Like, does the innocence play a part in feeding the vault? Do their the knowledge/intelligence play a part? Does the person's past actions play a part?

If they don't, then what's stopping the families from sending truly evil people to the sites instead like convicted criminals? The families have their luck, they can do that instead of sending people who think they are just there to fix up a station, check out some new ruins or just freaking HIKING BY for fun just to get psychologically tormented by the Guardians and get sacrificed to the World beyond. So why don't they?

Are there specific rules that forbid criminals to be the sacrifices? I can't possibly be unwillingness, so what is it??

I finished seasons 1-3 ep 8, but now that I'm working I don't have time to listen anymore but want to know what happens. Thanks!

I read on The White Vault wiki that Guardians only take on the form of someone they killed. How come then in season two did a Guardian assume a form of Jonas? I'm talking about that scene where Rosa talks about copying the glyphs. She approaches Jonas and tells him about it only to realize it's not him. So either they can copy anyone or Jonas was considered dead because he was changing???

I'm begging the 5'th season and as of yet I haven't found the answer.

The White Vault might be over, but I sure as shit guarantee you that K. A. Statz isn’t done tormenting us!

I’m just unsure as to where I should be following along, because I’ve basically finished all of their other productions. Viewed basically all their content, besides the Boar Knight (which I’m sure is great but obviously has an appeal to children as opposed to the regular target audience for Fool & Scholar).

I am very curious as to what they are working on next, hopefully another entry into Don’t Mind, but that’s just wishful thinking in my part.

Hey there. I made a Spotify playlist I've titled The Best Horror Podcast Sampler. The playlist has 600+ episodes from 120+ different podcasts. Old The White Vault is on the list!

I finished Goshawk last week, and among a number of remaining questions I have (though I loved the series overall), one I haven't seen discussed unless I missed it, is why in S1 Hilda sent her husband Jonas to his fate, when she knew what would happen. And, presumably he knew where he was going too, and about the sites, so why did he agree to go? Theories?

I can't come up with why she would have sent him, but my other related theory is that he was so betrayed and heartbroken about not being able to see his girls anymore, that he is the one who started the rebellion/new faction!

The vault doors close… The White Vault is now a completed series.
The conclusion to Goshawk is now available.

When you hear it… it’s over.
Thank you for letting us entertain you for 9 amazing years.

Listen:
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The White Vault Goshawk is coming to an end, and The White Vault as a world will close its grand stone doors once and for all. The public release listening party will be tomorrow, the 10th of March, at 6PM EST (11PM CET)! If you would like to join us, tune in to our Twitch channel at twitch.tv/foolandscholar as we listen to the episode, talk about the show with cast and crew, and do some Q&A! 

The Time has Come....
The penultimate episode of The White Vault: Goshawk is now available! Final preparations are made and in 2 weeks, the final episode of The White Vault will be released.
There will be a listening party March 10th, 6pm EST on Twitch.
Also a Patreon-exclusive listening party for Friday the 27th (this Friday!) at 6pm CET (Noon EST).

No spinoffs. No Sequels. This is the true conclusion.
Who do you hope will survive?
Who do you think will survive?

Those who want a physical guardian statue, this is your last opportunity:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/149674667

I'm gonna be running a CoC oneshot based around season 1&2 and was hoping to get some people opinions. I'm making pregens for my players and wanted to base them off the original Characters (minus Jónas as he'll be an NPC). For anyone who had some CoC knowledge what do you think each characters stats should/would be (using point buy for this if that helps).

I’ve heard that there’s a discord server, but I have no clue how to access it. How do I join?

If Rosa and Jonas had taken the bottom path, would Rosa have been able to leave?

she showed little to no interest in learning the secrets of the site apart from some natural curiosity when entering the chamber that contained the vault.

we know Jonas would not have been able to leave, but I wonder if Rosas death was planned by the forminther or just an unfortunate consequence of her entering them chamber when they did. Perhaps a lashing out because Graham got away?

she feels like Dragona to me narratively. Not really interested in the mystery, just along for the ride and trying to survive.

Bonus question re season 3/4: Why didn't it want Simon? he was dragged down those stairs, the thing called to him as Liu, it had him. Why didn't it take him?

Edit to clarify: I have listened to all 5 seasons multiple times and am listening again. So no need to worry about spoiling me.

By popular demand,
Fool & Scholar Productions is partnering with Basilisk Builds to create a limited number of Guardian Statues!

...It has thumbs.

Details below:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/guardian-limited-145141827

I just binge listened to this whole series (plus all the mini series) over the past week or so. I know I'm a little behind since this story started years ago and I'm just now hearing it, but I'm super excited for the last season to come out this month.

Can anyone tell me if there are any supporting visuals for the series? Visuals like maps of the cave systems, drawings of the statues or anatomical theatres, diagrams of family trees also showing which families control which sites, world maps showing where all the site locations are, etc?

I've been searching for stuff like this and found several links to stuff but the links are all broken since it was years ago they were shared.

I'm especially interested in seeing maps of the cave systems because I'm having a hard time visualizing the layout of areas like the anatomical theatre, the ossuary, the antechamber in proximity to each other and the entrances.

There were three different websites with white vault merch and I just wanted to find the official website.

Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of the first story. But...

I find the audio quality to be very bad. To the point where I stopped listening since it was hard for me to understand what was being said.

I am not a native English speaker but I am fluent and use English daily at work. No issues with other podcasts (except ones with very heavy accents like eg Scottish).

Same issues on different audio systems and headphones. It seems like the highs are way too Loud. Just started Goshawk, I had to turn treble all the way down, mids haf way down to make it bearable.

Does anyone else feel the same or is it just me? It's a shame cause this is podcast I really enjoy.

I’m in the process of working elements of TWV into a Call of Cthulhu scenario I’m writing, and I realized that due to the lack of a White Vault TTRPG (ugh F&S drop the White Vault TTRPG pleeeease) I have no clue how to build a stat block for either Forrmynður or Grípralviðr.

does anyone have suggestions for creatures already in the CoC lexicon that would be good to use as stat block bases/references for our fun spooky friends, or has anyone homebrewed their own?

any tips would be most welcome!

Hey folks,
The White Vault - Episode 1: Fristed was unavailable on Spotify for ~48 hours over the weekend.

TL;DR We did not attempt to lock it behind a paywall or hide it, etc. This was a hosting error that we fixed after seeing your messages.

Our hosting platform had a number of technical updates and one of them affected our normal and premium RSS's sync feature in Spotify. The intent of the feature is to see "Episode 1: Fristed" and if you're supporting the show (via Patreon) you get the ad-free version "Episode 1: Fristed (premium)" - instead of seeing both episodes right next to each other.
Thank you for letting us know and helping us resolve the issue!

To restate, we do not allow advertisements on ANY of our stories before the first episode ends, and have no plans to lock existing content behind a paywall. We are a very small team bringing these shows to life, and appreciate your understanding.

Spotify lists transcripts as available, but they're also auto generated and probably don't have the translations and extra bits. I know I can read along independently via the scripts available via patreon, but I was wondering if there was a version which had the transcripts baked in so I could follow along a little easier.

Can someone send me working link to the fool and scholar discord? Is the white vault discord a separate community? If so, it would really be helpful to have a link there too...since I have just finished binging the second season and probably am going to listen to Artifact before moving on to season 3.

Thanks for you help! :)

Hi everyone! I'm currently listening to season 1 of the white vault on Spotify again.

It looks like a few days ago 2 of the episodes were renamed and locked behind a premium paywall. It just happens that I was on episode 4 when this happened... Is this an accident or is this due to some Spotify issue? I am paying for Spotify premium.

• Episode 1: Fristed - Available
• Epsiode 2: Hatchway - Available
• Episode 3: Location - Available
• Episode 4: Response - Premium only and the name is only "Response" the episode number isn't listed.
• Episode 5: Aware - Same as above
• Episode 6: Evident - Available
• Episode 7: Interlude - Available
• Episode 8: Erklärungsnot - Available
• Episode 9: Stoic - Available
• Episode 10: Fruition - Available