I’m finally finishing up the editing part of the setting for Lost Heroes and I discovered I hadn’t done up the family tree for the Norse Gods, the Aesir. I’ve already done the other family trees (and organisation charts) for the other Pantheons in Lost Heroes. So this Easter weekend I put together this. It includes only the gods and characters mentioned within the Lost Heroes RPG setting, so don’t consider it academically correct. Enjoy!
Update: It seems that the full image I uploaded was shrunk by the upload process. Which meant you couldn’t actually read any of the names in the bubbles. I’ve now uploaded the full version again. Enjoy.
Its been exceedingly quiet here recently, but please don’t think that’s because nothing is happening. I’m working my way through the Germanic Gods, the Aesir at the moment. And I seem to suffer an inability to do a blog properly when I’m writing. It’s a strange quirk but it does mean that “no news” very likely means “good news” in that I’m beavering away on Lost Heroes RPG.
In the mean time, if you’re looking for Fudgy RPG stuff, why not check out what they’re doing over at sinisterforces:
Creatures & Monsters – A to Z: A is for Alicanto
A creature from the folklore of Chile, the Alicanto is a large nocturnal bird found in mountainous regions that devours sliver and gold in various forms. …
Or if that doesn’t get you’re goat, you can check out another one of my websites: the Irish Roleplaying and Gaming Wiki. There is a stellar amount of activity right now, a grand effort to catalogue the last 30 years of gaming history in Ireland! I’m pretty impressive with the effort that they’ve gone into so far and I hope they can keep it up. 
I finally managed to do a symbol for the “Aesir: Warrior Gods of Asgard” pantheon.
Aesir (Norse) Gods Symbol
I also created this image as well:
Lost Heroes Old Satyr Warrior
You can read more about this particular one on my personal blog.
This short narrative is taken from the introduction to the “Aesir: The Warrior Gods of Asgard” chapter setting from v0.18. As I prepare to start working on this chapter for v0.19, I found this fiction striking enough to share.
The first shell had killed the other men. Tommy had disappeared in the flash but the others fell back, their skin burned black in an instant, limbs partially amputated. After that every sound was muffled as if I was underwater.
I grabbed my rifle and started to shoot back, roaring in angry and rage but my screams were a distant whisper. As I shot, someone came out of the smoke and fell instantly to my bullet. Ha ha! I tried to roar aloud.
The second shell hit right beside me. I was flung over the upturned the jeep. I couldn’t hear anything then. I must have been missing my right leg for I felt only numbness from it while my left leg was in shearing pain. I know pain. Pain is a reminder of life.
I found it hard to hold the rifle, my hands didn’t feel like they were mine anymore but I managed to point it in the general direction. Another of the fuckers appeared from the smoke with his rifle already raised but so was mine. Somehow I hit him too and he went down.
“It is okay noble warrior, your time is over.” It was a woman’s voice. I heard it clearly through the silence. She was an apparition but as she came towards me she became more solid. She wore bright armour and carried a sword by her waist. Her hair fell in two blond plaits from her cow-horned helmet. She was a vision of an angel in this bloodshed. Her voice filled me with release, “I offer you this choice…”
“Lo, the days of Ragnarok are among us. Loki is breaking his fetters and soon all the worlds will lie in the gapping mouth of the dreaded serpent Jormungand or the terrible wolf Fenrir, foul offspring of Loki!”
So last Friday I finished writing up the Olympian Pantheon of Gods section for the setting. And now I’m procrastinating about what to start next.
Splitting the writing of the setting from the design of the system really started to pay off going through the Olympians. In the previous version v0.18, I was designing the details of the system as an extension of describing the setting. The descriptions and the rules described the world. Sometimes I found myself floundering for how a particular God’s Chosen’s abilities might be, relying on what I had done beforend just modifying it a bit. But this time round, I found it easy to describe what abilities and powers a God’s Chosen should have, rather that detail it in the rules.
Anyway, the Olympian section completed I wasn’t ready to start on the last section of the Gods, the Aesir. It’s been slow going through the Olympian section revising and reviewing my notes on each God and expanding and solidifying the concepts. I wasn’t read to start that process with the Aesir immediately. But now I’m floundering again, I tempted to finish the rest of the setting and then come back to the Aesir. Which would not be a bad thing to do at all. But now there is a third option: the Day Of Fudge and I considered jumping much further ahead in my “plan” and taking one of the adventures I wanted to write up for this version and make it a Fudge based adventure that didn’t require a big knowledge of the setting and then making it available now so that people could use it in the Day of Fudge. I don’t know if there would be an interest in this, so here’s a poll and you can tell me what you think:
What should I do next?
- Just get on with it and finish the setting! (100%, 2 Votes)
- A free adventure would rock - do that! (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 2
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