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Olde Weirde’s Incunabulum: The Kurgan

February 2004·pp. 48–53

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Olde Weirde separates extravagant tavern rumours from his research into the northern Kurgan peoples. Accounts of Crom’s Kul, the bloody Draghars and Aelfric Cyenwulf’s Iron Wolves compare religion, weapons, customs and tribal identity. Illustrated equipment reinforces their different visual character. The investigation ends with an uneasy question about whether destroying such enemies would require the Empire to become as brutal as the people it fears.

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