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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8658835" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>These are animistic nature beings, not "gods" in the English sense of term. That said.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My favorite nature personas are:</p><p></p><p>• Baldr (daylight − and by extension knowledge, truth, and beauty)</p><p>• Freyr (sex − and by extension peace, agriculture, and wealth − also magic)</p><p>• Þórr (storm − and by extension, defense, oaths, honor)</p><p>• Loki (entanglement − I still cant decide if he is good or evil, but I feel he isnt neutral, as his antics have a longterm cosmic agenda)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I am kinda getting into:</p><p></p><p>• Njǫrðr (coastlands)</p><p>• Ullr (wilderness)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Among the less wellknown nature beings, I love the primordial elementals:</p><p></p><p>• Logi (fire)</p><p>• Hlér (water)</p><p>• Kári (air)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I suppose Jǫrð (earth) qualifies as an earth elemental but she is conceptually unrelated to these three.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I love the jǫtnar, especially the cliff risar that are the personas of specific mountains. Known for beauty, strength, and magic. The modern Norwegian concept of troll ultimately derives from these, but it also mixes in the grotesque þursar. So, trolls who are enchantingly beautiful and who are scary ugly are both members of the same nuclear family. Note, even tho jǫtnar can manifest as big as a mountain, or even a continent, most jǫtnar are normal human size. There are stories where one sibling is human size and an other sibling is many meters tall.</p><p></p><p>I especially love the story of Barðr Snæfellsáss, the mind of a specific mountain in Norway who decided to project into the form of a mortal human, but then got homesick, and became the mind of a different mountain in Iceland.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>When trying to translate the Norse concept into D&D, the personas are psionic minds of natural features in the material plane. The features of nature are a specific mountain, stream, weather pattern, etcetera. These normal aspects of nature have the elemental creature type but are native to the material plane. In D&D terms, they are psionically awake. Only some aspects of nature have a strong mind, and these material elementals mainly interact with humans psionically. A river flows because the elemental likes to flow and wants to flow. The elementals rarely do what they dont want to do, and are mostly just normal features of nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8658835, member: 58172"] These are animistic nature beings, not "gods" in the English sense of term. That said. My favorite nature personas are: • Baldr (daylight − and by extension knowledge, truth, and beauty) • Freyr (sex − and by extension peace, agriculture, and wealth − also magic) • Þórr (storm − and by extension, defense, oaths, honor) • Loki (entanglement − I still cant decide if he is good or evil, but I feel he isnt neutral, as his antics have a longterm cosmic agenda) I am kinda getting into: • Njǫrðr (coastlands) • Ullr (wilderness) Among the less wellknown nature beings, I love the primordial elementals: • Logi (fire) • Hlér (water) • Kári (air) I suppose Jǫrð (earth) qualifies as an earth elemental but she is conceptually unrelated to these three. I love the jǫtnar, especially the cliff risar that are the personas of specific mountains. Known for beauty, strength, and magic. The modern Norwegian concept of troll ultimately derives from these, but it also mixes in the grotesque þursar. So, trolls who are enchantingly beautiful and who are scary ugly are both members of the same nuclear family. Note, even tho jǫtnar can manifest as big as a mountain, or even a continent, most jǫtnar are normal human size. There are stories where one sibling is human size and an other sibling is many meters tall. I especially love the story of Barðr Snæfellsáss, the mind of a specific mountain in Norway who decided to project into the form of a mortal human, but then got homesick, and became the mind of a different mountain in Iceland. When trying to translate the Norse concept into D&D, the personas are psionic minds of natural features in the material plane. The features of nature are a specific mountain, stream, weather pattern, etcetera. These normal aspects of nature have the elemental creature type but are native to the material plane. In D&D terms, they are psionically awake. Only some aspects of nature have a strong mind, and these material elementals mainly interact with humans psionically. A river flows because the elemental likes to flow and wants to flow. The elementals rarely do what they dont want to do, and are mostly just normal features of nature. [/QUOTE]
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