- Pronouns
- He
@Imperial Fister
Hey Blackhand, have you ever heard about the Rheingold and if so what do you know about it?
Hey Blackhand, have you ever heard about the Rheingold and if so what do you know about it?
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
- Start date
- Original Fantasy Action
-
- Tags
- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings
[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.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
- Pronouns
- He/They
'I have no idea what you're talking about.'
[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.
- Pronouns
- He
Oh wait, the Rheingold is from Wagners operas, not the orginal myth. My fault.
Blackhand, have does the name Andvaranaut ring a bell? I am mostly just wondering what happened with Fanfirs gold.
[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
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
[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.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
[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.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
[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.
I like this. It's about as minimally badass as something Halla might actually say could plausibly be, and that's a good thing here in my opinion.
I like this. It's about as minimally badass as something Halla might actually say could plausibly be, and that's a good thing here in my opinion.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
So when humanity arrived, the land had like, a 'lock in' to when humans were present? So first the land has to go back to 'normal' and then only after that you can have continental drift and such?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Does a steam engine work in this setting?
Alternatively, maybe a steam engine works in some places, but not in others, same as how Norsemen can stick their severed limbs back on and reattach them and most other folks can't.
Matter can be made of atoms, in the sense of "there are tiniest indivisible parts of matter," without physics working the way we expect.
We have reason to think there were intelligent species before humanity.
It's entirely possible that the world we know was genuinely created by something that also created the first races to populate it. The base state may well have already been colored by people's expectations.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
It kinda seems like when something is made (by humans?), that something has 'cultural inertia' imbued in it, allowing it to function regardless of the prevailing culture it's in. So if the culture believes that they can make steam engines, then they make one, and the steam engine subsequently operates on the 'Steam engines work' paradigm.
Otherwise stuff like Born in Fire or even Fated Days would stop working when you left the Norselands.
There are loads of pretty smart animals, honestly. It could be that humans in this setting are uniquely special with their ability (or perhaps degree of their ability) to impose culture, however.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
From what IF has said, yeah, a steam engine would work...I don't think there's ever been a culture that strongly disbelieved in them, after all, and things really do seem to work in a pretty expected way to us from the real world absent cultural factors changing them.
There was also some discussion of magnetism,IIRC. It strongly indicated that physics were familiar if you ignored magic.
There's a reason I said 'people' rather than 'humans'...and this is technically possible, but if so, based on the world we've seen, their initial expectations were pretty in line with those of the real world, including things like physics.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I can think of ways for magnetism to work recognizably on the level of "compasses are a thing and lodestones attract ferrous metals" without physics on the level of "relativity and quantum mechanics" being recognizable.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
[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.
/*************/
Other possibility: it could be that there would be some sort of "industrial revolution" cultivation that would make the steam engines go. I mean, when they work via scientific principles that not everyone understands, and you need to have a trained professional to operate the things....
/*************/
Other possibility: it could be that there would be some sort of "industrial revolution" cultivation that would make the steam engines go. I mean, when they work via scientific principles that not everyone understands, and you need to have a trained professional to operate the things....
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
It's also entirely plausible that the 'pre-human' nature of the setting doesn't have, say, quantum mechanics and special relativity. In addition to cultural beliefs. Maybe gravity functions instantaneously instead of propagating. Maybe light moves instantly, and there is no speed of light to be concerned about. Maybe light is strictly a wave or a particle, none of this duality nonsense.
One could see, simply by examining what seems to be a Nornir-provided glimpse at post/pre-human Gotland (but that's already tainted, we've just arrived and are imposing cultural inertia on it, and Absalom is already here).
Also, given that cultural beliefs are a part of reality in this setting, researching culture-reality interactions will likely be a real science in this world, if the inherent stagnancy of culture-reality imposition doesn't preclude the development of sciences.
(I mean, if you can demonstrably prove something then.. well, it's proven, you know?)
One could see, simply by examining what seems to be a Nornir-provided glimpse at post/pre-human Gotland (but that's already tainted, we've just arrived and are imposing cultural inertia on it, and Absalom is already here).
Also, given that cultural beliefs are a part of reality in this setting, researching culture-reality interactions will likely be a real science in this world, if the inherent stagnancy of culture-reality imposition doesn't preclude the development of sciences.
(I mean, if you can demonstrably prove something then.. well, it's proven, you know?)
Last edited:
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Specifically, Blackhand remembered the word 'magnetosphere'. This is the quote:
That's, I think, indicative of a somewhat more advanced understanding of magnetics.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Hey Halla,
This Gotland you're seeing now, is, alive, like, fully alive like the Hading? Or is it like half-alive, like Wessex, or even possibly, more 'alive' than the Hading?
Are there any spirits around you could recruit?
Would it be.. wrong or otherwise feel incorrect/inproper for you to take some of Gotland's soil (or plants) back home, or even to leave behind in your Soulscape?
Hey Abjorn,
You remember the Aspect-sharing experiment, did you feel anything weird when I stoked your Aspects?
Do Fylgjur smell like the animal they resemble, or like the person? Did my Owl Fylgja smell like me, or like, well, an owl?
(@Imperial Fister)
This Gotland you're seeing now, is, alive, like, fully alive like the Hading? Or is it like half-alive, like Wessex, or even possibly, more 'alive' than the Hading?
Are there any spirits around you could recruit?
Would it be.. wrong or otherwise feel incorrect/inproper for you to take some of Gotland's soil (or plants) back home, or even to leave behind in your Soulscape?
Hey Abjorn,
You remember the Aspect-sharing experiment, did you feel anything weird when I stoked your Aspects?
Do Fylgjur smell like the animal they resemble, or like the person? Did my Owl Fylgja smell like me, or like, well, an owl?
(@Imperial Fister)
Last edited:
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
It indicates understanding that somewhere up or out there, there's a sphere that is in some way, shape, or form "magnetized."
Believe me, I could bullshit up something that doesn't run on physics as we understand it at the deep level, but which still matches that description.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Sure, but every other thing we know about the world also supports it working how ours does for the most part except when magic gets involved. It's not impossible for all that to be wrong, but it's sure unlikely given what we've seen, and everything IF has ever said on the subject supports reality having a base state which culture and cultivation then effects.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Imagine going to NQ and explaining IRL science in Norse terms.
"The Northern Lights? What happens is that Sun-Spirits come sailing on the Star-Winds, coming to raid Midgard for air and water. The brilliant lights in the sky you see are their blood left from their great battles against Midgard's guardian spirits of thunder, lightning, wind and all."
"Oh, by guardian spirits, you mean Thor's Einhenjar, the Thorshird?"
"..Yeah. That's what I mean."
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
- Pronouns
- He/They
Gotland isn't ready yet. What that means, you don't know, but it feels correct.
No
classic hero moment
no
people smell like their fylgja
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
So Gotland is like, recovering after being killed.
...
We should do this so we have something of Gotland to remember by.
Hey Blackhand,
Do you think taking some of Gotland's earth or plants with me would be a bad idea?
By the way.. you know when Sten talked about Asveig taking down a host of grown men with no evidence left behind.. did that sound more like Seidr, Fylgja, Odr stuff or a more regular 'she killed them all normally' to you?
///
On that note.
Blackhand/Halla:
Are people with Yellow-Colored Eyes, like Drysalt or Lidrun, something that's basically unheard of, or something that's actually fairly common?
(IRL: Yellow Eyes = Jaundice, you're probably walking dead.)
Last edited:
Hmmm....
You know, that could be interesting method for resource management.
..oh, my.... That would definitely be a great resource management if it could be harnessed.
Would piss off all the spirits of the land if implemented though.
It just wants 5 more minutes!
