mythology

The world below was dark and dreary, a place where the shades of those who no longer live, resided not by their own will but by being held here without any chances of escape or freedom. Perhaps one could say that there was certain beauty even in existence such as this, for here mixed the...

Gods Are Fickle Things. You are a child of Kronos, King of the Titans, and Rhea, Mother of the Gods. But your birth does not bring celebration, nor is it met with joy. Instead, an air of tension hangs heavy in the grand halls of Mount Othrys. Whispers of fear coil through the shadows. Your...

Saga Brjóts Bauga (Warhammer Fantasy Norscan Chieftain Quest) "Say what you will of us, call us heathens because we deny your weak pretender-god. Call us savages because we strike at you but know this -- it is we who are closest to the Ruinous Powers. WE servants of the gods most high, shall...

People shouted and screamed as lights danced across the black stage, shifting in a myriad of colors—red, blue, green, yellow, and purple—blurring seamlessly over the exuberant crowd. Tanya, arms crossed and crimson hair falling loosely into her eyes, watched the spectacle. In her opinion, this...

Prologue: The Guardians at the Lair A piercing cry, reminiscent of a dragon’s roar, shattered the gloom of the throne room, filled with heart-wrenching despair. Beregon jerked awake upon his orichalcum throne, wondering what had disturbed his slumber. Yawning loudly enough to shake a mountain...

Because I'm the one who gets stuck with the serial killer, aren't I? …Okay, guess I should back up. Long story short, short-ish anyway, I go by Vera Norin, well down here I do. I'm one of the three owners, okay, one of the only three employees of Wyrd Sisters Inc in Stockholm. Says a lot that...

1: Leaving Creation For the second time since my creation, I fell. I fell away, leaving all light and sound behind. Everything became stripped away in my descent. Every sense vanished one by one: sight, hearing, touch. Even the foul taste of ash that I had been forced to endure during the...

This is a fanquest Riot Quest based on NorseQuest Collective Edition and its precursor NorseQuest and the ongoing NorseQuest: Outlaw, all of them written and run by @I.F. Ister and with their permission, possibly set within the same setting. It involves a similar premise and mechanics to NQCE...

To be outlawed in Norse society is a terrible, terrible thing. To the Norse, being a person means being subject to the Law—that all-encompassing set of rules and regulations that governs the lives of all beholden to it. If you are not subject to the Law, you are not a person. Anyone, king or...

I've been getting back into sketching again, and with enough of my art now on SV getting thankfully more likes than I anticipated, I thought it was about time it got its own thread. While I'll be using this thread to compile my art that I've posted elsewhere on SV, I'd like to start off with a...

Gotland is dead, destroyed in the fighting between your once-ruler, Hallr Blackhand, and his foes the Jomsvikings. You, however, have managed to escape with your lives—though your livelihoods have fallen to the wayside in the rush to escape. After leaving the island, the refugee fleet...

The Year Is XX,XXX Common Era. Humanity is dying. Dying IS the right word although you'd be forgiven for not thinking it. Humanity seemingly has an indefinite life span. Humans are spread throughout the entire universe. However, as a result of Evolution, I guess, we Humans find out, no one can...

The Mid-Realms A D&D 3.5/Arcana Unearthed campaign Inspirations: Arcana Unearthed/Northern and Eastern European Mythology/Dungeon Meshi/Vintage Story/Midgard The Old World and the Old Gods perished in the fires of the Götterdämmerung. Time, and the efforts of the Elder races, would see a new...

Intro and TOC +++ +++ +++ +++ . +++ +++ . +++ +++ +++ +++ Author Note; Hello, and thank you for your interest in this thread. Oh and this thread will have at least one chapter posted every Friday at ~9:30 pm EST on the QQ, SB, and SV forums. At least that's the goal for as long as I can...

May 2009 Taylor had spent a good portion of the last two weeks crying. Her mother had been killed while walking down the street by some drunk driver. She never felt a thing; the impact had severed her spinal cord between the second and third cervical vertebrae, making her death pretty...

As the bus hired by the Royal London College pulled up to the Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre, the history students aboard were, surprisingly, uninterested in learning about the supposed location of the Round Table, the table at which King Arthur's band of legendary knights convened over matters of...

She had done it. It was not an easy task, nor was it without sacrifice, but finally a monster was dead. Unfortunately, Khepri found herself in a unfortunate situation. For now, it was her own time to die. As all heroes must do and embrace their blackest yet unavoidable fate. The woman...

This is going to be a viking quest where your character goes around raiding and pillaging places so he can get loot and gain prestige to grow stronger. He will be something of a villain protagonist or at least morally grey because people are complex and I'm aiming for the Norse in this quest to...

You are [Redacted], and you can say with 100% certainty that 2020 is the Year of the Apocalypse. Why? Because the "Real World" and the "World of Fiction" have crossed over, and you are seeing the consequences first hand. Companies try to get a hold of "their creations", nations accuse one...

Story proper starts at scutwork 1.1 Before is just votes. Though I would recommend reading Setting The Stage. Updates whenever I can get my brain to let me write. Go to the first thread mark if you wish to skip the first iteration of the quest. The original attempt will be left up un-threadmarked.

You stumble out of the hospital. Told Dad you were going to the vending machine and left him holding your mum's skeletal hand. No idea where you're going. That describes your whole life since your mother's diagnosis of spinal cancer. Incurable. Death in less than a year. But Dad believes in...

Assault stood at the stairwell of the third floor of Winslow High, observing the devastated hallway. He would have said a bomb had gone off, like the initial report had said, but the lack of any kind of scorching or carbonization belayed that. PRT officers were carefully securing the scene...

I, Billy Batson, since the time I have woken up some hours ago, had undergone some serious life changing phases. Quite literally, if I had any say about it. Firstly, I woke up an amnesic. With no clue on who I was, it was even with luck, and a spurt of memory that I clued in my name. Then...

So recently there was a post(On aternatehistory.com) about "What if every mythology was real" and as many have pointed out this sort of situation would be extremely difficult to predict and it will create various redundancies and overlaps. So I thought "Why don't we restrict this to a single...

It's a lycanthropy-centric story, based on Wednesday Netflix series and Addams Family movies. This Enid Sinclair is getting disillusioned and somewhat sociopathic, so it has OOC. This is going to be focused at first on lycan packs, outcasts, detective shenanigans and some good old action. It...