Oddny's Saga - a Shield-Maiden quest in the style of Icelandic family sagas
- Thread starter Gargulec
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- female protagonist
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- Brittany, France
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- He/Him
[X] Odd/ny let go of the grudge towards Eirik.
This probably will be of little benefit in the end, but there is worth in the trying.
I am not actually super-interested in turning Odd/ny into the exact same caricature of hyper-toxic masculinity as literally every other Saga protagonist, emulating their exact vices and mistakes leading up to the same violent and pitiful end.
If I wanted that, I could just read "literally any actual historical saga," most of them are probably online somewhere
This probably will be of little benefit in the end, but there is worth in the trying.
I am not actually super-interested in turning Odd/ny into the exact same caricature of hyper-toxic masculinity as literally every other Saga protagonist, emulating their exact vices and mistakes leading up to the same violent and pitiful end.
If I wanted that, I could just read "literally any actual historical saga," most of them are probably online somewhere
- Location
- Volksstaat Hessen, Deutsches Reich
Well, the problem is that for Odd/ny specifically, toxic hypermasculinity is not a virtue, but may be a necessity for social survival, given their little predicament...
You're not... really... selling this option to me, you know
I can believe that, but it may be because you're thinking in terms of the "best" option here.
Ultimately, if we choose the "sensible" options, we're probably going to have a pretty mediocre saga. Norse sagas are not the kind of stories where you befriend everyone, choose the "optimal path", then retire to your estate at thirty five to rationally improve your farming techniques and invent gunpowder. This makes them very unsuited to SVers' usual tendencies.
Norse sagas are about blood feuds which cut through families like shrapnel, the inevitability of death and the cold, and the way that true wo/men show themselves not by overcoming fate, but in how they refuse to be cowed by it.
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[X] Odd/ny let go of the grudge towards Eirik.
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[x] Odd/ny let go of the grudge towards Eirik.
Me: "The spirit of the sagas is one of striving against inevitability, of the reality of life in a world defined by violence, of man's inability to-"
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The spirit of most sagas is of young men being stupid testosterone factories until they and many people around them die of axe poisoning. Odd/ny is not stupid (so far), so we decided not to do that. 
- Location
- Volksstaat Hessen, Deutsches Reich
It's only stupid if she dies prematurely due to that. But in that case, she wouldn't have a Saga, now would she?
The spirit of most sagas is of young men being stupid testosterone factories until they and many people around them die of axe poisoning. Odd/ny is not stupid (so far), so we decided not to do that.
This is inaccurate!
A lot of the brutal, unrepentant murderers in the sagas are middle-aged or elderly!
[X] Odd/ny let go of the grudge towards Eirik.
[X] Odd/ny held onto the grudge towards Eirik.