#bramble: the mountain king

[tobiasrieper]

Bramble: The Mountain King (2023) | Dimfrost Studio

[ch3rry-draws]

Im working in two drawings now, hope it doesnt take me long to finish them.

I love men with long hair lol

[a-gnosis]

2: The Skogsrå from Bramble: The Mountain King

Bramble: The Mountain King is a horror and adventure game based on Nordic folklore. Naturally, the Skogsrå ("forest spirit", also known as the Huldra) is one of the bosses you have to fight. I think their design for the Skogsrå is really cool, even if they made her a bit more malicious than she was in folklore (she certainly was a dangerous creature, but she didn't kill people like that. Though considering it's supposed to be a horror game, the changes make sense).

[satoshi-mochida]

Some indie game recommendations from ones I’ve played or know enough about them to suggest them to others(mostly in no particular order), Part 8.

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9

LiEat

Rise of the Third Power

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

Indivisible

Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass

Eastern Exorcist

Everhood

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User(JJBA fan game)

Gravity Circuit

Rusted Moss

Laika: Aged Through Blood

Bramble: The Mountain King

Refind Self: The Personality Test Game

nameless(fan game for Hololive Vtuber Nanashi Mumei)

M.A.S.S. Builder

NAIRI: Tower Of Shirin and it's sequel NAIRI: Rising Tide.

Fatal Twelve

Fading Afternoon

The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

Killer Frequency

Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator

Full Void

ENIGMA:

Seven Days

Siren's Call

Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony

Little Goody Two Shoes

Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

Battle Princess Madelyn

When the Past Was Around

[t-the-ring-master]

Näcken with human!SO hc.

Request: by Circus guest Anon.

Requests open.

I decided to do two separate posts for this. One for Näcken and then one for Nøkken, since my sister informed me Nøkken is the female version.

Hope you enjoy! I decided to do this in an X reader style since that’s what I’m assuming they wanted.

If you want a mini story based off this, just let me know and give me a scenario!

Part 2

Music. That is what you heard when you wandered through the fog.

A sad melancholy song being played from a violin. You didn’t expect to hear something like it when you wandered into the woods late at night despite every warning from every story from your parents.

You had come into the woods looking for your brother, who decided to leave the house during dark. That’s how you met Näcken, who oddly didn’t kill you the first moment he saw you.

You didn’t know you looked strangely similar to the woman he had fallen in love with, his ill mind tricking him into thinking you were her.

Every night you and your brother snuck out after that, him running off to do his own thing while you went and met Näcken. The more time you spent together the more he understood you weren’t really her, you were just yourself.

He won’t let you into the water, his many years in it made him learn that there’s more in there than just him… they just aren’t alive and you’re more likely get a disease rather than drown.

Since he’s met you, he’s been playing more cheerful songs, no longer as depressed as he once was.

Don’t get me wrong, he still kills people that come to his lake when given the chance, but he’s learned not to do it after he almost killed your brother.

Yeah he didn’t see you for a little bit after that. He cried when you visited him again, he was playing pretty depressingly for those few days… he’s very dramatic.

Turns out you were just helping your brother get some rest after he caught a cold from the water. He didn’t really blame Näcken, but you don’t think they’ll be friends for a while.

He has tried to teach you violin when you asked… you almost broke the string but he wasn’t too mad about it.

If you play an instrument, definitely bring it with you the next time you see him. He really would love to play with you.

If you sing, he would love to play along to your voice.

And if you dance, he’ll happily play while you do so.

Don’t bring up his past lover, the wound is still very much there, and the only reason you actually managed to live was because he had tricked himself you were her. It’s best to not bring it up unless he does. By the time he brings it up, he’ll be over her and only really care about you.

He does wish you had met him as a human. He wasn’t the most handsome guy, but he does feel like he was better looking than he is now.

If you like any kind of spice… don’t give it to him. This man is white. One grain of pepper and this man seeing the reaper.

I also feel like he would have a sweet tooth… so many years stuck to the lake, I feel like he’d go feral for a chocolate chip.

If you bake and bring him some kind of pastry, he’s keeping you just for them at that point.

Give this man some kind of baked good or just soul food… this man hasn’t tasted flavor in his undead or living life.

He came from a small village and was just a pretty poor musician, so any kind of spice would have been considered a luxury.

If he sees someone hit on you… yeah you’re not seeing that person again, and he’s definitely not letting you into the water now. It’s not even about the diseases at that point, he just doesn’t want you to see the guys body.

He does wish to be human again. He wishes to get married, have a family and feel normal again.

With all the crazy stuff in these woods, I wouldn’t be surprised if he did manage to find someone who could at the very least make him be able to at least leave the lake. But I doubt anyone would be able to turn him into a human…. I also feel like even if they did, he couldn’t do it since it’s been like what? 200 years as the lake creature? He’d probably turn to dust if he did become human again.

But let’s say he did find a way to leave the lake, and can in fact go back into land. He’d go to his old village and fix up his old house. He’d lure a priest there, and have him marry you guys…. Maybe even adopt -totally not kidnap- a child maybe.

Your brother likes him enough for you…. Great Näcken is trying to drown him again-

Kid get the pepper, we gotta give your father an aneurysm to save your uncle-

[jyuubin]

BRAMBLE: THE MOUNTAIN KING (2023) // Olle & Gnomes ↳ hide & seek

{ID is in the ALT}

— ©jyuubin

[radioactive-boba]

im kind of in love w him have a quick painting about it

[inafieldofdaisies]

Bramble: The Mountain King (2023) | Skogsrå, 'The Mistress of the Forest'

"She was a shapeshifter that mimicked what men wanted to see in order to lure them away. When they were close enough to touch her, she would transform into something monstrous. She'd rip their chests open, hang them up in the trees and draw strange powers from their still-beating hearts. No one would ever see those men again…"

[number1jojo]

In the Hall of the Mountain King

[druvjelly]

As someone who’s Swedish, I wish Näcken was a bit more conventionally hot but like

This works too

He looks like a 40 year old who sells snus to a bunch of teens outside the ICA that’s too close to a school

[day0fnight]

bramble: the mountain king

- in the forest

[tobiasrieper]

[ch3rry-draws]

First drawing of the year!!! I will always love bramble, the Näcken was so scary

[positively--speculative]

Back in the day, before I began to mature and expand my horizons, I watched Nostalgia Critic, and I think there are several influencers such as him and that messed up my writing for a little bit. I'm not sure if his methods have changed, because it's been quite a while since I clicked on one of his videos, but one thing I know made me self-conscious of my writing was his attitude of 'EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN!'

Like, in some contexts, that's valid. Sometimes things need to be explained depending on the kind of story you're writing. But I'm getting back into Bramble: The Mountain King (I held off playing it again because I feel like it's a good game to play in the spring), and I'm reminded that in the context of folklore, things don't always *have* to be explained.

For instance, in Bramble, Nacken is a sympathetic villain who becomes the way he is due to severe bullying. He sought out revenge, and in the process, killed the woman he loved along with all the people who were cruel to him. The process by which he becomes a swamp monster who lures his victims in with sick-ass violin playing doesn't need to be explained. Trauma, a misguided desire for revenge, and regret made him a monster. No, it doesn't make sense in the world we live in outside of the story, but that's not the point. Stories within folklore have several functions which include teaching lessons--'Don't be so blinded by revenge. Otherwise, you might hurt someone who matters to you in the process,' 'Don't make rash decisions you might regret. Otherwise, you will have to live with the regret and the person it's made you.' The metamorphosis of the Nacken from human to monster isn't what's important to the story. It's the message. When you start to nit-pick something so simple, you start to lose sight of the purpose of storytelling.

[t-the-ring-master]

How Bramble: the mountain king characters react to the Nils king daughter helping Olle.

Request: circus guest anon

Request open.

Not me over here picking one of the trolls and naming him and giving him a backstory just for this.

I named him Mari after my dog Mars and a small streamer I watch. He used be human in this which is how I made them and the daughter know each other. The daughter is the requesters OC, and I wasn’t given a name so we’ll just refer to her as the kings daughter in this.

Loved this request and imma have fun with this one. I added the frog king because I can.

Olle:

He didn’t expect to receive help. Not so far into the forest and so far into the bloody water at that. But Olle knew he couldn’t be picky… he had to save her, with any help he could get.

Even if that help was the blood of the root cause of the horrors he’s been through. But most of all… he did expect to find help in a rock. How long had she been stuck in there?

Frog king:

He has no opinion really, he’s just a frog. But he was happy to help her and Olle get across the water.

Mari(the troll that first kidnaps Olle’s sister):

He wishes he could remember. He wishes he knew this body of his could remember her, the little girl he made an oath as a human to protect. The very reason he learned to pick up a blade. The reason he had become such a monster… but he doesn’t, he just knows he must feed the king. Mari may no longer be human, but he still has minimal control, he will stall himself. Maybe they’ll have a chance of escape if he just brings them to the castle rather than make them a meal. No matter how starving he is.

(Lowkey wanna write a mini story on this man now. Of course with requester’s permission because the princess is their OC.)

King Nils:

She was the last thing he saw when he turned into this… she will be the last thing he sees when he finally is free, even if it destroys everything around him.

Despite his hope, he didn’t expect to see his son and daughter together once again. Only this time it isn’t his beloved son, it isn’t the child he lost and that caused him to do this to himself, to his daughter. He doesn’t even care about Olle at that point… he just hopes she can forgive her father for the sins he has committed, and the hell he made her life.

Lemus:

If she’s a friend of Olle’s, then she is a friend of Lemus. He likes her, she’s nice.

He just wishes she didn’t stay when the castle fell and Olle didn’t get hurt.

Näcken:

No thoughts… just Violin -more like violence-, and murder. Why is he falling? Why can’t he feel anything anymore? And why can he hear familiar voices around him? Is this the price he pays for everything? Why does it… feel nice? For once he feels human again. Maybe that fall wasn’t such a bad thing.

Never mind, his spine hurts.

[ravencat35]

In my defense, dangerous forest spirits are my favorite part of folklore. So I immediately draw Huldra

Що я можу сказати небезпечні лісові духи це моя улюблена частина фольклору. Тож я одразу намалювала Гульдру