It's vlog time! Today's subject is general cosmological goodness, including questions about Titans, god interactions and the general rules of the universe.
Question: Do Scions identify cross pantheon by role? Do all the creator gods hang out and compare notes (or one up each other or just try and make the best bear, whatever)? Do all the fire gods get together and talk about who has the best volcanoes? Do all the psychopomps get together and complain about all the ungrateful mortals? Do the prophetic deities get together at the foretold times and talk about the subjects that they foresaw themselves talking about?
Question: How does each pantheon view masculinity and femininity? If that's a bit too much ground to cover, I'm particularly interested in how the Aesir, the Tuatha De Dannan and the Bogovi view masculinity and femininity.
Question: What gods (or kinds of gods) do you think would be most proud (if at all) of their children breaking off for a new pantheon? What gods would be least ok with it?
Question: Why is Apep in the Titanrealm of darkness? Is it not more closely associated with Chaos?
Question: Does a Justice God have to believe in Character his own laws or can he just ignore it when it is convenient?
Question: How do you handle the gods no longer being worshiped? Fate? The Titans, not caring, something else? Or do you run with the idea that the world of Scion has major cults today with large and active temples/shrines?
Question: What does the process of binding a Titan look like? The corebook provided a specific example in the sample chronicle, but failed to give more general information.
Question: In your game, Do mortals know if a god died or did something new to their legend? Like somehow a myth about the death or event of the god suddenly is found or they retroactively just know it? I was asking because of the fiction where Athena dies and I wondered about that.
And that's the end of that four-installment vlog-filming marathon. We're internet athletes!
Your last question was cut off! You were answering and then... blip done over. I had to watch it twice to make sure it wasn't something on my end.
ReplyDeleteWell... damn. I just checked, and that's where the raw video file runs out, too. Our camera must have given up the ghost at the end there without us realizing. I'm sorry!
DeleteYup, got cut off.
ReplyDeleteWe were mostly trying to say that people who saw the story know about it, who have a close connection like Fatebonds might get some inkling, but that generally the world doesn't automatically gain knowledge of it. It'll be spread by those who do know about it telling the story to others, as most ancient myths probably were.
DeleteThird person confirming that as well.
ReplyDeleteIn other news though, good on you guys for doing the four weeks of constant question-ado questions. They were a lot of fun to listen to and I give you mad props for keeping the energy up for over an hour of talking in front of a camera.
Also the Greek and Norse weeks were very useful, again, for my players and I. :)
Awesome, glad to hear it!
DeleteSo, are we still on track for Water next Saturday?
ReplyDeleteFYI, Anne is neck-deep in grad school papers.
DeleteI was not aware of that, but it doesn't surprise me. Grad school is crazy tough.
DeleteYeah, I wasn't meaning to complain or anything. I just remember that John and Anne mentioned that the plan was to have Water out after the Vlogathon.
Just wanted to know if that was still the plan or not.
It is currently still the plan, but whether or not I'll be alive to see it remains to be seen.
DeleteAs probably Water's biggest advocate, I say Please don't overwork yourself. Who'll do the Stars rewrite without you?! ;)
DeleteAnd Happy Easter everyone!
As the instigator of this query, I too would like to assure you that it's perfectly fine if Water isn't ready by next Saturday.
DeleteSchool comes first, and you and John are awesome for even ATTEMPTING this Purview revamp. So if you need another week, it won't be the end of the World.
And yes, Happy Easter to All!
Guy who asked the to broad masculinity/femininity question. My apologies, I will try and keep it more specific in the future and/or get rich enough to where I can comfortably fun massive research projects on how various ancient cultures view gender. But in all seriousness, I do apologize. I did not think the question was as broad in scope as it was. I was thinking more in line with 'x pantheon has these myths regarding masculinity and femininity which means they think y about both' and yeah, not a simple thing. So, point taken. Still love your work.
ReplyDeleteHey, there! No worries, we mostly just knew we couldn't answer it and didn't want you to think we were ignoring you. The number of books on gender roles in any culture are pretty staggering, so all of them together is monumental.
DeleteThere's also a lot of question about what myths even have to do with masculinity and femininity; some might look like that to us but really be talking about divides in class/power or profession or family or who knows what else, and we end up projecting our own ideas about gender roles onto them instead. It's a pretty giant field of study. :)
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