First News from the Background Committee Mitraspera e. V.’s background committee was developed based on the Mythodea Team’s many years of experience. We aim to learn from the positive as well as negative experiences from that time, and we see Mitraspera e. V. as an opportunity to improve on many things. However, the background committee in Mitraspera e. V. will perform tasks and duties that are quite different from the ones of the former Mythodea Team committee (“Gremium” in German). We are currently working on a code of practice on how we understand our future tasks and in which we will present those in a transparent manner. We hope to…

Mitraspera, a Labour of Love by Lena Weber I like to describe Mitraspera as a huge space full of colourful carpets. Every one of them is a story, a piece of art, a character – every little thing that this world consists of. Those carpets touch or even overlap sometimes. There are pathways, even whole town squares of carpets, but also little islands by themselves, somewhere in the room. There is also lots of blank space, where there are no carpets covering the bare flooring, and these spots are just waiting to be covered. Some of these carpets I, personally, like more than others. But all of them are precious.…

What Coming Home Feels Like by Daniel Simons Since I took my leave from the team of authors and game facilitators in 2018, my life has changed a lot. Now I am a father of two kids and LARPing only plays a tiny role in my life. But there is one thing I was missing sorely right away and this is where Mitraspera left a gaping hole in my heart: What I was missing wasn’t necessarily the creative work, the colourful stories and “our” opus. It was the fact that Mitraspera had always been such an awe-inspiring community project. It was the people who joined together every year to do…

Founding an Association – A Look at the Mechanics by Franziska Huber As I am writing these words, publication of the homepage of “Mitraspera e. V.” is 24 hours away. A hundred things are happening at the same time. Phone calls are being made, texts are being created, commented on, and proofread. It looks like we will actually be able to pull off a lot of the things we had set out to do, but it seems to be an impossible task at the same time. From the initial idea of the association to the point of launching the website and making it real, only a few weeks have passed.…