Sunday, December 30, 2012

All the Lights Go Out

Question: If Mani (and by extension Sol) are Titan Avatars of the moon and sun respectively, then how do you play Hati and Skoll, the wolves that chase them across the sky?

Hati and Skoll, the monstrous wolves that constantly seek to devour Mani and Sol and will finally catch them at Ragnarok, thus plunging the world into darkness, are probably equally as Titanic as their prey. As the most famous of the spawn of Fenrir - another obvious Titan, because if there's one thing the Norse pantheon has, it's an abundance of Titans coming to murder everyone and everything! - they could be considered Titan Avatars like him in their own right, equivalent in power to Mani and Sol. It's also possible that, not being quite as famous and badass as their father, they're merely high-Legend, Titanic Typhonian beasts, but that Fate grants them enormous bonuses in their quest to devour Mani and Sol (on whom it is dumping equally enormous penalties) because it wants that prophecy to come true, allowing them to reach slightly above what they could normally achieve.

We're usually focused on Titan Avatars fighting with gods, because that's the main conflict of Scion, but they're not exactly contenders for Mr. and Ms. Congeniality titles; they just as often hate and get into conflicts with one another. Sometimes Titans or their minions are fighting one another as well as the gods, especially if they're not overly focused on running an organized war or their hatred simply outweighs other concerns. In the case of Hati and Skoll, these are creatures who have been rocking maxed-out Rapacity for thousands of years, desperately trying to eat the tastiest, shiniest things in existence; they're not about to stop just because they're technically on "the same side".

Oddly enough, when we ran the Ragnarok game, all the lights did eventually go out, but none of the surviving Norse PCs ever checked on what exactly happened. They're assuming for the moment that Mani and Sol must have perished in the gullets of the wolves as foretold. Obviously, now that they've had their snack, where those wolves are and what they're up to is probably not an issue, right?

1 comment:

  1. That last part made me cringe for the surviving Norse... Quick, everyone hide the shiny or use it as a trap. Hahaha

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