Ars Magica References
A collection of reference materials for the Ars game I'm playing with my pals in NYC.
XML Character Sheet
Mythic Europe:
Net Wizard's Grimoire, which has a long list of spells created during other campaigns, for inspiration.
The Ars Map of mythic Europe, from the Atlas Games site.
Map of the Rhine Tribunal, from same.
A Guide to Mundane Beasts, from same.
Spell index by Form, and by Technique, from same.
Medieval Europe
Wikipedia's page on the High Middle Ages.
Got Medieval? An informative and amusing blog.
The Arts & Sciences resource page from the SCA website. A whole lotta links!
A collection of 3,000 Mideival Paintings, German, I think. The site is in German and perusing it is rather haphazard, but you click on a name, then in the pop-up click on "galerie" to see that artist's work. And another site with pictures from a German Ceiling, with some great mythic creatures.
British church paintings, not the best pictures in the world but quite informative and well done for an ameteur site, includes good cultural explanations. Interesting note: Mary's boobs.
Digital Scriptorium, for all your manuscript needs. NICE high-res images, not very browse-friendly. I suggest an Advanced Search of the date periods.
A large collection of ancient recipes, organized by time period. Flavor! (badum-ching)
The Met's Timeline of Art History
Some Danish church art and a link back to the Orb online library for Medieval studies.
Iberia:
Moorish rule in Spain during the 1200's and Andalusian culture, both courtesy of Wikipedia. Also, a big chewy hunk of research on the history of Spain & Portugal from the Library of Iberian Resources Online.
A discussion of Muslim women's clothing in the Middle Ages, with a link to men's clothing and jewelry. Very helpful!
Norse:
A brief study on the woman in Norse culture (Not too extensive but a good quick rule of thumb, academics questionable but bibliography good).
Women's fashion featuring the apron-dress that Richard very intelligently noted Anna as wearing. More photos of the woman wearing her clothing can be found here, in the 1999 galleries.
A finer and fancier dress worn by pre-Christian Viking women.
A timeperiod-fuzzy Middle Ages Norse SCA type of site. Good starting point, at least. There are Viking Options!
Character Specific:
Ana
- Hildegard
Matthias
- Scarring reference. WARNING. THESE ARE DISTURBING. face transplant, same, facial scarring, shark attack, old back scars, missing fingers
Katja
- Golden Eagle! Profile, and :P
Gilles
- Bust of a youth, tomb effigy of a French Crusader,
Dante
- Rob's portrait of Dante with a close-up
- Cirroc Lofton, and a Deviantart guy who was used as reference for Rob's portrait.
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I invite the rest of you to reply to this list with your own sources, and I'll add them up here.
XML Character Sheet
Mythic Europe:
Net Wizard's Grimoire, which has a long list of spells created during other campaigns, for inspiration.
The Ars Map of mythic Europe, from the Atlas Games site.
Map of the Rhine Tribunal, from same.
A Guide to Mundane Beasts, from same.
Spell index by Form, and by Technique, from same.
Medieval Europe
Wikipedia's page on the High Middle Ages.
Got Medieval? An informative and amusing blog.
The Arts & Sciences resource page from the SCA website. A whole lotta links!
A collection of 3,000 Mideival Paintings, German, I think. The site is in German and perusing it is rather haphazard, but you click on a name, then in the pop-up click on "galerie" to see that artist's work. And another site with pictures from a German Ceiling, with some great mythic creatures.
British church paintings, not the best pictures in the world but quite informative and well done for an ameteur site, includes good cultural explanations. Interesting note: Mary's boobs.
Digital Scriptorium, for all your manuscript needs. NICE high-res images, not very browse-friendly. I suggest an Advanced Search of the date periods.
A large collection of ancient recipes, organized by time period. Flavor! (badum-ching)
The Met's Timeline of Art History
Some Danish church art and a link back to the Orb online library for Medieval studies.
Iberia:
Moorish rule in Spain during the 1200's and Andalusian culture, both courtesy of Wikipedia. Also, a big chewy hunk of research on the history of Spain & Portugal from the Library of Iberian Resources Online.
A discussion of Muslim women's clothing in the Middle Ages, with a link to men's clothing and jewelry. Very helpful!
Norse:
A brief study on the woman in Norse culture (Not too extensive but a good quick rule of thumb, academics questionable but bibliography good).
Women's fashion featuring the apron-dress that Richard very intelligently noted Anna as wearing. More photos of the woman wearing her clothing can be found here, in the 1999 galleries.
A finer and fancier dress worn by pre-Christian Viking women.
A timeperiod-fuzzy Middle Ages Norse SCA type of site. Good starting point, at least. There are Viking Options!
Character Specific:
Ana
- Hildegard
Matthias
- Scarring reference. WARNING. THESE ARE DISTURBING. face transplant, same, facial scarring, shark attack, old back scars, missing fingers
Katja
- Golden Eagle! Profile, and :P
Gilles
- Bust of a youth, tomb effigy of a French Crusader,
Dante
- Rob's portrait of Dante with a close-up
- Cirroc Lofton, and a Deviantart guy who was used as reference for Rob's portrait.
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I invite the rest of you to reply to this list with your own sources, and I'll add them up here.