Brian Thom

@b-thom.bsky.social

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Anthropology professor at UVic (University of Victoria), Cordova Bay, Saanich, Vancouver Island. Does not play enough D&D.

Two people looking up at a GIANT Google Earth screen at Google HQ, with the blue globe of the entire earth centred, and the "Google" name in large letters on a wooden stand for the screen.
Photo of op-ed published in the Saturday newspaper.
Front page, top fold of Vancouver Sun, 14 Aug 2025
A map highlighting demarcated Cowichan Title Lands of the Cowichan Nation communities on Vancouver Island and the Musqueam, Tsawwassen, and Squamish communities near Vancouver.
Coast Salish totem pole in front of BC Legislature.
Queen Victoria's bronze statue reigns above the BC Legislature.
The original flag of the colony of Vancouver Island flying in Victoria Harbour on Canada Day
Professor Brian Thom standing in front of 20' long 6' tall map of Treaty Relations in the Salish Sea
Minister Diana Gibson and Professor Brian Thom in MLAs office, Canadian and BC flags behind them.
Photo of the 2024 DMG open to the Greyhawk and Environs Map on the left, with The inaugural Age of Worms issue of Dungeon Magazine (giant green worms bursting through the earth in front of deft adventurers entering the Whispering Cairn) on the right
2024 Dungeon Master's Guide beside a freshly drawn espresso allongé in a beautiful handle-less pottery mug by potter Mary Fox.