Lore Boys

Lore Boys are back, and this time we're talking about the First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R.) team and their backstory. Who is the spooky little girl running across the screen of my Pentium III laptop? Why am I standing in a hallway full of blood with a scary skeleton dooting right at me? Why shouldn't I feel bad about killing all these soldiers? These questions and more get answered as we de...

Hey everyone, Lore Boys are back this week to talk to you about Spyro, the Dragon, and all the lore therein. Who were Spyro's parents, what's his dragonfly buddy's name, what was Cinder or the Dark Master's business? We've got the answers to those questions and more! Plug in those headphones and we'll figure out if the murderer was Colonel Mustard in the Dining Room with the Candelabra or Spyro in...

This week is an event episode. Jamie returns from 5 weeks at war in Europe, Ethan is still sick but soldiers on, and Peter with the help of our friend Kris (@sketchnsteinz) tackles the life of Big Boss from the Metal Gear series! That's right it's our first four man squad! We're talking Red Bull, shadow governments, Russian Jungles, men exploding into bees, men exploding into dried leaves, misinte...

Lore Boys here with more of Ethan's favoritest good lore stuff: Dungeons and Dragons! We're talking about the Spelljammer setting and all the space battlin', phlogiston-huffin', crystal-sphere story you can handle. We'll discuss a protester chained to a tree for 5000 years, space mace, tree meat, Peter's dumb friend, and the drawbacks of putting a screen door on your space submarine! Thanks so muc...

It's the end of an era of Battletech, at least until we get mobs of Battletech fans storming our doors demanding more. We've reached the end of the canon timeline for Battletech, meaning we're taking the Republic of the Spheres formed during the time of the Blake Jihad and dragging into into the Dark Age, to when all the telephone lines across the universe went down to continue the metaphor from o...

We're back after a week off and coming at you with more of my personal favorite: Warhammer 40K lore. The Warhammer canon is so chock full of good stuff it's hard to decide what to talk about, but we brought on a very special guest from the Stranger Lands podcast (https://thestrangerlands.com/) Murphy Giller! Murphy's an expert on the Imperium and the Horus Heresy, and he's here to tell us a few th...

Lore Boys are back after our unexpected vacation, and we're here with the hot spiciness that is Dark Souls pre-history. We're talking that Big Soul Energy as we explain the origins of the Dark Soul, the four roommates who fight about it, Gwyn, the Witch of Izaleth, Nito, and the Freaky -- ahem, Furtive Pygmy. We talk about why the Lords hate the dragons, why being a dragon and living in a world of...

The Lore Boys are back, Dungeons and Dragons are back, Magic: the Gathering's back, everybody's back this week. We're doing a crossover episode featuring the best of Ravnica: the newly announced expansion for Dungeon's and Dragons based on a plane in Magic! It's got everything: spy houses, rival factions, town guards, black holes, sentient paper, sphinxes, races, mazes, dragons, wizards, and even...

Your weekly dose of Lore Boys are back, with a lore-light but content-heavy episode about the history of speedrunning! So plug in your headphones and fire up your TAS-bot, we're diving deep into a sequence breaks and glitches and every sort of time save you can imagine. We're here to tell you to summon the salt (Summoning Salt, specifically) necessary to make a speedrun happen. Jamie fires up an u...

Lore Boys here with more of that good lore we can't resist: it's another Elder Scrolls episode and this one is as jam-packed with good stuff as the last two. We're talking about the mysterious Dwemer: Nirn's dwarves who are actually elves. These elves are deep -- live in their parents basement and give you unsolicited advice about life deep. We realize that James can't tell two dwarves apart, twir...

Lore Boys here with more Elder Scrolls Lore! Last time we talked about Elder Scrolls creation lore, so naturally this time we're talking the creation of the Elder Scrolls lore! We cover everything you need to know about what the Elder Scrolls are and what the gosh-darn they do. Turns out there's a lot of canon material in Elder Scrolls Online as well, and it fits in real nice to this episode. So j...

Happy 4th of July! This episode we're doing a deep dive into more pen & paper, but this time in relation to a video game we're really excited about: Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red's upcoming sci-fi dystopia world is built off the tabletop RPG of the '80s that shares the same name, and it's chocked full of all the awesome lore and history you would expect, and it also may sort of detail a horri...

Lore Boys here with Sonic: the Hedgehog lore. We have three origin stories for you: that of Knuckles, Angel Island, and the Chaos Emeralds themselves. Jump in while we go "knuckle" deep in some lore, and we'll tell you everything you need to know about Sonic and his pals. For anyone looking to help out the show make sure to follow us and leave a review on iTunes and across all our social media, Fa...

Lore Boys here with another lore-chocked episode. This time we're talking all about the creation myth of the world of The Elder Scrolls. Tune in to find out everything you need to know about Mundus, Tamriel, Akatosh, and Anu. With a world so rich in lore, it must mean our podcast is equally rich in great content, right? This episode: Peter talks ancient aliens, we find out who Ethan likes to call...

Well we're here on a Saturday, I guess, and we have opinions on this year's E3. Some was good, some was bad, but I think we can all agree that almost none of it was real, and none of it was as cringey as we may have hoped. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lore Boys here bringing you all the news from the pre- and post-nuclear fallout American Commonwealth. Another tale from Bethesda's Fallout series, we're telling the story of the Brotherhood of Steel, a paramilitary organization with a serious hard-on for laser tag. We're talking vats of genetically modified goo, man-eating mutants with human hands for feet, and a man named Harold with a tree name...

Lore Boys are here with all that juicy Fallout lore you need -- just in time for E3 2018! We've got the whole Fallout backstory covered so you know longer have to smile awkwardly as that coworker of yours tells you for the umpteenth time why you should be grateful for the Fallout 76 announcement. Though we have to wonder if Bethesda had even considered that cloning the dinosaurs would have prevent...

Lore Boys are back with more Jason Stathan slash-fic, by which I mean Battletech lore, of course! We've got all the dirty details on William Blake Placid and his jihad. So remember to leave that phone down when it starts ringing, the internet's coming to get ya. This episode we talk about how hard a time the Mongols would have with modern firewalls. We ask who would be the Septarch Primus of Breit...

Here with another new episode, The Lore Boys are going to space... Dead Space, that is! Which is I guess like regular space just less teeming with life? So grab your favorite meat monster and get ready for some pretty trippy hallucinations as we dive right into the year 2508. On this episode: we learn if planets are filled with Nutella. Don Quixote takes on his greatest foe yet. We talk about the...

Live from a post-apocalyptic bunker with tin-foil on heads, the Lore Boys are here to bring you the TRUTH. We're flashing back to the 60s, where a massive alien conspiracy to cover up the TRUTH took place. From Tall Greys and their cheezy secrets, to the Lobstrocities and their role in all this, we don't pull any punches to bring the real TRUTH to you, the listener. This episode we learn how CDs w...

Lore Boys are back, this time with some great DOOM lore and story. Ever wonder why DOOM guy was on Mars, or how he got there? Ever want to know the secret to figuring out which keys open which doors? All these answers and more can be found within, just open up a portal and hop into the Lore Boys. This episode: We fix baseball! We talk about that time there was no violence in video games. We have a...

Lore Boys are back with more Magic: the Gathering lore. Sure, you know we're headed back to Dominaria, but do you know why? Do you know the subtle nuances of what's happened to the plane where we left it last? Well plug in your headphones to find out, or just to enjoy some laughs. In this episode we ask: Is Nicol Bolas magnetic? Which demons can I pick up at my local McDonald's? Do Planeswalkers k...

Who was Kratos, really? Ever wonder how he got those scar--erm, tattoos? We've got all the spoiler-free God of War lore you could want! How much of it is tied to actual mythology you ask? Plug in your headphones and come find out! Where did Kratos come from? Was his dad such a bad guy? What about his grandma? Who are the Titans? All these answers are just one click away. On this episode we discove...

Lore Boys are back with more great Battletech content. We're here to learn all about tthe FedCom Civil War! We meet the Queen of Space, and decide she's probably not important enough to talk about all that much! We're talking the key players of Battletech, and answering questions like: Do Chaos-April showers bring May flowers? Will Peter ever be able to stop grinding? Can Smoke Jaguars count? We'l...

Lore Boys are here with some stories from the taint -- erm... stories OF the Taint. I'm talking of course about evil forces in Bioware's Dragon Age series! We've got all the lore you need to know leading up to Origins to carry you through Inquisition. We're asking the hard-hitting questions, as usual, such as was the mailman a qunari? What's the difference between a big nurse and a normal nurse? W...