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The Solaris: How One Currency Holds a Galaxy Together

Furies: The Desert That Costs Everything

Volcanic Animism: The Gods of the Lava Lake

The Milk That Builds a Clan: Allonursing, Immune Transfer, and the Biology Behind Communal Nursing

Allonursing shows up in almost every earlier piece of Aldermark writing as a religious and social practice, a Freyjaist expression of the idea that a child belongs to the whole clan. All of that is true. What I hadn't written…

Seidr Is Not Magic: The Elvish Practice That Early Humans Mistook for Sorcery

The laboratory at the University of Kaiseringaden looks like every other lab in the building: white benches, fluorescent light, equipment humming. In the middle of it sits a Völva with her eyes closed and her bare feet on a tray…

The All-Mother: How Freyjaism Turned a Pantheon into One Goddess

In a Freyjaist temple the priestess stands barefoot on the stone. She always does, because the woman who founded the faith is said to have first heard the goddess through the soles of her feet. When the singing starts, the…