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Urbi et Orbi!

We are pleased to present a new medieval board game — Deus lo Vult!

It’s a competitive medieval board game for two to four treacherous and greedy marauders and murderers. Based on opulent European manuscripts of the 12th to 15th centuries, the game draws heavily on the military games played by the medieval aristocracy all over the world: shogi, xiangqi, chaturanga, and backgammon.

You control an army of crusaders trying to loot as much treasure from the Holy Land as possible. At the same time, you hinder the progress of other players using the mutually shared army of the Saracens.

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Could you please tell us what each picture is, and exactly where it came from - as discarding images does?

Sorry about the delay. Since I’ve practically abandoned this blog a long time ago and not planning on updating it in long term I’m not sure how to respond to this. Pics I’ve posted here in 2014-2015, I literally found them on Russian imageboard in 2011 where they came without any caption. Now I know something about those but I’m too lazy to update those posts. Sorry about that.

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Lifetime portrait of Ivan the Terrible

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Illustration from A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile [and other witches], 1579

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Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi's Manuscript on Astronomy [d. 886 CE]

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Coecke van Aelst, Story of Creation: God Accuses Adam and Eve after the Fall. c. 1548.