{"id":1522,"date":"2018-07-29T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T00:07:48","slug":"ahriman-chronicles-vile-nature-of-the-ascension-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/ahriman-chronicles-vile-nature-of-the-ascension-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahriman Chronicles: Vile Nature of the Ascension War"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>On today\u2019s show Panos V. Skordas joins us to share the <em>Ahriman Chronicles: Vile Nature of the Ascension War<\/em>. We discuss how he got into role playing games; LARPs; what he enjoys about being a Storyteller; what he has learned in 19 years of Storytelling; the influence of authors <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Moore?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"Alan Moore\">Alan Moore<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Gaiman?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clive_Barker?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"Clive Barker\">Clive Barker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J%2E_K%2E_Rowling?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"J.K. Rowling\">J.K. Rowling<\/a>; how his players changed his Storytelling; the tools he uses to run his Chronicles; how long it takes him to prepare his Chronicles; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellblazer?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"John Constantine, Hellblazer\">John Constantine, Hellblazer<\/a><\/em>; how his Chronicle tied into the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Ascension_War\" title=\"Ascension War\">Ascension War<\/a>; what made <em>Ahriman Chronicles: Vile Nature of the Ascension War<\/em> so special; how his Chronicle took a life of its own; orgies as a meta Chronicle; what he learned researching orgies; slut-shaming; the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Whale_(game)?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"Blue Whale\">Blue Whale<\/a> online game; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Gods?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"American Gods\">American Gods<\/a><\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Arete\" title=\"Arete\">Arete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/mage-the-podcast\/embed\/episodes\/Mage-Chronicles-Ahriman-Chronicles-The-Vile-Nature-of-an-Ascension-War-e2th3e\/a-a8l315\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Mage: the Podcast<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mage-the-podcast\/id1372908086?mt=2\" title=\"iTunes\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ivohu77qwdojatce4funzybr47y\" title=\"Google Play\">Google Play<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Video-Games\/Mage-The-Podcas-p1121303\/\" title=\"TuneIn\">TuneIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Mage Chronicle on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/hashtag\/MTRPG\" title=\"#mtrpg\">#mtrpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magethepodcast\" title=\"@magethepodcast\">@magethepodcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s show Panos V. Skordas joins us to share the Ahriman Chronicles: Vile Nature of the Ascension War. We discuss how he got into role playing games; LARPs; what he enjoys about being a Storyteller; what he has learned in 19 years of Storytelling; the influence of authors Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/ahriman-chronicles-vile-nature-of-the-ascension-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ahriman Chronicles: Vile Nature of the Ascension War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,125,130,133,31,126],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listen","tag-magechronicles","tag-magetheascension","tag-magethepodcast","tag-onyxpath","tag-rpg","tag-whitewolf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_9785.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}