@Tally @Rhi-Rhi So I was wanting to know if it would be possible to play around with some Adelan lore, and build some of its history? Perhaps even starting a new "Big Plot" for Adela. From what I can tell, the lore and culture of Adela is a bit sparser than, say, Serendipity or Connlaoth... But this is just from what I could find on the wiki or on "The World" Adela link. I'm a folklorist by "real world" trade (it's what I have my master's degree in), so I kind of love developing and working with lore. This would totally be my jam to work on in my free time.
Here's how I started to develop the plot:
I was thinking that Adela, as a warlike people, might have a culture similar to Scandinavia and Old Nordic culture. So "Old Adela" might have been
even more warlike than current Adela. I began to picture Old Adela as a time when various warbands worked with different dragons, and a time when the country was torn apart by war between gods, dragons, and men. So, for instance, one warband might work with black and green dragons, and would ride against another warband into battle.
The culture of the society would not have yet settled into the dichotomous gender stereotypes, as it's written in the SotE current culture, where men and women have their predetermined roles. Both men and women alike would have needed to fight for survival, so there were battlemaidens as feared and respected as warlords. Society would have been composed of warlords and chieftains fighting for power, land, women, and fortune. This would also be a time when gods walked among men- though now many people refer to the gods as spirits and not gods, just a matter of perception.
This would also be a time of Heroes and Heroines, though the lore over time reimagined many Heroines as Heroes as the gender roles solidified.
For this period to end, I imagined a Blood Witch Ylva terrorizing the land of men in attempt to bring Adela to its knees. Without unity, the Blood Witch pretty much was undefeatable, which is where my character(s) would come in. I created a demi-god war-maiden, Sigurn, who has been written down into lore as the Hero Sigurd, and her half-brothers Eluf and Stigr. Eluf and Stigr were turned into ravens by the Blood Witch, and Sigurn went to confront the Blood Witch at her fortress deep in the isolated reaches of the Thunderblacks. The only way to defeat Sigurn was to get her to ingest a part of the tree under which she was conceived.
The Blood Witch sent out two of her minions in disguise as Sigurn's brothers to meet her, tricking her into drinking from a cup made from the tree. Sigurn then fell into an endless sleep, though this sleep had repercussions on the witch as well, draining her of her power. And so Sigurn was cursed to this sleep until the time when the Blood Witch begins returning to power, though her return is just spoken of in rumors at first in the villages in the Thunderblacks. Sigurn will return to defeat the Blood Witch and return her brothers whole with the help of the noble warrior intended to reawaken her.
Here is a link to
Sigurn IdasdotterHere is a link to my first thread with Sigurn:
An End to the Endless Sleep So just let me know what you think about making this lore more official, or any other kind of collaborative lore building for Adela that I can do! :)