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Twilight HistoriesGates of Heaven, Part 2You have now arrived at the outskirts of Constantinople. Huge throngs of pilgrims have taken up the cross and are camped outside the cityʻs massive walls. But why wonʻt the city let you in? There is a growing sense of unease...
Created by Tristan Verboven
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#HistoricalFiction #AudioDrama #FirstCrusade #CrusadesHistory #MedievalStory #EpicTales #HistoricalPodcast #HistoryLovers #MedievalEurope #StorytellingPodcast #KnightsAndKings #HistoryBuff #ReligiousConflict #AudioStorytelling #HistoryDrama #HistoricalEpic #MedievalWars #crusaderknights #PodcastsForHistoryLovers #HistoryAndMyth #HistoricalAdventure
2025-03-2041 min
Twilight HistoriesGates of Heaven, Part 1You said you were interested in a spiritual journey, a journey into a world of peace and quiet contemplation. The Twilight Histories has sent you to a spiritual world, yes. But unfortunately there will not be peace. Witness the launch of the first Crusade to conquer the holy land from the point of view of a soldier.
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
www.TwilightHistories.com
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#HistoricalFiction #AudioDrama #FirstCrusade #CrusadesHistory #MedievalStory #EpicTales #HistoricalPodcast #HistoryLovers #MedievalEurope #StorytellingPodcast #KnightsAndKings #HistoryBuff #ReligiousConflict #AudioStorytelling #HistoryDrama #HistoricalEpic #MedievalWars #PodcastsForHistoryLovers #HistoryAndMyth #HistoricalAdventure2025-01-1935 min
Twilight HistoriesMariusʻ MulesYOU will experience ancient combat first hand. YOU will hold the spear. You will hear the sounds, smell the fear, feel the adrenaline, and learn what battle was truly like for a foot soldier in the iron age.
This first-hand adventure is set during the military campaigns of Marius during the ancient Roman Republic. You will fight from different perspectives; from the point of view of the Legions and the Celts.
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
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#AudioDrama #AudioFiction #SienceFiction #scifi #fiction #AlternateHistory #SpeculativeFiction #multiverse #T...2024-09-1653 min
Twilight HistoriesWar
Look closely enough at a peaceful strip of earth, and you will see the truth. A great war rages in the ground.
Insects, crawlers and microbeasts wage a fierce battle over lands that could fit on the tip of your finger. Sometimes they fight eachother, and sometimes they will fight men. They will send armies against ambitions, plans and projects. They will dash dreams and kill crops. They are the true rulers fo the earth.
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
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#AudioDrama #AudioFiction #SienceFiction #s...2024-05-2836 min
Twilight HistoriesJason and the ArgonautsJoin the crew of the Argo, and go on a road trip through the Bronze Age. Find out what Jason and his merry band of heroes really got up to on their epic quest for the Golden Fleece. Adventure, peril, buffoonery and a surprise hero to save the day.
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
www.TwilightHistories.com
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#AudioDrama #AudioFiction #SienceFiction #scifi #fiction #AlternateHistory #SpeculativeFiction #multiverse #TimeTravel #horror #fantasy #FightingFantasy #roleplaying #rpg #game #weird #HistoryPodcast #TwilightZone #TwilightHistory #bronzeage #greekmyth #myth #ancientgreeks #comedy #funny 2023-11-1155 min
Ancient Rome RefocusedDown and Out in Ancient Rome (Epi 31, S6)
Down and Out in Ancient Rome features the dramatic narrative DOWN AND OUT IN ANCIENT Rome. This story takes you into the backstreets of ancient Rome. Tristan is the writer and producer for The Story Engine Podcast and Twilight Histories.
Intro: 0-2:48
Rob talks about the hit TV show LOKI: 2:54 - 10:45
Matthew Leigh Embleton gives a lecture on Runes and the early Roman Alphabet: 10:46 - 14:00
DOWN AND OUT IN ANCIENT ROME by Tristan Verboven: 14:40 - 33;10
Ending: 33:11 - 33:39
CHECK OUT THE BLOG AT: https://ancientromerefocused.org/2023-10-0733 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationStar Wars According to Motivational PsychologyTristan Verboven breaks down the narrative elements of Star Wars based on motivational psychology. What makes the fantastical world building of the Star Wars Saga so plausible? How does the narrative structure follow the principles of motivation? What was so riveting about this world that other worlds don't have?2023-08-2924 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationMotivation in the WorkplaceMotivation in the workplace is a careful balance of economics and mutual identity . Why do people work? What motivates them to work? There is a Codified Motivational Profile to tell you. Find out why you work. And why you don't work.2023-04-2412 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationMotivation in EducationMotivation is the key to Education and learning. Codified Motivational Profiles can be used to design curriculum and identify obstacles. In the learning process, motivation is fluid, not driven. Education is the path of least resistance. Students are already motivated to learn, educators need to put learning in their path instead of trying to control it.2023-04-1711 min
Twilight HistoriesThe MagicianThe greatest trick ever performed is said to be cursed.
You are about to embark on a journey through time to 19th century Paris. You are a magician in search of a great master of the dark art. What you discover may cause you to question the boundary between illusion and… magic.
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
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#AudioDrama #AudioFiction #SienceFiction #scifi #fiction #AlternateHistory #SpeculativeFiction #multiverse #TimeTravel #horror #fantasy #FightingFantasy #roleplaying #rpg #game #weird #HistoryPodcast #TwilightZone #TwilightHistory #paris #france #19thcentury #1800s #bohemian #moulinrouge #gildedage #magic2023-04-1251 min
Twilight HistoriesBlack SeaYou will join the captain of a Romanian trawler as he reluctantly tries to rescue Axis troops and refugees from Crimea Ukraine during the German retreat in WWII.
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
www.TwilightHistories.com
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#audiodrama #audiofiction #siencefiction #scifi #fiction #alternatehistory #speculativefiction #multiverse #timetravel #horror #fantasy #fightingfantasy #roleplaying #rpg #game #weird #historypodcast #twilightzone #cathulhu #hplovecraft #blacksea #ukraine #germans #axis #WWII #worldwar2 #easternfront #crimea
2022-07-1118 min
Twilight HistoriesHouse of WarWritten and produced by Tristan Verboven
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#roleplaying #rpg #fiction #audiofiction #siencefiction #scifi #fantasy #fightingfantasy #multiverse #alternatehistory #speculativefiction #audiodrama #timetravel #game #weird #historypodcast #twilightzone #hardcorehistory #france #islam #muslim #war #middleages #darkages 2022-05-1921 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationHow Motivation Works - Intro VideoMotivation comes from flow, not determination. It cannot be created. It already exists, you just need to know where to find it. Understanding motivation is the key to harnessing it, and helping others find it too.2022-05-1306 minTwilight HistoriesThe TripOn your application, you said you wanted a drug experience to end all drug experiences. Picture this. You're an honoured guest on a remote tropical island. A strange ritual. A mind expanding drug. Super human strength. A deep connection with the elements. You'll see the truth. Feel no more pain. And finally, you will leave your body to become a god...
This is a campaign style time travel audio fiction that casts YOU as the hero. So step on the platform and let’s get you on your way…
Written and produced by Tristan Verboven
...2022-05-0518 minTwilight HistoriesDown and Out in Ancient RomeYou will explore the streets, markets and bath hosues of the ancient city of Rome. A slave hunter is on your trail. Can you find a rich patron to protect you in time? Or will you end up languishing in chains for the rest of your time travel adventure?
The Twilight Histories is a campaign style adventure where YOU are the hero. So step on the platform and let's get you on your way...
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
#fiction #siencefiction #scifi #fantasy #multiverse #alternatehistory #speculativefiction #audiofiction #roleplaying #rpg #timetravel #weird #rome #ancientrome
2022-04-0720 minTwilight HistoriesThe BlightYou awaken in the sappers' mines deep underground. It is WWI and you are a soldier sent in to clear out 'The Blight'. A horror like nothing you've experienced waits for you.
Written and Produced by Tristan Verboven
#WWI #GreatWar #zombie #undead #trench #horror #roleplaying #rpg #fiction #siencefiction #scifi #multiverse #alternatehistory #speculativefiction #audiofiction #audiodrama #timetravel2022-03-0314 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationIntrinsic Investment - Character, Beliefs and TrustIn order for Motivation to flow, we need the world around us to believe in us, to share our self-efficacy, and to trust us. In turn, we need to believe the world needs our skills, we need to believe the world believes what we believe, we need to trust the world is on our side. Intrinsic Investment is not about what we can do. It's more about who we are. It's not about what we can get out of a situation. It's more about what we have invested in it. 2022-01-0210 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationExtrinsic Investment - Culture, Society and InfluenceOur motivations, behaviours and decisions are tied up in a culture. Layers of concentric rings that influence us, presenting obstacles and opportunities. For better or for worse, we are limited by the health of our culture. Culture can provide momentum. And it can create obstacles. Having the wind in our sails can generate a great deal of motivation. But tacking against prevailing wind can dissolve it very quickly. Sadly, our motivation depends a little too much on the health of our socio-cultural circumstances. 2021-12-3108 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationExtrinsic Instrument - Freedom, Access and IncentivePleasure and pain may be in the driver’s seat of motivation, but they are not what makes the car go. Regardless of how much you want something, and how much drive and will-power you put into it, the world around you can make or break your plans. You can’t do it alone. You can’t do it on an empty stomach. And you can’t do it with a boot on your neck. You need Extrinsic Instrument.2021-12-3008 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationIntrinsic Instrument - Wanting, Craving and AvoidingSome psychologists believe that pleasure and pain are the basic currency of motivation. Intrinsic Instrument definitely runs on it. But it's more complex than that. It's one thing to be able to do something. It's another to know you can do it. It's still another to accurately predict the outcomes. The pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain is not a path of self-determination, but the path of least resistance through a web of factors beyond your control. 2021-12-2909 minTwilight HistoriesOasis LostOasis Lost. What does that inspire? Our Patrons came up with ideas and our podcasters produced them into stories, a universe-bending WWII story and a steampunk Victorian dystopia.
A Soldier's Death
Written and Produced Tristan Verboven
Idea by Steve DeFalco
"A world within a world. You move through what seems to be 2 fractured worlds weaving in and out of each other. Its disorienting. Maybe a result of world splitting, maybe something else..."
The Glasshouse
Written and Produced by Devon Field
Idea by Ryan Feather
"Victorians' descendants live as scared animals i...2021-12-2236 minTwilight HistoriesWeird Tales of AmericaWhat if the US conquered Mexico? What if the Barbary Pirates kidnapped a founding father? What if Russia never sold Alaska to America? Strange things happen in the multiverse.
Stories by Kevin Valbonesi, Tristan Verboven and Devon Field.
#alternatehistory #america #speculativehistory #audiodrama #radiodrama #fiction #storytelling #drama2021-11-2459 min
Twilight HistoriesThe ObjectTime travelling archaeologist from the future explore a world that's at once strange and familiar. Story by Tristan Verboven.2021-08-2429 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationBuilding a Motivational ProfileYour Codified Motivational Profile (CMP) is a story broken down into its parts. A simple action is rooted in a wide range of actions. In this episode, we learn how to map them out. 2021-08-2210 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationKnowing the basicsHaving motivation does not mean motivating yourself. There are no bootstraps. There is science to it. Turns out it's a complex web of factors, most of which are out of your control. Like any engine, it needs gas, lubricant, maintenance, and a driver. There's more to it than giving it gas. You need to keep it properly tuned. In this episode, Tristan Verboven takes you through the basic scientific theories on motivation. Where you go and what you do depends entirely on what is going on under the hood. Check it out. 2021-08-1420 min
Codified Motivational Profiles - The Science of MotivationIntroduction - Listen here firstA quick intro to motivational profiling. What it's about, how it can help you, why you should listen.2021-08-1402 min
Twilight HistoriesThe MoonListen to three Science Fiction stories about the moon by podcasters Tristan Verboven, Devon Field and Josh Hutchins. Inspired by concepts from our Patreon community, including Sam McDonald and Steve DeFalco.
#moon #scifi #shortstories #victorian #steampunk #spacerace #russian #enceladus #saturn #aliens2020-10-1445 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of Stotsas - Beggar at the Gates of RomeThe unsung hero of the Vandal Wars is not Belisarius, but an obscure officer named Stotsas. While Rome marched its armies to their doom, he rose to become king of the Africans, raising a multi-ethnic rebellion against a great empire.2020-09-2600 min
Twilight HistoriesThe Big TurkIn this alternate history adventure story, the Turks modernize and thrive under the guidance of the Great Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Explore this world from a dirigible and meet the characters. Story written and produced by Tristan Verboven.
Also, explore a science fiction world where the Earth is flung off course into deep space. Humanity must survive on a planet slowly freezing. Written and produced by Jordan Harbour after a suggestion by Byran Anderson, and inspired by Chinese Science fiction.
#scifi #althernatehistory #shortstory #fiction #turk #chinesescifi #kenliu #liucixin #RPG2020-07-281h 07
Twilight HistoriesFortress Afrika, Part 3The dramatic conclusion of Fortress Afrika, by Tristan Verboven. Continue your adventure in a world where Hitler died early. The great powers have come to an uneasy peace, and a new cold war is descending into revolution.
The Twilight Histories is primarily an alternate history podcast that places you as the main character in an RPG rollplaying game style campaign.
2020-04-0643 min
Twilight HistoriesFortress Afrika, Part 2With the death of Hitler, WWII has ended and a restless peace has spread over the world. The Axis powers are still alive. Germany hopes to rebuild ancient Carthage. But not everyone wants them to. Tristan Verboven paints a luxurious picture of a troubled corner of Africa filled with violence, spies and simmering ideologies in a world on the brink of war.
Begin your alternate history adventure with this tabletop RPG-inspired story from your dungeon master, Tristan Verboven. This is YOUR adventure. This is YOUR story.2020-03-3142 minTwilight HistoriesFortress Afrika, Part 1WWII has ended and a restless peace has spread over the world. The Axis powers are still alive. Germany hopes to rebuild ancient Carthage. But not everyone wants them to. Tristan Verboven paints a luxurious picture of a troubled corner of Africa filled with violence, spies and simmering ideologies in a world on the brink of war.
Begin your alternate history adventure with this tabletop RPG-inspired story from your dungeon master, Tristan Verboven. This is YOUR adventure. This is YOUR story.2020-03-2439 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of New RomeRome is dead, long live Rome. The post-apocolyptic ruins of the empire are inhabited by barbarians. But somehow, Rome did not completely die. A small cabal of Monks keeps it alive in the pages of books hoarded in a vault. Like its saviour, it shall rise again from the grave. As it claws its way back from obscurity, an ambitious new leader has an eye on control of Carthage. So brace yourself for war. In all its glory.2018-05-0400 min
The Story Engine History PodcastRome is Dead, Long Live Rome - Mini-episode - Uprising in LibyaA hundred years since the Fall of Rome, but Rome is far from dead. The Dark Ages may be dark in Europe, but in Africa, Roman Catholics are about to rise up against the Arian Barbarians who have inherited the empire. The delicate peace of Vandal Africa is about to be broken forever by a small gang of hired goons, courtesy of Rome`s long lost cousin to the east.2018-03-2300 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of the Fall of RomeThe Fall of Rome and the Rise of the Barbarians comes down to this. Atilla, king of the Huns,is hell bent on settling accounts. He is demanding the hand of a Roman princess, and will not take no for an answer. The court at Rome has no place for an enraged psycopathic Hunnish maniac, so Aetius is willing to do anything, including betraying his old and dear friend, to put an end to this. But when the dust settles from the greatest showdown in the history of history, a surprising victor emerges. And long-awaited revenge is served, as...2017-05-0700 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of the Vandals and the HunsTension is high in the court of Valentinian. In a surprise attack, the Vandals have taken Carthage, and an enraged Attila the Hun is taking Gaul. As Rome sees its empire slipping into the hands of ruthless barbarians, the Great Boy Leader must take control of his house. But it is up to Aetius to keep a cool head. Now that diplomacy has failed, only blood will keep them alive. Blood, and lots of it.2017-04-0200 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of the Barbarian InvasionRome struggles to maintain its glory as Huns and Vandals threaten its borders. But they are not dead yet. Young Aetius, the last of Rome's great generals is doing his best to keep it all together. He and his childhood friend Atilla, a Hunnish prince, have a deal going. The delicate peace will not last long, though. These new barbarians are bigger and crazier than anything Rome has seen. While the emperor is looking to save the past, barbarians are looking to the future.2017-03-2100 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of the Fall of CarthageCarthage must burn. Rome knows it. Carthage knows it. But Hasdrubal won't give it up without a fight to the death. Time to call in Skippy - that's Consul Skippy now - to finish the dirty job. Carthage is going down with the ship.2017-01-2000 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of the Third Punic WarCarthage rises up against Rome again, with another Hasdrubal and another Scipio the African. Carthage is not dead yet. Rome will have to earn it the hard way.2016-08-0700 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of the Second Punic WarHannibal stands at the brink of victory. At the gates of Rome, he savours his final blow as he awaits his brothers' reinforcements. But Skippy takes advantage of Hannibal's hesitation and makes a last ditch attempt at saving his civilization.2015-03-2300 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of HannibalFather and son marshals, Scipio and Scipio jr. defend Rome from deadly terror raids. A band of bloodthirsty warriors, led by Hannibal, seeks revenge in an audacious attack by marching giant beasts over a mountain range, leaving a trail of destruction. Can the marshals fend off these barbarians? Or is there more to this Hannibal than meets the eye?2015-03-1000 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of the First Punic WarAfrica's control of the Mediterranean is threatened by a northern upstart called Rome. Then along comes Hannibal. Terrorist to some, freedom fighter to others. Never has the fate of the world been so beholden to a single man's lust for vengeance. To defend the empire of Carthage, Hannibal does more than cross the mountains with elephants. He shows that some men cannot be enslaved. And that no force is too strong to fight, even if it cannot be defeated. Listen to his tale here.2014-07-2400 min
The Story Engine History PodcastTravel Time - The Circus Maximus in RomeA Travel Show for Time Travellers - Travel Time travels back in time to 1st Century Rome during the time of Trajan to investigate a Roman obsession. One thing that brings all Romans together in a giant stadium is the thrill of a chariot race. Join us in exploring the Circus Maximus.2014-01-3100 min
The Story Engine History PodcastJulius Caesar Newsreel - Victory and DefeatThe conflict between Rome and Gaul is here. Vercingetorix, with the support of his massive relief army, attempts to break out of his surrounded fortification. But Caesar, a master of the art of war, has prepared for the worst with the might and industry of the Roman Republic.2013-12-0800 min
The Story Engine History PodcastJulius Caesar Newsreel - The CounterseigeNow encircling the rebel king's stronghold with a Roman engineered seige wall, Caesar anticipates the arrival of a Gaulish relief force by building yet another wall to fend off an enemy from the outside. Now Rome's finest find themselves facing a formidable enemy on two fronts. But they are ready and able, preparing to confront an enemy force far greater than their own, with the boldest armed force ever brought to a battlefield.2013-12-0200 min
The Story Engine History PodcastJulius Caesar Newsreel - The SeigeThe Roman army begins its attack on Vercingetorix's fortress in Alesia. The tide turns for Rome as Caesar encircles the Gauls with a seige wall. Please excuse the sound quality of this broadcast. These recording are very old.2013-11-2300 min
The Story Engine History PodcastJulius Caesar Newsreel - Vercingetorix Digs InJulius Caesar vs Vercingétorix - The Radio Newsreels - Rome's campaign in Gaul has come to a final showdown. Vercingetorix and his band of barbarians have retreated to a mountain fortress. But Rome's expeditionary force, under the leadership of Caesar, takes position at the foot of Gaul's rebel fortress.2013-11-1700 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of SpartacusSpartacus - The Police Interview tapes - Warrior turned gladiator; mafia goon turned champion of the workers. His rebellion took the greatest nation in the world to the brink of chaos. So brutal that no survivors lived to tell the story. None but Oenomaus, his fight trainer, whose candid interrogation can be heard here.2013-07-1700 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of Stalin and the Allies - The Curse of the Broken CrossStalin vs Hitler - Adolphus and his powerful army, driven by the dark magic of the broken cross, consumed by hunger for blood, march east to confront the Great Uncle and the nation of Muskovia. But it will take more than just kicking in the door. The Muskovians, who live by the power of blood and fire, have long sworn to rid the world of magic. And now with enemies to the West, Thuringi's great army faces its greatest battle.2013-05-2400 min
The Story Engine History PodcastThe Story of Hitler - The Curse of the Broken CrossHitler vs Stalin - The story of World War II told as Gothic Mythology. A nation and its ambitious leader are desperately seduced by black magic. Driven by the brutal curse of the Broken Cross, they spread their dark shadow of winter to their neighbours. But to the West they find a powerful Island nation bent on revenge, and to the East, a barren wasteland sworn to rid the world of dark evil and restore the earth to flesh and blood.2013-05-2400 min