Lore Boys

Lore Boys have been summoned to your lands once again for more Magic the Gathering Lore. Untapped and unhinged, this week we're starting the conversation about Elspeth Tirel, the generally white aspected Planeswalker frequently found chilling in the golden halls of Bant, one of the fancier shards of Alara. We'll follow her from her humble beginnings as a support animal for a terrible, terrible mon...

Lore Boys back with more fake history! We're talking a world adjacent to the world of SCP -- the world of Remedy Entertainment's Control and Alan Wake games! Spooky items haunted a ghost dimensions run by bureaucrats. There's ghosts, guns, and gams in the wild lore of these inventive games. Ethan tries to pick up a scuba diver, James turns to gravy, and Peter wears a pyramid hat. If you like this...

What's up Lore Lovers? The internet's #1 fake history podcast, the Lore Boys, is back with more SCP lore. This time we're talking SCP-J lore specifically, taking a crack at the less serious side of the spookfest. This week James makes some calzones, Peter makes his balls psychic, and Ethan separates the mountain from the dew. If you want to check out our previous SCP episode, find it on our websit...

The people have spoken, and they want more 40K Lore! The internet's #1 fake history podcast, the Lore Boys, is back with another installment of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K universe. This time we're just a couple of Oddboyz talking about some Mechboyz. The whole gang is here, Ethan, Peter, Gork and Mork, and James! Ethan runs for old-timey president, Peter believes in himself, and James finally...

Whether you like it or not the Lore Boys are back in business! Well most of them, with Ethan staying behind in the Nexus it's up to Jamie and Peter to venture forth and tell you all they can about Demon's Souls just in time for the remake on the PlayStation 5! This week we'll be diving into the history of the world of Boletaria, King Allan XII and his silent T, the cowardly Ostrava and the french...

Lore Boys here, with special guest, the Million Dollar Manger Baby himself: a horrific lizard who defies all attempts at killing it. The Spook Season is not over here at Lore Boys HQ, we're still jamming in the scares with the most horrific thing imaginable: user-created content! James throws a Faygo, Peter saves 15% or more on his life insurance, and Ethan gets his D-Class Citizenship revoked. If...

Lore Boys back with more spooktacular episodes! We're talking about H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, just in time for Halloween. We've got all your favourites, Azathoth, Nyarlothep, the Nameless Mist, an artist formerly known as Darkness, Yog-Sothoth, and oh so much more. Jamie eats a pickle, Peter fathers a bat, and Ethan goes insane. If you liked this episode about a book, consider some of these...

Lore Boys here with some more special Halloween lore, so last week's mature content warning is STILL in effect. This week we're talking about Harlan Ellison's 1967 Short Story, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, and the game written and voiced by the author! It's a horrible post-apocalyptic world where a Facebook super-computer has taken over everything and is keeping people alive with their eyes...

Graphic Content Warning - Gore & Violence Lore Boys back with bones, blood, and bad Swedish ghosts. We're talking the lore and story of PT, or Playable Teaser, Hideo Kojima's failed venture into the Silent Hill franchise (and really, what's scarier than failure?) If you want to hear more, check out our original Silent Hill episode titled "Don't Drink Out of that Lake, It's Ghosts". If you like...

Lore Boys back with more Warhammer 40K lore! This episode we're talking about a man named Lorgar, so strap in, grab your Gene-Seed cocktail, and come along for a ride with the Internet's #1 Fake History podcast. If you want to hear other 40K episodes, you can find a whole whack of them on our website. We've done 3 previous episodes on the Astartes Legions: The Dark Angels Faction The Salamanders T...

Lore Boys have returned with their big necks, big arms and chainsaw bayonets! Today, or whenever you downloaded this, we are returning to the Gears of War Universe to dig into the crust of the planet and figure out why the Locust Horde decided it wanted to rise up Gamer style and kill all humans. Our first Gears of War episode, covering the Coalition of Ordered Governments, can be found here: Hamm...

The internet's #1 fake history podcast is back, with some exciting lorecraft from Steam user Haze! The Lore Boys bring you the most controversial takes on the hit roguelike Risk of Rain from Hopoo Games. We talk mostly about the original, and put out some hopeful feelers for more lore in the exciting sequel released earlier this year. Jamie defends some towers, Ethan teleports a friend, Peter play...

Lore Boys back with more Warhammer 40K Lore. The internet's #1 fake history podcast is bringing you the story of the Space Wolves Primarch Leman Russ. If you want to hear other 40K episodes, you can find a whole whack of them on our website. We've done 3 previous episodes on the Astartes Legions: The Dark Angels Faction The Salamanders The Ultramarines And of course we have some on the horrible, h...

The Lore Boys are digging into the canonical Transformers character Carl Sagan this episode! Grab your four pairs of aviators, get those snakes off your boat, and remember that if you're a tarantula you legally have to tell me. The Lore Boys are looking into why Megatron stole our archive of dirty movies and decided to travel with them back in time, to a time when there were no people, only animal...

Lore Boys back, this time with television lore! We're talking Mainframe entertainment's hit 90s show Reboot! We've got viruses named Hexadecimal and Megabyte, and heroes named Bob, Enzo, and Dot. Talking about Reboot also gets us talking a bit about Veggie Tales and James Bond, cause why the heck not, huh? Peter takes a sick day, Ethan feuds with fonts, and James surfs the web! If you liked the ep...

The Lore Boys return once again for what feels like at least the 39,000th time with Morty-K 40K Lore for your listening pleasure! Today we tackle what must be the most iconic of all the Space Marine legions, the Ultramarines. The blue, the gold, the denim and the symbolism. We explore the crash landing, explosive growth and eventual ascension of their Primarch Robute Gulliman. What happens when in...

Battle Angel Alita lore from the Lore Boys that brought you such hits as: Dorohedoro, Kirby, Kid Icarus, and many more. It's the internet's #1 fake history podcast with more tales from Japan! From humble beginnings in a trash heap in Kentucky, not unlike our show, Battle Angel Alita really does paint a picture of solar intersystem conflict. From weird box Jovians to corpulent french Venusians with...

Hey all, Lore Boys with more lore for ya! We're talking the beautiful land of Azeroth once more, and ye old gods who were found on it before any life on earth. That means Alliance should be so high and mighty that the Horde orcs aren't native, considering they had to oust so old Lovecraftian horrors before moving in. We're hopping into the universe to make sure World of Warcraft's one true timelin...

Lore Boys are back with the Internet's #1 Fake History Podcast. This week we're taking up the Astarte's mantle with more Warhammer 40K lore on the Space Marine Legions of the 30th Millenium. It's the Salamander episode, and these only come around once every 15 years on Nocturne! We're talking about great beasts, Saurians, and Dark Eldar , so saddle up those giant, fire-breathing hellspawn you call...

Lore Boys here but not for long, we are leaving the physical realm of the living and moving beyond to the Empyrean! This week we're capping off Dante's Divine Comedy with Paradiso! Leaving Vergil's Pagan butt behind Peter learns about the planets, Ethan learns about birds, and Jamie records backwards! Is that Dante's big ol' nose or a parrot? There's a dragon, your girlfriend charges her powers to...

Conjoined Lore Boys here! Bringing you another classic game that really didn't need to be so complicated! Jamie brings us Kid Icarus! Today we learn what one man in the 80s can do with an NES, which games and American Tails to ignore and that Sakurai is probably a mad man. We see ourselves in mirrors, get trapped in rings, fight himbos, then aliens, then more aliens, maybe we attack our moms or so...

Lore Boys have more 40K lore for you, and this time we're talking Astartes Imperium -- more often called Space Marines. Specifically, the first of the Emperor's legions, the Dark Angels! Now, it's not mandatory reading, but checking out our episode on the Great Crusade might give you a little more insight into this awesome worldbuilding! Peter joins an Order, Ethan puts a bounty on some Great Beas...

Lore Boys have arrived on our National Holiday because we don't take days off! Today we're making our way out of Hell and into Purgatory while covering the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy! Today we'll find out about gravity, time zones, penance as well as the nature of sin! Is Purgatory just God's waiting room? Or is it something far worse? Ethan collects Virgin Mary cards, Jamie sleeps under...

Lore Boys are back, with more high-fallutin', tech-shootin', snappy-bantered buddy-cop duos... but no, it's not another Jak and Daxter episode. We're talking about Ratchet and Clank, a series so dear to Sony's heart it was a cornerstone of the big timey-PS5 demo. It's got cat-people, robot-people, rock-people, and even a janitor! Ethan finds out what happens when you teach a genocidal warlord how...

Lore Boys are back from our long journey and we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. Today we're taking a look at the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, Inferno. We're here to teach you where most of us will inevitably end up, so you can at least know what to expect. We'll learn how fanfiction was invented, how the Mary Sue was invented, as well as how we started to move from Old Ita...