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<blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 7715511" data-attributes="member: 15582">Tim Powers is an SF writer who specializes in taking odd and rarely known factoids and building an occult conspiracy around them. By the time you are half way though a novel, you can see the &quot;logic.&quot;i.e. Our modern 52-card playing deck is based on the Tarot. What if a magically talented person could still use them as a focus for magic? What if some the famous gangsters of our time were magic users who knew that? What does that make of the original Las Vegas mob-backed casinos, then? etc. Ken Hite does the same stuff. What if the Nazi occultists were right? (Day After Ragnarok) What if Count Dracula had been invited to England to become an supernatural espionage asset and the famous book is a cover up? (Night's Black Agents) And what if a fantasy version of Cambodia had been the victim of two gods instead of two super powers? (Qelong). And he just finished up with the 60/70s reboot of Delta Green.He's going to take a much more in-depth and historical approach to the mythos, accomplishing more twistedness in a smaller page count compared to other WoD supplements.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Von Ether, post: 7715511, member: 15582"] Tim Powers is an SF writer who specializes in taking odd and rarely known factoids and building an occult conspiracy around them. By the time you are half way though a novel, you can see the "logic." i.e. Our modern 52-card playing deck is based on the Tarot. What if a magically talented person could still use them as a focus for magic? What if some the famous gangsters of our time were magic users who knew that? What does that make of the original Las Vegas mob-backed casinos, then? etc. Ken Hite does the same stuff. What if the Nazi occultists were right? (Day After Ragnarok) What if Count Dracula had been invited to England to become an supernatural espionage asset and the famous book is a cover up? (Night's Black Agents) And what if a fantasy version of Cambodia had been the victim of two gods instead of two super powers? (Qelong). And he just finished up with the 60/70s reboot of Delta Green. He's going to take a much more in-depth and historical approach to the mythos, accomplishing more twistedness in a smaller page count compared to other WoD supplements. [/QUOTE]

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