Museum of Modern Magic

Question: Do you think you will make a spot for all the cool art you guys have? Not just some of the stuff that has been drawn about your characters, but, like, interesting things you have come across?

Probably not, I'm afraid. While there are tons of awesome mythological paintings, drawings and other art online, and we encourage everyone to go out and find them and tell the artists how awesome they are, we don't really have the space or resources to host them ourselves. Once in a while we feature some art that is irresistibly awesome or helps illustrate something for the game, and of course we love to show off art that is actually related to our games, but trying to host any and all mythological art would be an undertaking outside our scope.

The biggest issue would be the problem of art attribution and permission; artists are rightfully possessive of their work, and we try to be very careful to ask artists' permission for images we use and to link back to them whenever anyone asks about it. Wholesale gathering art from around the web would be uncomfortably close to stealing - even if we told everyone where it came from and linked back to them, if we didn't have permission to borrow their images, they'd be within their rights to be peeved with us for featuring their art somewhere other than where they put it. Artists often make some or all of their livelihood with their art, and they often don't want it posted around the web everywhere without being paid for it. Of course, we could limit it to artists who gave us permission, but going out to gather all that art, contact all its artists and keep it all up to date would be a lot of time and investment.

There are, of course, lots of pieces of public domain artwork for the gods around - old engravings from the nineteenth century, original paintings and photographs of statues from the cultures that worshiped the gods, and so on. They're already easily available all around the web (Wikimedia Commons is your friend!), so I don't know that we'd really be adding much that wasn't already out there.

And, really, this is a resource for the Scion game, not mythology in general (though often do the twain meet for us!). I'm not sure if a gallery of mythological art would be overly helpful for most games, outside of the god and Titan portraits we already have. But we do love artwork that's specifically about our games, and if we accumulate too much more of that it may get its own spot on the site!