Mysteries Of The World

An blog of inspirational media for Scion 2e, a game modern mythology. Main account is @enddaysengine

[kawadastudios]

The first alternative sprites for Athena's default outfit.

Making sprites is hard work. In total, Athena has 28 sprites for her default outfit, along with 7 for her fencing outfit and 4 for her pond outfit. (You'll get to see those at a later date.)

With each new draft of the demo, we were able to trim her default outfit from 40 expressions down to the final 28. Some, such as her hand-over-mouth expression, are only used in a single scene. Others, like her happy or angry expressions, appear throughout the demo. After all, even a goddess has her off days.

[vichugos]

FINISHED Ishtar 🙏 beautiful bird lady

[neon-elliot]

Odysseys drawing his bow

[lhoandbehold]

The full saga of Margie and the Nuns (so far). Realised I never compiled these in one place.! Also, bonus Margies!

[manticoremedusaminotaur]

So many ways to maze.

[herringherringbones]

Dragon letting off some steam on a telephone pole. The breeze must be nice up there.

[unassimilatedsoul]

"What do we do, boss?"

"We go on lunch, that's what."

"But what about the..."

"The dragon will leave when she's good and ready."

"Shouldn't we, I don't know, get her to move?"

"...Do you want to go up there and poke a dragon?"

"..."

"Gyros?"

[portalibis]

Isis presumably with Serapis, 1stC BC-1stC AD, British Museum

[enddaysengine]

Scion 3e Announced!

If you didn’t catch it today, we are working on Scion Third Edition! I say we, because your’s truly has wrangled his way into writing the Antagonists and Monsters - so yeah, that pretty freaking cool.

Not much in the way of details yet, but it will be a Storypath Ultra game, core will combine Origin and Hero, into one book, and it will feature ten Pantheons: Æsir, Bogovi, Deva, Loa, Kami, Netjer, Shen, Teotl, Theoi, Tuatha.

More than that, we are Fatebound not to say. But keep your eyes peeled and we hope to see you for crowdfunding in 2027!

[ullathynell]

Tree House, 2025. A closer look at one of the new illustrations I made for my art book Faraway Dreaming, published earlier this year by Atthis Arts. I used mixed media for all the illustrations in the book, combining traditional ink drawing and digital coloring.

[michaelhirshon]

Oh Great Bull

[collegeoftheholyspirit]

HERE

A young woman who has inherited the care of ere ibeji from her father’s mother. The figures were carved by Oje of Aga’s compound, Ila-Orangun, about 1925.

Isedo Quarter, Ila-Orangun, Nigeria, 1974.

Photograph by J. Pemberton 3rd.

Scanned from • Yoruba, Nine centuries of African art and thought, 1989.

[lamaery]

A fairly quick study from yesterday. Sadly I am not sure anymore, where exactly I got the reference from. It was very likely from https://www.fatphotoref.com I just really adore the regality and elegance of her pose.

[memories-of-ancients]

The Ancient Mayan Sport Making a Comeback

from BBC World

[kyberinthevoid]

I hate that “chat” now makes people think of chatgpt. no. I’m asking my imaginary greek chorus twitch audience.

[byjove]

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

[byjove]

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

[byjove]

YEAH EXACTLY

[byjove]

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

[emptyheadmybeloved]

hold on i need to look this up

[byjove]

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

[byjove]

[1five1two]

'The Metamorphosis of Daphne'. Trapani, Italy. Coral figure; with gilt-copper mounts; on a later square wood base. 17th century.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Fun fact: Egyptian gods do not have ‘animal heads’. The depictions of gods are meant to contain a duality, as is important in Egyptian Religion (life/death, red land/black land, chaos/order, human/animal). So when you see, say, Anubis with a man’s body and a Jackal head it represents both his human form and his Jackal form, meaning he might appear in either form. But never as a human with a Jackal head. That is only something you’d see on temple walls for the duality aspect.

[ezairick]

How di you know??

I mean it sounds likely but where are you getting your information from?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I’m an Egyptologist? This is literally my job.

But if you want a source, read: Silverman, D. (1991) Divinity and Deities in Ancient Egypt, In J. Baines, L. Lesko, & D. Silverman, Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 7-87.

[ezairick]

Thanks for the sources.

I had just never heard about that fact before.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

No worries! (I realise I put a full stop instead of an exclamation mark at the end of “this is literally my job” which might have sounded harsh, so I apologise!)

[imboredofthisurl]

This is a very pure interaction

[unyanizedcatboys]

this is exactly how you should react to hearing new information that you’re skeptical of or don’t immediately believe is true