The Heresies Of Radulf Burntwine - Zachary Golden

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THORB - Case 003 - Addendum A - Ofelya's Story Apr 24, 2024

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine: A Horror, Dark Fantasy, Medical Mystery Audio Drama

Umberto Eco Meets H.P. Lovecraft in a world of Occult Academia, Laboratory Judaica. Heavily inspired by Jewish mythology, the world of Olam uses Hebrew, Arabic, Slavic and other real world languages and cultures to create a rich tapestry of a grim, fantastical, planet that doesn't sacrifice scientific accuracy or historicity.

Case 003 - Addendum A - Ofelya's Story

Ofelya Bezyemani was born with segmented bones connected by additional soft tissue, tendons and joints. This allows her to change her face and stature at will. She also has and androgen insensitivity and an intersex mutation. In short she has both female and retractable male genitalia as the result of viral mutation. This is the story of her growth from a monster into a young woman.

The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine sits at the intersection of dark fantasy, body horror, and forensic investigation. If you've ever wanted a podcast that treats disease and mythology with the same care as a true crime documentary, this is the show for you.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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THORB - Case 004 - The Spectral Delusion Apr 01, 2024

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine: A Horror, Dark Fantasy, Medical Mystery Audio Drama

Case 004 - The Spectral Delusion

Red makes his distaste for the spiritual and paranormal known. However following a risky endeavor to prove his hypothesis, he finds himself on the receiving end of an apparent haunting. Physician, heal thyself.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine: A Horror, Dark Fantasy, Medical Mystery Audio Drama

Case 00

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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THORB - Case 003 - The Madam of Many Faces Mar 01, 2024

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine: A Horror, Dark Fantasy, Medical Mystery Audio Drama

Case 003 - The Madam of Many Faces

Having finally arrived in Zhostok, Red is taken in by a dear friend who is herself a rather curious case of Nagific infection. In this case we discover what happens when two sufferers of the same divine plague fall in love and bear a child. The resulting mutations are unlike anything Red had seen before or would ever see again.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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THORB - Case 002 - Addendum A - Eyewitness Feb 12, 2024

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine: A Horror, Dark Fantasy, Medical Mystery Audio Drama

Case 002 - The Hounds of Nistrad Keep - Addendum A - Eyewitness

In this followup to Case 002, we hear the first hand eye witness account from a loyal, if dramatic, member of the Vradov family staff in nistrad keep. She details her brush with death at the hands of the transformed Vradov heir, as well as a curious interaction following his recovery.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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THORB - Case 002 - The Hounds of Nistrad Keep Feb 01, 2024

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Case 002 - The Hounds of Nistrad Keep

Traveling north east from the Wetwood, tended by the Woods Witch Gudrun, Red finds himself at Nistrad keep, a strategic linchpin for the Northern Orthodox nation of Kemovek. Here Red learns of a strange custom among the nobility: intentional self infection with a mutagenic virus to prolong their lives, however it would seem the Lord's son's genetics carry with them a curious reaction to this otherwise lifesaving panacea.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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THORB - Case 001 - Errata - Morbidity and Mortality Jan 25, 2024

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Case 001: Shepherd the Dead - Errata - Morbidity and Mortality

In this followup to Case 001, Edom Masfah, head of the Radulf Burntwine Institute and former apprentice to Red, offers his... notes on Red's treatment of his patient. Suffice to say, academic review is rarely a pleasure for the one being reviewed and the pressures to follow rigid and myopic procedure in exchange for publication takes its toll.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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THORB - Case 001 - Addendum A - Patient 12 Jan 08, 2024

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine: A Horror, Dark Fantasy, Medical Mystery Audio Drama

Case 001: Shepherd the Dead - Addendum A - Patient 12

In this followup to Case 001, Radulf Burntwine, disgraced cleric, observes a patient's voluntary infection with a virus that, ostensibly, reanimates the dead. Despite his best efforts, the patient refuses treatment and Red does the only thing any good field researcher can, he asks to document it.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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THORB - Case 001 - Shepherd the Dead Jan 01, 2024

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine: A Horror, Dark Fantasy, Medical Mystery Audio Drama

Case 001: Shepherd the Dead

In this debut case of The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine, disgraced cleric and field researcher Radulf Burntwine documents the aftermath of a viral outbreak in a remote Kemovek village following an attack from a mysterious vagrant known only as Patient Zero.

Told through Radulf's personal audio recordings, transcribed onto steel filament using salvaged monastery technology, Case 001 introduces listeners to the world of the Olam and the divine plagues of the Nagifim.

This episode covers the full investigation of Mowetto Nagifa, Raver Ricvn known in the villages as Ghoul Rot, Grave Plague, and Cold Fever a bloodborne pathogen of divine origin that mimics death before turning its victims into a vicious mockery of life.

Radulf is not a hero. He's a disgraced curmudgeonly cleric with a terrible bedside manner and more pride than sense.

This episode contains: descriptions of cannibalism, bodily decomposition, eye trauma, tissue decay, grief, and the death of multiple characters including a child, suicide.

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