Ghenim |
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Rmoahal Bodies
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Illustrating Tarot Cards
Monday 27 April 2015
Tlavatli Bodies
Sunday 26 April 2015
Thursday 23 April 2015
Knight of Cups, Queen of Swords
Tuesday 21 April 2015
Monday 20 April 2015
The Lovers
Aside from a few cards which I've done with digital media, most of my mooted deck have been drawn by hand. Then the process is that they're cleaned up a bit digitally, printed out on art paper, coloured and then scanned in again. Which is a pretty roundabout system, but it works. I find that colouring digitally doesn't actually create the effect I want, and it isn't any less work. I'm enjoying the cards so far... But then I've only done a dozen and I'm sure that come card 78 I'll be sick of them.
Friday 17 April 2015
The Hermit
Wednesday 15 April 2015
Your Direction to a World of Miracles
How many maps of Atlantis are there? Loads, that's how many.
Everyone who writes about Atlantis has their own map: Lewis Spence, Ignatius Donnelly, Graham Hancock, Charles Berlitz, Otto Muck, all different (Murry Hope uses other people's). Scott-Elliot has six of them, all at different stages, each superimposed on a map of the present world. I'm drawing my own, which loosely draws on the form of Scott-Elliot's map of Atlantis at its height, the third one.
It's liberating in a way, finding places to put a mythology. Putting names for people who never really existed in a context. For a project like this, maps matter.
In a lot of ways more work has to be done setting up cultures and conflicts than in the sorts of games I'm used to writing, the modern day horror, the near-future stuff, since the world needs a sense of place. It's going to take a while, the map.
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Monday 13 April 2015
Pren
Sunday 12 April 2015
Work in Progress
Saturday 11 April 2015
The Akâsha
Written on water, written on air, the Akâsha is not only the repository of all human race-memory but is also the morphic field that encapsulates the evolutionary potential of all living things.
All psychic development depends upon how one interacts with it. The clairvoyant reads it and discovers all potential presents, futures and pasts. The extraction of vril, the life-energy, from redwood seeds or blood is achieved by accessing the Akâsha.
Atlantean Priest-Eugenicists create the Thinking-Engines that govern Atlantean Noble marriages and Citizen education using the Akâsha as a source of data; Priest-Engineers create vimanas that draw energy from the Akâsha, the engines that power their sky-chariots. The Throng of Bestials is the result of a violation of the Akâshic interfaces of transforming and perverting soul-destinies of already living beings.
By changing the Akâsha, one can alter destinies, change beings. All magic is the result of an attack on the Akâsha.
The Lemurians wrote upon the Akâsha, writing detailed histories, moving vast rocks with their wills alone. The great cloud-monoliths are Akâshic miracles.
The Rmoahals' Speech-Words are vocalisations of the Akâshic language.
And the most powerful psychics, the godlike Manus, the Siriuns, the Lhas, can alter the course of evolution itself, past, present and future.
Competing forces aim to direct human history, and have the power to make new futures, new histories. The Akâsha is at stake, and the Akâsha is everything.
The one who controls the Akâsha when the Catastrophe descends controls the future of humanity.
Friday 10 April 2015
Lawkeepers of the Akâshic Colleges
Another phone photo, yeah. But all of this is a draft, so it'll do. |
The sky glowers over this village's Open Place today, and the crowd is subdued. Four stakes stand in a row, to each riveted a pair of metal loops. To each the priestess's pair of silent, chained Rmoahals shackle, almost apologetically, one of the poor of the region.
Thursday 9 April 2015
Envoys from Sirius
Wednesday 8 April 2015
Sky Chariots
An illustration from my dad's Atlantis book, by Chris Foss. |
Tuesday 7 April 2015
Bibliography Problems
The passage above is from my dad's copy of the 1928 edition of the Chambers Encyclopaedia. The entry headed "Race" in volume 8, R-T.
Yes, it really says black people are smelly, stupid and overemotional. You didn't imagine it.
Yes, it really says black people are smelly, stupid and overemotional. You didn't imagine it.
Monday 6 April 2015
Magic in the Twin Lands
Sunday 5 April 2015
Labours of Love
My friend Rob, who I've known for about twenty years, is more into gaming than anyone I know. He knows what he likes (GURPS, Savage Worlds, BRP, any number of OSR games), but the highest praise he can bestow upon something is that it's "a labour of love."
Saturday 4 April 2015
Atlanteans, the Third People
Kuiorih ka Akhantuih, Black Atlantean priest |
Clean water. Healthy people who can read and write. Lights on the streets at night. Peace, for the Atlanteans at any rate.
Friday 3 April 2015
Abominations of the Black Sun #2: The Thralls of Leagh
Thralls of Leagh: A Decorative and an Educative |
Thursday 2 April 2015
Muvians, the Fourth People
Wednesday 1 April 2015
Your Fate
You learned that you are fated to die, but not now.
You know innately that the Catastrophe, age of fire, wave and stone, is coming and - crucially - you will live to see it, before it takes you.
Character Creation
All this stuff about characters. All these stat blocks. No mention of how to make one.
Ok, so let's fix that.
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