Blue Rose: the AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy

2017-05-16
Blue Rose: the AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy
Author: Jeremy Crawford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781934547748
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Aldis, the Kingdom of the Blue Rose, shines as a new light following the dark age of the Sorcerer Kings. Now, envoys of the Soverign's Finest strive to protect Aldis. Aided by the rhydan - their psychic animal allies - the champions of the Blue Rose guard the Light against the power of the Shadow. This book gives your everything you need to play.

Blue Rose RPG Envoys to the Mount

2021-10-05
Blue Rose RPG Envoys to the Mount
Author: B. J. Hensley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781949160000
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Envoys to the Mount is an epic campaign for the Blue Rose RPG whose four adventures span five years and all four tiers of play. In it a small band of envoys from the Sovereign's Finest must travel to far-off vata stronghold known as Mt. Oritaun and lend their aid against the sinister powers of the Shadow Barrens. The heroes must face off against the very forces of Shadow and may unlock some of the ancient secrets of the world of Blue Rose. Envoys to the Mount also provides a complete gazetteer for the Shadow Barrens and Mt. Oritaun, a guide to the Sovereign's Finest, and a host of creatures and NPCs for use within or outside of this storyline.

Shadowtide: a Blue Rose Novel

2019-05-07
Shadowtide: a Blue Rose Novel
Author: Joseph Carriker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781934547953
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When two envoys from the Sovereign's Finest disappear on a criticalmission, an unlikely band of allies, led by Soot, a rhy-crow with dark andsecret power, are brought together to combat a hidden threat. As portents bloomacross the smuggler's den known as Serpent's Haven, these strange agents quicklyfind themselves tested by the machinations of a cult dedicated to darkestShadow. Grieving, afraid, and unsure who to trust or where to turn, they mustrely on one another and their erstwhile allies in hopes of rescuing the envoysand foiling a terrible plot. Success will bring no great reward, but failure isunimaginable. Can they overcome their suspicion and fear to fulfill theirmission, or will they, too, fall to Shadow?

To Boldly Go

2018-03-06
To Boldly Go
Author: Djoymi Baker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838609733
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Today's media, cinema and TV screens are host to new manifestations of myth, their modes of storytelling radically transformed from those of ancient Greece. They present us with narratives of contemporary customs and belief systems: our modern-day myths. This book argues that the tools of transmedia merchandising and promotional material shape viewers' experiences of the hit television series Star Trek, to reinforce the mythology of the gargantuan franchise. Media marketing utilises the show's method of recycling the narratives of classical heritage, yet it also looks forward to the future. In this way, it reminds consumers of the Star Trek story's ongoing centrality within popular culture, whether in the form of the original 1960s series, the later additions such as Voyager and Discovery or J. J. Abrams' `reboot' films. Chapters examine how oral and literary traditions have influenced the series structure and its commercial image, how the cosmological role of humanity and the Earth are explored in title sequences across various Star Trek media platforms, and the multi-faceted way in which Internet, video game and event spin-offs create rituals to consolidate the space opera's fan base. Fusing key theory from film, TV, media and folklore studies, as well as anthropology and other specialisms, To Boldly Go is an authoritative guide to the function of myth across the whole Star Trek enterprise.

World of Aldea

2006-03
World of Aldea
Author:
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-03
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ISBN: 9781932442465
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The Blue Rose roleplaying game introduced readers to the magical world of Aldea. Now, the full-length sourcebook, by Blue Rose authors John Snead, Dawn Elliot, and Jeremy Crawford, takes you on a comprehensive tour of that world, with endless opportunities for adventure. Learn about the land of Aldis, the fabled Kingdom of the Blue Rose, its history and diverse peoples. Visit the glorious city of Aldis, the greatest in the known world, home of the Sovereign, and a place of hard work, celebration, artistry, and intrigue. Patrol the borderlands of the kingdom, from the treacherous Veran Marsh to the isles and shoals of the Scatterstar Archipelago, to the Ice-Binder Mountains and the Great Pavin Weald, the impenetrable, primeval forest. Beyond Aldis lies danger and adventure! Learn about the Theocracy of Jarzon and the ruling Church of the Pure Light. Evade the all-seeing eyes of the Purist Inquisitors as you work to maintain peace and understanding with Aldis's neighbor. Ride untamed horses across the Plains of Rezea to meet with the fierce plainsfolk and negotiate alliances. Sail to the far off Matriarchy of Lar'tya to navigate its unique customs and trade for exotic goods. Brave the shadows of the lich-ruled Kingdom of Kern, the last of the Sorcerer Kingdoms, and aid the rebellion against the Unliving King Jarek. Plumb the terrible depths of the Shadow Barrens, legacy of the Empire of Thorns. Travel the world in the bright wagons of the Roamers and see it all! The World of Aldea is a supplement to the Blue Rose fantasy roleplaying game, giving you an entire world of romance, mystery, and adventure to explore.

This World, Other Worlds

1992-11-15
This World, Other Worlds
Author: María Cátedra Tomás
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1992-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226097161
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The Vaqueiros de Alzada, a cattle-herding people in the Asturian mountains of Spain, have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe—and an attitude toward death that gives this statistic unusual meaning. This World, Other Worlds considers death among the Vaqueiros as a central cultural fact which reveals local ideas about the origin and destiny of humans, the relations of humans and animals, the configuration of the universe, and the nature of society. Interested chiefly in the conceptual and meaningful aspects of death, María Cátedra focuses on the cultural resources with which the Vaqueiros confront their own mortality—how they experience death and what this reveals about the way they see this world and other worlds. Applying sensitive ethnographic insight to a rich body of oral testimony, Cátedra discloses an unsuspected symbolic universe native to the Vaqueiros. Death is seen here in close, coherent relation to pain, age, and suffering; sickness and suicide, one must understand the cultural valuation of different ways of dying and the conditions under which suicides take place. To understand what it means to be a Vaqueiro is to understand how suicide can be perceived by a people as acceptable. A groundbreaking work in European ethnography, This World, Other Worlds takes symbolic analysis to a new level. In its illumination of local conceptions of death, grace, and sainthood, the book also makes a substantial contribution to the anthropology of religion.

Patriarchy and Power in Magical Realism

2017-08-21
Patriarchy and Power in Magical Realism
Author: Maryam Ebadi Asayesh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527500829
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Although the term magic(al) realism appeared in 1925 in pictorial art in Germany, it became well-known with the boom of magical realist fiction in Latin America in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, it has become one of the popular modes of writing worldwide. Due to its oxymoronic and hybrid nature, it has caught the attention of critics. Some have called it a postcolonial form of writing because of its prominence in postcolonial countries, while others have called it a postmodern mode because of the time of its emergence and the techniques applied in these kinds of novels. This book discusses how magical realism was used in the works of three contemporary female writers, Indigo or, Mapping the Waters (1992) by the British Marina Warner, The House of the Spirits (1982) by the Latin American writer Isabel Allende, and Fatma: a novel of Arabia (2002) by the Saudi Arabian Raja Alem. It shows how, by applying magical realism, these writers empowered women. Using revisionary nostalgia, these works changed the process of history writing by the powerful, showed the presence of women, and gave voice to their unheard stories. Even the techniques applied in these novels presented the clash with patriarchy and power.

Honey and Venom

2020
Honey and Venom
Author: Andrew Coté
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1524799041
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Andrew Coté has one of the most intriguing, challenging, and unique jobs in New York City--maintaining millions of honey bees atop some of the city's most iconic buildings. His apiaries have crowned the Waldorf Astoria and the Museum of Modern Art; reside on the North Lawn of the United Nations; reign above stores, hotels, restaurants, schools, churches, and synagogues; and are situated in community gardens, and even cemeteries, throughout the five boroughs. Widely recognized as New York City's premier urban beekeeper, in this debut collection, Coté takes readers with him on his daily apiary adventures over the course of a year, in the city and across the globe ...

Feminisms in Movement

2023-12-31
Feminisms in Movement
Author: Lívia De Souza Lima
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839461022
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Feminist movements from the Americas provide some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing forms of organizing and resistance. With their diverse backgrounds, these movements address sexism, sexualized violence, misogyny, racism, homo- and transphobia, coloniality, extractivism, climate crisis, and neoliberal capitalist exploitation as well as the interrelations of these systems. Fighting interlocking axes of oppression, feminists from the Americas represent, practice, and theorize a truly »intersectional« politics. Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas brings together a wide variety of perspectives and formats, spanning from the realms of arts and activism to academia. Black and decolonial feminist voices and queer/cuir perspectives, ecofeminist approaches and indigenous women's mobilizations inspire future feminist practices and inform social and cohabitation projects. With contributions from Rita Laura Segato, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, and interviews with Anielle Franco (Brazilian activist and minister) and with the Chilean feminist collective LASTESIS.