Thursday, January 31, 2013

Meddling in the Affairs of Dragons

Question: Why does Quetzalcoatl hate Fuxi and Nuwa?

In our games, the dragon gods have had something of an ongoing rivalry which occasionally erupts into violent dragon combat, which is something everyone should try to avoid if possible because it is definitely not pretty. The three of them plus Ryujin should generally be kept away from each other when possible (and, indeed, it was Ryujin who killed Quetzalcoatl during the Half-Soul story, although he was later resurrected by the efforts of Geoff's band during Blood Heirs).

Most of the time, I wouldn't take the Rivals and Enemies on our god-pages too seriously. They have to do with events that occurred in our games as often as with basic god-rivalries across cultures. So if you see one that doesn't seem to make sense - especially between gods with cultures that are very remote from one another - it's likely that those gods got into some kind of tiff during one of our plots, rather than that they have some kind of secret mythological rivalry.

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  1. Such as the classic Enemies: Squirrels

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    1. And Geoff's continuing tiff with Poseidon that he's had since I first discovered this site (and there was no blog or fiction then, so you could imagine my surprise with Poseidon's enemies including "Geoff Matheson") and has still gone unexplained.

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  2. Here there be Dragon Gods!!!!!

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