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Mythic Britain

Mythic Britain
Author: Lawrence Whitaker
Publisher: Aeon Games
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9781911471080

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Mythic Britain is a complete sourcebook for adventuring in Britain's Dark Ages using the Mythras rules. The book includes an extensive history and background of 5th and 6th Century Britain; details of the different tribes and territories; complete character creation rules for Britons and Saxons, details of magic, the Saints and pagan Gods; and, rules for massed battles. Completing the book, seven linked scenarios form the Mythic Britain Campaign in which the characters travel the length of breadth of the island, serving Merlin and Arthur, fighting the Saxon invaders, searching for the lost Treasures of Britain, and becoming involved in all manner of schemes and intrigues.Take up your spears. Swear your oaths. Ready your shields.Welcome to the Dark Ages!Mythic Britain requires the Mythras Core Rules.Comes complete with a separate full colour map of Mythic Britain.


Gods, Heroes, & Kings

Gods, Heroes, & Kings
Author: Christopher R. Fee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004-03-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780198038788

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The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.


Mythras

Mythras
Author: Pete Nash
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780359125821

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Mythras is the acclaimed d100 roleplaying system from The Design Mechanism. Mythras is a percentile system. In Mythras your characters are defined by their culture, career, community, background, comrades, skills, magic and cults. Progression is through skill advancement - not levels or similarly abstract concepts. As your characters adventure and quest, their capabilities improve and their relationships deepen and strengthen. Players and Games Masters have complete flexibility over what can be achieved, and the way characters develop is entirely dependent on choices players make, depending on their characters' aspirations and motivations. Games Masters receive a huge amount of support through the Mythras rules. All the concepts and game mechanics are explained clearly with options and considerations explored and presented for ease of use. You need only this rulebook for many years of exciting and imaginative play.


Mythic Britain Logres

Mythic Britain Logres
Author: Paul Mitchener
Publisher: Aeon Games
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-05
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9781911471165

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A.D. 449. This year Marcian and Valentinian assumed the empire, and reigned seven winters. In their days Hengest and Horsa, invited by Wurtgern, king of the Britons to his assistance, landed in Britain in a place that is called Ipwinesfleet; first of all to support the Britons, but they afterwards fought against them. The king directed them to fight against the Picts; and they did so; and obtained the victory wheresoever they came. They then sent to the Angles, and desired them to send more assistance. They described the worthlessness of the Britons, and the richness of the land. They then sent them greater support. Then came the men from three powers of Germany; the Old Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes... From Anglia, which has ever since remained waste between the Jutes and the Saxons, came the East Angles, the Middle Angles, the Mercians, and all of those north of the Humber. Their leaders were two brothers, Hengest and Horsa, who were the sons of Wihtgils; Wihtgils was the son of Witta, Witta of Wecta, Wecta of Woden. From this Woden arose all our royal kindred, and that of the Southumbrians also. - The Anglo Saxon ChronicleAnd so the Saxons came to Britain. Vortigern, who betrayed them, fell, and in time they took all the land in the east so that the dominion of the Britons was divided, and the Britons driven back in their kingdoms of Dumnonia, Powys, Gwent, Elmet and Brigantia. From these conquered lands rose Anglia, Ceint and Mierce. With them came new kings: Guercha One-Eye of the Angles, Aelle - the Bretwalda, and now, to challenge them both, Cerdic and his sons.The Saxons bring new Gods and new Magic. They come to conquer and settle. They come to claim what Vortigern promised and failed to deliver. But most of all, they come to fight.Mythic Britain: Logres is a companion volume to Mythic Britain focusing firmly on the Saxon kingdoms. In its pages you will find a wealth of information on Saxon culture, beliefs, rites, practices, people and magic. The book details the lands of Logres, its kingdoms, its politics and its internal strife. The book includes character creation for Saxon characters, new rules for Saxon magic, rules for riddles and contests, and a detailed mini-campaign following the arrival of Cerdic in the south of Britain.Mythic Britain: Logres explores the world of the Saxons in 6th Century Britain. It delves into Saxon culture, society, religion and beliefs, bringing life to these enigmatic invaders from the Germanic lowlands of northern Europe. Written by Paul Mitchener, this is an essential resource for all Mythic Britain Games Masters and anyone with an interest in Anglo Saxon heritage.


Gods, Heroes, & Kings

Gods, Heroes, & Kings
Author: Christopher R. Fee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004-03-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 019803878X

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The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.


Mythic Constantinople

Mythic Constantinople
Author: Mark Shirley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781989028162

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Britain B.C.

Britain B.C.
Author: Francis Pryor
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Based on new archaeological finds, this book introduces a novel rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans. So many extraordinary archaeological discoveries (many of them involving the author) have been made since the early 1970s that our whole understanding of British prehistory needs to be updated. So far only the specialists have twigged on to these developments; now, Francis Pryor broadcasts them to a much wider, general audience. Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion (which has helped expose such coastal sites as Seahenge) and new planning legislation which requires developers to excavate the land they build on, archaeologists have unearthed a far more sophisticated life among the Ancient Britons than has been previously supposed. Far from being the woaded barbarians of Roman propaganda, we Brits had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty. And the Scots, English and Welsh were fundamentally one and the same people.


Mythic Britain

Mythic Britain
Author: Lawrence Whitaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2021-02-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780987725950

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Mythic Britain is a complete sourcebook for adventuring in Britain's Dark Ages using the Mythras rules. The book includes an extensive history and background of 5th and 6th Century Britain; details of the different tribes and territories; complete character creation rules for Britons and Saxons, details of magic, the Saints and pagan Gods; and, rules for massed battles. Completing the book, seven linked scenarios form the Mythic Britain Campaign in which the characters travel the length of breadth of the island, serving Merlin and Arthur, fighting the Saxon invaders, searching for the lost Treasures of Britain, and becoming involved in all manner of schemes and intrigues. Take up your spears and shields. Swear your oaths. Welcome to the Dark Ages.


Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain

Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: M. Sterenberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137354976

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A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.


Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld

Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld
Author: Sharon Paice MacLeod
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476630291

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 The early medieval manuscripts of Ireland and Britain contain tantalizing clues about the cosmology, religion and mythology of native Celtic cultures, despite censorship and revision by Christian redactors. Focusing on the latest research and translations, the author provides fresh insight into the beliefs and practices of the Iron Age inhabitants of Ireland, Britain and Gaul. Chapters cover creation and cosmogony, the deities of the Gaels, feminine power in narrative sources, druidic belief, priestesses and magical rites.