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The Music of the Calliope
The Music of the Calliope Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures The Calliope in Johannes Cabal, The Necromancer plays a haunting and curious piece of music that Johannes Cabal is uncertain about. It turns out that this piece of music exists: Manège by Lasry-Baschet A little bit of…
The Druin’s Stolen Book
An Antiquarian, a gangster, and a woman with a lisp walk into a bar From the Plantagenet years onwards, the Druins were said to be capable of swapping from Protestant to Roman Catholic and back again within the period of a single church service. Indeed,…
The .577 Webly
Want to know more about Cabal’s favourite gun? A canon is more like it! The Webley .577 is a gun that doesn’t mess around. It is meant to stop everything dead… or undead. Original source: https://www.historicalfirearms.info/ The Webley No.1 was one of a number of…
Lucifuge Rofocale
Lucifuge Rofocale The Book of Ceremonial Magic I was curious to find out if the conjuration that Cabal uses to call upon Lucifuge Rofocale was based in fiction or pulls from a real source. After doing some research on the names used in the conjuration,…
Illusionists vs Occultists
Illusionists vs Occultists In Exeunt Demon King there is an interesting passage: “Show me a stage magician who values the writings of Dee over Houdin, the works of Simon Magus over John Maskelyne, and I shall show you a disaster in the making.” We wanted…
The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster For those looking for a little more information on the reference to The Dutchess of Malfi in Exeunt Demon King, we have an excerpt from Wikipedia for you. “The play begins as a love story, when the Duchess…
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A Book order of the Johannes Cabal Series The reading order for the NecRomancer’s Deathcast Want to follow along? Here is a list of the order the podcast will take in the series. Caution, there are some minor spoilers in some of the book descriptions.
The Music of the Calliope
The Music of the Calliope Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures The Calliope in Johannes Cabal, The Necromancer plays a haunting and curious piece of music that Johannes Cabal is uncertain about. It turns out that this piece of music exists: Manège by Lasry-Baschet A little bit of Read More …