mythology

A Word To The Wise; People like to think they’re special, they like to strive to be at the top, to be the best like no one ever was. Every kid dreams of being superheroes, princesses, knights, fairies, kings & queens, you want my advice? Don’t; being truly special is liable to get you and your...

The first rays of the sun rouse you rudely from your slumber. Jormy’s huge snout nudging you in the ribs insistently doesn’t exactly help. Sleepily you open one golden eye to regard your big brother with extreme disdain for aiding the detestable sun in its mission to ruin your morning. “Get up...

EPIC A Quest of Modern Mythology Whenever anyone asks you what your first memory is, you always lie. The exact lie varies depending on your mood and who you are talking to, but after your fourth trip to a child psychologist, you learned to stop telling people the real answer. They never...

You are awake before the sun even rises, so excited you can barely lay still in your bed. It is too important a day for sleeping late, too thrilling a morning to waste it with inaction. However, your aunts and uncles are still asleep in the lodge, so you contain your excitement. Your eyes...

...what. What. I, just, who, can't even, why? Who thought this was a good idea? Get outta here. Why not let Kratos stay dead after having driven the world to ruins? Why not let the ambiguous hopeful(?) ending stands on its own? Why the Norse pantheon? Why half naked in winter? Why...

The Numinous Realms In the darkness, before shapes, and light, and music, and color, there was a mountain. It was. Its dimensions were without beginning or end. It stretched beyond all limits of vision, dazzled beyond all the vagaries of the senses; its breadth without ambit, its heights...

In Mythos gods are not nice people especially to one another. Pantheons have a history of changing leadership. So a group of gods have plotted a revolt against the current ruler of their pantheon. Let's say through some cosmic anomaly you have managed to usurp the head of a polytheistic...

Hekla stands tall above the countryside, traces of smoke pouring out of its crater. Iceland's most active volcano is not a place most approach without good reason. And it is not a place most can even attempt to approach, as within is the headquarters of AESIR, AESIR-00, known informally as The...

The year 2000 was greeted with such hope by humanity. A new millennium of reason and understanding. Peace in our time. But it was not to be. No one knows, or at least no one tells of how the endless winter began. Climatologists, who had so long warned of the perils of global warming, were as...

Being staff means I get to use these sweet boxes to draw the eye. This isn't intended to be a spoiler thread, but but please be aware that there may be unmarked spoilers for relatively recent vampire fiction in this post and in the thread generally. I don't know about you but I love vampires...

Uki wondered if she would ever get used to the Shil. It wasn't the landscape that bothered her; the rolling plains and grasslands weren't so different from the endless snowy tundras of her homeland. You could see for miles around from atop the slightest hill, and standing on the occasional...

The Magi's Star is a suborbital flying platform that rests upon the natural currents of Telesma that propagate in the upper atmosphere. It is massive; eyeballe estimates place it around the size of London. Investigation with more detailed instruments puts it at around 786 square miles. It is...

To be more precise it what role could they play there, and how will the power they bring in make changes in the respective verses (comic books' tendency for reboots and Status Quo maintaining notwithstanding). Heroes in the mold of the examples presented can wield energy/magic weapons, the...

A bright light streaks across darkness. A crack of thunder booms in the void. Fire burns in your throat. The void sits heavy in your stomach. Light comes to the world, too blue, too cold. You see a figure in the distance. They are you, but not. Something is wrong. Is it the light? Their...

In response, Prometheus, snuck to the top of Mount Olympus, lit a torch from the sun, and hid a burning piece of charcoal in a hollow stalk. He slipped away with it and thus delivered fire to all mankind. - The Fall of Prometheus It is said that Prometheus brought mankind literal fire but we...

This is a thread for the discussion, complaining, bragging, planning and all things related to Smite, the 3rd Person God Fight Simulator MOBA. Lets start with your favorite gods! Ra for the beam-spam build. Hel for my Healer of choice. And Fenrir, because top hats.

What are some erroneous ideas about what the present day is like that you could see becoming common pop history ideas in the future? ------ Thread inspired by this post on SB, where I got into the minds of people looking at present day people with the same kind of horrified pity we tend to...

Scraped from here. Introductions are in Order Your name is Ravana. You don't have a last name, slum-dwellers don't get those on Za-Vant. A last name meant you were, somehow, people. Maybe kinda shit people, maybe not very important people, maybe rather oppressed people, but people with last...