tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655963161146124083.post2041163768478701311..comments2023-08-12T03:35:25.761-04:00Comments on Apotheosis of the Invisible City: Need a quick scenario? Ravenswinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15326042326261485786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655963161146124083.post-31473677072603398382019-10-13T00:19:14.957-04:002019-10-13T00:19:14.957-04:00Heh, coming in late on this one, but yeah: just ab...Heh, coming in late on this one, but yeah: just about anything like that you can imagine someone else has imagined, somewhere down the years. Professional folklorists even have a numbering system where motifs are catalogued; Cinderella, for instance, is 510A, a subset of the "Persecuted Heroine" motif. Get your hands on the index (http://oaks.nvg.org/folktale-types.html is a reduction of it online) and there are all manner of plots and folklore elements at your fingertips!Ravenswinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15326042326261485786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655963161146124083.post-82430759513361347122019-06-06T22:58:01.843-04:002019-06-06T22:58:01.843-04:00Oh man!
The Soul-bird thing is EXACTLY what Griff...Oh man!<br /><br />The Soul-bird thing is EXACTLY what Griffons are in my world.<br /><br />It's a long story, but in short: There're some floating islands over a very dense, very large, very dangerous jungle. The horned catfolk below fight an endless war with the wingless bird-like people from the islands above. The wingless bird-like people are born at the same time as a griffon egg hatches in the jungle, the griffon is the soul-mate of the baby. If the bird-like person dies, the griffon dies, but the reverse isn't true. Because of that, there's a whole culture around the father diving in the jungle to retrieve the baby griffon when he knows it's time, and of castes - people without griffons are subcitizens because they can't move effectively in and between the floating islands and giant pillars that the entire race live.<br /><br />I never thought that this existed as folklore in real life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15239528631641406526noreply@blogger.com