Ringlorn

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Ringlorn

adj.
the wish that the modern world felt as epic as the one depicted in old stories and folktales—a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths and omens and fates, where everyday life felt like a quest for glory, a mythic bond with an ancient past, or a battle for survival against a clear enemy, rather than an open-ended parlor game where all the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

From ring, a key element in many sagas and myths + -lorn, sorely missing. Pronounced “ring- lawrn.”

La Cuna

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Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Mottleheaded

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Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

The Meantime

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