Yeah, there are a lot of different flavors of underground domains available.
Come to think of it, this "there are different flavors of dungeons" idea is central to most of the Elder Scrolls games.
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Hello again, Myth Lovers!Oh that does sound good.
Now I am imagining the brainstorming session:
"What if we ask the Venetians to help?"
"What if we ask the kobolds?"
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The Lost City of Vineta slumbers at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.@juergen_hubert But, Abel was the grandson of the first Valdemar, so clearly haunted hunting runs in the family
As an aside, a King named Abel that doesn't quietly die, but has to be staked and sunk into a mire ... that for sure has roleplaying game potential.
And I am forcibly reminded of the Cainite Heresy from VtM Dark Age : a brother-killer named Abel is the perfect reversal of the Cain story, after all.
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The Lost City of Vineta slumbers at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.Funnily, the Danish incarnation of the wild hunt is Valdemar I, the Great.
At least that is how it is portrayed in a song by B.S. Ingemann: the joyous court had much fun hunting, but neglected piety, and even now the ghostly entourage can be seen chasing across the fields near Gurre castle:
Niels Gade – På Sjølunds fagre sletter
På Sjølunds fagre sletter Lyrics: På Sjølunds fagre sletter / Ved Østersøens bred / Hvor skoven kranse fletter / Om engens blomsterbed / Hvor sølverkilden glider / Nu ved ruinens fod / Dér stolt i gamle tider / En
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Valdemar I is sort of the bridge between the viking ages and medieval Denmark.
His upbringing was quite viking-ish, with fost-brothers (one of whom was the later archbishop Absalon, a warlike fellow who liked hunting wendish pirates).
Maybe there was something to that piety thing after all
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The Lost City of Vineta slumbers at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.@juergen_hubert It's always the Swedes, said the Dane.
(But Visby was later a Hansa stronghold, so that is interesting also)
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One for @juergen_hubertYeah. The dangers of AI is climate destruction.
Not "what shall we do with all this instant perfection that AI will provide".
It doesn't provide any of that, nor will it.
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#writerscoffeeclub 11 If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?@juergen_hubert
True.Some of them are holy-coded, aren't they?
Some sort of quasi-angelic spirit in those cases.
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#writerscoffeeclub 11 If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?@juergen_hubert The Venetians might be sort of an exception.