Talk:Myth
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Aditional races?
Just some thoughts to enrich the countryside...
The Mer - similar to Glauca in that they love the sea, the Mer do not possess gills though they can hold their breath underwater for close to twenty minutes. They have large eyes with secondary eyelids for protection underwater, small petite bodies and webs between fingers and toes. They live by the sea, usually in 'cities' built into seaside cliffs. Sometimes considered to be the result of interbreeding between Glauca and the Fian. Of all the races the Mer are the fewest in number.
LilaenaDeVille-2830 05:17, 9 June 2007 (EDT)
Nice. I was also going to chip in a description for the creator race, and maybe some kind of troll/orc style creature. The original idea was that they would be called the Jotund, and that in human mythology they were thought to be the bone-collectors sent to the mortal world to retrieve the dead who died dishonorably in battle. I figure they either live in the mountains or in underground regions, maybe deeper down than the Trow.
--DasquianBelargic-2879 08:18, 9 June 2007 (EDT)
The Realms of Men
It is typical to divide the men into north/south/east/west, with the corresponding racial differences, culture, and climate.
This is sort of 'normal' and 'typical' and I think we want to be 'original' more, right? But you can't escape the awesomeness of a freezing, barren North with norse-like men. So Dalriada is the largest kingdom in Midgard on the central continent. Other continents could contain other 'races' of men. Though we shouldn't diversify so much right away, I think. Biting off too much will kill it before it begins. Maybe establish there are other countries with other types of Men, and just restrict the RPing to Dalriada and its continent.
I think we should make Midgard a flat world as well, round worlds are so... blaise.
I was definitely thinking of restricting everything to Asga, the continent Dalriada is on - and yes, the world is flat. No one knows what lies at the edge of the world, and if there are islands beyond Asga people don't venture that far, etc. Kale made the suggestion of having a warrior-scholar Arab inspired colony of Men, who practiced some kind of magic. I love the norse-like men. I was originally thinking that the Men themselves would have a kind of Norse/Finnish hybrid for their mythology... I like their ideas on the origin and structure of the world.
--DasquianBelargic-2879 08:16, 9 June 2007 (EDT)
Oh my God, I love their mythology as well. This gives me the idea of an almost mythical bird-like race of beings that live on the rocks at the edge of the world. Raven-like, if you will... maybe shapeshifters? They're responsible for gathering the souls of the dead and taking them beyond the edge of the world to the afterlife, and appear sort of like Banshee's before someone's death.
Islands beyond the continent are cool, and I like Kale's idea as well. So the main stock of men from the main kingdom is Norse/Finnish inspired, and in the south we have the Arab inspired magicians, etc... perhaps in the high North the people are more Viking, and in the central part of the continent it is more temperate, farmland. In the West could be the seaside cliffs and the Mer, as well as port cities and the Glauca trading posts. East could be high desert, largely unexplored and no one knows whats on the other side. ;)
LilaenaDeVille-2830 12:45, 9 June 2007 (EDT)
