Friday Night Game Report - Yggdrasill RPG Session 14

[jkahane]

Here is the fourteenth session report on the Friday night Yggdrasill game campaign. This session was played last night, and is the most recent game session of the Friday group. You can read about the previous session of the campaign in this journal entry. This post is somewhat long, so I've put it behind a cut so that folks who don't want to

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You're Drag Sill

[knightbane]

Very cool write up of the session, Mr. K. Nice little adventure and set up of a deeper mystery as well? Hmmmmm...

Re: You're Drag Sill

[jkahane]

Yeah, there are omens and portents all over the place in that game session, something the players (notably Joanne's volva) picked up on. Has them worried.

For me, the roleplaying in this particular session was just superb. Players have really got it going on during the Friday night sessions, and the characters they're playing in Yggdrasill are just remarkable.

Thanks for the kind comments, Tim. Much obliged. :)

Re: You're Drag Sill

[knightbane]

I foresee a character death or two coming up in the next few sessions. With omens that heavy it can lead up to one or two things that is stirring in my mind.

Ravens are a precursor to bloodshed, battle, and also letting our heroes know that one of them has been picked by Hel.

Re: You're Drag Sill

[jkahane]

I honestly don't know whether any of the player characters will die, though the players told me after we finished gaming on Friday night that they saw various changes coming to the shape of their campaign, so we'll see about character deaths...

As for ravens... In Norse mythology, Huginn (from the Old Norse for "thought") and Muninn (Old Norse for "memory" or "mind") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring the god Odin information. Additionally among the Norse, Raven banner standards were carried by such figures as the Jarls of Orkney,King Cnut the Great of England, Norway and Denmark,and Harald Hardrada.

And then, in Sweden, ravens are known as the ghosts of murdered people, and in Germany as the souls of the damned. In Danish folklore, valravne that ate a king's heart gained human knowledge, could perform great malicious acts, could lead people astray, had superhuman powers, and were "terrible animals".

So, all sorts of potential for ravens in the Yggdrasill that might or might not be standardised