Author: Brie “Beau” Sheldon

Inspired writing by a friend of mine. Has anyone hear of this game “Mythender” before?

Originally shared by Michael Ostrokol

(If I had any talent at video editing, I’d turn this pitch I just wrote into a trailer set to Mars, the Bringer of War)

Your world is a story

And all stories – all Myths – must end

 

Yggdrasil, the World Tree

Nine Worlds lay nestled in its boughs

With countless more strewn broken beneath

Nourishing its roots.

 

Worlds, like fruit, grow ripe and rot on the tree

They must fall, lest the tree suffer

They must fall to be reborn

 

A dance of death and rebirth

A cycle, for worlds as for people

 

Your world has grown fat, ripe for the reaping

Its glory has passed on

Its people suffer under the yoke of oppressive gods

Their technology, though mighty, can no longer tame its beasts

And its ever-encroaching wild places

 

The world is a Myth, and it feels its own passing

 

Twelve gods rule your realm

Twelve beams moor it to the world tree

 

Break the beams

Slay the gods

End the world

 

Become a Mythender

Become Armageddon.