Vent thread

@Zincy
I think you're also older than most of us here. More life experience.

@Selaphiel
Gavrilo Princip was only 19 years old when he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

@WinterFlower154

I'll share my wisdom, if one could call it that, with any who seek it.

@Kongou
He was a nobody prior to that incident.
Now he's in the history pages.

@Zincy
I didn't know dwarves are able to use magic.

@Selaphiel

A single projectile can do a lot.

Start a war, end Alexander the Greats march, stop Sweden from ruling Norway, cut down the most powerful person in the world, etc.

@Selaphiel

Dragon Age is one of the few universes where that is a thing, in most other fantasy stories Dwarves use a lot of magic.

Normally, they are masters of enchanting, runework, and utilitarian magic.

@Zincy
After all, it doesn't matter how powerful anyone is in this world. They're still humans with human weaknesses, frailness.

@Selaphiel
The teenager who started 'The War to End All Wars'.

@Selaphiel

For now

On another topic.

I can totally see the Valkyrie mythology be "modernized" and adapted to to the context of modern warfare. Where a beautiful rifle wielding warrior maiden decked out in era appropriate gears go around the battlefields collecting souls of dying soldiers ranging from WW1 to the 21 century settings to become her Einherjars.

Essentially this

Source

@Selaphiel
That sounds like a good plot for an anime series.

@Kongou
If it means getting picked up by Valkyrie, becoming her warriors, and then going to heaven afterwards.
Maybe dying in war wouldn't seem so bad…

@Selaphiel

Only 50% of the warriors were gathered by the Valkyrie to fight eternal. Half go to Fólkvangr, to join in Freyja's eternal hunt.

@Zincy
50% is good enough.
Now if only I can get her to "notice me" wink wink*

I would like to see an anime or a work of fiction that takes Norse Mythology fantasy element and blend it together with WW1 or 2 aesthetics and themes.
Imagine Valkyrie going through artillery bombarded ravaged battlefields of the World Wars, complete with all the modern weaponry and fantasy magic, trying to recruit "warriors" or should I say soldiers and any victims of the war regardless of their backgrounds and faction they're fighting for on the earthly front, to fight a higher war that is being fought by the Gods who are also influencing the conflicts below. Think of it as a "modernized" and fantasized Ragnarok.
She would have Einherjars from both the Allies and Axis sides. Americans, British, French, Germans, Soviets, Japanese you name it.

@Selaphiel
I really like that idea.

@Selaphiel

I've heard people often equate Fólkvangr to the Summerlands. Which itself is a catchall term describing a variety of afterlives.

The most common depiction of the "after-life" throughout history has been a verdant (though sometimes golden) natural setting. Typically a land of eternal summer, with fields, forests, lakes, and rivers. Most of the time it is stylized to be an eternal hunting ground.

Elysian, Aaru, the happy hunting grounds, etc.

@Zincy
But I like winter…. D:

Even though I agree that summer is the sexiest season with beaches, bikinis, and all.

Meanwhile Nifleheim is often the portrayed as the Land of Eternal Winter. Much cooler than Christian Hell I'd say LOL

@Selaphiel

Technically, Niflheim wasn't analogous to Hell, that would be…well, Hel. Or more specifically, Niflhel, the land of mists.

@Zincy
Meanwhile the Japanese Makai is a world of poisonous miasma.

@Selaphiel

Mists and fogs have often been seen as a dread omen throughout history.

@Zincy
In some cultures, it represents serenity and calmness.
I actually feel a sense of calmness and solitude whenever I stand in the middle of a fog. The air also feels fresher to breathe on cold misty mornings.

The winter is sexy
Mystic sexy and mysterious