Lorekeepers - A Worldbuilding Podcast

"The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.” - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireThe deepest pool is found with a wayward step, and boy did we step in it this week. In what certainly becomes a two-parter, we begin by asking the question of handling borders, and find ourselves neck-deep in a thorough dissection of the histories of Aevum Tertius. Enjoy!Have some of your own thoughts? Join the Aftermath on r/thelorekeepers!Referenced EpisodesYeva, the first city and the fate of the Knowing: S1.1The Shrouded Empire, the first "nation: S1.2the Avireal, the dream-legends of elves: S1.15En'golin, the First mecca of the distant Maker: S1.20Strife-spire, the cause of millenia of conflict: S1.25Spans, the primal entrapment: S1.34The Nine, defenders of the Nineflow: S1.37The Eight, the dragons, the Aspects, and the macrowar: S1.67Mentioned in this episode, expounded on in the Record of the Lorekeeper:GlossolaliaSigils, Glyphs, Runes———Want to learn more about Halûme? Got some ideas of your own? Join the conversation at www.reddit.com/r/thelorekeepers or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Visit r/thelorekeepers!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: [email protected]: @thelorekeepers

We've all heard stories of Hulks, berserkers, barbarians... but what is actually going on there? This week on the Lorekeepers, the two of us attempt to suss it out.Have some of your own thoughts? Join the Aftermath on r/thelorekeepers!Referenced Episodesthe Avireal, the dream-legends of elves: S1.15Somnus, contour plane of cosmic slumber: S1.62Umbirok, fallen god of mortals: S2.8References to the Record of the LorekeeperRed BadaNoosSomnus———Want to learn more about Halûme? Got some ideas of your own? Join the conversation at www.reddit.com/r/thelorekeepers or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Visit r/thelorekeepers!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: [email protected]: @thelorekeepers

It's that special time again... Godmill time!We return to the godmill and Carter rolls us up a spooky god, one the Mutes both avoid and revile. Who is it? Why are they an outcast? This and more we address!Have some of your own thoughts? Join the Aftermath on r/thelorekeepers!Referenced EpisodesTiirs, marrow-king of terror: ep. 36———Want to learn more about Halûme? Got some ideas of your own? Join the conversation at www.reddit.com/r/thelorekeepers or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Visit r/thelorekeepers!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: [email protected]: @thelorekeepers

This week on the Lorekeepers, we STOMP into the new year with some very powerful creatures... GIANTS!!!Where did the giants come from? Why were they made? How does the Ordning fit into Halûmian cosmology? And just who is Donald T.???Find out all that and more on this week's episode!Referenced EpisodesThe Ashcurse, the cataclysm that broke the world: ep. 1The Drakenfall, storm of dragons: ep. 2Spans, the primal entrapment: ep. 34———Want to learn more about Halûme? Got some ideas of your own? Join the conversation at www.reddit.com/r/thelorekeepers or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Visit r/thelorekeepers!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: [email protected]: @thelorekeepers

For the last in our 3-part series on holidays, we imagine the lives of the dwarves, explore the day of edification, and birthday rituals.Referenced EpisodesFuneral rites of disparate cultures: ep. 29Early dwarves, children of alloy: ep. 38The Eight, the dragons, the aspects, and the Bellum Obscura: ep. 67———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

In continuation with the holiday theme, the episode takes a (unintentional, but by now are you surprised) turn for the morbid when we consider the kind of celebrations the creepier folks cash in for.Oh and Happy New Year's!Referenced EpisodesWhispers of the Nameless, agents of the void: ep. 21Seasilver, lunar iron and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

To celebrate this festive time of year we begin to look back on the holidays of the different peoples of Halûme. We start this week with the elves!———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

When two god-siblings share illusion and deception, how does the world respond? What place have they among the mortals? What is the substance of the unknown?Talking Points: The fiercest pirate, Matrix apologetics, Jedi dogma, youngling crystalcraft, unapplied knowledge, and a short breakdown of the NineflowReferenced Episodes: The Saga of Seven, twilit remains of a bygone forestall: ep. 37———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

When two god-siblings share illusion and deception, how does the world respond? What place have they among the mortals? What is the substance of the unknown?Talking Points: Carter's lederhosen, Kolsch from COLOGNE, the monster in the dark, subverted charity, birth order, pre-truth, and step brothers.———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Well we've finally gone and done it. It's been a playful thought in the back of our minds for months... but as of this specific moment r/thelorekeepers is an official subreddit!!!That's right, we've gone mad.No but for real! For a long time now we've seen an opportunity for Halûme to become a community. We've been truly warmed by the loving reception that we've received from y'all as listeners and, well, we think this is the next great leap!In honor of this big occasion, we welcome you... to SEASON TWO!So what are you waiting for??? Let's make something beautiful together!

In our third Lkjr. installment we exlpre new materials and gladiator games!———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

In our second small batch ep we investigate the nature of golems.Referenced episodesCairns, souls & the Lesser Beauties: ep. 71———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

In a bite-sized episode we open the door on tattoos and their place in Halûmian cultures.Referenced episodesHedge-schools and library tattoos: ep. 6———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Exploring a half-dozen other worlds is a strange way to veer from macroscopic subjects... but we've never been straightforward.Talking points: dried out baguettes, league trash talk, copyright protection, welcome back Tycho, gnem-elvic portmanteau battles, greek mythos was bad horny, and lozenges.Referenced episodesThe Drakenfall, storm of dragons: ep. 2Osteos, bone-hallows of Halûme: ep. 36Yahdïel, current-giver of the unprismed Nine: ep. 55Seasilver, lunar iron and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers\

What do you get when you cross a giant hyena, a scorpion, and a snowman?It's a rhetorical question? What's that? You really don't want to know? Sorry I didn't hear that it's a Shoosuva.Gross.Talking points: Catalina frustrations, big pilgrim hats, panther onsie mug shots, cross that bridge when we oh we're already knee deep in water, the black sedan of the arctic, demon bakers, what siths and gnolls have in common, and the CW of battlefield gods.Referenced episodesExaban, the battle-lord: ep. 7Yamdallah, mecca of the dragonborn: ep. 16Bremann, the festival of lights: ep. 33Umak, Mutestriss of Anasthaesia: ep. 50———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers\

On an especially spooooooooky episode we unearth the dead in conversation about spirits... OOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOooOooOOOooOOoOOOooo000•••••00o0oo...We also do a reallyyyyyy bad job at voicesssss.. it's reaallllllyyyyy spooookkkkyyyyyy...Talking points: Treehouse of Bore-r, big thick circle toast, nasty with ghosts, loose approximate spirit lore, revisiting the g-d basketball, Varkari, the most useless undead doorstop, and the patron of the dead.Referenced episodesYahdiel, current-giver of the unprismed Nine: ep. 55Seasilver, lunar iron and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56Cairns, souls & the Lesser Beauties: ep. 71———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers\

This week the Lorekeepers investigate the Wild Gods of the Illuvium: what are they? Where did they come from? Why do the fey lands revolve around them?Talking points: Monthly Spree, Wolf...herds?, towns built on animal backs, fieldspeak, lowkey Thanos, the confusion of set theory, danger noodle deviance, mouse CHONK and other Absolute Units.Referenced episodesThe werelights of the shadowless Illuvium: ep. 14Cairns, souls and the Lesser Beauties: ep. 71Other ReferencesWorld Food DayGiant Tarantulas and Baby Frogs———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers\

This week we crack wide the foundations of Halûme's gestalt (and our funny bones) and attempt to discern just what exactly can describe the mind-soul-spirit-body dichotomies of philosophical models that represent the nature of being for the Knowing races.Oh also Scirus.Talking points: No More Glasses, moist belly buttons, Multiversal ambivalence, fire alarms, lazy narrative insertion, the nature of (fantasy) consciousness, every[inflatable ball]thing floats down here, the Third Sock and other risqué fashion trends, and just the worst attempts at mental models. Really. Kant is barrel-rolling in his grave.Referenced episodesWild magic, defiance of dreams: ep. 46Psions, transgress of the focal impass: ep. 60Somnus, contour plane of cosmic slumber: ep. 62Cairns, souls & the Lesser Beauties: ep. 71That Other Referencehttps://tenor.com/view/aragorn-but-notthis-day-lotr-gif-14120761———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers\

Two for two? Sure! We return to the godmill and discover Hamal: god of outcasts.Talking points: Rule one of Carter Club, hands-free driving, Picard impersonation grand prize, deep state lore, the god who p-r-E-y-s, Golem the 18th level cleric, Absimus, chaotic devils, and the Adventures of Hamal.Referenced episodesTiirs, Marrow-King of Terror: ep. 36Umak, Mutestriss of Anasthaesia: ep. 50The Lesser Beauties: ep. 71———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers\

For our second time we return to the subclass Wheel of Fortune and things get basic as hell.Talking points: shhh don't tell o' clock, living in the pocket of Big Shoe, real myths, anima subdivisions, waterbending v. coding, cairns, helicopter god-parents, the Lesser Beauties, John Smith: Average Magician, Avatogwarts, ghost-bending, and Korra shots-fired.Referenced episodesThe Nineflow, broken rivers of the Abstract source: ep. 1Exaban the battle-lord: ep. 7Primordium, the crucible of form: ep. 19House Banners, fabric of angelic destinies: ep. 48 & 49Ghost-warriors, seasilver and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

It's about time we built a city! This week we determine the third great metropolis of Everast, Cae Tellura!Talking points: Scambaiting ala Kitboga, liquor in your wine, economic narrative pivoting, capital ghosts, pop culture poster bois, A city of Glass Floors, Crisis Core feels, Cae Cae C... nope, and "playing the orchestra"Referenced episodesGnomes, angels and the spire of Oberiska: ep. 3Early elves, birth of the vampiric nations: ep. 31The Stratosmachta Accords, first assembling of Knowing: ep. 49Etymology, Mutes, and the enslavement of masses: ep. 57———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Let's be honest: neither of us were mature enough to let the opportunity to make this joke slip by.Talking points: Happy Make Your Bed Day, ham-fisted innuendo, anti-exclusive fantasy, Tritons are pervy, magic baby pills, birthkeeper is a terrible name, organ souls, and osmotic ancestral oopsies.Referenced episodesThe Drakenfall, storm of dragons: ep. 2The Gray, people of the lightless land: ep. 13Discussing "evil" races and their place in modern fantasy: ep. 44Other ReferencesGrazilaxx's Guide to Ancestry (http://bit.ly/2kMxrup)———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Have you ever heard of the sublime? What? No, not the band. It’s more of a environmental-design-as-philosophy-as-British-Imperialism movement from the... Hey, wait! Where are you going?Talking points: Her Majesty’s Slider, slide whistle on demand, Sensuous Whisper, not the band, What happens in Ezraish..., the one spell you need, 2-for-2 Sams, and an email.Referenced episodesEnchanters, the Order of the Vivid Precipice: ep. 30Somnus, contour plane of cosmic slumber: ep. 62The Bellum Obscura, macrowar for the fabric of fates: ep. 67Other ReferencesMap of Everast, Ten’atlo’hi (https://bit.ly/2GnFipE)———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Inspiring us this week Carter comes with an idea to spice things up: A SUPER WAR!!! That always goes well.Talking points: Finding a Jim for my Pam, Baking Biscotti, No Man's Time, Mordenkainen's Mistaken Malaprop, Sam Esmail (first try!), not that Mr. Robot(o), a mortal pantheon, the Only Original Race, humans are special, and the circlejerk.Referenced episodesThe Ashcurse, the cataclysm that broke the world : ep. 1Roarark, apex-city of the philosopher queen: ep. 8The Shattered Years, an eon of war: ep. 24Strife-spire, the cause of millenia of conflict: ep. 25The Nine, defenders of the Nineflow: ep. 37Age Spells, the magic of generations: ep. 39Etymology, Mutes, and the enslavement of masses: ep. 57———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

It's a lil' one but a good one: we explore all the worlds we'd like to explore within our own!Referenced episodesSeasilver, lunar iron and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

There's a linkage of lands, down deep in the world, near its dying heart... and this week it's our spotlight conversation piece!Talking points: Instant pots/bathrobes/other purchases, ~~~mmmaagma~~~, 50,000 shades of gender, magic lifelines, molten Ashglaze, umbersteel, calendars for all sorts, a dallying of calendars, guerrilla mushrooms, and floating dwarven dream citadels.Referenced episodesThe Ashcurse, the cataclysm that broke the world : ep. 1the Avireal, the dream-legends of elves: ep. 15Darkvision, the gazes of beneath: ep. 51Mystics, practitioners of the skyreaching focus: ep. 60Somnus, contour plane of cosmic slumber: ep. 62Other ReferencesVeins of the Earth (http://bit.ly/2Pkimin)———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Returning to the god-mill we explore the machinations of elementals, their Precambrian-esque nature, and the bizarre complexities of... ab-life? Come get confused with us!Talking points: Carter’s Cheers spirit animal and Zeus-Frasier, Ringo’s big branding mistake, whether ants are a city, alien ancient earth, genasi meditation, Carter: fish judge, heroic eels, and #AlitaBattleAngelReferenced episodesPrimordium, the crucible of form: ep. 19Age spells, the magic of generations: ep. 39———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

To the joy of...well at least someone, we dive into Halûmian lore to discover what we can about lycanthropy: where did it come from? How does it happen? And is it confusing for a werewolf to look up to three moons?Talking points: cat pee is your best option, Hulk is not chaotic evil, earth spirit = internet, Cain the werewolf, not wherewolves: WHYwolves, super-rabies, and were-coons.Referenced episodesHalflings, wanderers towards the distant Veldt: ep. 45Yahdïel, current-giver of the unprismed Nine: ep. 55Seasilver, lunar iron and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Returning to the macro-scales of planar reality, this week we explore the Contour realm of dreams: Somnus.Talking points: Debt-free is the new bride-to-be, Carter's Mary Sue, Vancian magic, Monsters, Inc in a jungle, dream doublethink, elven meringue, Monet's XKCD era, Transfusia, and continent dreams.Referenced episodesThe Avireal, the dream-legends of elves: ep. 15Wild magic, defiance of dreams: ep. 46House Banners, fabric of angelic destinies: ep. 48Shem, god-template of the corporeal vessel: ep. 58Mystics, practitioner of the unbreathable mind-heights: ep. 60Other ReferencesVancian Magic (http://bit.ly/2ykDrOc)———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Carter starts us off with a tasty idea: what happened to Durmen-Lac? What caused the ruin of the stacked cities? How do dwarves and elves fare when living so close together?Talking points: both sides of the mic, State of the Pod TBD, a cubed beef pool, Mr. McDuck's dark desires, dwarven socialism, killer robot constructs, dirty (atomic) magic, Durlack: an incredible Billy Mayes product, and too many bananas.Referenced episodesAlloy dwarves, a people insulated: ep. 38Yahdiel, current-giver of the unprismed Nine: ep. 55Other ReferencesWorld Anvil: Map of Everast (https://bit.ly/2GnFipE)Lion's Den, Game Master 5th Ed. (https://apple.co/2SvG4pE). Also check out their app for characters, Fight Club (https://apple.co/2xXFnvU)!———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World"! Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 episodesAge spells, the magic of generations: ep. 39Drow, fanatics of distant magics: ep. 40Shem, god-template of the corporeal vessel: ep. 58———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 episodesRoarark, apex-city of the philosopher queen: ep. 8 & 9Yamdallah, mecca of the dragonborn: ep. 16En'golin, the First mecca of the distant Maker: ep. 20Whispers of the Nameless, agents of the void: ep. 21Seasilver, lunar iron and the fourth moon of Sudar: ep. 56———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 episodesThe Houses of Legion, unfulfilled banners of the Animus will: ep. 48 & 49Yahdiel, current-giver of the unprismed Nine: ep. 55———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 episodesNajani, guiding hand of the firmament: ep. 11Vampires, rulers of the blasted world: ep. 31Halflings, wanderers towards the distant Veldt: ep. 45Umak, Mutestriss of Anasthaesia: ep. 50———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 episodesAvireal, the dream-legends of elves: ep. 15House Banners, fabric of angelic destinies: ep. 49———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 episodesPrimordium, the crucible of form: ep. 19Prognin, Great Geometer and Keeper of the High Form: ep. 22Vampires, the soul-shattered: ep. 31Bremann, festival of lights: ep. 33Drow, fanatics of distant magic: ep. 40Discussing "evil" races and their place in modern fantasy: ep. 44———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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.———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Welcome to the first ever Lorekeepers Jr.! This week we pack a bunch into a short but sweet ep. about the Church of Storms.oooooooo......It's a good one. Enjoy!Talking points: Frankenstein would be proud, gimp bishop, dead Mutes and their tumors, motivated storms, and The Prophecy.———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 episodesDiscussing "evil" races and their place in modern fantasy: ep. 44Halflings and the coveted Veldt: ep. 45———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

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 seriesExaban, god of the battlefield: ep. 7Najani, god of storms and sky: ep. 11Ysengrin, god of fortune: ep. 18Prognin, regent of wisdom and prudence: ep. 22Gade, demiregent of joy and festivity: ep. 28Tiirs, god of fear: ep. 36Dişgulle, goddess of the living gate: ep. 41———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Despite the extreme conflict of Aevum Quartus, there were attempts at peace. Of those attempts, only one officiated the humans as Knowing entities: The Councils of Stratosmacht.Talking points: Willow Carter, rules of engagement, "bequeathed" lands, elven relic thieves, a Talesin speech, #Odinwasright, America's parent's bedroom, and the Last Blockbuster.———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

For ages there has been a cold war between forces beyond the mortal realms. This week we explore the Rexrin, the holy-unholy war of angels and fiends.Talking points: Round 2: Fight!, the "Cul-de-sac mentality", angels don't negotiate with terrorists, a pasture of Knowing, devilish pre-marital sex, flappy brain, and portals portals PORTALS!!!ReferencesOsteos, bone-hallows of Halûme: ep. 36———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! And that's not a lie anymore!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Mentioned often and avoided every time, this week we finally allow ourselves to talk of the residents of the Etherium... angels.As mentioned, don't forget to check out the Angelarium! Mad credit to Peter Mohrbacher for his beautiful and haunting imagination.Talking points: Weather embargo, the Simpsons are an institution, basically the gummy ship, angel-aberration hybrids, mother cloth, spending wayyyy too long on numbers, also, what's a Dusk?ReferencesAshcurse, doom of creation: ep. 1Osteos, bone-hallows of Halûme: ep. 36The Nine, protectors of the leyspires: ep. 37———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! And that's not a lie anymore!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

This week on Lorekeepers we take a turn for the cold-blooded.That is... what's it like to be a crocodile-person?Talking points: philosopher-officer, dumb little cousins, #Swamplyfe, Alligators are faster than you, Pimpin' Disney, SHWAMPMAGUUK, bogs are not the same, and philosphigators.Referenced EpisodesWild Magic, defiance of dreams: ep. 46———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! And that's not a lie anymore!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

This week on Lorekeepers we try something new: rolling a random subclass, which takes us down the turnpike on a sorcerous-looking jalopy! Come and take a look-see!Talking points: nuclear options, anime magic, cyberpunk moxie, spell flailing, not shutting up about our Conan fanfic, hungry hungry sorcerers, Dream Queen is opening this Thursday, and the soul's toilet nipple.Referenced Episodes2.5% and the trade schools of magic: ep. 12Ysengrin, narcoleptic king: ep. 18———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! And that's not a lie anymore!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

This week we spend time exploring the origins of the halflings, the Veldt, and Gaea, god of the animistic world. Want to know where halfling pride comes from? Come listen!Talking points: Cranking a piece of action, motorcycles are cool, rumors in a cave, achronal splits, common ancestry, angelic blessings, family forests (not trees), animal tidepools, the birth of classes, communal independance, and twined destinies.Referenced EpisodesGnomes, angels and the spire of Oberiska: ep. 3Elves, the children of magic: ep. 5Najani, guiding hand of the firmament: ep. 11Naming, the destiny of the elves: ep. 26Vampires, rulers of the blasted world: ep. 31Alloy dwarves, a people insulated from evils: ep. 38———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! And that's not a lie anymore!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

In our first ever mailbag episode, we receive a series of excellent and challenging questions about the nature of evil and the Riven in Halûme. In true Lorekeeper fashion, we hit the ground hard! With our faces! And slide about forty feet! Come watch!Thanks again to "Thurston" for sending in excellent questions!Talking points: there's sarcasm and there's sarcasm, vacuum magic, the Cave allegory revisited, spiritual sunglasses, perfect babies, the "official" gender of a hurricane, agency complications, monomyth-ocracy, cultural instincts, and ...aliens.Referenced EpisodesDrow, fanatics of the magics Above: ep. 40———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! And that's not a lie anymore!Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

Turn down the lights and put on your grittiest voice, because we're going hardcore evil this week.Dooooooooooooom.Talking points: Strawberry festivals, My First Hunger Games, Cracker-Jack regionality, CoolName Auras, Aramave's ego, Jeremy Bearamy, Wraiths=Songbirds, and the Belmont family Disaster Relief Brigade.Referenced Episodesthe Ashcurse, cataclysm that broke the world: ep. 1Orconis, the lightless land: ep. 13Spans, a peasant's folktale: ep. 34Osteos, the rotting bones of creation: ep. 36The Seven, twilit remains of a bygone forestall: ep. 37———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

This week in Halûme we investigate the strange relationship between the sciences and magics, and how they can't truly be grasped the same way that we understand them. Also, astralmancy!Talking points: bear lovin', Shakespeare in the park parties, 3% rule, cloudy with a chance of people, weird elf physics, amish scientists, Teilhard's Creative Union, Tycho's dead moose, magical TSA agents, and moon-sized whoopsies.Referenced Episodesthe Ashcurse, cataclysm that broke the world: ep. 1Roarark, city-state of the philosopher-queen: ep. 8 & 9Spans, a peasant's folktale: ep. 34———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

This week, we uncover a new secret of Halûme: the good goddess of tricks, Dişgulle!Talking points: sleep reversal, the "Turkish S," cosmic organs/diseases, Ra's interesting church services, the riddle queen, moonstories, the Best Part of Pirates of the Carribean, immortal love, split-body consciousness, Sudarian "South America", and cats.———Want to learn more about Halûme? Explore the world here, or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Visit World". We regularly add new articles! Questions or ideas? Email us at [email protected]: thelorekeepers.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers