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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Can someone more up on the Deep Lore of the thread explain *why* Gotland is like this? What's the backstory, what happened to it? It feels like the old English Avalon in the way it's currently portrayed.
 
[X] Thank you for everything You did for me. For encouraging me even when it was abnormal. For teaching me even when it was frowned on. Without you there would be no Halla Sunshine, no Skyfire, Owl-Eyes, Longstride or any that is to come - not if there was not first Halla Steinnardotter. I will always walk knowing you taught me to. Find joy in Valhalla, and I shall see you when fate decrees, with tales to tell.

[X] You were the best father any child could have asked for. I will try my best to honor your legacy and live a long and happy life, like you would have wanted. Rest well, we'll meet again when fate wills it.
-[X] If any of the other children want to say anything, now's the time.

These changes both seem like fine additions, yeah.

Doordox said:
Can someone more up on the Deep Lore of the thread explain *why* Gotland is like this? What's the backstory, what happened to it? It feels like the old English Avalon in the way it's currently portrayed.
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Gotland got sunk by the battle with 9 Steelfathers that killed Hallr Blackhand. In this world, islands that are sunk will return eventually...but not this quickly. The Norns are messing with linear time a bit to give us this opportunity.
 
[X] You were the best father any child could have asked for. Rest well, we'll meet again when fate wills it.
-[X] If any of the other children want to say anything, now's the time.
 
[X] Thank you for everything You did for me. For encouraging me even when it was abnormal. For teaching me even when it was frowned on. Without you there would be no Halla Sunshine, no Skyfire, Owl-Eyes, Longstride or any that is to come - not if there was not first Halla Steinnardotter. I will always walk knowing you taught me to. Find joy in Valhalla, and I shall see you when fate decrees, with tales to tell.

[X] You were the best father any child could have asked for. I will try my best to honor your legacy and live a long and happy life, like you would have wanted. Rest well, we'll meet again when fate wills it.
-[X] If any of the other children want to say anything, now's the time.
 
I wonder if this will, somehow, qualify us for the Gotland Style that IF said our father qualified for but never learned. We have now walked Gotland and felt the resonance of its beauty in our bones, in our soul.
 
[X] Thank you for everything You did for me. For encouraging me even when it was abnormal. For teaching me even when it was frowned on. Without you there would be no Halla Sunshine, no Skyfire, Owl-Eyes, Longstride or any that is to come - not if there was not first Halla Steinnardotter. I will always walk knowing you taught me to. Find joy in Valhalla, and I shall see you when fate decrees, with tales to tell.

[X] You were the best father any child could have asked for. I will try my best to honor your legacy and live a long and happy life, like you would have wanted. Rest well, we'll meet again when fate wills it.
-[X] If any of the other children want to say anything, now's the time.
 
[X] Thank you for everything You did for me. For encouraging me even when it was abnormal. For teaching me even when it was frowned on. Without you there would be no Halla Sunshine, no Skyfire, Owl-Eyes, Longstride or any that is to come - not if there was not first Halla Steinnardotter. I will always walk knowing you taught me to. Find joy in Valhalla, and I shall see you when fate decrees, with tales to tell.

[X] You were the best father any child could have asked for. I will try my best to honor your legacy and live a long and happy life, like you would have wanted. Rest well, we'll meet again when fate wills it.
-[X] If any of the other children want to say anything, now's the time.
 
[X] Thank you for everything You did for me. For encouraging me even when it was abnormal. For teaching me even when it was frowned on. Without you there would be no Halla Sunshine, no Skyfire, Owl-Eyes, Longstride or any that is to come - not if there was not first Halla Steinnardotter. I will always walk knowing you taught me to. Find joy in Valhalla, and I shall see you when fate decrees, with tales to tell.
 
[X] Thank you for everything You did for me. For encouraging me even when it was abnormal. For teaching me even when it was frowned on. Without you there would be no Halla Sunshine, no Skyfire, Owl-Eyes, Longstride or any that is to come - not if there was not first Halla Steinnardotter. I will always walk knowing you taught me to. Find joy in Valhalla, and I shall see you when fate decrees, with tales to tell.
 
alexthealright said:
I'm assuming that things function about the same as they do IRL unless magic gets involved.

The other way invites madness
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Your way probably involves more madness, since this seems to be a setting where magic is in everything and everyone has their own cultural magics and myths that are all true somehow. Probably best to just not think too hard on the magic.
 
KittyEmpress said:
Your way probably involves more madness, since this seems to be a setting where magic is in everything and everyone has their own cultural magics and myths that are all true somehow. Probably best to just not think too hard on the magic.
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How does a Steam engine (or anything else with a lot moving part) work in a setting where the laws of physics change based on what time zone you're in!

Edit: And there obviously has to be some bedrock laws of reality otherwise nobody would have systems that look anything close to do in the story.

Edit 2: Blackhand knew what atoms were which the Norse most definitely didn't implying that physical laws are not based what the local dominant culture believes.
 
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KittyEmpress said:
Your way probably involves more madness, since this seems to be a setting where magic is in everything and everyone has their own cultural magics and myths that are all true somehow. Probably best to just not think too hard on the magic.
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I mean, the world must have worked some way before there were people to have a culture. I think all evidence is that, in the absence of human culture, it works like in real life...that changes as soon as people with a culture get involved and their mythologies and cultural beliefs can retroactively change things to some degree, but there does have to be a base state.
 
X] You were the best father any child could have asked for. Rest well, we'll meet again when fate wills it.
-[X] If any of the other children want to say anything, now's the time.
 
[X] Thank you for everything You did for me. For encouraging me even when it was abnormal. For teaching me even when it was frowned on. Without you there would be no Halla Sunshine, no Skyfire, Owl-Eyes, Longstride or any that is to come - not if there was not first Halla Steinnardotter. I will always walk knowing you taught me to. Find joy in Valhalla, and I shall see you when fate decrees, with tales to tell.

[X] You were the best father any child could have asked for. I will try my best to honor your legacy and live a long and happy life, like you would have wanted. Rest well, we'll meet again when fate wills it.
-[X] If any of the other children want to say anything, now's the time.

I have several questions though most of them boil down to huh???
 
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