Yeah, I have heard about the vampire vegetables and was about to write about them. A cool villain would be an evil gardener (maybe a vampire) and the players have to navigate his garden of death. Fill the garden with dangerous and poisonous plants, like the ones you wrote about. Maybe give the gardener a poisonous daughter named Beatrice.
I am pretty sure Terry Pratchett wrote about vampire vegetables in one of his books.
Yeah, I have heard about the vampire vegetables and was about to write about them. A cool villain would be an evil gardener (maybe a vampire) and the players have to navigate his garden of death. Fill the garden with dangerous and poisonous plants, like the ones you wrote about. Maybe give the gardener a poisonous daughter named Beatrice.
I am pretty sure Terry Pratchett wrote about vampire vegetables in one of his books.
If so, haven’t seen that yet, but that kinda sounds like Pratchett. Very random but INCREDIBLE ideas that make so much and so little sense.
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Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Yeah, I have heard about the vampire vegetables and was about to write about them. A cool villain would be an evil gardener (maybe a vampire) and the players have to navigate his garden of death. Fill the garden with dangerous and poisonous plants, like the ones you wrote about. Maybe give the gardener a poisonous daughter named Beatrice.
I am pretty sure Terry Pratchett wrote about vampire vegetables in one of his books.
If so, haven’t seen that yet, but that kinda sounds like Pratchett. Very random but INCREDIBLE ideas that make so much and so little sense.
Yeah, I have heard about the vampire vegetables and was about to write about them. A cool villain would be an evil gardener (maybe a vampire) and the players have to navigate his garden of death. Fill the garden with dangerous and poisonous plants, like the ones you wrote about. Maybe give the gardener a poisonous daughter named Beatrice.
I am pretty sure Terry Pratchett wrote about vampire vegetables in one of his books.
If so, haven’t seen that yet, but that kinda sounds like Pratchett. Very random but INCREDIBLE ideas that make so much and so little sense.
Did your Terry Pratchett radar summon you here?
(You are probably subscribed)
Yes and no, I love Pratchett, but I got here b/c I am a mythology nerd.
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Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Other great others include, but are not limited to, Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Mike Mignola, Andrew Peterson, Christopher Paolini, Jonothan Rogers, A. S. Peterson, Shakespeare, and Helena Sorensen. Orson Scott Card has written some good stuff too, but he has also written some bad stuff.
Other great others include, but are not limited to, Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Mike Mignola, Andrew Peterson, Christopher Paolini, Jonothan Rogers, A. S. Peterson, Shakespeare, and Helena Sorensen. Orson Scott Card has written some good stuff too, but he has also written some bad stuff.
Agree exept for N. D. Wilson is better.
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Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Deborah Harkness is also a really good female sci-fi/fantasy writer.
She sounds familiar, what has she written?
The All Souls trilogy (Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and Book of Life) and a sequel called Time’s Convert. They’re about a witch and a vampire who fall in love and travel thru time.
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Mercedes Lackey did a YA trilogy a few years back that was Hunter, Elite, and Apex.
Takes place is a world where things are modern (and slightly ahead of here) but they have to deal with all manner of beings from myth and folklore. Brings in all manner of stuff both familiar and unfamiliar -- tommyknockers, for example.
Shannon Mayer uses a lot of it in her Rylee Adamson/Elemental/Questing Witch stuff -- which is like 15 books across three series, lol. But it really gets interesting because a lot of traditional stuff is treated well.
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I have only read one book by Helena Sorensen, The Door On Half-Bald Hill, but it was pretty good and I want to find more of her books. It was set in a dark and dying fantasy world and she incorporated a lot of Celtic mythology into it. Things like Ollamhs, Banshees, Fir Bolg and the Pookas.
Another good source for mythological inspiration is Tolkien and books written about his works. There are tons of books about what inspired Tolkien while some of it is obvious, there are other more obscure legends that influenced his work.
Something to note, if you can all forgive the pedant…
Irish, Briton, Scots, Iceni, Several Germanic, and some Balkan myths and folklore are all Celtic or Celt, and they are not a unified mythology — not even among the gods or the culture heroes.
Irish myths are a class of their own, and the Mabinogion is considered the main source for it. Brythonic myth and folklore, prior to the Romans, is even less well known (and this is where we get the legends of druids from — nearly 3,000 years ago), but we do have many Neolithic recoveries that shed light on much of their life, including the Druids and their tendency towards human sacrifice and live burial.
Germanic myths (more truly Celtic) are often intermingled with Irish and. Ruth o ic because of the successive waves of Ibero-Celts (Angles, Saxons, others) that drew the Germanic myths with them, which in turn blended with or supplanted the Brythonic and even Pictish folklore (after the Romans), and then there were the northern Germanic and southern Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Finnish myths that filled in even more places.
Irish myths, however, had a bit more staying power, in part because of the rather gory history, lol, but also because they were less overwhelmed with the invasions, and so remained more true to their heritage.
Scots and Welsh (along with Isle of Man) hold more closely there, to those traditions, while Britain essentially became an amalgam (and produced King Arthur in the 1200’s from the sum of it).
The Celtic culture, grown from the hallstat culture which in turn arose from the earlier Urnfeld culture. The areas in Green are what one is referring to when one says Celtic, as it is a group of different cultures that share common language bounds.
now, note that there is a really light green area on the coast between Spain and France — that is the Basque region, and they have a very distinct and isolated language that is outside the Celtic frame (Basques have a really cool folklore as well, but it is being lost 🙁).
For how Celts got there, you start on the right, in the small green area in Anatolia (presently Turkey), you bounce to the tiny dapple on the edge of the sea, and then they went in and took over all the rest in a series of waves that led to a blending with the culture that is yellow, creating Celts as we understand all their variety today.
sorry for this. But I thought you all would like this because knowing it helps you to learn more about the different myth patterns and folklore.
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Yeah, I have heard about the vampire vegetables and was about to write about them. A cool villain would be an evil gardener (maybe a vampire) and the players have to navigate his garden of death. Fill the garden with dangerous and poisonous plants, like the ones you wrote about. Maybe give the gardener a poisonous daughter named Beatrice.
I am pretty sure Terry Pratchett wrote about vampire vegetables in one of his books.
I just have one word for you:
AMBROSIA
sticking out ur gyat for the rizzler
PM me the word TOMATO🍅
If so, haven’t seen that yet, but that kinda sounds like Pratchett. Very random but INCREDIBLE ideas that make so much and so little sense.
Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Extended Signiture
Did your Terry Pratchett radar summon you here?
(You are probably subscribed)
sticking out ur gyat for the rizzler
PM me the word TOMATO🍅
Yes and no, I love Pratchett, but I got here b/c I am a mythology nerd.
Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Extended Signiture
Pratchett is one of the best authors.
N. D. Wilson is better though.
Other great others include, but are not limited to, Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Mike Mignola, Andrew Peterson, Christopher Paolini, Jonothan Rogers, A. S. Peterson, Shakespeare, and Helena Sorensen. Orson Scott Card has written some good stuff too, but he has also written some bad stuff.
Agree exept for N. D. Wilson is better.
Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Extended Signiture
What about Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) and George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones)?
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Have you read N. D. Wilson?
I haven't read them.
A bit, Pratchett was a genius. You may like N. D. Wilson, but my favourite is Pratchett. Agree to disagree.
Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Extended Signiture
They are both geniuses. It is fine if you think Pratchett is better, he is really good. What books have you read by Wilson?
Dont really remember.
Mx. Otter (They/them/theirs)
Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
Extended Signiture
Deborah Harkness is also a really good female sci-fi/fantasy writer.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
She sounds familiar, what has she written?
The All Souls trilogy (Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and Book of Life) and a sequel called Time’s Convert. They’re about a witch and a vampire who fall in love and travel thru time.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Mercedes Lackey did a YA trilogy a few years back that was Hunter, Elite, and Apex.
Takes place is a world where things are modern (and slightly ahead of here) but they have to deal with all manner of beings from myth and folklore. Brings in all manner of stuff both familiar and unfamiliar -- tommyknockers, for example.
Shannon Mayer uses a lot of it in her Rylee Adamson/Elemental/Questing Witch stuff -- which is like 15 books across three series, lol. But it really gets interesting because a lot of traditional stuff is treated well.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
I have only read one book by Helena Sorensen, The Door On Half-Bald Hill, but it was pretty good and I want to find more of her books. It was set in a dark and dying fantasy world and she incorporated a lot of Celtic mythology into it. Things like Ollamhs, Banshees, Fir Bolg and the Pookas.
Another good source for mythological inspiration is Tolkien and books written about his works. There are tons of books about what inspired Tolkien while some of it is obvious, there are other more obscure legends that influenced his work.
Something to note, if you can all forgive the pedant…
Irish, Briton, Scots, Iceni, Several Germanic, and some Balkan myths and folklore are all Celtic or Celt, and they are not a unified mythology — not even among the gods or the culture heroes.
Irish myths are a class of their own, and the Mabinogion is considered the main source for it. Brythonic myth and folklore, prior to the Romans, is even less well known (and this is where we get the legends of druids from — nearly 3,000 years ago), but we do have many Neolithic recoveries that shed light on much of their life, including the Druids and their tendency towards human sacrifice and live burial.
Germanic myths (more truly Celtic) are often intermingled with Irish and. Ruth o ic because of the successive waves of Ibero-Celts (Angles, Saxons, others) that drew the Germanic myths with them, which in turn blended with or supplanted the Brythonic and even Pictish folklore (after the Romans), and then there were the northern Germanic and southern Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Finnish myths that filled in even more places.
Irish myths, however, had a bit more staying power, in part because of the rather gory history, lol, but also because they were less overwhelmed with the invasions, and so remained more true to their heritage.
Scots and Welsh (along with Isle of Man) hold more closely there, to those traditions, while Britain essentially became an amalgam (and produced King Arthur in the 1200’s from the sum of it).
The Celtic culture, grown from the hallstat culture which in turn arose from the earlier Urnfeld culture. The areas in Green are what one is referring to when one says Celtic, as it is a group of different cultures that share common language bounds.
now, note that there is a really light green area on the coast between Spain and France — that is the Basque region, and they have a very distinct and isolated language that is outside the Celtic frame (Basques have a really cool folklore as well, but it is being lost 🙁).
For how Celts got there, you start on the right, in the small green area in Anatolia (presently Turkey), you bounce to the tiny dapple on the edge of the sea, and then they went in and took over all the rest in a series of waves that led to a blending with the culture that is yellow, creating Celts as we understand all their variety today.
sorry for this. But I thought you all would like this because knowing it helps you to learn more about the different myth patterns and folklore.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds