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<blockquote data-quote="nogray" data-source="post: 5973199" data-attributes="member: 28028">With all the same caveats from before (reading the myths was a long time ago and whatnot), I took the crone to be old age in the same basic sense that (pulling from several mythologies) Thor is thunder, Ares is war, Shu is air/the sky, Mystra is magic, or Pelor is the sun. That is to say, it was &quot;just&quot; a wrestling contest between two deities or deity-level people, with no illusions required for that part.Besides, in the Norse myths, it's not like it's that hard to fool Thor. He may be a D&amp;D greater god, but the myths put him on a much more approachable and fallible level than even modern comics do. In fact, one of the companions of Thor and Loki in that adventure, if I recall correctly, was a normal man. That normal man participated in a race with Hugi (thought); though he did lose, it was a close matter.It's fun to talk about all these myths. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I hope it's not too off-topic with the rest of the thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nogray, post: 5973199, member: 28028"] With all the same caveats from before (reading the myths was a long time ago and whatnot), I took the crone to be old age in the same basic sense that (pulling from several mythologies) Thor is thunder, Ares is war, Shu is air/the sky, Mystra is magic, or Pelor is the sun. That is to say, it was "just" a wrestling contest between two deities or deity-level people, with no illusions required for that part. Besides, in the Norse myths, it's not like it's that hard to fool Thor. He may be a D&D greater god, but the myths put him on a much more approachable and fallible level than even modern comics do. In fact, one of the companions of Thor and Loki in that adventure, if I recall correctly, was a normal man. That normal man participated in a race with Hugi (thought); though he did lose, it was a close matter. It's fun to talk about all these myths. :) I hope it's not too off-topic with the rest of the thread. [/QUOTE]

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