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Loremageddon 2019: The Archival Nexus

Loremageddon 2019: The Archival Nexus

As promised, readers mine, here’s the all-encompassing post for every single Loremageddon entry completed over the past month.  In years to come I’ll establish a page which in turn organizes all these nexus-posts by year. It should make for quiet the font-reliquary, no?

Anyway, I hope you all find this helpful, and that you’ve been intrigued enough in the Twin Spirals universe to keep up with the…

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Loremageddon 2019, Day Thirty: Planelords, Lost Mythologies, Faded History

Loremageddon 2019, Day Thirty: Planelords, Lost Mythologies, Faded History

We’re here at last: Day Thirty, the final day, the last post of Loremageddon 2019! And, in appropriate fashion to this closing hour, I’m focusing on lore itself as it exists within the Twin Spirals. First we’ll do a brief rundown of Canno’s Planelords, but then it’s into all manner of lost and disappearing knowledge. One last time at the end of an era, would you follow me below the asterisks?

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Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Nine: Eldritch Pacts, Bleak Marches, Planar Beings

Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Nine: Eldritch Pacts, Bleak Marches, Planar Beings

Hello, everyone! I hope those of you who partake in Black Friday have done so responsibly, and that those of you who have to work today were at least able to enjoy your Thanksgiving! For my part, I stayed overnight at my family’s place, so this lore-drop comes later in the day. Nonetheless, I hope it finds you well–we’re diving straight into the eldritch today. Some of this will sound at least a…

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Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Eight: Keronje, Albin Dant, the Halebeak Corsairs

Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Eight: Keronje, Albin Dant, the Halebeak Corsairs

Hello, everyone! Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to Day Twenty-Eight of Loremageddon! I could’ve tried to theme this post accordingly, but that just seemed silly. Instead, we’ve got a category of spirits known for hanging out around mystics, a famously-charismatic necromancer, and a group of ocean-going rapscallions with their own agenda. If you’ll bear with me?

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Snippet #1: Keronje (World:…

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Loremaggedon 2019, Day Twenty-Seven: Enchantment, Arcane Entertainment, Shapeshifting

Loremaggedon 2019, Day Twenty-Seven: Enchantment, Arcane Entertainment, Shapeshifting

Hello, everyone! Welcome to Day Twenty-Seven. Today is a day for magecraft, it seems! I’ll be walking us through two connected areas of magic’s integration with society in the Twin Spirals, and then the myriad pitfalls of shapeshifting when magic and science are the same thing. Designate a claw-trimmer and let’s jump in!

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Snippet #1: Enchantment (Worlds: Any)

Most folk understand what…

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Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Six: Spellmavens, Schielmanckers, Phantom Reliquaries

Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Six: Spellmavens, Schielmanckers, Phantom Reliquaries

Hello, readers–we’ve arrived at Day Twenty-Six! Indeed, it’s the final sixth of Loremageddon, and we’re in for more mystical lore as well as a quick look at the squat reptilian people called Schielmanckers. No need for more setup–join me below the asterisks, if you’d be so kind.

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Snippet #1: The Spellmavens of the Janik Desert (World: Creation’s Fringe)

An isolated region offers many chances…

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Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Five: Eldritch Cuisine, the Craftwarren, Atheists

Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Five: Eldritch Cuisine, the Craftwarren, Atheists

Accelerating further into the final stretch, we now arrive at Day Twenty-Five of Loremageddon! Today we’re going all in on the Fringe again–at least for the most part–starting with some decidedly otherworldly cooking! Then it’s a look at the Craftwarren, and then a final question: what does it mean to be an atheist in a universe where deities can be empirically verified?

Snippet #1: Eldritch…

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Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Four: Arcane Communications, Changing Life-States, Tangientialist Philosophy

Loremageddon 2019, Day Twenty-Four: Arcane Communications, Changing Life-States, Tangientialist Philosophy

Hello, readers! It’s Day Twenty-Four of Loremageddon, and I barely slept for reasons which I admit I’m not fully clear on. This is just one of the many reasons I made sure to have today’s topics marked out in advance last night, hm? Now then, today we’re going through some examples of arcane communication in the Twin Spirals, what it means to change from one mode of life to another, and lastly,…

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