 Kalaag -- Familiar Ground
"Kill em, kill em!"
'That sounds familiar', Kalaag thought, the rush of magic still going through him. healing wounds, closing open cuts, and doing something to his chest. 'So I'm face down on the ground, but at least it's familar ground.'
Kalaag knew better than to jump right up in a group like this, even if they were healing him. Odd trait these humans have. Heal you, then hang you. What will they think of next, healing poison needles?
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Jade
Uncommon Bardic knowledge.
Jade is the term common term for jadeite and nephrite. These minerals look the almost identical and most people don't bother to check if they even know how. But, because Jadeite has a more brilliant color and better translucency its is normally thought of as high quality jade or True Jade
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Scott Lynch has created one of the best fantasy novels in The Lies of Locke Lamora that I have read in years. The ease in which we are brought into his world, paralleled with the little he tells us about it in the first novel, and basically an equal portion in the second (Red Seas Under Red Skies) is truly amazing, and a little seen skill in most of the fantasy novels I read.
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- THE SEVEN EVIL SPIRITS
The Seven are a very ancient belief, and probably one of the inspirations for the Seven Deadly Sins. The following is from an Assyrian stone tablet. While this is obviously more about Spirits than Ghosts (as players of the World of Darkness would define them), I’m still using it for the novel Seven Skulls for [...]
- Cutty Sark
I’ve been doing some research for my next novel, Seven Skulls for Cathrine. and came across this posting on the witch Cutty Sark on the DapperCadaver.com blog site.
From Tam O’Shanter
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Wi’ tippenny, [ale] we fear nae evil;
Wi’ usquabae, [whiskey] we’ll face the devil!
The swats sae ream’d [...]
- A possible origin story for the Geist
This is the start of an Origin story for the Geist, the ghost in the shell of the Sin-Eaters.
I was waiting for White Wolf to get back to me, but something became clear as I continued to work on this, and the other areas I’ve read in the World of Darkness… absolute origin stories are [...]
- Final Fantasy still rocks…
These guys still rock, and they keep getting better. This is seriously gorgeous as well.
- Geist Theme Wallpaper
The artist calls this “Gentle Touch of Death” … it is probably the best Geist theme in an image that I’ve seen so far. If you have seen similar or.. better? I sure would like the link.
Love your Geist, and she will… well.. she’s a geist so let’s not push it too far.. seriously.
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