Lorekeepers - A Worldbuilding Podcast

Forget everything you know about magic. Who cares about magic? Psionics are where it's at! This week, we lay down a foundation of considerations to understand the role of the mystics within Halûme.

Talking points: Channing Tatum the wolf-boy and his magic sky skates, chicken soup for the literary soul, Metalogicon, House of the Psions, A willpower bell snail, squidmanoids, mystics are our Goku, Why not up than down, lizard-chicken gloves, and Otaku speak.
Referenced episodes

• Age spells, the magic of generations: ep. 39
• Drow, fanatics of distant magics: ep. 40
• Shem, god-template of the corporeal vessel: ep. 58

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It's been a while Meccas, how are you all? We've missed you! But not you Ezraish. Nobody misses your dark ways.

But it's what we're talking about this week, so.

Talking points: dangerous moving, peanut country #aphantasia, main characters without a face (literally), Las Vegas is 'someone's mecca, aping MTG, fantasy meth, Amalgam, Death Ibiza, practical seasilver, lich almanac, Tennessee Williams is Not a Liquor, Shredder is a lich, and no necrophilia plz.

Referenced episodes

• Roarark, apex-city of the philosopher queen: ep. 8 & 9
• Yamdallah, mecca of the dragonborn: ep. 16
• En'golin, the First mecca of the distant Maker: ep. 20
• Whispers of the Nameless, agents of the void: ep. 21
• Seasilver, lunar iron and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56

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It's our most intangible episode yet as we return to the godmill to question the concepts of the humanoid frame and the tri-part model of the Knowing nature. Come get confused with us!

Talking points: Jason Momoa, three-person house building, Tennessee alignment, the Enneagram, Virgil, sandbox messes, and life coaches.

Referenced episodes

• The Houses of Legion, unfulfilled banners of the Animus will: ep. 48 & 49
• Yahdiel, current-giver of the unprismed Nine: ep. 55

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In an episode a long time coming we finally break ground on linguistic roots. How are the Tongue of Creation and Sylvan connected? Can a line be traced from languages to each other, and how far back?

Talking points: Sorbet, endo v. ecto, Vacationkeepers, sticking to the script, woke anime, crystal branding, Martin Luther the psychic, dwarven jargon, esperanto attempts, and Thurston.

Referenced episodes

• Najani, guiding hand of the firmament: ep. 11
• Vampires, rulers of the blasted world: ep. 31
• Halflings, wanderers towards the distant Veldt: ep. 45
• Umak, Mutestriss of Anasthaesia: ep. 50

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On the other side of our heavenly body series, we take a week to explore the nature of the moon-sisters. Who are they? What is their role in death? And what's the big damn secret that we finally reveal?

Talking points: Fists v. hand-blades, Vizio will never sponsor us, Freudian spanking-SLIP FREUDIAN SLIP, lunar iron, moon toss, eldritch moons, nonsense fluid dynamics, pirates fighting ghosts, the Fourth Archetype, and YOU'RE A MOON, HARRY!

Referenced episodes

• Avireal, the dream-legends of elves: ep. 15
• House Banners, fabric of angelic destinies: ep. 49

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This week we take it to the big man himself: the literal sun. What is special about the Halûmian sun? Is he a god? Or just a fantasy?

Talking points: Ford Insights, Shatner and other next of kin, personhood v. anmism, astrologonomy, more BS about arcane quantum reality, vacuum batteries, magical gut flora, soirées with the sun, moon teasers, metallic hydrogen (?), enzyme prisming, and #goodblood.

Referenced episodes

• Primordium, the crucible of form: ep. 19
• Prognin, Great Geometer and Keeper of the High Form: ep. 22
• Vampires, the soul-shattered: ep. 31
• Bremann, festival of lights: ep. 33
• Drow, fanatics of distant magic: ep. 40
• Discussing "evil" races and their place in modern fantasy: ep. 44

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For our second junior episode, we contemplate the eccentricities of the gnomish people.

Why are they so strange?

Talking points: gnome ewoks, """zany""" competitions, This is Your Brain on Creativity, unreliable science, burning wheel forks, brittle dwarven condoms, and that scene in Swiss Family Robinson when they kill stormtroopers.

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Welcome to the first ever Lorekeepers Jr.! This week we pack a bunch into a short but sweet ep. about the Church of Storms.

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It's a good one. Enjoy!

Talking points: Frankenstein would be proud, gimp bishop, dead Mutes and their tumors, motivated storms, and The Prophecy.

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This week we take a very simple concept and do our best to overthink it.
Darkvision.
Along the way we learn quite a bit about the way that the Halûmian multiverse is put together! Enjoy!

Talking points: Endgame(NOPOILER), bad segues, anniepisodiversary, over-explaining eyeballs, galaxy-gazing, swifter-than-light angels, nonsense physics, fish sh*t, gin blood, narcotic fog, and Daredevil.

Referenced episodes

• Discussing "evil" races and their place in modern fantasy: ep. 44
• Halflings and the coveted Veldt: ep. 45

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It's that time again: the godmill! This week we keep it contained to our current focus by fleshing out one of the remaining six Absential realms. Which of the Mutes does the die predict? Find out!

It's "Oparar." No, really.

Talking points: eatin' good, organic hot dogs, cheese-monger girlfriend, OG Hell, roll those beautiful bean dice, our treaty to the girl scouts, fem-dentity, hell is North Dakota (not really), empty smiles, apathy gangrene, the universe's butt, Antimus, f**king consumers amirite, and danger noodle trees.

References - the god series

• Exaban, god of the battlefield: ep. 7
• Najani, god of storms and sky: ep. 11
• Ysengrin, god of fortune: ep. 18
• Prognin, regent of wisdom and prudence: ep. 22
• Gade, demiregent of joy and festivity: ep. 28
• Tiirs, god of fear: ep. 36
• Dişgulle, goddess of the living gate: ep. 41

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