The Owl's Nest

Hello!

My name is Erik Sieurin - it is not pronounced as it's written in any living language, so don't you worry.
I was born in 1971 in a small town i northern Sweden. Right now I am trying to finish my exam, a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science, at the University of Borås, Sweden. I have studied languages earlier - English and Finnish, trying to concentrate my studies towards translation- and I hope to try what it is like to be a translator, interpreter or language teacher.

My interests are gardening, cooking, hiking, dilettante study of most academic subjects except economics and law, and roleplaying games - both live and over the tabletop. I read voraciously, but that is not a hobby or interest, it's an addiction.

And yes, my favorite animal, my "totem" if you wish, is the owl. I collect figurines, pictures and knicknacks connected to these lovely birds, and frequently go under aliases such as "owl", "uggla" (Swedish for owl, my dear non-Swedes), "strix" or "bubo" (the last being Greek or Latin terms, I cannot remember which, for various kinds of owl).

I hope to make this page a "useful" page. That is, I'll try to create much original text, and few links. There are already many good "link pages" with links to pages with good material about a particular subject, and many more BAD link pages, with links to things anyone can find anyway, and nothing else.

So far, the only USEFUL (by the most generous use of the word) material I have managed to put up is this:

• Roleplaying games - some material cooked up by yours truly and some reviews .My own material is mostly campaign-, rather than rules-related.
• Khelataar - an old Swedish game which flopped like h*ll, for good reasons. It never became what it was supposed to be. The original idea was good, but the result stinks. A 2d edition was planned, but never released. I worked on it, mostly on the more esoteric stuff. For the last years, I and a guy named Ake Rosenius have done extensive work on it - on the world, more than on the rules. Some of that can be found here - but as you understand, it is in Swedish. Sorry.
• Glorantha - a wonderful world, made for the old and sadly missed RuneQuest game. I've got some Gloranthan folktales, a campaign writeup, and some other stuff. Some of it is rather heretical, but who cares?

I hope to put up other stuff as well, but that'll have to wait until I get an attack by worklust - a rare thing, unfortuneately.

(Whaddaya mean this page being too green? I like green, so there.)

Feel free to mail me at: sieurin@yahoo.com