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Sorq review: what i need to track down to fulfill my promise!

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I promised a certain Trilobite i'd get up to date on my Sorq notes; that was before i slammed down like ten new pages last night. SOME of these have already been transcribed, but where...? Notes to collect from numbered notebooks [in index i made in N.22] N.22 ...  N.16 cross-section of underworld Plutotects of Abadanih, great engineers and planet-crafters of antiquity Worlds of Sorq's nexus Underworld barbizans, access to deep places Regions, civilization, magics Great walls, wild areas planetology, ancient engines in planet core sketch from orbit; moons N.13 lots of 13th stuff that can be enSorqed, later: mummy cultists, Dream demiurge Šén reptiloids I have stolen from Tékumel; lots of material for a particular dungeon [Tetrarchs' Folly]; all Tetrarchy material should be imported, later. that amounts to...lots of information on this reptiloid species inhabiting Sorq. Šén icons. Bonecraft armor: so strong! so flexible! so necromantically attunable! Temple of Starless Night...

Sorqite economy; Derivations from other science-fantasy settings

A friend on discord has peppered us with quæries regarding SORQ, an ancient world irradiated with outpourings from other planes, a world of peace and prosperity for all those who live in civilized lands along the equatorial sea and within the great walls separating decency from barbarous wastes. This pestering waxes productive, and haply we shall post our outsquoze thoughts. Let it be said that we have never once considered how money works, or if indeed there be fiat currency, and yet this was asked of us! O heavens, that's a good un init? One of the axioms of Sorq is that it is home to very old, cosmopolitan, sophisticated civilization. The surface world along the equator is mostly peaceful, mostly equitable. There are robust civil societies, courts, mediation; basically no warfare or overt striving on the surface and inside the great walls around the equatorial zone. There are abundant trade networks and nearly universal prosperity: it is not as who should say a post scarcity civ...

strong personal reactions to Tékumel Foundation's disclosure of M.A.R. Barker's nazism

Spring, 2022! Year [mumble] of the Pandemy! The Tékumel Foundation, the people who sit on the dragon-hoard of dungeon maps and such created by Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Barker in a lifetime of Tékumeling, allow as how yes, actually, the Professor was a Nazi, a eugenicist, a holocaust denier. That is to say, a PROFESSIONAL, PROFESSORIAL holocaust denier, one jerk hanging his PhD on the masthead of the Journal of Historical Review , a revisionist rag with a name so bland it had to seem legit. Barker wrote among a numerous gang of scholarly Nazis who, as Nazis, are smart, educated, but fundamentally broken in the thinky-thinky meats, otherwise they'd figure out the Nazis lost and never, ever, in any world could have won against the Soviets, Yanks, and a world with only so much steel and oil, so OBVS you earmark that shit for your death camps, numerous secret weapons, vengeance weapons, ever-stranger aircraft, and plain boondoggles run by fuckin NAZI MAD SCIENTISTS. I've read Hellboy,...