I don't know anything about Magic, so !g*mers and !spongebob will have to tell me why this is terrible beyond the obvious consumerist reasons. But there seems to be some drama about it, so here you go.

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Is that accent fake?

How fast is this mantoddler getting sued by Nintendo?

Imagine spending this much effort and money on a fricking fanfic, let alone one thats a love ode to a company that will probably sue and destroy you for much less than this just because they can. They don't care your a fan and "love" their IP, just buy our official product and shut up ladygarden.

Also check out the team of "developers" he hired to make this pile of shit. Notice anything?

Budalla is a trading town without any of the usual unspeakable pleasures offered in such places. The Solkhanite Blazegaurd , who are something between the Punisher and puritan preacher and are completely illegal but they've got spies in the city watch, treat a drug deal like they just caught you summoning the ruinous powers. Prostitutes and their johns get beaten up by The Sin Widows, Solkhanite women whose husbands have cheated on them. Usually with prostitutes. So, apart from getting beaten up by angry housewifes, what is their to do for fun in Budalla

The Acuff Sazuki Theater

A bizarrely popular musical variety theater starring Acuff Sazuki, a nipponese violinist. Acuff is the bastard son of a Nipponese diplomat to Remas and a half-brother of Meridean who runs the gowf course. Unlike her he plays up the "weird foreigner" angle. According to rumors his wife is cheating him on him but he doesn't care because they already had kids. The bathrooms in the theater are shockingly nice. He even has chess boards set up.

Adventure hooks:

One of the acts had to drop out due to a sudden case of "knocked up" and now Sazuki needs replacement acts. He's paying good gold and you can either perform or track down a replacement act.

Someone has declared a blood vendetta against Acuff and is trying to kill him. This isn't unusual in Budalla. What is unusual is that he doesn't know who it is or what he's supposed to have done. He hires the party to investigate and find out who is trying to kill him and why.

The South Pole History Museum

A museum and library about the old ones and their amazing civilization in Lustria and The Southern continent. Which means serious scholars regard as a bunch of crazy people. Not helping matters is that Sendhil Lundra the celestial wizard genuinely is mad and is haunted by strange visions of a goddess trapped beneath a city of ice and culture once destroyed by Chaos and now reclaimed. A hallucination of Solkhan screams at him every moment to find her and free her, but he sends out search teams and adventuring parties south in vain. Every scrap of information, every nugget of truth he unearth just adds to his confusion and his resentment of what he knows to be a hallucination of a god screaming at him. His skills as a trained celestial wizard are often in demand and are used to fund the museum and think tank. He keeps it quiet that the Celestial order sent him down here supposedly as a spy but actually to get the crazy wizard as far away from them as possible. He also resents this.

Jack Haryun is a fanatical sigmarite, a gullible crackpot scholar , and a paranoid enemy of Chaos. The bastard son of a minor noble house who entered the priesthood but was officially thrown out for "heresy" but really it was because he was an intolerable loon. He often accompanies or leads expedition because his skills with a hammer and a gun are significantly better than his scholarly abilities.

Heinrich krasniqi is a Veranian knight of the scroll stuck babysitting these lunatics. He's also the most conservative and sane scholar on staff.

Kuru the tall is one of the tallest of the pygmies. He's the height of a short Budallan man. He used to be the deed archivist before he retired to pursue his studies on the history of the pygmy people. According to his theories the pygmies are actually humans from another planet and their spaceship crashed here during the cataclysm or destruction of the polar gates. All humans are in fact descendants of pygmies and pre-Chaos taint beastmen but altered in height and skin colour as adaptions for the environment. Kuru usually leads any expeditions into the Southlands or Lustria wearing his bizarre shining pygmy-made armor and riding his war crane Anniball.

Any chaos artifacts they find are traded to one of the Imperial wizard orders in exchange for copies of rare books or scholarly exchange.

Do feel free to invite your own crazy or eccentric scholars and plop them in. The trick to writing good in-universe crackpot scholars is to make them almost right. Read up on old outdated Warhammer lore and have that be the in-universe text.

Adventure hooks:

They sent another expedition, but this time it's going to Praag. Does Mother Kislev call to you?

Some one tried to burn the place down in the night. Who tried to do this, and why?

Holy Word Theater

Holy Word theater specializes in showing stories out of holy texts dramatized as a grand spectacle complete with live animals, mock battles, special effects, and parlour tricks. Real magic is available if the owner can sucker a wizard into a contract this season. Her best season was when they were performing "The Life and Burning Wrath of Sigmar" with an Imperial Bright Wizard on staff to provide pyrotechnics. The theater also caught fire five times but art is never without cost.

Almeda Murati, the owner, is a Veranian and therefore has read most of the other major cults holy books and knows the best and most dramatic stories to put on . She is motivated by devotion to Veranian ideals, resentment against her actor parents for forcing her into this life instead of scholarly pursuits like she wanted, and overwhelming ambition to put on great shows and be a great actress. Also by the piles of gold her shows bring in.

Adventure hooks

The wizard in your party managed to get tricked into signing up for a season's worth of shows. Now the rest of the party has to figure out how to break his contract.

Almeda is bed-ridden and a strange new theatrical group is performing stories from a holy book none of the players are familiar with. Is that a rival theatrical company executing a hostile takeover, a chaos cult filling the public's head with filth, or something even weirder?

Snavely's Sour Chocolate Factory

Dr. John Benajim Snavely is a dear sweet man , although there are rumours his wife was a whore, but his chocolate is made with local milk and the Budallen cows are notorious for their poor milk quality. This gives it a slightly sour taste that he tries to offset with roasted almonds, raisins, peanuts, toffee and rice. His chocolate factory is the best smelling spot in the city. He sells a bar the size of a brick in a little cheap tin. He pays the widows, beggars, invalids, and cripples of the city to paint them so the tin is usually quite ugly, but some people collect them. Woe to the fool who insults the sour chocolate in the city, for many a traveller has been saved from starvation, boredom, or insanity by a brick of Snavely's Sour Chocolate.

Adventure hooks:

Mr.Lizard from the Chocolate City, the weird talking lizard from Lustria who serves as the mascot of Snavely's Sour Chocolate, has gone missing! Can your brave adventurers find him? Is he really a spy for the legendary lizardmen like the people at the South Pole museum claim?

Ten tickets are placed in the tins every week. Finding one lets you participate in the weekly factory tour. A rival confectioner wants you to break off from the tour and steal Snavely's recipes.

The grand Temple of Solkhan the widower

Theofan Nelli Paulson is the current head of the Blazeguard as well as the less illegal Brothers of the Som of the Sun's mercy. He is motivated by zealotry, overpowering compassion and very strong honor. He is so scrupulous and paranoid he doubts his own motives. He stopped flogging himself once he realized he was getting off to it and now attends the sermons of other churches as punishments.

The Grand Temple of Solkhan the Widower is the second biggest temple to Solkan in the world. The biggest is in the city of Remas. It is a beautiful Classical building with a small attached chapel for the Son of the Sun. The Reman cult of Solkan and the cult of Solkhan the widower do not get along but Solkan's entire cult is riven with fracture lines like that. A congregation where half of them aren't on speaking terms with the other half is normal.

A common penance for members is having to hand out tracts. These can either be the amazing Son of the Sun series drawn by Shphend Hachu featuring him in his blazing golden armour fighting Stan and his cult, The Khornate Daemon prince Sid Grimsbane atop his chariot of blood and bone from which he rides out of his castle of Dread and agony in the hills, the preppy Nagash mortach Zaddicus Tombend who lurks in the nearby woods, the vampire lord Mace Darkmore, the Tallite queen of beastmen Zogai, the fallen gold wizard Blanca and his chemically-enslaved ice ghouls, the Tin God, Bloody Tears the vampiress, and countless others. Or boring theological tracts with titles like "Rotten Oranges don't fall from the Tree of Stan". Guess which ones people prefer.

Why do people still worship Solkhan?

Solkan, as previously stated, is an angry god who really really hates Chaos. He also doesn't particularly like humanity and wants you to be grumpy all the time like he is. Because being a stuck-up sourpuss protects you from Chaos. Or dead. He'd prefer you dead because then Chaos can't get to you. As for other races he likes dwarfs but they don't like him, ogres, orcs, goblins, mutants, dark elves, skaven, naga and beastmen should all die, Lizardmen are awesome, it depends on the dragon, every single Chaos-aligned dragon ogre should die, fimir tribes who worship him can be allowed to live, and halflings are perfect just the way they are. So why on earth would anyone worship this jackass? Why does he have such a following in Budalla?

Because of his followers actions during the many civil wars and blood feuds. When all other gods had forsaken the Budallan people during the nader of their civilization he was still there empowering his followers to hold the line against Chaos, Skaven, and the greenskins. All those dark forces Sun of the Sun allegedly fought? They're real. As the Budallans worked and struggled back out of the muck other gods were there to lend a hand but it was Solkhan the widower who stuck with them when they really didn't deserve it. It's hard to get mad at a god who holds you in contempt when you so richly deserve it.

Adventure hooks:

Solkhanites accuse your characters of being followers of the ruinious powers. And they're right. Run dumbass run!

Some sects of Solkanites regard the Son of the Sun as heresy. One of these fanatics is currently trying to destroy the chapel to him . While your players are still inside it.

Sinister cult of Budalla

Staninists

Stanislaw Gopcèvíć was an evil wizard who ascended to godhood. He's now the god Stan. Stan is not a chaos god, but he's still proscribed in almost every decent city and country in the world. Stan is a god of brutal vengeance who makes Solhkhan look cute and cuddly. That's the general impression the man on the street has. The truth is even worse. Stan is a god of genocidal vengeance and solipsistic narcissism. His strictures are

• never apologize

• always take revenge

• obey Stan

• you owe no one consideration or courtesy. Society has done nothing for you; burn it down if you desire

• no bad tactics; only bad targets

• kill all dark elfs on my altar so I can eat their souls.

• oppose the chaos powers and any god who isn't doing anything for you.

He hands out powers and gifts to his followers like they were candy. That's good for him because, following his battle with the Son of the Sun, he's trapped in the ruined dwarf city below Budella and wants you to bring him dark and wood elf souls to eat. His followers are mostly the power-hungry who decided that kidnapping and sacrificing superhuman sadomasochist slavers was a better fast route to ultimate power than signing up with the four jerks who want to blow up the world. They fight routine battles with the dwarfs and the other presence down there. The City Watch and Solkhanites also want to destroy them, but don't usually go into the tunnels.

The Staninites greatest champions is Stan's Daemon prince the Dark Angel. The Dark Angel doesn't hate Dark Elfs but acts like she does to make killing them easier. She is a princess of a fallen kingdom in the Border Princes and wants revenge on the entire Border Princes for destroying her father's kingdom. She is crippled unresolved trauma and insanity. Stan encourages thus so that she's easier to manipulate. He even made her forget her name so that she has no connection to her old life.

Adventure hooks:

Is one of your characters an elf? Then Stan wants to eat their soul.

A local wood elf has been kidnapped from the woods and Zogai the Talian queen of beastman is rallying her troops to rescue him and burn down Budalla so as to expand her domains. Rescue the elf or Budalla burns . Fight her and burn with it. Run away and let it burn.

Download: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs

This free brochure (28 pages)contains inspiration drawn from the beliefs of peoples who actually inhabit the Earth now or in the past, or from facts taken straight from history or science. Each case includes the suggestion, how given beliefs or facts can be interpreted in the spirit of cosmic horror, emphasizing their appropriate elements or bending them slightly. Sometimes the descriptions are quite brief – a detailed discussion of each topic would take a lot of space and time. These are rather teasers intended to show why a specific thing may be interesting for fans of eldritch vibes and possibly encourage them to take a closer look at the topic.

The article is intended primarily for Game Masters who play games in systems inspired by Lovecraft's works, such as Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green. However, I hope that other fans of cosmic horror will also find something for themselves here. The interesting facts presented here may also be interesting for people who are not familiar with the work of The Loner of Providence, but some of the references may be unclear to them.

Here are contents:

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Typhon – a classic but forgotten abomination

Zeus – embodied energy

In his house underground, dead Hades waits in sleep

Apollo – beautiful, deadly light

Hermes is the gate, Hermes is the key

NORDIC MYTHOLOGY

A jotun is not the same as a giant, but it can be made into an abomination

Odyn = Nodens, Loki = Nyarlathotep

Or is Odin an abomination?

Einherjers and Odin the human

POLISH FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS

Jan Twardowski – the first man on the Moon

Silen night, starry night

Church in Trzęsacz – Deep ones do not leave their own, even after death

TRUE (OK, SLIGHTLY FAR-FETCHED) HISTORY

Invasion of the Sea Peoples

Greater Germanic Antarctica

The emperor out of the time

The Indus civilization

TRUE (SERIOUSLY) SCIENCE

Mad mathematicians

Humans like ants, ants like zombies

Halny and other foehn winds – the whisper of the wind brings madness

ABRAHAMIC BELIEFS

Covenant with God and Melchizedek

Succubi/incubi, aliens and a sorcerer-pope

Double faith

Stone from the sky, genies and angels

apparently it's some one-off alternate-universe thing, but le heckin' CHUDS might like it because it's a 40k skin (with kaiju) on mechwank.

Sure, and I doubt that the BT writers are about to careen into preaching ethnonationalist theocracy, but I mean... propaganda can be accidental. Like, Heinlein set out to write progressive scifi about more tolerant societies and ended up a crypto-fascist icon. And as the saying goes, once nazis start hanging out at your bar, you're not a bar anymore, you're a nazi bar. They're your market, and you'll end up serving them.

this le heckin' RAT-M chorus kills fascists:

Oof. I lived in the Midwest for a long time. Lot of great folks, but some of those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses. Where I live now is a state that has a long history of mixed peoples and so these issues, still exist, but aren't at the forefront anymore.

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writing an ideology into a piece of fiction, and even having it as the protagonist in that fiction, is not a bad thing and means nothing. making clear statements that This is Good and the way Things Should Be in a lore descriptor thats written to be in an objective tone, however, is a clear statement of endorsement by the author. this is basic media literacy?