We continue our discussion of
vikings with the following Previews:
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Chapter 06: Runic Magic
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Chapter 07: Spells
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Chapter 08: The Worlds According to Vikings
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Chapter 09: From Trading to Raiding
What's in Chapter 06: Runic Magic?
15 Total Pages that discusses: Mundane Runes, Runic Spellcasters, Fleeting Runes, Persistent Runes, Permanent Runes, Identifying Runes, Runestaffs, Components and Foci, Buying Runes, Spellpoints, The Runic Alphabet, Gold, Tuls, Permanent Runes, Weapon Runes, Arms & Shield Runes, Age Runes, Ale Runes, Bauta Runes, Runes of Might, Runes of the Mind, Runes of Protection, Runes of Speech, Ship’s Runes, and Meta Runes.
What's in Chapter 07: Spells?
28 total pages that has: Spell lists for Battlepriests, Priests, Seithman, and Skalds. Also included are 80+ new spells. (Around 86 by my count, but I may have missed some). Yeah, that be alot of spells.
What's in Chapter 08: The Worlds According to Vikings?
A 9-page chapter that deals with the Viking's outgoing opinion of the world. It discusses Ymir, Sol and Maane, The First Humans, Aasgard and Bifrost, Valhall, Yggdrasil, The Three Breeds of Men, The First War, The Vanir, Aasgard’s Wall, The Three Monsters, The Worlds of Elves, The Spirit Realm, Elivaagar, The Nine Worlds Summarized, Weather and other Natural Phenomena (thunder and Lightning, Earthquakes), Ragnarok, and Thor's abscence in Marvel's Civil War.
(Just kidding about that last one)
What's in Chapter 09: From Trading to Raiding?
An 11-page chapter that discusses: Trading, RAiding, Combat & Tactics, Travelling, and Exploring Midgard (Danelag, Jorvik, Dublin, London, Frankenland, Serkland and Asaland, Gardarike, Miklagard, and Going West.
Excerpt:
Danelag
The Viking kingdom known as Danelag start with the two jarl brothers Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar Beinlaus (“Ivar the Legless”; he is disabled and have to be carried everywhere) and their warriors, who come to England in the year 867. Over the next ten years, the Vikings under Ivar Beinlaus gained control over East Anglia, Northumbria and Mercia; leaving only Wessex still free of Viking rulership. Ivar died towards the end of this campaign and were succeeded by Guthrum the Old. Guthrum and King Alfred of Wessex remain in more or less constant struggle until 886, when a treaty between the two establishes the official boundaries between their respective kingdoms.
The parts of England that are under Viking rulership are known as Danelag (“Danish Law”). Five fortified towns; Leicester, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Derby and Nottingham, make up the power centre of Danelag. These towns are collectively referred to as the Five Boroughs.
Vikings! Will be released soon in pdf format. Final release date and price to be announced.
'Coming soon: The last 4 chapter previews, and sneak peek at the COVER!
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They're basing their Viking culture/society on the work of Prof. Torgeir Titlestad; the same work which I've based the Vikings D20 Vikings on. (In the last decade or two prof. Titlestad's books have had an enormous influence on how historians around the world view the Vikings.)
The Norwegian government is sponsoring the project; "hoping it will do for Norway what LotR did for New Sealand". The working titles for the 3 films are "The North", "The West" and "The East", reflecting where the majority of the action will take place. Hopefully movie 1 (North) will open in theatres in 2009.
