Monthly Archives: April 2013

Encyclopaedia Arcana #54: Advanced Divination (Part Seven)

Closely related to fortune telling is the Dionysian practice of auguries.  Like its relative, an augury looks into the future to find answers, but while fortune telling is focused around a person, an augury is based around a course of … Continue reading

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Taking Requests

The last article in the Advanced Divination series is going up this Friday.  I haven’t decided what to put up the Friday after that (I don’t have any other Encyclopaedia articles written, and I’ve only got two questions for the … Continue reading

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Encyclopaedia Arcana #53: Advanced Divination (Part Six)

Dionysian divination tends to have a bad reputation amongst Light and independent mages.  This hasn’t always been the case – according to mage historians, until as recently as the Late Middle Ages, Dionysian methods were still seen as the ‘standard’ … Continue reading

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Chosen US Cover

To match up with the UK cover I posted a little while back, here’s the US cover of Alex Verus #4, Chosen!   They seem to be cycling through the colours of the rainbow, one per book.  I’m going to … Continue reading

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Encyclopaedia Arcana #52: Advanced Divination (Part Five)

A little-known fact about divination magic is that it is divided into two subtypes.  Both have gone by differing names over the centuries, but nowadays are most commonly referred to as Apollonian and Dionysian divination, although few would recognise the … Continue reading

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Interview with The Bookbag

Just realised that this interview went up a month ago and I never linked to it!  Oops.  Well, better late than never, so here it is.  It’s an interview with the Bookbag’s Ani Johnson, talking about the Alex Verus series, … Continue reading

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Encyclopaedia Arcana #51: Advanced Divination (Part Four)

Divination can be used for more than combat and social interaction – it also helps with movement and with certain types of codebreaking. Second Sight By focusing their vision into the short-term future, diviners can sense their surroundings.  They observe … Continue reading

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