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· Comics / Grimm Universe
1/11 I really like unicorns, so I wanted to give this one more room than a quick creature rundown. There is a lot to work with, both in Grimm Fairy Tales and across fiction. You can put a unicorn in a story about friendship, extinction, rel...
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14. Where Age of Darkness leaves Zeus and Julian Godstorm: Age of Darkness gives Zeus a quieter conclusion than the image of a fallen god initially suggests. After his apparent death, the story follows him in a human guise. Julian helps him...
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13. Angelica and the next generation Angelica Blackstone, Hellchild, belongs in the larger family discussion as Hades's daughter. Her combination of divine heritage and vampirism also connects this branch of the universe directly to its mon...
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12. Helios and the broader mythological world Helios is another important figure to distinguish from the central Godstorm family. His story in Myths & Legends involves a destructive power that makes ordinary intimacy disastrous. His bur...
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11. The wider family is not a checklist Hera matters to the story even when the immediate conflict is between Zeus and Venus. Zeus's intended marriage to her is central to the rejection Venus remembers, and he names Hera's future position a...
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10. Ares: bringing war into the present Ares is the most direct expression of the old gods carrying their violent priorities into the modern world. The Angel story places that conflict in contemporary Greece, including the occupation of the...
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9. Hecate, Heather Angelos, and Angel Heather Angelos is the modern identity connected to Hecate and Angel. Her story carries the gods into a very different kind of confrontation with the human world: she works as a lawyer challenging power...
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8. Hades: the underworld is only part of his character Hades belongs beside Zeus and Neptune as one of the three brothers, but his position immediately complicates the assumption that the underworld ruler must be the villain. In the Godstor...
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7. Neptune: withdrawing from power does not mean losing it Neptune's modern presentation is very different from Zeus's business identity or Venus's celebrity life. He has stepped away from their kind of public status. The contrast makes it...
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6. Venus is also being used Venus manipulates Julian, but she is working within a larger chain of power. At the end of Godstorm, the Being makes that brutally clear. Her failures are counted against her, and he treats Zagreus as a weapon sh...
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5. Venus: worship, pride, and a very personal grievance Venus adapts to modern celebrity and fashion, but success among humans does not satisfy her. She wants the status and submission that came with being worshipped. Her schemes bring the...
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4. Julian and Zagreus Julian's story starts in a criminal world of orders, violence, and manipulation. The revelation that he is Zagreus, Zeus's son, connects that human life to the divine conflict. His anger has consequences far beyond the...
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3. Zeus and Neptune: mercy has a cost Neptune does not share Zeus's position on Julian, and the story gives him a reason. He has suffered devastating personal loss at Julian's hands. Zeus is asking his brother to spare the person responsibl...
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2. Zeus: the king who has to answer as a father Zeus takes the modern identity Gregor Brontios and operates in the business world. His authority survives in a different form, but the harder part of his story is what happened to the people b...
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1. The gods of Grimm Fairy Tales I want to spend some time on the gods in Grimm Fairy Tales, because their part of this universe goes well beyond recognizing a name from mythology. Godstorm gives them modern lives, old grudges, families the...
Read the full post· Games / Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I'm almost 200 hours into the game and I just now realized you can stealth kill somebody while they're lying on the ground. The thing is, if you've got the right skills, when you get up behind somebody you can act...
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18/18 Taken together, these books give the four creatures different roles in the same world. Samira's story deals with power and competing vampire loyalties. Roman's pursuit puts infection beside a hunter's ruthless choices. Elijah's story...
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17/18 That connection becomes central to the Sins' plans. Despondency matters to the formation of Legion, so Masumi and her weapons are targets in their own right. Her personal life is pulled into the conflict too, including her relationshi...
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16/18 Masumi's swords are tied to an eighth sin, Despondency, and to a tragedy within her family. The demon possessed her sister, Akiko. Her father was killed, and her mother bound Despondency into the swords. Akiko's life was bound up with...
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15/18 Demons: The Unseen brings the threat inside living people. Masumi Yamamoto faces demons that can possess human hosts, which changes what a successful intervention even looks like. Striking down the body in front of you is not automati...
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