A few new things I'm hoping to get to soon....

[Paul Edson]

Just a quick list of things I plan on fiddling with as time allows. I've
done next to nothing so far, so if anyone else is inspired, please feel
free!

Archetypes:

The Mysterious Stranger
The Burning Woman
The Rebel
The Jester
The Pedagogue
The Good Priest
The Minstrel
The Hanged Man (of Tarot fame)

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Schools of Magic (a bit more explanation for these, and they're waiting
for Greek roots until I look them up):

Nonsense-omancy: Power through gibberish. Requires gradually giving up
meaningful speech.

Numeromancy: Power through formulae and derivations.

Celebrity-mancy: Power through notoriety.

Cryptomancy: Power through gathering, creating, keeping secrets. It is
taboo to tell or give up a secret.

Ludomancy: Power through playing games.

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Miscellaneous tidbits (critters and an artifact or two):

Las Lloranas: Revenants (?) in the style of the weeping woman of
hispano-american folklore.

The Hungry Ones: Tim Powers-style ghosts who are primarily made up of
appetite and detritus.

The Necronomicon: Well, sorta. The prop book used in the making of Army
of Darkness seems to have taken on a sorta goofy-evil life of its own.

Lully's Baton: The French baroque composer Lully died of gangrene from
an accidentally self-inflicted wound from his baton (which in those days
looked more like a drum major's baton or staff than a contemporary
conductor's baton.) This item, cursed long ago by a rival of Lully's, is
still around. It's capable of changing its appearance in order to find
its way into the hands of great composer/conductors and then it finds a
way to make them destroy themselves...

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All for now...

Paul Edson
Arlington, VA.

pedson at erols.com
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