by Jay Batista | Jul 22, 2019 | Historical Fantasy, History
In the heyday of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the mid-1980’s, I wrote for TSR…back when they were financially viable and long before they sold to Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering trading cards. I was a free-lance author and TSR wanted...
by Jay Batista | Jul 16, 2019 | Historical Fantasy, History
In a fitting debut, the first book of the Forerunner Saga, ‘Thorfinn and the Witch’s Curse’ has been released in the United Kingdom. This is most fitting because the story takes place in the year 888 in Jorvik, the medieval town we know today as...
by Jay Batista | Jul 16, 2019 | Historical Fantasy, History
The medieval peoples of the north believed that one’s spirit inhabited one’s body and the two could be separated. The body was referred to as a “lich” and the spirit was called a “hug.” If a traumatic event occurred, an individual...
