The Wolfling Project

A collection of suitably ominous quotes for use in the skirmish game rules.

Fate or Fortune

"All things which we do and bear
On Fate's lofty decree depend" Seneca

" For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her." Machiavelli

War or Combat

"No, these toys are fit for children, not for men, for straggling boys of the camp, to murder poultry, not for men of honor to try the battle with their foes." George Silver, "Paradoxes of Defence" (1599)

Magic or Pseudoscience

Interesting Persons

Camillo Agrippa, Fencing Master
Jeronimo Sanchez, of the Destreza School
Micha? S?dziwój, Alchemist
Edward Kelley, Alchemist, Seer, Con Man and associate of royal astrologer John Dee

Lesser Known Events of the Period (1550-1600)

The Siege of Malta (1565)
Siege of Cahir Castle (Ireland, 1599)
Scottish Border Reivers

Events Not in the Timeline

These events or periods are too late and are not part of the timeline.

• Pirates (!)
• Thirty Years War
• The English Civil War
• Beginnings of modern science (Newton &c.)
• most of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies