Yeah. He was the Centaur for Disease Control
Dr. Zeus
You could say it was my Achilles's Elbow.
Freya is the Nordic goddess of Love, Fertility and War. She is a member of the Vanir together with her family (that includes her father Njodr, her brother Freyr and her mother). She is married to Odr, whom which she has two daughters. One of her nicknames is Syr.
She rides on a chariot carried by two cats (this is referenced by the Fromel brothers, Allen and Anya), and wears a necklace called Brísingamen, which is alluded on the collective alias shared by the Gulliver brothers (Bringar).
Ottar was a protegée of Freya, probably her most devoted follower. He built a shrine of stone dedicated to her in which he would place many offerings. Freya answered to his prayers as he went on a journey to find his pedigree: she turned Ottar into Hildisvini, a battle-boar that served Freya, and brought him to the giantess Hyndla, a seeress. There, Freyja forced Hyndla to tell Óttar about his ancestors, as well as to give him a memory potion so that he would remember all that he was told. Their relation is played for laughs in DanMachi, and the myth is also referenced as Hildisvini is a special magic ability used by Ottar with which he destroys half of Udaeus' body in one single attack. Him being a boaz (that is, a boar-hybrid demihuman) is also a reference to the myth.
Hedin and Hogni are a reference to the protagonists of the Hjadningavig, another Nordic epic legend that tells the eternal fight between two kings with said names, starting when Hedin kidnapped Hogni's daughter, Hildr, which could resurrect the dead. Both armies fought each other during day, only to be revived during night, thus the conflict lasting until Ragnarok. This conflict is referenced in the Freya Familia Side Novel, except in this case there is no Hildr and only Hedin and Hogny remain from their respective kingdoms when Freya arrives.
The Gulliver surname is a reference to the Gulliver's Travels by Johnatan Swift. In the first one, the protagonist visits a land of tiny people called Liliput. Their first names (Alfrigg, Dvalinn, Berling and Grer) are those of the four dwarves that sold Freya her necklace in the Sörla Þáttr after she spent a night with each of them. This is also referenced in the Freya Familia Side Novel.
And in fairness I will give Bayek a pass since he creates the Hidden Ones.
I think that Assassin's Creed should focus on the Brotherhood much more, getting contracts and what it's like to actually be a part of the Brotherhood. With the current characters they are not assassins, they are just woven into the conflict.
Even with all the issues, I think Unity probably gives the best look at what the Brotherhood is like, and I'd love to see more of that.
Maybe in AC Infinity they will focus less on ISU Artifacts and more on the general conflict with the Order of the Ancients, maybe even go back to the founding of the Order.
To clarify: A lot of ancient European and Mediterranean religions are taught like they had a consistent pantheon, in terms of the gods involved, their relations with one another, and their history. Zeus is the god of thunder, slayer of Kronos, brother-husband of Hera, and father of Heracles. Frigg is the wife of Odin and mother of Baldur. Horus is the falcon-headed son of Osiris and Isis, and the slayer of Set.
However, I know that in the case of many Near Eastern religions, there was never really a unified mythology, and was instead a loose collection of city cults with varying degrees of syncretism with one another. Was this ever the case too with European religions? Were there swathes of ancient Greece who had no clue who the hell the Titans were, or that Zeus and Ares were related? Did the priests of Set have a narrative for their god sans duel with Horus?
If that is the case, then when did the modern codifications develop? Was it done by outside historians compiling all the myths? One state imposing its rule (and subsequently their own interpretation of religion) upon the rest of the people? Modern historians trying to codify a confusing subject?
I'm always so sad to hear that Irish folklore/mythology isn't really taught/talked about commonly in Ireland besides children's books and whatnot. I'm a huge mythology nerd and I've honestly found Irish folklore absolutely fascinating! It's dark, complex, and just captivating. There are so many cool gods and figures and the stories are epic! Honestly, after living here for a while and actually being able to see the amazing landscape/environment in person, it's no wonder that the ancient peoples were so inspired.
I know that most countries are usually kind of out of touch with their native mythology/folklore but I feel like Ireland has something really special that deserves so much more hype.
EDIT: @shanebtops has shared an AMAZING list of reliable and accurate resources in the comments, please check it out if you'd like to read more on the subject :)
There were hints of this type of DLC being released since earlier this year. Even a trailer from earlier in the year ended with a hint of what was to come and the setting looked like something from Ragnorok.
So why is this sub specifically acting surprised all of a sudden? There was no hints of anything else but a Ragnorok DLC and now that it is officially announced, this sub wants to act all bitter. Furthermore, this is just par for the course for Ubisoft since 2018 when Curse of the Pharaohs released for Origins and then in 2019 with the Fate of Atlantis DLC. This has always been unofficially seen as the "mythology trilogy" so it was basically given that Valhalla would also recieve some sort of mythology DLC which it now has. And yet people here still want to act like they [you] have been living under a rock since 2017 when Ubisoft did a soft reboot to the franchise which has since then been highly successful.
At this point I just need to accept the fact that this sub is nothing but a bunch of bitter people who is unwilling to just accept that the old AC is not coming back and that Ubisoft is going in another direction. I just find it funny how we all knew this was coming based on 2 factors (1) Both Origins and Odyssey had similar DLC and (2) Ragnorok DLC was hinted at earlier this year.
So go ahead and cast your downvotes cause I know how this sub operates.
Yup, just a Loki day.
Hi! I was doing a research on mythology and folklore across the world. I would love to know your favourite one. I'm sorry if I miss out some because I can only put 6 but feel free to comment your favourite :)
If a Hindu Mythology based plane was to be released, what would the rating on the Rabiah Scale for such a thing be beforehand?
These two are from different religions, but they fight each other. Which one would win the bloodlusted fight till the death? Is Satan more powerful than Hades, or is Hades more powerful than Satan? Let's use the feats that the Bible gave us with Satan, and use the feats that Greek Mythology gave us for Hades.
Bonus: Spawn (Image Comics) VS. Hades (Greek Mythology) who would win this?
Most of the media about greek mythology is just the same stories being told over and over again. It's always about some demi-god(usually the son of zeus) trying to defeat an evil god or just a movie retelling about a specific myth. Most of these stories are predictable if you know even just a few myths and orginal content will often just be poorly well written or it lacks creativity.
This disappoints me as Greek Mythology has the most interesting world and lore of all mythologies, imo. There are so many other stories they could tell with all this established world building and ideas that many writers would kill for, but they choose to do the same old. What if instead of just word for word retellings, they added they're own twist they way marvel movies do with comics.
My other problem is also that greek mythology is about way more than just some demi-gods fighting monsters. We could have stuff about a mortal progonist or stuff about the gods.
Any relation? The names are similar but I haven’t been able to find any sources that link them. Geographically, the Hebrews were close enough to Egypt that it seems possible.
Edit: Answered, and it looks like the answer is no. Thanks to everyone for your thorough responses!
TL;DR - Game has a lot of obscure references to Roman Mythology.
I'm playing for a couple of month now and always felt like something is off about the original setting the game uses. I couldn't quite point my finger to it but it all felt similar. It really struck me when I realized that the elictricity that Zeus uses can actually be interpreted as lightning and thunder. Then it was pretty easy to connect him to a Roman god Jupiter, who was actually a god of thunder AND the king to other gods.
I started digging and found some interesting similarities between gods in game and in mythology. Jupiter actually had two brothers: Neptune and Pluto. And here's the big one: Pluto was the god of dead in Roman Mythology too! He also had a dog, but it has nothing to do with him being named Pluto, it's just a coincidence.
There's no information about his son, so at first I thought that I'm reaching, but I checked the rest of the family and it almost checks out. There's no Juno and Vesta in game, but Athena is very similar to Minerva, who is also the goddess of wisdom, Aphrodite is practically a goddess of love Venus, and Ares could easily be Mars. I can't quite point out who Dyonisus is: he's similar to Bachus in a lot of ways, but he's also hostile to satyrs which is a huge no-no for original Bachus. Maybe you could help me out with that one.
And here's the really funny little fact you probably didn't know. Warning, spoilers ahead. When you first break out of hell you reach the stage called >!Greece!<. It's actually a real place! >!Greece!< is one of the names for the Ancient Rome province called Achaea. Devs really knew their stuff!
If there's any other funny references you caught during the game please share them here. It will be fun to find them all. Thanks!
I need to vent and then calmly discuss.
I have been accused of theft and plagiarism of well-known mythology.
And it’s not even that they traced the mythology to the root source. No. They thought I was stealing mythology from an anime that interpreted said mythology.
What do you mean I’m stealing from some anime? Do you know that anime “stole” literally every characters name from the work of classic literature I am also using?
This is like the Dune and Star Wars debate. It’s mother-loving stupid that people want to accuse one or the other of stealing from one or the other and no one realizes they were both heavily influenced from one specific work.
And that goes for any entertainment. Do people think Disney is purely original? In all its animation ages, all it sis was reimagine literature. Dreamwork’s Prince of Egypt is from The Bible, I’m sorry. Mangakas flat out say in their interviews their work was inspired by XZY’s work or a situation.
I’m upfront about my literary inspiration. I use Demons from the Ars Goetia. I wrote about the apocalypse using Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri as a reference but nothing word for word (even named the character who goes through the apocalypse to save the world Dante, but no one knows yet how significant his name is). I use Chinese mythical Cultivation influenced from xianxia novels. I mean, heck, I’m writing about Hawaiian mythology.
I’m not saying everyone needs to know everything. It’s not to be expected people know about every piece of classic literature. I know I don’t know everything.
But attacking me for “stealing” the name Aamon for a Demon from Magi: The Labyrinth is the same ridiculousness as Disney copyrighting the name “Loki”.
I am not saying people can’t steal, but please understand the difference between being influenced and borrowing names or themes from literature and plagiarizing the same interpretation of literature.
Okay. I vented. Now to discuss.
Has anyone else experienced this sort of comment or accusation of “theft”?
If so, what on earth were those people thinking?
HALT, YOU FIEND. LOOK AT MY EDIT.
To address the minute comments about cultural appropriation:
The reader in question submitted a very badly worded essay about how the names of my Demons were plagiarized from Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (got the name right finally). And that anime, as I learned, stole much of its lore from Ars Goetia and A Thousand and One Nights.
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Mild spoilers for Clash of the Titans (2010), Wrath of the Titans, Blood of Zeus, Disney's Hercules, that Hercules Movie with the Rock and Madeline Miller's Circe. Also a trigger warning I will discuess Sexual violence in this post.
First off this is not a rant about how everything that isn't 100% to it's source material is bad. I think to an exstant you have to change some times If you want adapat greek myths because some things the Heroes do aged really really bad while other would be cost to much Exposition-time you dont have. Just creating your own Story with your own characters in a vaguely greaco-roman fantasy setting can make a very story: Disney's Hercules has little to do with the actual Herakles-Myth but that's probably for the best considering it's a children's movie.
But most movies I have seen in resent years want to tell at least a vage retelling of a real myth. Again I totally get why you want to cut iffy details, unless you find some way to integrate them intresstingly in the plot (like how Miller's Circe gave an intressting Interpretation on Odysseus killing the slave girls raped by the suitors). But the one thing that really Frustrates me is that many directors seem under the impression that every good greek mythology movie must be crowded with Name dropping, all the monsters we know from Pop culture and ignoring essential themes of the stories.
For example lets look at the Clash of the Titans from 2010). It's an ok movie with even some coherent themes of Man adapting in a world where there is no need to worship gods anymore. The storyline follows the Perseus slaying Medusa myth, which when boiled down to its most basic plot is about a hero killing a Monster with the help of divine gifts and later saves a princess with the MacGuffin he received. I understand that you want to spice it up (it's kinda short compared to the Odyssey or the Trojan War) but the movie just kinda throws one CGI-monster after another at the hero. The movie however adds so much stuff, some of which have not even the slightest realtion to ancient Greece: Io, The Kranken, some Dschinns riding on Giant Scorpipns, a character named after Caliban from Shakespeare's the Tempest and of course Good ol' Satan-Hades. The few characters that they take from exactly Myths only bare the same names so that the viewer who is familiar with the tales will recognize them (seriously why is it even called Clash of the Titans?).
Like take a look at the Movies Portay of Io. She could
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I've always been fascinated with mythology it's gotta be one if my favourite special interests. I gravitate towards Norse, Greek Ancient Egyptian and always Aztec. Quetzalcoatl is a good snek. I've been throwing around the idea of writing a story involving all of them, writing would be another special interest of mine. So anybody else like mythology? And do you know any stories about these guys?
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