Excerpt: Thorn-Chapter 3 Hyndluljóð
The Story So Far: A very young Loki (currently going under the name Lodurr) has been driven from his family home and is traveling in some pretty hostile territory. While …
Category: Occult
Lùnastal, Midseason Holiday
Here’s a story, painted with the points provided by my family’s ancestors. Do you want to know about Lùnastal? (also known as Lammas or Lughnasadh) Look it up and they’ll …
Excerpt: Thorn-Chapter 2 Hrungnir & Mokkurkálfi
The Story So Far: the child who is later destined to be Loki has been abandoned by his mother and elder brother and left to care for his younger brother, …
Excerpt: Thorn-Chapter 1 Laufeyson
The Story so far: Well… not much. This is the first chapter, after all. Here begins the story of Loki, from his birth to the end of the world, in …
Forks in the Road: history.exe v0.1
I spend a lot of time contemplating how we got from here to there. It’s kind of a thing. Part of it’s from my youth: my parents consistently telling me …
When a Religion Gets a (deserved) Bad Rap
Norse mythology is one of those things that schools in the US love to teach. It fits in nicely in a narrative, specifically the march from a polytheistic to monotheistic …
The Importance of Good Endings… and Beginnings
It’s important to consider endings. Before the wails of Ymir and the silence of Surtr, there was a world that lived, broke and died. How do we know this? Because …
Why They Won’t Don the Mask
The interesting part about deep-diving into subjects is that sometimes you stumble across patterns that are obvious in hindsight but you are blind to until you get the material in …
Fading Suns: A New Drama…
For gaming friends–more specifically those who played Fading Suns–a couple of folks pestered me to run the new Fading Suns. They were interested in what happened to their characters 20 …
Better the Devil You Know…
Slight drizzle of rain coming down. Chill in the air and a scent of rot and industry settling in the Gotham night, courtesy of strong winds from Bloodhaven. The Dark …