The lights beyond the sun emit queer and mysterious radiances through the aether, kept at bay by the pneumatic bubble which encapsulates the world. Holes and tears scar the earth, creating places where nothing wholesome grows. Vessels which…
I have spoken at length of monsters. Of how they come to be, what they are, what drives them. Here is what it is like to be ruled by them.Flesh EatersHulking, bellicose lords in towering keeps and castles, sneering at their lessers. Brutish…
In a world where corpses can rise, specters haunt the night, and innumerable horrors straddle the line between life and death, is it truly so surprising that a graveyard may be just as perilous as the deepest jungle? Oh, not all of them, fo…
At man's height, the heresy of Syncretism took root. In our hubris, we sought to interpret the Gospels to better understand them, and grasp the totality of Heaven. We can do this no more than mice grasp the scope of a behemoth, and our effo…
An effigy of a man built in our image, sustained through Miracle and birthed by Gnosis. That is a golem, a human soul housing a body of surpassing physical tenacity. Break them apart, put them back together, extract the core of them and pla…
I don't really know where else to put this but I figure if anyone would be interested it would be the tabletop RPG enjoyers, especially since Cataphract got so popular (I am in a game and I am quite enjoying it). Some time ago, before I sta…
I have spoken of the old horrors of the world, the scaled aberrations and humans-made-monsters, but there are other things which yet roam the earth that harken back to the time between, after the time of dragons but before the dawn of man.
Guns are loud, slow, messy, leave smoke everywhere, best used with a bunch of guys in a line or up close so you don't miss. Everyone knows that. Marksmen are freaks, obsessives. The kind of man who can reliably nail a man with a wheellock f…
Alchemy is a long-favored art among the peoples of the Known World. The arts of miracle and gnosis kept safe in flasks and alembics, the laws of the world distilled into potable reagents and tablets. Only sometimes does it go horribly wrong…
The wilds are not safe. Everyone knows that. Monsters and spirits, dragons and devils, brigands and magi, all threats widely spoken of and deeply feared. But they are not what most deal with. The shepherd, traveler, and poor sellsword looki…
I have talked of many things thus far, and perhaps given the impression of a grotesque, cruel, and hostile world. This is perhaps not untrue, but it is not the only facet of Anlil. There yet remains beauty and awe untainted by the horrors o…
I have been busy for some time with work and will remain busy for some time yet, and I've been too taxed to write things here. But I'm in a bit of a lull so I thought I'd bang one out to prove I'm not dead. But anyway, a refresher. Sorcery,…