The roleplaying game Ars Magica is one such ' historical ' game, set in what its source materials call ' Mythic Europe ': while history is generally accepted to unfold as depicted in real-world historical accounts, Ars Magica presents a detailed background for its setting, tying the existence of magic, wizards and the Faerie realms into a historical context while allowing for ' fantasy ' elements to come into play.

Released in 2004 by Mythic Dreams Studios, Dark Inheritance ( DI ) was originally a d20 Modern campaign setting but converted across to the Powered by Spycraft banner using the Classic Spycraft rules.

A form particularly popular in Europe and America is field archery, shot at targets generally set at various distances in a wooded setting.

The Wimsey Papers included a reference to Wimsey and Bunter setting out during the war on a secret mission of espionage in Europe.

The Vikings are best known as raiders, setting out from their original homelands in Denmark, southern Norway and southern Sweden, to pillage the coastlines of northern Europe.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

This turned into a long journey in the course of which he visited the major cities of the United States and Europe, setting off from Yokohama on September 18, traveling through the U. S. to New York City, from which he sailed to Boulogne, reaching Paris on November 4.

He already had sent several crates ( containing his belongings and writings, which he had selected ) ahead of him to Europe, but he died before setting sail.

Although Roderick Hudson featured mostly American characters in a European setting, James made the Europe – America contrast even more explicit in his next novel.

Huge storms and abnormal rainfall with floodings of the major rivers of Europe ( including the Rhine ) are attributed to the event, as was the frost setting in during August 1816.

Northern Europe embraced classical Mediterranean Roman art forms for the first time, setting the stage for the rise of Romanesque art and eventually Gothic art in the West.

The organization's development helped shape the growth of management education in Europe and the UK and coincided with the setting up and growth of London Business School and Manchester Business School in Britain.

This poppy is a common weed in Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders, the setting of the famous poem " In Flanders Fields ," by the Canadian surgeon and soldier John McCrae.

Russell's third novel, A Thread of Grace, tells a fictional story within the fact-based setting of the Resistance in Italy during World War II and the plight of Jewish refugees in Northern Italy escaping from Nazi persecution throughout Europe.

Mugabi won eight fights in Europe and then moved to the United States, setting up residence in Florida.

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson is fabled to have returned from 5 years in Europe with a waffle iron, setting off a fad for waffle frolics ( waffle parties ), though waffle frolics had been documented as early as 1744 in New Jersey, and the Dutch had long since established waffles in New Amsterdam ( New York City ).

CEC ( The Co-ordinating European Council ) is the development body for fuel and lubricant testing in Europe and beyond, setting the standards via their European Industry groups ; ACEA, ATIEL, ATC and CONCAWE.

With the aid of her shawls, Emma posed as various classical figures from Medea to Queen Cleopatra, and her performances charmed aristocrats, artists such as Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, writers — including the great Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — and kings and queens alike, setting off new dance trends across Europe and starting a fashion for a draped Grecian style of dress.

In older cities and towns in Europe, alleys are often what is left of a medieval street network, or a right of way or ancient footpath in an urban setting.

In a 1935 speech the Prince of Wales had called for a closer understanding of Germany in order to safeguard peace in Europe and in response Conservative Party Members of Parliament Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet suggested setting up a study group of pro-German MPs.

These gardens are home to the National Collection of Hardy Water Lilies-the biggest such collection to be found in a natural setting in Europe.

The opposite in Akkadian is " Ereb " ( Europe ), meaning " to go in " -- that is, the fall or setting of the sun.

The original game was set in dark medieval Europe in the year 1197, while the 2002 edition updated the setting to the year 1230.

However, the ideas and ideals of the Renaissance endured and even spread into the rest of Europe, setting off the Northern Renaissance, and the English Renaissance.

The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).

Indeed, in the Halma edition of Theon's presentation of The Hypotheses there is a chart setting out ( under six distinct headings ) otherwise unrelated diagrams for describing the planetary motions.

Hence the natural setting of tragedy is the palace gate, the public square, or the court chamber.

Biggest organizational problem, he adds, is setting up CDC units in rock-ribbed Democratic territory.

The basic problem involved is that a college setting up a graduate school must have an entirely separate faculty for the advanced degree.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

We speculate that compulsives in the unstructured schools are under greater strain because of the lack of systemization in their school setting, but that their need to organize ( for comfort ) is so intense that they struggle to induce the phonic rules and achieve in spite of the lack of direction from the environment.

Apparently academic challenge in the structured setting creates an optimum of stress so that the child with high anxiety is able to achieve because he is aroused to an energetic state without becoming confused or panicked.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

He is credited with setting up an annual co-operative fire prevention program in co-operation with the Red Cross and State Department of Education.

And pretty soon gray fox is announcing that he won't have anyone around that's against him, and setting out to break his second territorial treaty with the birds.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

Since the widespread adoption of digital setting circles, any classical engraved setting circle is now specifically identified as an " analog setting circle " ( ASC ).

A computerized setting circle is called a " digital setting circle " ( DSC ).

Unique to this conception of formalized algorithms is the assignment operation, setting the value of a variable.

The most general setting in which these words have meaning is an abstract branch of mathematics called category theory.

* A similar setting is used by Sydney Padua in the webcomic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.

The Genius ( mythology ) | genius of Aeneas is shown ascendant, looking into the light of the future, while that of Turnus is setting, shrouded in darkness.