Auvergne</a>, but its name was probably influenced by the French department of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aveyron" title="Aveyron">Aveyron</a>, immediately south of Auvergne, due to the similarity in pronunciation."<br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />One of the common threads here is the presence of not one fairy queen of the fallen kingdoms but many. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgause">Morgause </a>the half sister of Arthur & mother of one of the Modreds has ties to the fictional region of </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Averoigne;</b></span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her character is fully developed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory" title="Thomas Malory">Thomas Malory</a>'s 1485 compilation of Arthurian legends <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur" title="Le Morte d'Arthur">Le Morte d'Arthur</a></i>, in which Morgause (<b>Margawse</b>) is one of three daughters born to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorlois" title="Gorlois">Gorlois</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintagel" title="Tintagel">Tintagel</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_rulers_of_Cornwall" title="List of legendary rulers of Cornwall">Duke of Cornwall</a>, and the Lady <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igraine" title="Igraine">Igraine</a>. According to Malory, her mother is widowed and then remarried to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uther_Pendragon" title="Uther Pendragon">Uther Pendragon</a>, after which she and her sisters, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_%28legend%29#Elaine_of_Garlot" title="Elaine (legend)">Elaine</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay" title="Morgan le Fay">Morgan</a> ("le Fay", later the mother of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ywain" title="Ywain">Ywain</a>), are married off to allies or <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_kingdom" title="Vassal kingdom">vassals</a> of their stepfather. Morgause is wed to the Orcadian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lot" title="King Lot">King Lot</a> and bears him four sons, all of whom go on to serve Arthur as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round_Table" title="Knights of the Round Table">Knights of the Round Table</a>: Gawain, one of his greatest knights; Agravain, a wretched and twisted traitor; Gaheris; and Gareth, a gentle and loving knight. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Years later, her spouse joins the failed rebellions against Arthur that follow in the wake of King Uther's death and the subsequent coronation of his heir. Shortly after her husband's defeat, Morgause visits the young King Arthur in his bedchamber, ignorant of their familial relationship, and they conceive Mordred. Her husband, who has unsuspectingly raised Mordred as his own son, is slain in battle by King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellinore" title="Pellinore">Pellinore</a>. Her sons depart their father's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_%28royal%29" title="Court (royal)">court</a> to take service at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot" title="Camelot">Camelot</a>, where Gawain and Gaheris avenge Lot's death by killing Pellinore, thereby launching a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_feud" title="Blood feud">blood feud</a> between the two families. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nevertheless, Morgause has an affair with Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamorak" title="Lamorak">Lamorak</a>, a son of Pellinore and one of Arthur's best knights. Her son Gaheris discovers them <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_flagrante_delicto" title="In flagrante delicto">in flagrante</a></i> and swiftly beheads Morgause in bed, but spares her unarmed lover. Gaheris is consequently banished from court of Arthur (though he reappears later in the narrative)." <br />Some Arthurian literature sources point out the fact that <b>Margawse didn't die when she was beheaded but lived on as an undead Elven queen. </b>There are some who believe that the same debased royal blood flows in the veins of the <br /><span class="st">the </span><span class="st">Etienne d'Amberville.Giving the wizards of the </span><span class="st"><span class="st">Etienne d'Amberville</span> a standing along with other Clark Ashton Smith black  wizards in a tradition similar to the wizards  of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth">the Dying Earth series by Jack Vance. </a></span><b><span class="st"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth"><br /></a></span></b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="496" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ3klRGawL29nUyJOAY8aEC4_dwMxO5BLubAIwKyea11zjsxMH3sIL7pB-OFcZ1Gul2gvZ3UuM-i8OaoppBcVzFqARFu-YogwTwNLyTF2bGafmH5tC_rgABSp12EoPWpzKk3lPo7MX_gs/s400/Rossetti_King_Arthur_and_the_Weeping_Queens.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /> Woodcut by the Dalziel brothers. An llustration for <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Moxon" title="w:Edward Moxon">Edward Moxon's</a> <br />illustrated edition of <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="w:Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred, Lord Tennyson's</a> <i>Poems</i> (1857).</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">queens that we see from the Arthurian literature a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">re in fact Elven witch cult<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">representatives </span></span> directly linked to Dark Albion & <a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226022/Lion--Dragon">the Lion & Dragon Retro clone</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226022/Lion--Dragon">'s </a>version of Elves. The Le F<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ay family is <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a royal bloodline that <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can trace its origins all the way back to the dawn of Europe<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A strong <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">familial </span> narrative <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has deep ties in Arthur<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ian liter<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ature </span></span> with th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e former <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">seat of Elven power in the Welsh Lands;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The earliest spelling of the name (found in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Geoffrey of Monmouth">Geoffrey of Monmouth</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Merlini" title="Vita Merlini">Vita Merlini</a></i>, written c. 1150) is <i>Morgen</i>, which is likely derived from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Welsh" title="Old Welsh">Old Welsh</a> or <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Breton" title="Old Breton">Old Breton</a> <i>Morgen</i>, meaning "Sea-born" (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Brittonic" title="Common Brittonic">Common Brittonic</a> <i>*Mori-gen膩</i>, the masculine form of which, <i>*Mori-genos</i>, survived in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Welsh" title="Middle Welsh">Middle Welsh</a> as <i>Moryen</i> or <i>Morien</i>; a cognate form in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Irish" title="Old Irish">Old Irish</a> is <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AD_Ban" title="L铆 Ban">Muirgen</a></i>, the name of a Christian, shapeshifting female saint who was associated with the sea). The name is not to be confused with the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Welsh" title="Modern Welsh">Modern Welsh</a> masculine name <i>Morgan</i> (spelled <i>Morcant</i> in the Old Welsh period).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> As her epithet "le Fay" (invented by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory" title="Thomas Malory">Thomas Malory</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:4_4-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-:4-4">[4]</a></sup> from the earlier French <i>la f茅e</i>, "the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy" title="Fairy">fairy</a>") and some traits indicates, the figure of Morgan appears to have been a remnant of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernatural</a> females from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_mythology" title="Celtic mythology">Celtic mythology</a>, and her main name could be connected to the myths of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgen_%28mythological_creature%29" title="Morgen (mythological creature)">Morgens</a> (or Morgans),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:5_5-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-:5-5">[5]</a></sup> which are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_people" title="Breton people">Breton</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_water_deities" title="List of water deities">water-spirits</a>. While many later works make her specifically human, she retains her magical powers,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> and sometimes also her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld" title="Otherworld">otherworldly</a> if not just divine attributes,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:5_5-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-:5-5">[5]</a></sup> in fact still being referred to as either a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Queen" title="Fairy Queen">fairy queen</a> or outright a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">goddess</a> (<i>dea</i>, <i>d茅esse</i>, <i>gotinne</i>) by various authors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:10_7-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-:10-7">[7]"</a></sup></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:10_7-0"><br /></sup></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLLB4BBe1YfvKzW0YDNO_e6PAe-_o2YeSV4czcL7f_l-fUjHkJIQ2ORrWQTAV_WkKdhFbsZOeQlt5P6YvmxniMs8hh7KbCGxvzx0M9BGpWweQbwkIuARMwEf7mRfUJOcvRGOWt9LLz3U/s400/1024px-Edward_Burne-Jones.The_last_sleep_of_Arthur.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><span class="mw-mmv-title">A detail of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Sleep_of_Arthur_in_Avalon" title="The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon">The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon</a></i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones" title="Edward Burne-Jones">Edward Burne-Jones</a> (1898), a painting showing Morgan (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_sorceresses" title="Nine sorceresses">with her sisters</a>) in her initial portrayal and role from <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Merlini" title="Vita Merlini">Vita Merlini</a></i>.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:10_7-0"><br /></sup></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:10_7-0"><br /></sup></span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Inspiration for her character likely came from earlier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_mythology" title="Welsh mythology">Welsh mythology</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh-language_literature" title="Welsh-language literature">literature</a>. Speculation sometimes (beginning with Lucy Allen Paton in 1904<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:2_8-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-:2-8">[8]</a></sup>) connects Morgan with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish</a> shapeshifting and multifaced goddess of strife known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan" title="The Morr铆gan">the Morr铆gan</a> ("great queen").<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> Proponents of this have included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Sherman_Loomis" title="Roger Sherman Loomis">Roger Sherman Loomis</a>, who doubted the Muirgen connection.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:8_11-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-:8-11">[11]</a></sup> She has been more substantially linked with the supernatural mother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modron" title="Modron">Modron</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:5_5-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-:5-5">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goddess_12-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-goddess-12">[12]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> derived from the continental <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_goddess" title="Mother goddess">mother goddess</a> figure of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dea_Matrona" title="Dea Matrona">Dea Matrona</a> and featured with some frequency in medieval Welsh literature. Modron appears in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Triads" title="Welsh Triads">Welsh Triad</a> 70, in which her children by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urien" title="Urien">Urien</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owain_mab_Urien" title="Owain mab Urien">Owain</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morfydd" title="Morfydd">Morfydd</a>, are called the "Three Blessed Womb-Burdens of the Island of Britain,"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> and a later folktale preserved in the manuscript known as Peniarth 147 records the story behind these conceptions more fully.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> Arthurian legend's version of Urien is Morgan le Fay's husband in the continental <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalric_romance" title="Chivalric romance">romances</a>, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owain_mab_Urien" title="Owain mab Urien">Owain mab Urien</a> is the historical figure behind their son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ywain" title="Ywain">Ywain</a>."<br /><br />All of this ties into the undead </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">curse the wizard-noble Stephen Amber (<i>Etienne d'Amberville</i>) & his equally insane relatives. This same fey madness that infects the family Le Fey & was checked by </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot">Sir Lancelot du Lac's royal family in France for centuries.</a> </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chateau d' Amberville is in<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> fact a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nother adventure location that's been taken to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the chaotic & rolling un<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">real<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ity of Fairyland. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chateau d' Amberville is a dimensional way station lost to time & space where <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">vents are locked<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> beyond <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">conventio<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nal realit<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y. The place has become a prison for <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the inhabitants of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chateau<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.  Its also a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">n adventure location where <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">PC's from <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">other<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> OSR games such as <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226022/Lion--Dragon">Lion & Dragon</a> can clash swords with advent<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">urers from </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="http://www.hyperborea.tv/">Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea</a> second edition. <br /><br />The real issue is the various fallen kingdoms that have been lost to Fairyland over the centuries in Europe. Going back all way to the end of the Second Ice Age there have been kingdoms that have been claimed by Fairyland as trophies, chess pieces, or merely lost to the unreality weirdness of the roiling seas of chaos. Many of the kingdoms described in the Arthurian legends are such places. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="454" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-dGEDC2ppejhv_WNBdTaDT_UQMDzsmaFXpe46s7_JMOqEjyKHY_i0F_RBb9_Fd4z4qPgiWsOJDRYurNNZl3HtS6NNR1DqBAB2KXic2w6BstGtpB2EzcSFjO_k0pvo1Z9G-rCd_3h4AM/s640/454px-Idylls_of_the_King_1.jpg" width="484" /></span><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9" title="en:Gustave Dor茅">Gustave Dor茅</a>'s Plate I. "<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Yniol Shows Prince Geraint His Ruined Castle</span>"  from <br /> <i><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King" title="en:Idylls of the King">Enid</a></i>, by <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson,_1st_Baron_Tennyson" title="en:Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson">Lord Alfred Tennyson</a>. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1868.<br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chateau d' Amberville may be a gateway to literally hundreds of Fairyland dungeon & adventure locations in some of the most dangerous chaos laden lands the PC's have ventured into. There may be ruins dating back to beyond the Ice Age & hidden dangers going back to the Age of Monsters. <br />There is also the fact that the family of witches of Le Fay & their relatives have the secrets of time, precognition, & dire magicks of Merlin himself. Secrets that they wrestled from him by his seduction by </span></span>the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_Lake" title="Lady of the Lake">Lady of the Lake</a>. Merlin's prison is of course hidden in the groves where the queens meet & war with each other in the magical forest of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broc%C3%A9liande" title="Broc茅liande">Broc茅liande. </a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rumors hold that there doorways there into the  <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chateau d' Amberville. </span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These secrets were used as part of the far future of Zothique which is another manifestation of the wasteland of Athurian legend. <br />The wasteland of Zothique is a wasteland scorched by chaos & fury of millions of years of conflict of the Great Old Ones, the gods, & chaos itself. The rulers & kings of Zothique continue its corruption.  </span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqDyYRcpG988KOPTHT6wioPlkxDDSBQiNWMvt4wVKdD1NkwZcGm2wXpdbZZLFO5tmq6i-XbWCEf5zm31SJf5dHmR5zDKhDILN0B5GNkxIK4J4Xn5Qmax9VqP9by9297nS60hyf8D26GM/s400/Picture+604.jpg" width="400" /></span></span>This ties back into Clark Ashton Smith's motifs of entropy & ruination the same themes we see in Arthurian legend; </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The <b>Wasteland</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_mythology" title="Celtic mythology">Celtic</a> motif that ties the barrenness of a land with a curse that must be lifted by a hero. It occurs in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish mythology</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail" title="Holy Grail">Grail</a> romances, and hints of it may be found in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Welsh</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion" title="Mabinogion">Mabinogion</a></i>. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An example from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_literature" title="Irish literature">Irish literature</a> occurs in the <i>Echtrae Airt meic Cuinn</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echtra" title="Echtra">Echtra</a>, or adventure in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Otherworld" title="Celtic Otherworld">Otherworld</a>, of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_mac_Cuinn" title="Art mac Cuinn">Art mac Cuinn</a>). Recorded in the 14th century but likely taken from an older oral tradition, <i>Echtrae Airt meic Cuinn</i> is nominally about Art, though the adventures of his father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conn_of_the_Hundred_Battles" title="Conn of the Hundred Battles">Conn of the Hundred Battles</a> take up the first part of the narrative. Conn is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King of Ireland</a>, but his land turns to waste when he marries the wicked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9_Chuille" title="B茅 Chuille">B茅 Chuma</a>, an unacceptable action for the king. He searches for a way to restore his country by sailing towards the mystical western lands, and eventually washes up on an island inhabited by the niece of the sea god <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manannan" title="Manannan">Manannan</a> and her husband. He attends an otherworldly banquet, and when he returns his wife is banished, presumably lifting the curse. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthurian</a> Grail material, the Wasteland's condition is usually tied to the impotence of its leader. Often the infirmity is preceded by some form of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolorous_Stroke" title="Dolorous Stroke">Dolorous Stroke</a>, in which the king is injured tragically for his sins but kept alive by the Grail. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Troyes" title="Chr茅tien de Troyes">Chr茅tien de Troyes</a>' <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceval,_the_Story_of_the_Grail" title="Perceval, the Story of the Grail">Perceval, the Story of the Grail</a></i>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_King" title="Fisher King">Fisher King</a> has been wounded in a misfortune that is not revealed in the incomplete text, and his land suffers with him. He can be healed only if the hero <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival" title="Percival">Perceval</a> asks the appropriate question about whom the Grail serves, but warned against talking too much, Perceval remains silent. In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceval,_the_Story_of_the_Grail#First_Continuation" title="Perceval, the Story of the Grail">First Continuation</a> of Chr茅tien's work, the anonymous author recounts how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawain" title="Gawain">Gawain</a> partially heals the land, but is not destined to complete the restoration. Over the course of time romances place less emphasis on the Wasteland and more on the king's wound. In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot-Grail" title="Lancelot-Grail">Lancelot-Grail</a> Cycle the link between the devastated land and the wounded king is not absolute, and in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Vulgate_Cycle" title="Post-Vulgate Cycle">Post-Vulgate Cycle</a> much more emphasis is placed on King <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellam" title="Pellam">Pellehan</a>'s injury by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Balin" title="Sir Balin">Sir Balin</a> than on the devastation this causes to his kingdom. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Scholars of the earlier 20th century devoted much study to the Wasteland motif. In one of the more popular works on the subject, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Ritual_to_Romance" title="From Ritual to Romance">From Ritual to Romance</a></i>, author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Weston" title="Jessie Weston">Jessie Weston</a> suggested that the origin of the motif lies with an otherwise unattested pagan fertility cult. The book is mostly disregarded today, though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a> credited it as the source of the title and the largest single influence on his famous poem <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land" title="The Waste Land">The Waste Land</a></i>."</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMOBXUHTJ3-Hb8EOqDbNJH2q1nOw9EPQ9eBZqALViu6tpY6rGvW1z36rk0-zjTSeO1zxADvOqKPhXXghbBWR1UJX4Q1nTX6J27yBI4TXQdwZqOsuS-Pbr8GJLQU18S3cOTQ9alOhbeRcE/s640/CC+cover.jpg" width="507" /></div> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This same theme we see though out the Troll Lord Games book for Castles & Crusades The Codex Celtarum. The otherworld of fairyland is always present to wash away the edges of reality. Castle Amber is that nexus point that provides the most easy & yet dangerous nexus point into these other lands & dimensions of chaos & misfortune. </span><br />Adventurers & heroes who decide to interfere in the affairs of Amber are very likely to suffer the wraith of beings from beyond their ken. </span><br /> <a href="http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2019/02/pwwo-astonishing-swordsmen-sorcerers-of.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While I mostly agree with Tim Brannan on his recent shout out to this blog. There are several quick points I love to address. </span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://www.rpgnow.com/product/221806/Astonishing-Swordsmen--Sorcerers-of-Hyperborea-Compleat-Second-Edition?affiliate_id=10748">Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea</a> is the far future of Earth after the events of twilight of the gods of mythology. The witch queens & families of fairyland are very dangerous & see the witches of Hyperborea & Zothique as rivals of the highest order. This is a matter of occult warfare & rivalry. <a href="http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2019/02/tanith-iconic-witch-for-astonishing.html">The Winters family is the latest addition to the war. </a></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Needles</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-cursed-fairylands-of-x2-castle.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-cursed-fairylands-of-x2-castle.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-02-28T14:52:00-08:00'>2:52 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-cursed-fairylands-of-x2-castle.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1389871235'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=4729475978118684200&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=4729475978118684200&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=4729475978118684200&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>"Trapped in the mysterious Castle Amber. you find yourselves cut off from the world you know. The castle is fraught with peril. Members of the strange Amber family, some insane, some merely deadly, lurk around every corner. Somewhere in the castle is the key to your escape, but can you survive long enough to find it?</i>"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="800" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNfdbUF4qXOSCCif5YpLvQJRTixBaC8HuH52NskOJvb0-XFcC5rWwGruqzxrPbuxnzKf0-tDrJjHw_HBXQyATm3ujdaD6ry9SbRTi9T6gZjr_hapDt86GuLDbCw8pHJVLoBftVa4Vfio/s400/DnDX2CastleAmber.jpg" width="400" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226022/Lion--Dragon" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">The Lion & Dragon Rpg system </a>has been one that's been on my mind for a couple of months now along with its setting<a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/152423/Dark-Albion-The-Rose-War" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"> Dark Albion</a> &<a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/187942/Dark-Albion-Cults-of-Chaos?src=also_purchased" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"> Cults of Chaos.</a></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So talking with one of my players has been interesting as we've been discussing the ins & outs of his character's social status. Social status during times of war can & did fluctuate with the fortunes of royal patrons & families. </span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjMUms9O7FJAvUz2dzvmYTxH1BU8T9OM7YsN4_zBrjcy41p2KlpfmmtzxD6DgRDyr-t1mQ14Md80cMVHyA42S2K5zuJ0SlQq8RnJVedl12TsvvnX-uoQ8UsLmAdIfZmc_NXo0j11FNIk/s320/Picture+795.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />This is especially true around the Amber family of X2 Castle Amber by Tom Moldvay, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a>'s Averoigne adventure can be a bit problematic in Dark Albion's setting. Castle Amber (or <i>Ch芒teau d'Amberville</i>) is exactly the sort of place that the Frogmen wizards of Paris would wipe off the face of the map. Or is it?<br />So the players solve the inner plots, mysteries, & adventure points of Castle Amber (or <i>Ch芒teau d'Amberville</i>) & then the entirety of the Averoigne region is destroyed? Not a chance & there's one very good reason Stephen Amber whom is the family's patron. But he's not the only wizard in the family.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIXimAfLChs-49xhsHf7xi7j1mQaOh1MUoNMLgYRkMZAw4wL4BTpdU_-CYtmySKVm9rKozjEXX-nsQb3WHo7TUoflZKqheKTDbu5XWdo0x5IP3tUBr8ECq7tDRLfGF-qxnHWj4ZY40Bc/s400/X2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /><br />Thumbing through X2 I noticed a number of little details that link not only the adventure but the family <i>d'Amberville to a number of France's historical points of reference.  The </i><i>d'Amberville family could become powerful patrons in France's resistance to the Frogmen forces. There are deep reasons why this would be the case; " </i><br /><i>In ancient times, Averoigne was settled by the fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gaul">Gallic</a> tribe called the Averones. They established a number of settlements in the region, many of which were fortified when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> absorbed the region. When Christianity spread through the Empire, many churches and monasteries were established among the ruins of Druidic temples. Greatest among these was a great cathedral constructed in Vyones, completed in 1138." </i></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Averoigne is located in the southern half of France and its involvement during the Hundreds Years War foreshadows the events of the coming of the Frog cults.<br />"Ever since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman conquest</a> of 1066, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="List of English monarchs">King of England</a> held lands in France, which made him a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Vassal">vassal</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_monarchs" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="List of French monarchs">King of France</a>. Tensions over the status of the English monarch's French <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fief" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fief">fiefs</a> led to conflicts between the crowns of France and England, and the extent of these lands varied throughout the medieval period. The French kings had endeavored, over the centuries, to reduce these possessions, to the effect that only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gascony" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gascony">Gascony</a> was left to the English. The confiscation or threat of confiscating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Gascony" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Duchy of Gascony">this duchy</a> had been part of French policy to check the growth of English power, particularly whenever the English were at war with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kingdom of Scotland">Kingdom of Scotland</a>, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Alliance" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Auld Alliance">ally of France</a>."</span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><i><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="480" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdPAfWkvnKaTZVyJPKC-X8pRcklluvD_iIa4j74W89ZUHHxCy3cid2JMtR9A5XPiziNFccOb1ht0of78NdFhyphenhyphenHOPb3vBGEz5L6-sAt9M3Ny1AwFvRVY7m3qBJpswtJEtJRU53EdvqZSdk/s400/X2_Number_One_large.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></i><br /><br />So throughout Averoigne England's role in the Hundred Years War is not only remembered but the sting still echoes throughout the region. <span class="st">Tom Moldvay knew the </span>CAS Averoigne cycle stories well and so bits of this politic leak into the module of X2.<br />The frog wizards fear the region of Averoigne because of its ties to Chaos. They know some of the cults & history of it but fear curses and its hidden powers. This also has to do with the sting of the Hundred Years War's expense & hidden costs as well as the occult powers behind some of the motives behind it. "For about nine years (1328–1337), the English had accepted the Valois succession to the French throne, but several disagreements between both monarchs prompted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_VI_of_France" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Philip VI of France">Philip VI</a> to confiscate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Edward III of England">Edward III</a>'s lands in France, which in turn convinced Edward III to reassert his claim to the French throne. Several overwhelming English victories in the war—especially at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Battle of Cr茅cy">Cr茅cy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poitiers" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Battle of Poitiers">Poitiers</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Battle of Agincourt">Agincourt</a>—raised the prospects of an ultimate English triumph, and convinced the English to continue pouring money and manpower into the war over many decades."<br /><br /><br />Bandits & worse swirl at the outer edges of France during the War of the Roses this state is also found in ruins of the stronghold of Ylourgne. This ruin is an  abandoned abode of evil robber barons, where the horrid affairs of the <a class="external text" href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne" rel="nofollow" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">"The Colossus of Ylourgne"</a>, by Clark Ashton Smith (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Tales" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i>, Popular Fiction Publishing Co., June 1934). </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="300" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnegD3mo8l-YEohGTEc4bTZqBG2iBogjtAjRTcQ6BzbGkjONcy6SrxK-BLkeaijltBA6a2YHxNjKJmRRsYZMYHCV59EgmuyDCd4fBBa_aBhoF1IJJx8cV8GTyI7LuOscfSX5iKN2UW_aY/s400/300px-The_battle_of_Poitiers.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /><br /><br />So why are the frog wizard kings staying away from Averoigne? Because of the influence of Stephen Amber himself. His family's dominance & patronage of the cathedral along with the town that surrounds it hints at the level of prowess associated with the family.<br />"The northern half of the territory is dominated by the walled city of Vyones, site of an impressive cathedral."<br />Even though he's supposedly at rest Stephen Amber conforms to many of the occult abilities of a lich even in death.<br />Where is the information coming from about all of the movements & inner workings on the court of the English? The very queen of England <b>Margaret of Anjou</b> was a born spy mistress and hybrid of the frog wizard's bloodline but she's even more then they reckon.<br /><b>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">Margaret of Anjou</a></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"> </a>(French: <i><span lang="fr">Marguerite</span></i>; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_consorts" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="List of English consorts">Queen of England</a> by marriage to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Henry_VI" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="King Henry VI">King Henry VI</a> from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471." <b>Margaret of Anjou</b> is a highly placed operative whose been two steps past her own masters through her patron in the form of<a href="http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/2010/08/stephen-rock-first-d-arch-villain.html" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"> St.Stephen the Rock</a>. She's been the toad god <span class="st">Tsathoggua's operative whom the frog kings think is their hidden queen.In fact she's been getting intelligence not only from her own spy network but through her own court wizards through the machinations of Blackmoor's St. Stephen the Rock.  </span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDV4tHhyHn5b3r4IJYKEc1o1pi1_b1hg67HuogCePhChdeXOtsZ0QINv5cg14biBlCizfZiqiAj2eO11uJqe_8sSJrwf-XGTgAdVJ_qVYaFPQ7SiOpMlSwl0PUWULMuTfdBJ7cnevYTYg/s400/220px-MargaretAnjou.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="353" /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />So why would St.Stephen the Rock be interested in Albion? The expansion of his own Chaos based cult of the Toad god right in the heart of another plane. He can't proved weapons, monsters, etc. but he can provide intelligence on the Queen's hated enemies. Shakespeare portrays Margaret as an intelligent, ruthless woman who easily dominates her husband and fiercely vies for power with her enemies. Among those enemies are the Amber family whose resistance to her own dark masters give her pause. </span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnmUOa5tTs6jF8jCxJsvAGQY8LEUZEinQC2Iq0MLgSu8hpNsDp3LZ_1SCwJPJsB2Bsd-q9fiDLZ3Xr6cO7XVuJQUOR6KgnRiZZpRjKnKXWVR6R1zZ_NGUl9Ke3TAp1D6lLmyLWbnObefY/s400/Toad.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="366" /><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="st"><a class="external text" href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/143/mother-of-toads" rel="nofollow" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">"Mother of Toads"</a> <a class="external text" href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/144/mother-of-toads-%28abridged%29" rel="nofollow" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">(originally published version)</a>, by Clark Ashton Smith (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Tales" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i>, Popular Fiction Publishing Co., July 1938) gives an intimate portrait of the inner workings of the sort of chaos witch whose on the payroll of </span><span class="st">Tsathoggua. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gaul">Gallic</a> tribe called the Averones are the last heritages of a far older order going back to the time of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> which absorbed the region. <a class="external text" href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/62/the-enchantress-of-sylaire" rel="nofollow" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">"The Enchantress of Sylaire"</a>, by Clark Ashton Smith (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Tales" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i>, Weird Tales, July 1941) goes into some details of this.<br /><br />Why is Tsathoggua playing with his agents in this manner? Because it suits the iconic sense of humor of the Great Old One. X2 Castle Amber presents several adventure elements that can deeply connect Albion & Blackmoor without breaking a sweat as the factions of chaos play war with one another with the PC's stuck in the middle.<br /><br />By the time we reach the era of the 1800's the corridors of Castle Amber has a perminant gateway to the far future world of Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique; </span><div style="color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Clark Ashton Smith himself described the <i>Zothique cycle</i> in a letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="L. Sprague de Camp">L. Sprague de Camp</a>, dated November 3, 1953:</span></div> <blockquote style="color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Zothique, vaguely suggested by Theosophic theories about past and future continents, is the last inhabited continent of earth. The continents of our present cycle have sunken, perhaps several times. Some have remained submerged; others have re-risen, partially, and re-arranged themselves. Zothique, as I conceive it, comprises Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia, India, parts of northern and eastern Africa, and much of the Indonesian archipelago. A new Australia exists somewhere to the south. To the west, there are only a few known islands, such as Naat, in which the black cannibals survive. To the north, are immense unexplored deserts; to the east, an immense unvoyaged sea. The peoples are mainly of Aryan or Semitic descent; but there is a negro kingdom (Ilcar) in the north-west; and scattered blacks are found throughout the other countries, mainly in palace-harems. In the southern islands survive vestiges of Indonesian or Malayan races. The science and machinery of our present civilization have long been forgotten, together with our present religions. But many gods are worshipped; and sorcery and demonism prevail again as in ancient days. Oars and sails alone are used by mariners. There are no fire-arms—only the bows, arrows, swords, javelins, etc. of antiquity. The chief language spoken (of which I have provided examples in an unpublished drama) is based on Indo-European roots and is highly inflected, like Sanskrit, Greek and Latin." </span></div> </blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />The world of Zothique is a refugee for the family Amber & its interests. Many groups from the Victorian era  <span style="color: #545454;">the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901 also take advantage of the planar waves.</span></span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> <br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIO2mJbPzcu7L3mktczyLuRFNHR_F_RfFufbc-VHzDrwLOZULKvJNiztAG4vh_n9Q5ZkyD7nJPiaAKKMjt73k1d8FkKDlDcJIP-MsykO79PV9k3tMf-vZLCbNAj-_IevBKlNyHAOxvzc/s1600/Victorious+rpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIO2mJbPzcu7L3mktczyLuRFNHR_F_RfFufbc-VHzDrwLOZULKvJNiztAG4vh_n9Q5ZkyD7nJPiaAKKMjt73k1d8FkKDlDcJIP-MsykO79PV9k3tMf-vZLCbNAj-_IevBKlNyHAOxvzc/s640/Victorious+rpg.jpg" width="494" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/169398/Victorious-the-Role-Playing-Game">Mike Stewart's Victorious rpg</a> is perfectly aligned with the various dark cults of the Elves & the Old Ones who are taking full advantage of this era's occult planetary alignments. These alignments take full sacrifices to gain gateways into other times & places such as Blackmoor, Mystara, & even Greyhawk.. </span></div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Needles</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/chaos-clark-ashton-smiths-zothique-in.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/chaos-clark-ashton-smiths-zothique-in.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-02-28T07:53:00-08:00'>7:53 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/chaos-clark-ashton-smiths-zothique-in.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1389871235'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=560188708352005767&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=560188708352005767&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=560188708352005767&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Ward For Your Old School Campaigns</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-2818791877140828622' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1896879297200450353" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 536px;"> <div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="334" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS1KTpHgTlwMxX9Pcoqd8i8TLBGPQXYcuF3x42W9qFU-r5b9uuhchv18fhb9LwE4hzG4_ndyrMozNaPXSm097lVsaMQjTyumoVjq8vQkpXt5zgs9cbc5SYtLwrBaq3ehfCDNhtz_ZIeVw/s640/s-l640.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="404" /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was quietly taking a trip down memory lane thumbing through OD&D's Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes by<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Kuntz" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Robert J. Kuntz"> Robert Kuntz</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ward_%28game_designer%29" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jim Ward (game designer)">James M. Ward  </a>again. Its been a long while since I'd perused the the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deities_in_the_Elric_series" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Deities in the Elric series">Melnibon茅an</a> Mythos from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Michael Moorcock">Michael Moorcock</a>'s <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Elric">Elric</a> novels in the book. Then I noticed something I hadn't seen in many years. The section on the warriors of Pan Tang in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deities_in_the_Elric_series" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Deities in the Elric series">Melnibon茅an</a> Mythos section;</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">PAN TANG WARRIORS</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Move etc. as men</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An army of fighters all able to fight with the ability of a 10th level fighter. These humans never</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">check moral and ride a 6 legged reptile which stands 15 feet tall and moves 20" per turn.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">FIGHTING TIGERS OF TANG</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Armor Class — 4 Fighter Ability: As Tigers</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Move: 19" Psionic Ability: Class 6</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hit Points</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are 10 feet tall tigers able to bite for 4 (8-sided) dice of damage and claw for 3 (8-sided).</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They always appear beside the Pan Tang warriors, one to a mount.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That's some pretty high level stuff right there but then that's the whole point of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods,_Demi-Gods_%26_Heroes" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">OD&D's Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes.</a></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The supplement intends to set guidelines to enable DMs to incorporate mythologies into their own campaigns. The supplement presents the deities of various cultures of Earth and elsewhere in a form which can be easily assimilated into the existing D&D game structure"</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1010" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOXYurMSYBlqfTKoR5TgtB3b64P3qOu8LVuwVuVQjqA5ZgMznhoKsmcxQX92kQ61HVvViSU-CKr1o3RhwE_4q398kWqE1Ffyevsi4Q68sTAwQoFpl4KN0_uQJDLK5mD3ETfsdjAu0ZgZs/s400/Page_135_illustration_in_Old_Deccan_Days.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></span></div> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To understand what these warriors are we need to quickly look at the fact that <b>Jagreen Lern</b> The cruel ruler of Pan Tang & head of the church of Chaos was sending raiders into alternative world & other dimensions to raid temples,  kill gods  & demi gods to cement his own power of rule over other worlds. This was something that I came across in the Games Workshop version of <a href="http://www.stormbringerrpg.com/" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">the Stormbringer rpg</a> especially when looking at the Citadel Pan Tang figure line. These warriors & chaos laced mutated fighting tigers were the center pieces of my own chaos army back in the 90's when you pick up the figures for a song.<br /><span id="goog_1012724586"></span><span id="goog_1012724587"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-wvfFstCMHDkGdgoZvw77b-ltbxE35soezF766beCCz5wlnG1B70FnsOI_6meBBtyHHCjFVGkOKtU9fsasIEo9K9UHo7HHzh1u98vUmqlBzgg0-a6R7NrLHincF7Vs0FxFpSVFV8ibY/s320/Picture+728.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="320" /><br /><br />So while everyone at the table top was fielding a chaos army from the Lost & The Damned I was fielding a kick ass Pan Tang army with customized chaos mutated tigers! Alright what does this have to do with Dark Albion, Clark Ashton Smith, The Thirty Year War, & Arthurian Literature? Well, here's where things get interesting. The Pan Tang are a nation of chaos worshipers led by the driven mad man leader Theocrat <a href="http://stormbringer.wikia.com/wiki/Jagreen_Lern" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jagreen Lern">Jagreen Lern</a>. Their own racial origin is closely tied to <a href="http://stormbringer.wikia.com/wiki/Mabden" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>The Mabden</b> </a>of which they are very twisted branch.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXzetJSl-Gv8kl8yjtePdT9Y0go4vuLNr4qdzwUDaJs1ccHgqxCKWh07Lbku-c5_9JJ3rw16by2LBNinw3fpy718g9T7es507p3sbtlzTg73uO1keLONYY-_-kOnc-pxlCZW1O_1nFdQ/s400/Picture+735.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /><br /><br />A week or so ago my other half pointed out that the Pan Tang figures bore a striking resemblance to the <b>Telmarines of C.S. Lewis's </b>book <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Caspian" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Prince Caspian">Prince Caspian</a></i>, the second book published in   <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Chronicles of Narnia">The Chronicles of Narnia</a></i> series.<br />Theocrat <a href="http://stormbringer.wikia.com/wiki/Jagreen_Lern" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jagreen Lern">Jagreen Lern</a> ambitions know no bounds especially spreading the cults & religions of chaos. These army raiding parties across dimensions might be a way of getting rid of the excess warriors & forces to leave only the best for the conquest of the Young Kingdoms. This means that these forces could appear anywhere & when. There are number of mercenary & weird armies in Arthurian literature as well as the fact that <span class="body normal">Arthur would have been king prior to the Norman invasion of 1066 AD.  So time would be dangerously weird & strange for this to happen. A small scale invasion is possible given the fact that this isn't our world. Especially with some of the fictional  history of the ties of the <a href="http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-950" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">Von Beks to the Holy Grail. </a></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Von-Bek-Warhound-Pleasure-Sagittarius/dp/1857984366" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">The Von Bek</a> family  involvement in the Thirty Year war is well known to Micheal Moorcock fans.<br /><span class="body normal"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="352" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlIyGWCGTMkZNzEJQxGyhtIOSQn03EeaKUn5OLLpkQjZyW-XFw9OP9d1yEcb-rpjf5Yz14_ngWvFs8fU__0eW9ckTCx_gqmGgD-0YAbo3OKPG1fbRKevgYgNIpXsPVoHVlWSbvjpcW_Vo/s640/Von+Bek.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="449" /><br /><br />This brings me to <a href="http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2018/03/rpgpundit-designer-review-lion-dragon.html" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">Rpg Pundit's break down of Lion & Dragon </a>& something that he revealed during his recent blog entry. Many of the Magistar spells have an underlying Medieval occult chaotic element to their magick;<br />"</span>Magisters are a lot more complicated.  All magisters have the potential to learn a number of magical techniques (in the L&D rulebook, there's seven techniques in all, but in theory there could be more techniques and some of these are elaborated upon in some of the <a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/32/Precis-Intermedia/subcategory/126_28809/RPGPundit-Presents" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">RPGPundit Presents</a> supplements).<br />There's one technique that every magister starts with potential knowledge of: Summoning.  This works largely the same as the Summoning rules in the <a href="http://www.dcrouzet.net/heroes-witchery/?page_id=206" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">Dark Albion</a> book. However, to summon and control a demon you need its true name and its sigil, and Magic-user PCs don't actually possess any of these at 1st level. They'd need to obtain them. Note that also, technically, anyone (not just magic-users) could perform summoning, only non-magisters would be much worse at it (and therefore under much more risk of catastrophic failure and demonic possession).<br /><br />The other six techniques are Astrology, Cures, Banishing, Battle Magic, Astrological Talismans, and True Alchemy.  Each of these have a variety of different rituals under their aegis, and/or different tiers of ability, so techniques can be selected multiple times to get access to more or better rituals in the technique.<br /><br />Clerics, with their powers, are largely similar in practice to D&D regarding how they use magic (even if the power themselves are a little different from Vancian Clerics). But magisters in Lion & Dragon work radically differently from D&D wizards.<br /><br />For starters, apart from a couple of spells (the most basic form of banishing, a spell to become partially invisible, etc), almost all of what magisters do require complex rituals.  Most of these require materials (special objects, incense, precious metals, or a full alchemical lab) that are quite costly, meaning that a magister will either need to come from wealth, amass wealth by some means, or have a powerful patron to fund them. These rituals take time and sometimes have associated risks.<br /><br />But in many cases, the rituals being completed, the result is something the magister can then use very easily in actual situations.<br />So for example, a magician who knows Astrological Talismans needs to go through a whole process to create a talisman, but after that, as long as he has it on him, he need only touch it for its power to work. A magister can't cast the "light" spell like in D&D, but one that gets a lab, the complicated material components, and succeeds at the ritual to create it can make an ever-burning lamp. High-Level magisters can be ridiculously powerful; but not because they could throw fireballs or lightning bolts. Instead, because they can produce Byzantine Dragonfire (or 'Greek fire' as we knew it historically) that they can fire (or more likely give to someone else to fire) out of a flamethrower-like pump or from little grenades! Master alchemists can even try their hand at creating the Philosopher's Stone (if they can get a Royal Charter permitting them to do so; or if they want to risk execution if they can't get a Charter) to make lead into gold and do many other wondrous things. Or they can try their hand at creating the most difficult and valuable magic of all: the Elixir of Life that could grant immortality"<br />This idea is very much in keeping with many of the occult elements that are present within the Moorcock presented ideals behind chaos because the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deities_in_the_Elric_series" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Deities in the Elric series">Melnibon茅an</a> Mythos & especially the cycle of<a href="http://stormbringer.wikia.com/wiki/Corum_Jhaelen_Irsei" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"> </a><a href="http://stormbringer.wikia.com/wiki/Corum_Jhaelen_Irsei" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Corum Jhaelen Irsei (</b>the Prince in the Scarlet Robe)</a><span class="body normal"> draws deeply from Western European occult traditions for many of its foundations.<br /><br />For Lion & Dragon the ideas of both<a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/articles/criticism/67/cycles-of-clark-ashton-smith" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"> Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea cycle </a>coincides with Michael Moorcock's mythos of the falling away of the old world while the newer world pulls from the ever changing struggle between the Great Old Ones & the newer gods,  Chaos vs Law or God vs The Fallen Angels. The cycles continue to echo throughout the multiverses. </span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />"In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Theogony">Theogony</a></i> (c. 700 BC), Chaos was the first of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_primordial_deities" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greek primordial deities">primordial deities</a>, followed by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28mythology%29" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gaia (mythology)">Gaia</a> (Earth), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a> (the nether abyss) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eros">Eros</a> (Love).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-4" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup> From Chaos came <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erebus" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Erebus">Erebus</a>(Darkness) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyx" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nyx">Nyx</a> (Night)." This basically means that chaos can never be 'beaten' merely driven back from the edge of the darkness of the world. This was something that the Elves of old mythology realized. Fairyland is a greedy macro entity of chaos & primal magick washing and flowing with various heavens & hells of old. The underworld sometimes comes into contact with it but most often various black wizards use it perhaps including at times the black wizards of Pan Tang. The black occultists of Dark Albion, the alchemists of Lion & Dragon's Europe, & even Blackmoor's various wizards all are looking at the elephant in the macro cosmos called chaos.<br /><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="519" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqACHZWuPN9eKmLE9sL8_cfqK-UXD9k2-ICoTAvzKEOfw6gaK9buwy_GW4yLU5w5DA34OSJjf-epKTkTJXqXpC6Df0UibXQMWa9aeLXU6oBV-s5rqAK9COWhLLd_sixcMkCiUu-p7gxH0/s400/519px-Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Chaos_%2528State_1%2529.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="345" /><br /><br /><br />The concept & magick  of Chaos is very ancient something the frog men of France know all to well.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pherecydes_of_Syros" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pherecydes of Syros">"Pherecydes of Syros</a> (fl. 6th century BC) interprets <i>chaos</i> as water, like something formless which can be differentiated." This is perhaps the final form of chaos after it scrubs all life from a world unlike the sameness of the expanse of law. Cults of chaos are subtle & very dangerous in the world of the supernatural because the entities of it & those about it are subject to its effects. There has always been an associate of chaos with the Underworld & the dead of mythology particularly in Europe.<br /><br />"Passages in Hesiod's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Theogony">Theogony</a></i> suggest that Chaos was located below Earth but above Tartarus.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-17" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></sup> Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Heraclitus">Heraclitus</a>.<br />The notion of the temporal infinity was familiar to the Greek mind from remote antiquity in the religious conception of immortality.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left: 0.1em; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (March 2018)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Guthrie59_18-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-Guthrie59-18" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></sup> This idea of the divine as an origin<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left: 0.1em; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (March 2018)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> influenced the first Greek philosophers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-19" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></sup> The main object of the first efforts to explain the world remained the description of its growth, from a beginning. They believed that the world arose out from a primal unity, and that this substance was the permanent base of all its being. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anaximander">Anaximander</a> claims that the origin is <i>apeiron</i> (the unlimited), a divine and perpetual substance less definite than the common elements. Everything is generated from <i>apeiron</i>, and must return there according to necessity.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-20" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a></sup> A conception of the nature of the world was that the earth below its surface stretches down indefinitely and has its roots on or above <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a>, the lower part of the underworld.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kirk9_21-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-Kirk9-21" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></sup> In a phrase of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Xenophanes">Xenophanes</a>, "The upper limit of the earth borders on air, near our feet. The lower limit reaches down to the "apeiron" (i.e. the unlimited)."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kirk9_21-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-Kirk9-21" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></sup> The sources and limits of the earth, the sea, the sky, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a>, and all things are located in a great windy-gap, which seems to be infinite, and is a later specification of "chaos".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kirk9_21-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-Kirk9-21" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29#cite_note-22" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a></sup> Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Heraclitus">Heraclitus" </a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Any exposure to Primal Chaos means that a PC must save vs death or gain 1d4 random mutations. Passages into the underworld especially near Tartarus have always been very dangerous in European & Roman mythology. This was especially true of knights of Arthurian & Grail lore who quested for the Grail in French & Welsh literature<br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbxLZfhV8lqeE6T57z_OSpWkJL9wPKXWSQHXL354QA4MZN5q1vN0Ao7_egjVfnARxHj-dhxoyC3gek3Ud1YQ_T5GnqT_afqWEhffqaGKLCcMO0ywK3YqyQybGE5Bf-tvQFqOtSNrqho-8/s400/King_Arthur_and_the_Knights_of_the_Round_Table.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /><br /><br />The Grail has strong symbolism within the Thirty Year War especially because the <span class="st">conflict in the Hapsburg-ruled Kingdom of Bohemia. The Bohemian Period (1618-1625). In 1617, the Bohemian Diet elected Ferdinand of Styria as king of Bohemia. Ferdinand, a member of the Hapsburg family, became <i>Holy</i> Roman emperor two years later. Chaos cults benefited from all of this conflict within Europe at the time tying in dangerous events into the whole affair. Could there be a chaos Pan Tang raiding party waiting for the party on some Fairyland location? I personally think so given on the whole because of the affairs of the Thirty Years War. </span><br /><span class="st"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="636" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5sGzpPjT_gwLBcR2Zws01LUbhiyJLyVY2FW6j97UTGmnC4HV1CcbxoHDX437di1AozqIvvynKEzWfRvd2PGIjZ98pQRVgDfa21-qABvPuvJ0y14iAwl-01dVmEHMzwxGhhxf3VTov8o/s640/HJFord-giant-enters.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="422" /><br /><br />This basically means that PC's could run into all kinds of monsters of mythology and horror at the edges of Fairyland where the energies of chaos run wild. </span><br /><span class="body normal"></span></span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What does this mean for a pulp game?! Basically with a Castles & Crusades base setting its <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150169/Amazing-Adventures-Companion?src=also_purchased">the Amazing Adventures! Companion </a>has the basic pseudo racial profiles for players & DM's to emulate their own Pan Tangians.<br /></span><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFMAkzpuQD2ZCm95FaXJKlrIg2bmrxmFHSWkgQ9LJPyZ_Be6rgmTQ7B0CYjFgsE3JJSafErgBZdkWbnqdPVX9EDnVap-w62foaZUwNADuT_HzVJPzgga6MNIboW7H2fqvRxEq8LGO2xOw/s640/AA+companion+cover.jpg" width="494" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/65657/Castles--Crusades-Monsters--Treasure">The Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasures</a> book has some excellent resources for putting together a Pan Tangian raiding party. 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href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2024/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2024/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2024/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2024/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2024/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/'> 2023 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(503)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(32)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(42)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(44)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(44)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(59)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/'> 2022 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(583)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(55)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(65)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(60)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(48)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(59)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(54)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(42)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/'> 2021 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(588)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(45)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(63)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(52)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(49)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(58)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(37)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/'> 2020 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(593)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(52)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(43)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(55)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(80)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(70)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(55)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(60)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/'> 2019 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(509)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(44)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(89)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(91)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(47)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(39)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(35)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-cursed-fairylands-of-x2-castle.html'>The Cursed Fairylands of X2 Castle Amber by Tom Mo...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/chaos-clark-ashton-smiths-zothique-in.html'>Chaos & Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique In X2 Castl...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/pan-tangian-dreams-within-od-gods-demi.html'>Pan Tangian Dreams Within OD&D's Gods, Demi Gods, ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-wild-weirdness-of-d3-city-of-gods.html'>The Wild Weirdness of D3 City of the Gods by Dave ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/primal-chaos-osr-lovecraftian-legacy.html'>Primal Chaos & The OSR Lovecraftian Legacy - A Ver...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/battle-for-far-go-famine-in-far-go.html'>Battle For Far Go - The 'Famine In Far-Go' Adventu...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-sacking-of-s3-expedition-to-barrier.html'>The Sacking of S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/echoes-of-past-in-uk1-beyond-crystal.html'>Echoes Of The Past In UK1 Beyond The Crystal Cave ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/retooling-osr-campaign-expansion-with.html'>Retooling & OSR Campaign Expansion With N3 Destin...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/retro-review-adventure-retooling-with.html'>Retro Review & Adventure Retooling With N2: The F...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/one-of-my-favorite-od-villains-egg-of.html'>One of my favorite OD&D villains - The Egg of Coot...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-three-side-wars-of-da2-temple-of.html'>The Three Side Wars of DA2 The Temple of The Frog ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-puppet-master-behind-events-of-s3.html'>The Puppet Master Behind The Events of S3 Expediti...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/s3-expedition-to-barrier-peaks-by-gary.html'>S3 Expedition To The Barrier Peaks By Gary Gygax ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-commentary-on-fords-faeries.html'>Review & Commentary On Ford's Faeries: A Bestiary ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/four-free-osr-monster-books-for-your.html'>Four Free OSR Monster Books For Your Old School Ca...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-commentary-on-rats-in-walls.html'>Review & Commentary On Rats In The Walls & Other P...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/chaos-conquest-spores-of-demon-lord.html'>Chaos & Conquest The Spores of The Demon Lord Juib...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/more-commentary-on-many-facets-of-demon.html'>More Commentary On The Many Facets Of The Demon Pr...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-commentary-on-pay-what-you-want.html'>Review & Commentary On 'The Pay What You Want' ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/astonishing-swordsmen-sorcerers-of.html'>Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea Pl...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/an-age-undreamed-of-with-jason-veys.html'>An Age Undreamed of With Jason Vey's Free OD&D Boo...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/faith-fortune-fighters-wizards-priests.html'>Faith & Fortune - Fighters, Wizards, & Priests In ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/blood-soaked-fields-fighters-wizards.html'>Blood Soaked Fields - Fighters, Wizards, & The Pat...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/thieves-treasures-relics-prices-of.html'>Thieves, Treasures, Relics, & The Prices of Power ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/wizards-relics-path-of-power-in-old.html'>Wizards, Relics, & The Path of Power In Old School...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-chaos-madness-of-wg4-forgotten.html'>The Chaos & Madness Of WG4 The Forgotten Temple of...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/osr-session-commentary-on-s4-lost.html'>OSR Session Commentary On S4 The Lost Caverns of T...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-osr-faction-kelosinel-or-mirage.html'>New OSR Faction: The Kelosinel Or The Mirage Ones ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/rawborgs-for-your-old-school-super.html'>Rawborgs For Your Old School Super Science or Plan...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-kree-sentry-for-high-tech-mysticism.html'>The Kree Sentry For The High Tech Mysticism & High...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/lycanoid-mutates-monster-for-your-old.html'>Lycanoid Mutates A Monster For Your Old School Cam...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-blood-soaked-messengers-of-fate-in.html'>The Blood Soaked Messengers of Fate In Old School ...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/agents-of-blood-fate-osr-commentary-on.html'>Agents Of Blood & Fate - OSR Commentary On CM3 Sab...</a></li> <li><a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/02/osr-commentary-on-gamma-zine.html'>OSR Commentary On The Gamma zine Kickstarter For G...</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/'> 2018 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(330)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(31)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(35)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(31)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(28)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/'> 2017 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(446)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(28)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(37)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(39)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(35)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(39)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/'> 2016 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(510)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(43)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(43)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(37)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(45)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' 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