Question: Let's talk about Pan. The Scion books treat him as a Titan-allied antagonist. What do you guys think about that? Is being picked on and made fun of for being ugly enough to send a god over to the dark side?
Question: Have you ever considered making Nanna a playable goddess?
We now have a YouTube channel (yay!) to try to keep all these organized in one place. One day we're going to learn this internet thing.
Edit: And here're Pan and Aphrodite again!
Fun vlog this time around. Even if you think it was somehow lacking, it addresses what goes into selecting a god which is always good stuff!
ReplyDeleteJohn is really looking haunted in this video, like he is hopped up on caffeine :D
I guarantee he was.
DeleteIf he's awake and coherent, he usually is.
DeleteI love lamp.
ReplyDeleteLaughed out loud at the office.
DeleteHmm, have y'all considered using a camcorder instead of a webcam? Then you might not have to scrunch so much and still have John half out of the frame. Plus, you could get different backgrounds and move around a bit more. Get a little throne to pronounce things from atop. Etc.
ReplyDeleteHmm, at the moment we don't own a non-computer-related camera, but it definitely might be something to look into.
DeletePoor John. He's almost too big to be the only one in a webcam frame, let alone trying to share it with me.
Look at Iolaos in Hercules' sheet (Scion: God). At 6am, it was enough to make my crew laugh. Perhaps Nanna should have the same consideration.
ReplyDeleteEach video is better than the last ! : )
Ahaha, not even a Follower but a Relic, and only one dot. So harsh.
DeleteAlthough that character sheet also seems to be suggesting that Pegasus is nicknamed Iolaus? Is that even funnier?
Yeah it's either a Creature or a Relic. ^^
DeleteI think the major thing that I got out of this was that Dodekatheon is pronounced 'Do-de-KA-thee-on' and not 'Do-de-ka-THEY-on.'
ReplyDeleteI asked the Nanna question because of how important she is to the fiction on the site. I love the Norse Goddesses because they are a refreshing change to their Viking Warrior husbands (which is the entire Aesir except Loki) but unfortunately their culture seems like it was a culture that had very little need for weak, puny women.
Or at least weak, puny women in major roles that are not securely overshadowed by their big strong manly husbands.
I think your pronunciation is probably at least equally valid - it's not an area I thought to ask actual Greek people about, sadly. My linguistic gut says you're probably more right than I am.
DeleteNanna is indeed very important to the fiction, but just as we noted above, that's because she's attached to Baldur - if Geoff weren't Baldur's son and Aurora Baldur's sister, they probably never would have interacted with her nearly as much. Alas, on her own she is one of a procession of goddesses who have little more than a name to go on.
It's not as much that women don't get major roles as that their major roles aren't as active in the canon of Norse myth. Women are super-important in Norse mythology as wives and mothers, the completers of family and continuers of the line, and they're the ones who have earth-and-fertility connotations, not the exclusively war-and-sky Aesir they're married to. It's for that reason that many scholars think they're mostly Vanir rather than Aesir themselves.
So it's not really that they aren't major... it's just that the things they're doing aren't the sort of things Vikings liked to tell heroic tales about. Although you can see a good example of occasional crossover in the tale of Idun's kidnapping - she doesn't do much in that tale herself but get kidnapped, but it's obviously very important that she is with the Aesir fulfilling her function or shit just starts breaking down.
You didn't link the picture!
ReplyDeleteOh, man, you're right!
DeleteBehold above!