#a thing elementary school me thought of was ice/dark having an alliance with wind and water | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

405blazeitt · 8 months ago

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starting around 2nd grade or so, i came up with this fantasy world with fantasy animals that can all communicate with each other, and it gradually evolved folklore and a collection of gods that i never quite decided were real or not in-universe

a key figure in said folklore was the god of darkness and ice (and cold and death etc etc) who was stripped of her powers and sealed away by the other gods for being too destructive for a few centuries, gets released by her followers, and regains her powers by gaining the following of the daughter of the 2 most powerful gods, light and life (ie the manifestation of spring), who'd hidden her in a regular village because her physical form was the same species as that of the god of darkness n ice n stuff

i haven't actively worked on anything from this world in a good while, but it came back to me a few days ago and i had the thought that eventually the dark god has a conversation with the god of plague (who's actually the manifestation of entropy and much older than any of them thought) and realizes that she's not cold or darkness or whatever, she's not a destructive force or an absence, but a manifestation of the universe itself trying to reach equilibrium

so she starts to make peace with the other gods because she no longer sees them as competitors but as a part of herself, and she now knows that even without her intervention she'll outlast them and probably see other planets arise with their own gods and she'll outlast those too, until it's just her and entropy

#anyway sealing away the “god of death” didn't stop death or cold or darkness from happening because that's entropy's job #who the other gods had misidentified as plague and was just rolling with it. entropy never overstepped its boundaries so they let it be.#a thing elementary school me thought of was ice/dark having an alliance with wind and water #now me thinks that wind and water ought to have known entropy's (and maybe ice/dark's) true identity before anyone else #i haven't decided whether fire and light should be separate entities but light/sun is the most powerful but also relatively hands-off #so life is functionally the one in charge on the planet #idk how powers work in this world because if power was linked to worship then the most powerful would be some grain god #....which i guess would also be life? huh.#i cant remember any of the gods' names but they each had 2 forms: one resembling a species from the planet and the other is a big ol dragon #elementary school me also had the idea that these stories would be told as stories in-universe #so there's a mix of stories that are mythology or legends and stories that are more historical fiction or biographical #maybe there's the people's perspective and the gods' perspective #where the people start off ignorant (eg separating grain and life) then become more aware than the gods (eg realizing ice/dark isn't evil)

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