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15strangers2019-07-15 07:18 pm
strangerpeople) wrote in 15strangers2019-07-15 07:18 pm
WEEK 1
[The train wouldn't stop. Not until very early the next morning. The few who might have been awake would be able to exit the train, entering the cool twilight of the dawn. The star is dark, and few stars can be seen in the sky as a cold breeze begins to blow from the mountain beyond. You can see some chunks of rock floating idly nearby, far away from the station that it won't hit trains, but near enough that one can see they are larger than the train they just disembarked.
Lastly, laid out in front of them, the first port of call: Menahoven. The mountain: The Throat of the World.
But which world? Who knows. Not any of yours. Maybe it doesn't matter. Not when you are so far from home. Not when you have no way to get off this rock without the aid of the trains-and they will not let you pass.
It looks like you're stuck here until the Conductor decides to leave. In the meantime, everyone will need to get comfortable.
There are fifteen strangers left in this place.]
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[ it's the best way he can put it really. he looks back at the pyramid ]
But from what I've learned where we are from each have their own uniqueness to them.
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[But then, he's never had cause to.]
What's yours like?
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[ ... ]
The world is split into two Kingdoms. [ which he's assumes are like the countries Minato has been speaking of?] There's the royal Capital of each Kingdom, where the King lives, and then scattered around the two Kingdoms are villages. The villages each have their own government, but they still must adhere to the laws of the kingdom and obey the King himself.
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Both spanned over multiple continents, each taking over half of the world. There was only one location where neither Kingdom ruled.
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[It's hard to imagine nations that large, without being empires. That is, without being smaller countries that answer to the same greater one. But then, with how villages were described, maybe that is the case.]
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[Wait a second.]
Where it "was"?
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War and Magitechnology consumed massive amounts of the world's energy. After a thousand years a peace treaty ended the war but ... the tree that was the source had already withered.
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[That sounds. Well, that's the closest he can come up with.]
Seems....stupid, for two countries to be at war, when they're the only two countries.
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It all happened because of the development of magitechnology and human's lust for power. During the war they used powerful weapons which only hurt the source of mana further.
That's why ... we had to put an end to it. Even if it was too late for the tree.
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[A dying world. Too familiar. Minato is silent for a long moment, jaw clenched. He knows too well the reasons people call to Nyx.]
I'm sorry.
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It's alright. It was a thousand years of human selfishness that caused it.
[ He says it's alright but there's a small edge to his tone. ]
If it helps ... the two countries had been split into two separate worlds to try to keep the remaining mana in balance until we, hopefully, revive the tree so it can generate mana again.
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That's....,.. can be fixed eventually, at least. Not too late.
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[ dislikes: humans ]
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[He doesn't want to say what part of him thinks.]
Said it's a tree? And Mithos Yggdrasil is planting it....
Interesting coincidence. Old myths from part of my world tell of a giant tree holding nine worlds together. Called it Yggdrasil, the World Tree.
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Do you ... know anymore about those old myths?
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[ he doesn't believe it to be more than a coincidence but he's... still curious. he didn't expect to hear his last name being in some myth from someone else's world? ]
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[Well, alright, let's??? Maybe go find somewhere to sit??? And get some tea or something.]
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[ he doesn't want minato to struggle explaining it. but yes finding a place to sit sounds like a really good idea now. lead the way minato ]
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Alright.... Norse Mythology envisioned their cosmology as nine worlds. All of them connected to Yggdrasil. An ash tree. Nine worlds are divided roughly into three levels. Probably easiest to call them heaven, earth, and the underworld.
Heaven, where the trunk and branches of the tree are, is where Asgard, Vanaheim, and Alfheim are. Alfheim is home to the light elves. Asgard is the land of the Aesir, the most important and best-known Norse gods. Vanaheim is the land of the Vanir, other gods. Fewer stories about them, kind of got the idea the Aesir were more glorious and warlike, while the Vanir were more peaceful and artistic Also an eagle in the branches of Yggdrasil.
Upper roots of Yggdrasil hold earth. Much of it is Midgard, the world of humans. Connects to Asgard via Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, which is guarded by one of the Aesir - Heimdall. Midgard is circled by Jormungandr, the world serpent, who bites his own tail. Also part of earth is Jotunheim, world of the frost giants or Jotuns, longtime enemies of the Aesir. Mimir's Well, where one of Yggdrasil's roots ends, is in Jotunheim. Underground in earth are Svartalfheim, home to the dark elves, and Nidavellir, realm of the dwarves.
Underworld is half Muspelheim, an inhospitable world of fire. Other half is a slightly less inhospitable world of ice, Niflheim. Houses Hel, world of the dead, and the Niddhogg, a demon dragon thing, gnawing on one of Yggdrasil's roots. Supposed to brak through it at Ragnarok, the end of the world. Niddhogg and the eagle in the branches exchange insults, delivered up and down Yggdrasil by Ratatosk the squirrel.
Muspelheim and Niflheim are the oldest worlds. Everything else was built out from the primordial void between them called Ginnungagap.
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After Minato is done speaking Mithos is quiet for a moment. Okay, deep breath first. ]
I ... recognized a few of the names you had said. Although who, or what, they are in Norse differs a bit to what they are on my world.
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If you'd like, I could explain to you the differences thus far. Or I could wait until you are finished before doing so.
[ Minato is giving up his time to tell him all this the least he can do it offer Minato information back. ]
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[It's difficult to just....tell a whole mythology. Easier to take it piecemeal.]
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Many of what you had said are villages. Asgard is one. Another one is ... Heimdall, so rather than a God it's the Elven Village.
Niflheim I suppose is kind of similar in my world. At the very least, it is the Underworld , also known as the demon's world.
The Ginnungagap is a gap between the world and Niflheim. It's also where Ratatosk lives. Ratatosk... [ he has to pause here because really imagining Ratatosk as a Squirrel is amusing to him. but anyways-- ] isn't a squirrel. Rather he's the Guardian of the Ginnugagap as well as the guardian of the World Tree.
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Besides the names I don't recognize, Heimdall seems to be the biggest difference...
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