Against The Wicked City

[Advance warning: this post will probably be of interest to no-one but myself and a handful of pop culture historians.] Researching my post ...

There's a legend about the Battle of Brunanburh, at which King Aethelstan confronted the allied kings of Scotland, Dublin, and Strathcly...

Decades have passed since anyone anyone last saw him, and yet his face is everywhere. His statues loom on every corner. His tower block...

These are Tsam dancers. The Tsam or Cham ceremony is a ritual of Tibetan origin, in which masked performers enact symbol...

This came up in response to my recent post on mapping generic OSR-land . When I drew the map, I covered it with cults until I started run...

Before the rise of the Wicked King, a dozen faiths competed for believers in the streets of what is now the Wicked City; but the state r...

As I've mentioned before , one of the things that interests me about Central Asia is the diversity of its religious traditions. Judia...

[Fair warning: insofar as they have plots to spoil, this post contains spoilers for all five Resident Evil films. And, no, I don't reall...