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Once and Future Nerd now available on Podfeed.net!

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Our podcast is now listed on Podfeed.net!  Now you can listen to and rate TOAFN from there if you prefer (Don’t worry, all your favorite current listening methods still exist).  Podfeed.net will also now list us in their directory, so there are more ways for new fans to find us too!

If you are interested, check us out at podfeed.  If you have a podfeed.net account already, you can add us to your myPODFEED page directly from the sidebar to your right.  And if you have something to say, please give us a rating or a comment!  This goes for iTunes too, by the way, we really appreciate any ratings we get, good or bad.

As always, we appreciate any feedback, so feel free to give us a piece of your mind, here or on facebook  or twitter, or via email.

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The Prince of Iorden, Pt. 4

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The party journeys towards the storied city of Armstrungard, in search of clues about the betrayal of House Guernatal, and learns more about the recent history of Iorden. But Brennen has an ulterior motive for this journey. Meanwhile, at Castle Guernatal, the nobility makes arrangements for the impending conflict.

TRIGGER WARNING FOR THIS EPISODE: Domestic Violence

The next episode will be released on October 20th. Be sure to subscribe!

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The Tragic History of House Guernatal

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~~BONUS CONTENT~~ This post is bonus content.  If you are looking for the most recent episodes, check out our episode guide.  If you like this post, check out the rest of our bonus content archives.

THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF HOUSE GUERNATAL

OK…well, only the past 16-some-odd years have been tragic.  House Guernatal has been the ruling family of Iorden for 700 years, since the White Forest Concordat.  That document, penned and guaranteed by the Th’ura Akbyyr (the Elven High Council), granted House Guernatal sovereign rule over the lands of man.  It also stipulated that the Th’ar lo-Hyyl, the famed Elven Knights of the Wood, would protect the human rulers of Iorden from all enemies.  Most of Guernatal’s reign has been a peaceful, prosperous time…at least as far as these things can be expected.

King Gunther Guernatal has held the throne for most of his 66 years of life.  He once had a son, Prince Uther.  Uther was, by all accounts, an excellent prince, and would have made an excellent ruler of the kingdom.  Tall and handsome, brave, kind to lords and servants alike, clever, and so on, and so on.

Prince Uther disappeared 16 years ago
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So what is this “Bonus Content” stuff anyways?

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Can’t get enough of The Once And Future Nerd?  Well, allow me to explain the concept of Bonus Content!

Podcasts are an awesome medium for storytelling (at least the way we do podcasts…and storytelling for that matter).  Sometimes though, you just want to give your audience more.  Which brings us to BONUS CONTENT!  Bonus content is an opportunity to do some things that don’t fit into the main podcast.  It will usually take the form of either writing or art.  However, as things go on, bonus content may also include some audio files for out-takes, some Mailbag / “AMA”-type segments, or, really, whatever the hell else we feel like.
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Read Up on the Characters

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Want some more background on our principal characters? You can always check back to our Characters page.

We hope to keep this page current as new characters are introduced to the story, which means that (to whatever extent character details are plot details) MINOR SPOILERS are possible if you haven’t yet listened to the latest episode.

Enjoy, and be sure to download the next episode when it’s released on October 6!

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