(This folktale was generated using TextSynth, a text generator which uses Artificial Intelligence.) There once was a talking plant that guarded a rare and expensive treasure. It told stories of treasure and how to guard them, and it had stories of its own to tell. …

Play on, O Tropsi; sing of the Great Achene, the Samara descending, drifting, alighting. A hollow she found, within stolid Acho — a place full of life from the previous world. When the fires of Wormwood which had destroyed the Third Space finally cooled and the Ruler of the Waters…

The Quatrian Symbols Explained Continued from Part X On All Protections Night, a terrible entity known as The Vernow haunts the streets and pathways of the world, going from door to door, trying to gain entry. The Vernow manifests as an enormous deer skeleton, which walks upright. Quatrian legend says that The Vernow is…

A collection of essays and articles for the Quatria-Curious — Please note: we are uncovering new aspects of Quatrian History, Philosophy, and Culture on a daily basis. Some of the information contained in these essays may be deprecated, and all of the content herein is subject to change without notice due to Quatria’s function as a Liminal Space. ALL of…

Updated Revision: Originally published 10/2018 What’s up, Spellcasters? Who wants to cause some magical mayhem and hit back against the Administration pigs a little more forcefully than we have been so far? …

Excerpted from “Cuatrian Remnants in Italic Folk-lore and Culture” by Edwin Palmer (1908) — There is, in the folk-lore of Siracusa and the surrounding regions, where echoes remain of the Cuatrian ways, a peculiar, yet efficacious, practice for those who wish to seek advice or visions from the so-called “Cusas,” or “Causes,” those strange entities so like, yet so unlike, deities or tutelary spirits…

The Myth Behind the Solstice in Quatria — (See “The Hypogeum is Open” for additional details) According to the Teachings of Mavani and Iktion, on or around First Frost (in the Northern Climes) or the beginning of Water Season (approx. Nov. 1st in the Northern Hemisphere), eight primordial monsters with beast-like heads emerge from the Hypogeum, which opens…

An excerpt from the “Canticle of Barbaro” — The Quatrian cat spirits, Chabderhuff and his sister Chabderal, featured in a number of Quatrian folktales. The following excerpt (trans. Newman 1987) is the most well-known. This tale appears in the “Canticle of Barbaro,” played and sung in two part harmony by Benda and Ofend as they departed Quatria in…

The Quatrian Symbols Explained — Continued from Part IX THE FOREST is the fourth of the sixteen “Experienced” Powers. There is ample reason that the cultic Mysteries of Elum and Delrin required initiates to spend three nights and three days deep within the depths of the woods. It wasn’t because danger dwelt among the boughs…