

Lorekeepers - A Worldbuilding Podcast
Carter & Frank
Lorekeepers is a worldbuilding podcast about two friends chronicling the journey of an ever-expanding tapestry of interwoven lore.While other podcasts may start a new world with each episode, Carter and Frank return to Halûme each week, determined to create the deepest, grandest, and most nuanced fictional setting ever. Never forget that in an infinite world, there are always more tales to tell.
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Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 19min
S4.39 - Follow the Trail of Soulcrumbs
This week we return to the moon-sisters and the afterlife from the perspective of ghosts. There's a lot thrown in here about quantum field theory, but it actually helps everything make more sense!Also if you were curious, yes our twitter is back up! Look for the flaming dodo. ———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Dec 13, 2022 • 1h 12min
S4.38 - Fly Me to the Moon
The moon-sisters are back as we attempt to untangle the oddities of strange designs. This week we examine some of the more esoteric parts of the afterlife. Also, geodesic moon cities for ghosts. ———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 21min
S4.37 - The Thousand-Year Amble
When is an amble not an amble? When going through the "just 10 minutes" of lore backgrounding becomes the entire episode. It's been quite a while since the last one of these! And yet... Well, I won't say it wasn't a good conversation! We discuss the Provident and the history surrounding them during Aevum Tertius. ———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 15min
S4.36 - Speak No Evil (Mute Miniseries wrap-up)
And that's a wrap(-up)! We've concluded our exploration into the Mutes of the Absentium for now, and take a look over our work. What conclusions can we make? How do they interact with each other? What does this tell us about the Absentium, and their relationships? ———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Nov 15, 2022 • 2h 12min
Ep. 4.35 - Destroying Light (Mute Miniseries 5)
We round out the Mutes this episode by investigating Para'ti and his brilliant and terrible power. ———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Nov 8, 2022 • 1h 11min
S4.34 - Loaded Dice with a Losing Hand (Mute Miniseries 4)
Thank you so much for your patience! It has been a little bit, but we're back in the saddle with some fantastic worldbuilding coming your way in the next weeks. Before that though, we examine the most desperate figure in the realm of divinity: Khüşmoud [previously, Umbirok]What would you do if you lost divine paradise? ———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 44min
S4.33 - Strangled by Heartstrings (Mute Miniseries 3)
We continue the miniseries this week by examining Gogra, The Divine Child. Isn't it awful that such a joyful and sympathetic figure would be trapped in the Absentium, doomed to forever attempt to redeem the others?Exactly.———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Sep 27, 2022 • 1h 21min
S4.32 - ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!??!!! (Mute Miniseries 2)
This week is all about Carnus, champion Mute of Khyzghor. A bloody, mighty, powerful monster of a figure, ready to face any otherworldy challenger which would dare step into his realm.———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 46min
S4.31 - Caught in the Throat (Mute Miniseries 1)
"What do we see? A demon, a noxious, unnatural creature. It eats natural patterns, creates its own patterns like a thief in the night. We cannot understand the universe until we understand this evil. A victim has been found, beaten and bloodied."-The Book of Truth (AI Religion Bot)This week we begin an exploration of the Mutes and the Absentium by examining our first figure: Lagezoth (renamed from Timur), the Mute of corpulence and avarice.Lagezoth owns everything. If he can't have it, no one can.———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.

Sep 13, 2022 • 41min
S4.30 - Garbage Piles & Cubist Styles (Lorekeepers Jr.)
If Illuvium and Orconis are chaos as growth and chaos as destruction, does that mean there might be realms of law as growth and destruction?———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade"Land of Heroes" theme by Josh Silker.