#Fantasy Mythology

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"Echoes of Aldmeris"

In-game art asset for The Elder Scrolls: Online

*Artist Unknown* If anyone knows the artist, comment below

[tinydefector]

Welcome to tiny late night/early morning rambles. So I got thinking about the Sparkeaters in IDW/mtmte and it got me on the idea of what would be some cybertronian mythologies. Becuase it's something that interest me and and it would give me something to work with in writing.

But the fact that vampires and Sparkeaters line up very similar it had me thinking. So here's a list of my own creatures for cybertronian mythology.

- Rust wakers: large four-legged whales with multiple eyes. that live within the rust Sea. To me, the rust sea is a desert void of life, and I love the idea of these massive creatures living there filtering the rust for food, they sing at such a low frequency that it tends to make the rust almost float to the point they can effectively crawl through it. But they are such rare sights due to how large they are they thend to lay dominant for centuries if not longer. They are a legend of the Rust Sea to see one is to bring good fortune to one's life. They are often located by Sky rays who tend to enjoy feasting off the leftovers that the Rust wakers blow into the air.

- Shadow crawler: These creatures are horror carriers and sires tell to their sparklings as a way to teach them stranger danger but to also make sure they learn their parents EM field and sound frequencies They are mimics and will lure cybertronians to their doom into old ruins, the rust sea, off the cliffs of Vos. Most only believe them to be a ghost story to frighten sparklings, but every once in a while, an older cybertronian will talk about how they had an encounter with one. They are thin creatures who like to scavenge parts from deactivating mechs as a way to hide within the people. They are very rare and elusive.

Prismith the Spark guide: the guardian of young sparks, it is a massive almost Sloth like creatures with pig face and moose antlers that work like tusk. With large crystals that line its back almost as if it's melted into the platting. This creature is said to find newborn sparks that just emerge from hotspots. Scooping them up in its tusk and carrying for them until they are old enough to fend for themselves. They are a myth but one proven true by the stories of many sparklings. But it's only every sparkling who ever see this creature as it is a guide and guardian for them. No one knows how many Prismith their are or if there is only one, but many know the story of the spark guide.

- Eledimes: These are mechanical lizards faced by horses like creatures that have no eyes, or at least speculate. They are the cybertorian equipment of a unicorn. They use echo locations to move around and are only ever found in groups of two, if ever found. They sing in beautiful melodies and tend to roam to interworking of the caves of cybertronian. Calling out to those who have become one with the well of sorrows again. It's believed they work alongside Prismith. The Eledimes create the hotspot that new sparks are formed at, and Prismith is the one who cares for them from there. To see an Eledimes means that you are nearing your time to return as one with the allspark.

Depending on what people think I might even do up some designs for them so you guys can have visuals of what I picture.

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[chloristoflora]

"So," Binabik explained in his speaking voice, "old Tohuq the sky-lord is selling his daughter to Kikkasut for a beautiful cape of feathers, which he will use to make the clouds. Sedda is then going with her new husband to his country beyond the mountains, where she is becoming the Queen of Birds. But the marriage has not much happiness. Soon Kikkasut, he begins to ignore her, coming home only to eat and curse at Sedda." The troll laughed quietly, wiping the end of his flute on his fur collar. "Oh, Simon, this is always being such a length of story…Well, Sedda goes to a wise woman, who tells that she could gain back Kikkasut's wandering heart if she will be giving him children.

"With a charm the wise woman has given, made from bones and mockfoil and black snow, Sedda is able to then conceive, and she gives birth to nine children. Kikkasut is bearing, and sends word that he is coming to take them from her, so that it is properly raised as birds they will be, and not by Sedda raised as useless moonchildren.

"When she is hearing this, Sedda takes the two most young and hides them. Kikkasut comes for taking away the others, and he asks of her the happenstances of the missing two. Sedda tells him they had become sick and dead. He goes away from her, and she curses him."

Again he sang.

"Kikkasut winging

Sedda she weeps

Weeps for her lost

Her children all taken

But for the hidden pair

Lingit and Yana.

Sky-lord's grandchildren

Moon-woman's twins

Secret and pale

Yana and Lingit

Hid from their father

Deathless she'll keep them…"

"You are seeing," Binabik interrupted himself, "Sedda did not want her children to have mortalness and be dying, as the birds and the beasts of the fields. They were her all and onlyness…

"Sedda is mourning

Lone and betrayed

Vengeance she plots

Takes her bright jewels

Kikkasut's love gift

Weaves them together.

Mountain-top lofty

Dark Sedda climbs

Blanket new-woven

She spreads on night's sky

A trap for her husband

Thief of her children…"

The Dragonbone Chair, by Tad Williams (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn #1)

[dalishdracarys]

Deianeira the Priestess of the Underworld 🪦🥀🦇

I used Procreate and The Rusty Nib brush set by True Grit Texture Supply

Also on my instagram and tiktok: stickystarfruit 🖤

[caffeinated-frog]

Kenet, the god of the seasons, weather, and change!

[Image description: Digital art of a tan character with pointed ears. They are holding snow magic in their hands, and are dressed in white, green, and blue clothing. Their hair is braided and in a bun, and they are looking at the viewer. /end image description]

[cepheusgalaxy]

anyone any fantasy mythology tips?

[socialdoki]

Sorry but I'm gonna use this to gush about my own mythology in Corrupted, Absolutely because I'm really proud of it.

Since my mythology is supposed to be based on the gods that actually exist(ed) in the story world, it's not as wild as actual ancient mythologies, but it's certainly not MOTHER GOD vs EVIL GOD with some elemental gods thrown in.

First, we have the Twelve, which you might call the gods of humanity. Over them we have what I call the three Forces, life death and order. They were once one being called Chaos who created existence. Chaos split into three and then the Twelve fought a war against the Forces and split them into three pieces each, those are the nine Pieces of Chaos.

Of the Twelve we see in the first book, only one, maybe two could be considered "traditional" type gods. The first one is the Unmaker, who, as you might expect is the god of destruction. The only other one who *could* be traditional is the Depthe, who is the god of the ocean. Think, Neptune but even more of an asshole and she has *very* clear favorites. The others are the Secret, god of hiding, the Broken, god of splitting things apart, and the Binder, god of putting things together. If you tried to guess which one my villain worships, you'd probably be wrong. The last bit is that the Twelve are mostly gone, the characters interact with them through their "artifacts" items or entities that contain a small portion of each gods essence.

Idk i just really like my mythology that has old gods and new gods where the old gods are still around and the new gods are celestial corpses. But the new gods have weird domains that enable weird magic.

 Pantheons in fantasy will almost always be something like “fire deity, water deity, light deity, EVIL deity, GREAT MOTHER” while an average bronze age city’s pantheon was s/t like “deity personifying the city, god everyone has to treat as the main one because his city got geopolitically lucky, three or so personifications of main local sources of income, a nearby mountain, half a dozen incoherent minor deities (at least one is the result of some misspelling a name), deified branding iron”

[cherriielle]

daphne's blessing 🌿

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Tall Pappa and his children: Hunding, Leki, Ansei

Art for Pocket Guide to the Empire, 1st Edition

Art by Michael Kirkbride

[dvktheartist]

Gullskögul (Golden Skögul) (Skögul means "shaker" or "one who incites battle"—often linked to the Valkyries, but here, it is the one who shakes the fields, the one who stirs the wind through the golden stalks before winter arrives.) I was thinking of spring and Norse Mythology/Lore and decided to work further on this.

[fortunaestalta]

[liliths-den]

Echoes of the Hollow Woods: Thistlegrim’s Gift

Thistlegrim is neither entirely beast nor spirit. It is said that the creature possesses an uncanny ability to perceive emotions, responding to fear with comfort and to malice with swift, unseen mischief. Those who earn its favor might glimpse its curious, luminous eyes peering from the safety of its tree-hollow home. Legends tell of a wandering bard who once on a crisp autumn evening, as the…

[bashieashie]

I just think medieval snail ladies are neat.

[caedar]

Interview with Darren Joy, author of the epic, dark fantasy book A Viral Imperium

Best fantasy fiction I have read since Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen series and Glen Cook’s The Black Company series! Interview with Darren Joy, author of the epic, dark fantasy book A Viral Imperium:  The Plagueborn Series: Book One by Dan Watt As I read through Darren Joy’s, A Viral Imperium: The Plagueborn Series: Book One, I was immediately caught up in the imagery and…

[faithschaffer]

-Medusa-

I've had this sitting around as a sketch for awhile, finally had time to finish it! Hoping to do more mythology illustration this year.