And now for something completely different…! We’re diving into one of the last books for the old World of Darkness this week—and we do mean OLD, for the book in question is Dark Ages: Fae. Technically a spin-off of Dark Ages: Vampire, and one of the standalone corebooks in the Dark Ages line, this is both the only full Revised book and historical setting that we got for Changeling: the Dreaming. Whether it’s actually the latter is debatable, and we will indeed be keeping its suitability in mind as we flip through the pages. But there are also some hints of bridging the gap between the original run of the game and what came after, notably Changeling: the Lost and C20. We’ll be talking Weavings and Echoes, Oaths and Origins, Firstborn and Fading Realms… whether it works well or not, there’s plenty of material here to consider.
There’s a whole passel of links for things mentioned in the show this week:
- The Dark Ages: Fae corebook, itself! https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/710?affiliate_id=3063731
- Friend of the show Andrew Goodman’s book Roots of Legend gets mentioned…: https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/354523?affiliate_id=3063731
- …as does Pooka’s Book of Days: https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/412055?affiliate_id=3063731
- We also talk about the World of Dark Ages podcast and their two episodes on this tome, which can be found at https://wodarkages.squarespace.com/podcast/dark-ages-fae-part-1 and https://wodarkages.squarespace.com/podcast/dark-ages-fae-part-2 respectively.
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your hosts
Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) prefers the term “Slightly Overcast Ages”.
Pooka G (any pronoun/they) can’t say the word “Hohenzollern” without breaking into giggles.
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