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Special Episode: Monsters of the medieval city (Patreon)

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2022-11-24 22:03:50
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2023-12
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Patreon backer James brings you this special episode all about medieval cities and the kinds of monsters you might find in them!

Get your US copies of the Pamphlet here and the Magonium Mine Murders here. In the UK? Get your physical copies of the Pamphlet of Pantheons, the Magonium Mine Murders, or both direct from me. Looking for digital copies? Find them on Itch or on Drivethru.

Thanks to Ray Otus for our thumbnail image. The intro music is a clip from "Solve the Damn Mystery" by Jesse Spillane, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Anonymous

Interesting episode! If you need an idea for your next 'zine... I was a bit surprised that you didn't talk about urban wildlife. To me, that would be one obvious way to find the monstrous in the urban. Of course rats are the obvious example, which I'm sure is where Skaven come from. These days urban foxes are a widespread phenomenon, and I'm sure they were a thing back in the day as well. And when you were talking about The Tower of London, I was envisioning raven-monsters of all kinds... Your talk about urban vampires and vampire lords made me realise that Dracula is really a book about the transition from one to the other. Dracula starts off as the bloodsucking lord in the ominous castle surrounded by wolves, and tries to become an urban predator instead. One other source of monsters would be cities from the past. A lot of cities are built upon earlier versions of themselves. Particularly in medieval times, I would imagine that a lot of cities are built atop old roman cities. Imagine the house that is build atop an old temple to some forgotten god... or maybe the old temple was built as a ward, sealing away some old evil that is seeping out because the proper rites are no longer performed... This would rhyme particularly well with something like Tenochtitlan, where a foreign, ignorant power came in to erase the old city.

monsterman
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I guess I didn't think of urban wildlife as particularly medieval. You're right that urban foxes are common; I have a fox den just behind my house, and they can be quite loud. I see them not infrequently while I'm out walking or cycling. One thing that would be more common in medieval cities than modern ones would be livestock, I suppose. We have a few neighbours who keep chickens here in Cambridge, but pigs and goats would also have been common, at least in some places.