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Rake's Swallet
Thom Dicomidis
  • Jul 1, 2021
  • 5 min

Rake's Swallet

Many things in the world are elusive, actively resistant to elucidation and understanding; none are as frustrating as those whose study...
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Fulcral Brands
Thom Dicomidis
  • Jun 1, 2021
  • 4 min

Fulcral Brands

With enough cunning and the right tools, the distinction between possible and impossible is a more permeable and more malleable boundary...
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Knocking Ghosts
Thom Dicomidis
  • May 1, 2021
  • 5 min

Knocking Ghosts

There are many horrors that can freeze the blood of their victims by turning their gaze upon them. Fewer can paralyse someone with the...
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The Warrens
Thom Dicomidis
  • Apr 1, 2021
  • 5 min

The Warrens

Certain arcane truths bear intrinsic dangers, weight that can warp or distort the world around them and - in so doing - make lies of...
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Yeshua's Gate
Thom Dicomidis
  • Mar 1, 2021
  • 4 min

Yeshua's Gate

Where evolution is a gradual process - if not always a steady one - metamorphosis can create sudden and brutal shifts that we are...
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Kuklasi
Thom Dicomidis
  • Feb 1, 2021
  • 4 min

Kuklasi

The fears, paranoia and secrecy of the Cold War awakened ancient fascinations: Science and the supernatural bringing together spying and...
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The Exodus Immemorial
Thom Dicomidis
  • Jan 1, 2021
  • 4 min

The Exodus Immemorial

There are many times and places wherein humanity has fallen short, and not only short of our best, but short of meeting the most basic...
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Sublimation Halos
Thom Dicomidis
  • Oct 1, 2020
  • 5 min

Sublimation Halos

Instantaneous communication over vast distances has always been a goal of human endeavour (both magical and technological) though the...
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The November Papers
Thom Dicomidis
  • Sep 1, 2020
  • 6 min

The November Papers

Documenting an incident that took place either over a single month or over more than a century, The November Papers offer an insight into...
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Xiaern Clutches
Thom Dicomidis
  • Feb 10, 2020
  • 4 min

Xiaern Clutches

There are cases where ignorance is not a direct existential threat. Sometimes, though, what we don't know could harm us all.
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The Lighthouse
Thom Dicomidis
  • Feb 3, 2020
  • 4 min

The Lighthouse

Although the macabre and the monstrous are more obviously and immediately interesting, there are some more hopeful phenomena that deserve...
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The Boskednan Massacre
Thom Dicomidis
  • Jan 27, 2020
  • 5 min

The Boskednan Massacre

Interactions between different realities are dangerous, but where superstition prevails misunderstandings can quickly become bloody.
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Vaccinium Infernus
Thom Dicomidis
  • Jan 20, 2020
  • 4 min

Vaccinium Infernus

Fruits is a malleable motif in myths across the world, but where they occur in observable supernatural phenomena they play a sinister role.
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The Rational Apparatus
Thom Dicomidis
  • Jan 13, 2020
  • 5 min

The Rational Apparatus

The greatest weapons are formed and forged in the white-hot heat of absolute conviction, but the dread of uncertainty that keeps them close.
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The Qarow
Thom Dicomidis
  • Jan 6, 2020
  • 5 min

The Qarow

While often oversimplified, the various historical traditions linking mental illness to the influences of demons, djinn and curses...
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Lichmoulds
Thom Dicomidis
  • Dec 30, 2019
  • 5 min

Lichmoulds

Though it is a gift that is often disregarded -overlooked untilit is lost - our physicality that that makes us more than observers.
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Hephaestus' Quench
Thom Dicomidis
  • Dec 23, 2019
  • 4 min

Hephaestus' Quench

Once lost, the location of Hephaestus’ Quench has been kept secret through subterfuge and misinformation by those wishing to control it.
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Zagreus Greys
Thom Dicomidis
  • Dec 16, 2019
  • 5 min

Zagreus Greys

Where archaeology can uncover the origins of technologies, esoteric counterparts sometimes reveal things beyond our current understanding.
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Kumu
Thom Dicomidis
  • Dec 9, 2019
  • 5 min

Kumu

It is likely fortunate that the fundamental language of creation seems to be one which (despite our efforts) we have not yet been able to...
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Daughters of The Witness
Thom Dicomidis
  • Dec 2, 2019
  • 5 min

Daughters of The Witness

While most prayers go unacknowledged, those which aren’t are sometimes answered in ways that have repercussions beyond even the loosest...
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