User summary: Erebus is a setting developed especially for Blur: The Hand is Quicker than the Die. It is built around the these of action and intrigue. Set in a Victorian, steampunkish world, magicians, gunslingers, lycanthropes, and politicians all share the area as they view for power. Excerpts from the Journal of Natural Philosophy is an HTML document that mimics a periodical of a scientific body. The document presents three main topics: a philosophical explanation of magic, an examination of shapeshifters, and an interview with a member of a secretive organization of warrior-monks.