Category Archives: Crusades

Baffled by Baphomet

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Nathan

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – Another point-and-click adventure game, this one was developed by Revolution Games and originally released in 1996, although I played the recent Reforged version. It deals with an international conspiracy based on a mysterious … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Crusades, Final Fantasy, France, History, Humor, Language, lucasarts, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Prejudice, Religion, Video Games | Tagged armor, baphomet, broken sword, carmen sandiego, clowns, demons, dwarves, elves, gate rune war, george stobbart, hashashim, knights templar, kobolds, kuromi, kuromimi, milich oppenheimer, nicole collard, revolution games, sanrio, scarlet moon empire, shadow of the templars, space quest, suikoden, teo mcdohl, tir mcdohl, weapons | Leave a comment

Too Many Books

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Nathan

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren’t. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Comics, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Middle East, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Percy Jackson, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Robert Rankin, Roman, Video Games | Tagged a fate worse than dragons, abraham, adam and eve, alexander the great, amazons, animal crossing new horizons, babylon, barry the time sprout, bible, blathers, boos, caleb cook, camp jupiter, cats, daniel, dejah thoris, demons, deserted island diary, dionysus, django wexler, dogs, dragons, esther, fairies, frogs, genesis, geoffrey de bouillon, gertrude landa, ghosts, giants, griffins, gulliver, how to become the dark lord and die trying, idols, jerusalem, jewish fairy tales and legends, john carter, john moore, king alexander's adventures, king david, king for three days, king hiram of tyre, kokonasu rumba, laverna, manga, mark oshiro, mars, minotaur, moses, nico di angelo, nimrod, noah, noah's ark, normanghast, og of bashan, orcs, paradise, peter s. beagle, phobos, pirithous, queen mary tudor, rape, rashi, sambation river, schmendrick, semele, sinbad of the talmud, sinbad the sailor, sol aronson, sooz, super mario adventures, swords of mars, talmud, tantalus, the court of the dead, the fairy frog, the giant of the flood, the higgedly-piggedly palace, the last unicorn, the paradise in the sea, the princess bride, the quarrel of the cat and dog, the sleep of one hundred years, the star-child, the story of bostanai, the water-babe, the way home, theseus, time loops, timmy and tommy nookling, tom nook, two hearts, underworld, will solace, wisp, ziz | 1 Comment

A Time to Crydee

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Nathan

A Fighting Man of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs – The fighting man of this story is Tan Hadron, a soldier from Hastor in the Kingdom of Helium. I wonder if the town was named after Hastur, a character used … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Catholicism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, Gnosticism, Greek Mythology, History, Holy Roman Empire, Judaism, Magic, Maps, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Science, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged a fighting man of mars, ambrose bierce, apes, baudolino, blemmyae, charlemagne, cranes, crydee, cynocephali, dwarves, elves, emperor frederick barbarossa, foucault's pendulum, gagliaugo aulari, gondwane, h.p. lovecraft, hastur, holy grail, hypatia, kosmas, krondor, lin carter, magician apprentice, mars, monopods, niketas choneates, ollub vetch, palensus choy, prester john, pumperdink, pygmies, raymond e. feist, relics, riftwar saga, robert chambers, rocs, sambation river, satyrs, sciapods, spiders, tan hadron, ten lost tribes, the habitation of the blessed, the immortal of world's end, the king in yellow, three wise men, trolls, umberto eco, unicorns, william weaver | 1 Comment

Famous Monsters of Bookland

Posted on July 27, 2024 by Nathan

The Folded World, by Catherynne M. Valente – The sequel to The Habitation of the Blessed has John‘s daughter arrive in Pentexore to tell the inhabitants about the Crusades, and John’s subjects go off to fight in Jerusalem for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Christianity, Crusades, Families, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, incryptid, Islam, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Russian, seanan mcguire, Television | Tagged a dance with dragons, a dirge for prester john, a drop of venom, a song of ice and fire, abuse, aftermarket afterlife, alexander the great, antimony price, arthur harrington, baba yaga, bran stark, cryptids, dragons, dreaming of you in freefall, finding baba yaga, george r.r. martin, ghosts, jane yolen, john de mandeville, koschei the deathless, mary dunlavy, medusa, moxy früvous, nagas, pentexore, perseus, prester john, rick riordan presents, sajni patel, saladin, sarah zellaby, the folded world, the habitation of the blessed, vasilisa the fair, verity price, witches | 2 Comments

Unfinished Business

Posted on June 9, 2024 by Nathan

WARNING! SPOILERS! The Seventh Seal – I believe this is the first Ingmar Bergman movie I’ve seen, and I largely watched it because I know it’s a film that gets referenced a lot. I have to say it looks very … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Board Games, Cartoons, Chess, Christianity, Crusades, Games, History, Humor, Magic, Religion, Scandinavia, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aladdin, albertus pictor, antonius block, arabian knight, bible, black plague, death, ingmar bergman, max von sydow, revelation, richard williams, the princess and the cobbler, the seventh seal, the thief and the cobbler, vincent price | 3 Comments

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Nathan

I had a few other things I wanted to write about, but since I found out Saturday was St. George’s Day, I thought he might be worth looking into. As someone who didn’t attend a church where saints were really … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Crusades, Diana Wynne Jones, Eastern Orthodox, England, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, Stan Freberg, Tom Holt | Tagged dragons, edith nesbit, emperor diocletian, gordon r. dickson, hercules, kenneth grahame, king edward iii of england, medusa, order of the garter, ovid, paint your dragon, perseus, prince marvel, smaug, st. dragon and the george, st. george, st. george's day, st. patrick, st. theodore tiron, the deliverers of their country, the enchanted island of yew, the hobbit, the reluctant dragon, unicorns, witch week | Leave a comment

Prester Change-O

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Nathan

I’d seen mentions of Prester John, but I wasn’t really sure who he was. I’ve since found out he was a mythical Christian king in or near India whom the European Church saw as a potential ally against the Muslims … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Comics, Crusades, History, Islam, Maps, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Religion | Tagged abraham ortelius, alexander romances, alexander the great, arabian nights, bishop hugh of jabala, bishop jacques de vitri of acre, Byzantine Empire, emperor manuel commenus, fantastic four, genghis khan, jesus, john the apostle, john the baptist, john the presbyter, kara kitai, mongols, nestorian christianity, pope eugenius iii, prester john, seljuk empire, sinbad the sailor, st thomas the apostle, yeliu tashi | 8 Comments

Templar Insanity

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Nathan

It was Friday the Thirteenth yesterday, and September 11th two days before that, so it hasn’t been a great week in terms of luck, I suppose. No one seems to be entirely sure WHY Friday the Thirteenth is unlucky. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Crusades, Economics, History, Religion, Urban Legends | Tagged banking, friday the thirteenth, jesus, judas iscariot, king philip iv of france, knights templar, last supper, luck, numerology, pope clement v | 4 Comments

Away From Armageddon

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Nathan

I have a movie and a miniseries to review this time. They’re not very similar, but they do both relate to religion. Constantine’s Sword – This documentary film from 2007 was based on an earlier book by former priest James … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Crusades, Fundamentalism, History, Humor, Judaism, Music, Neil Gaiman, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Roman Empire, Technology, Television, Terry Pratchett, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adam young, adolf hitler, anathema device, angels, anthony crowley, antichrist, antisemitism, apocalypse, aziraphale, bible, constantine, constantine's sword, david tennant, demons, elvis presley, four horsemen of the apocalypse, good omens, gospel of matthew, holocaust, james carroll, jesus, michael sheen, newton pulsifer, pontius pilate, pope gregory, pope paul v, prophecy, queen, roman ghetto, second vatican council, ted haggard, the omen, witches | 1 Comment

A Side of Cid

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Nathan

If you’ve played or even heard a significant amount about a Final Fantasy game, you probably know about Cid. There are actually different Cids, one in each FF game except the first, and he was even sort of retconned into … Continue reading →

Posted in Crusades, Final Fantasy, History, Middle Ages, Video Games | Tagged celes chere, cid, cid del norte marquez, cid highwind, el cid campeador, final fantasy mystic quest, kefka palazzo, otto cid bekenstein, setzer gabbiani | 6 Comments

Category Archives: Crusades

Baffled by Baphomet

Too Many Books

A Time to Crydee

Famous Monsters of Bookland

Unfinished Business

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

Prester Change-O

Templar Insanity

Away From Armageddon

A Side of Cid

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