Darkness in Scandinavia with Erik Hoftaniska

How do you do The World of Darkness in the happiest places on earth? What's magick like when the sun doesn't set for weeks at a time? How does the Syndicate deal with social democracy? What are trolls really like and what is a well-pisser? Karl Erik Larsen Hoftaniska of the Symposium Podcast answers these questions and more.

Correction! Erik corrected himself to say that the Nordic countries were Social Democracies but the sound for that portion was garbled.

Notes!

• Kurt Anderson's Fantasyland  - Book on how America has always been a little bit crazy
• Scholastic movement
• Sami People - Culture of the way north

Mage things!

• Difficulty of being a necromancer - Every line does it a little differently
• Mage: the Awakening arcana fate vs death
• Werewolf the Forsaken - Chronicles of Darkness game
• Exarchs - Possible big from Mage the Awakening
• A giant discussion of Sorcerer's Crusade
• Valdaerman - Fellowship from Dark Ages: Mage 
• Itarajana - Magickal fellowship
• Spirit-Talkers from Dark Age: Mage
• Gabrielites or the Cabal of Pure Thought, the precursors to the New World Order
• Seiðr - Shamanic sorcery

Other!

• Trollhunter movie - They can smell Christians
• Vices and Virtues - Album by Panic! at the Disco

Creatures!

• Trolls - Not the ones from Changeling
• Elves
• Fossegrim - Water spirit
• Brunnmigi - Well Pisser, yep, that's what they do
• Draugr - Pretty well the same in lore
• Mare or Nightmare - They sit on your chest