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The youth Taran lives at Caer Dallben with his guardians, the ancient enchanter Dallben and the farmer and retired soldier Coll . He is dissatisfied with his life, and longs to become a great hero like the High Prince Gwydion . Due to the threat posed by a warlord known as the Horned King, Taran is forbidden from leaving the farm and charged with the care of Hen Wen, the oracular white pig. When the pig escapes, Taran follows her into the forbidden forest. After a long, fruitless chase he is attacked by a host of horsemen galloping toward his home, led by the Horned King himself. He manages to escape, but drops, wounded, to the ground. He awakes to find his wound treated by none other than Gwydion, the crown prince in Prydain’s ruling House of Dôn (, who has been traveling to Caer Dallben to consult Hen Wen. Gwydion, determined to find the pig, takes Taran along with him. Guided by Gurgi , a hairy humanoid living in the forest, they reach the Horned King’s camp, and learn that his target will be Caer Dathyl , the home castle of the House of Dôn. Gwydion determines to warn the royal court, but the group is attacked before that can happen…
Welcome to the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Tonight we discuss the Book of Three, the first book in Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain series and pair it up with Beyond the Black Gate!
Dark Acquisitions
Campaign Tools
Character Age – Daniel J. Bishop
Militant Order: The Sons of Dôn – Bob Brinkman
Monsters
Cauldron-Born – Bob Brinkman
Gwythaint – Bob Brinkman
Tribearatops – Bob Brinkman (concept by Ethan Nicolle)
Spells
Harp Magic – Bob Brinkman
The Stacks
Appendix N….ish
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
Additional Reading
The Mabinogoin
Adventures
Beyond the Black Gate by Harley Stroh
Doom of the Savage Kings by Harley Stroh
Hunting Preserve of the Cambion Queen by Gwendolyn Harper
The Imperishable Sorceress by Daniel J. Bishop
Nebin Pendlebrook’s Perilous Pantry by Mark Bishop
Not in Kansas Anymore by Dieter Zimmerman
The One Who Watches from Below by Jobe Bittman
Portal Under the Stars by Joseph Goodman
The Shambling Un-dead by Jim Wampler et al.
Super Number One Food Tower by Matthew Goiffon
Conventions
Free RPG Day
Gen Con
North Texas RPG Con
Origins Game Fair
Music
Ar Log VI (album) by Ar Log
Bum Yn Caru Cainc Y Datgeiniad/Five Love Spur Of The Datgeiniad (song) performed by Einion Edwards
Cân Merthyr/Merthyr Song (song) performed by Cerys Matthews
Caniad y Gwyn Bibydd/The Song of the White Piper (song) performed by Catrin Finch
Carolan’s Farewell to Music (song) performed by Ciara Taaffe
Pwt Ar Y Bys/Fingering Vamp (song) performed by Robin Huw Bowen
The Fairy Queen (song) performed by Dawn Egan & Nigel Foote
Yr Eneth gadd ei gwrthod/The rejected maiden (song) performed by Siân James
Podcasts
Appendix N Book Club
Road Crew Appearances
* FREE RPG DAY
* M Nicksic @ Tacoma Games in Tacoma, WA (every Saturday)
* Timothy Drennon @ Geekout in Burlson, TX
* Jeff Bernstein @ Games Plus in Mount Prospect, IL
* Tim Deschene @ Revival Brewing Company in Cranston, RI
* Joan Troyer @ Better World Books in Goshen, IN
* Joan Troyer @ Secret Door Games in Elkhart, IN
* Mario Garcia @ Funagain Games in Eugene, OR
* Chris Lauricella @ Bell, Book, and Comic in Dayton, OH
* Christian Burd @ The Beer Temple in Chicago, IL
Thanks to
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Another great podcast for the Sanctum!
I read The Book of Three, Narnia, and JRRT roughly around the same time in my life. I can’t tell you which one I read first. For the record, I have read The Hobbit to all of my children, and The Lord of the Rings to two of them. I have been planning on recording my reading them so that I can virtually “read” them to whatever grand- or great-grand kids might one day come down the pike. I do not attempt to sing the songs, but I do read them. No one would thank me, with my singing voice, if I tried to do more.