happy wbw! are there any myths in your wips? cryptids? any stories that parents would tell their kids to scare them into helping out around the house?
Happy WBW!
There's a whole pantheon in Eltya, so you bet there's myths! Here's what I have so far for myths:
Mother Hallya created the world, starting with the sky, then her children, then Eltya and the things in it
Dragia (the god/goddess *referred to as both* of magic and magical creatures) saved the world from monsters of dark magic, and as a reward, Hallya created astronomical events in the sky (meteor showers, eclipses, blood moons and blue moons, etc) that make magic stronger
One time, Dixy (goddess of entertainment and comedy) played a prank on her younger brother Undral, king of the underworld and god of the dead. He got so angry we went on a rampage through Eltya, causing natural disasters like earthquakes and volcano eruptions trying to find her and make her pay- until Mother Hallya stepped in and made them both apologize, then forbade Undral from leaving the underworld and Dixy from leaving the living world; which explains why there is no happiness or fun in the underworld and there's so much fear around death
That's it for myths right now, but more are sure to come
Cryptids (except some of them actually exist in Eltya)
There's a giant squid like sea creature called the Rumble, with almost indestructible skin and it's the size of a large battleship
There's a lot of sea serpents, but the biggest and baddest one is dark red and sailors call it "Bloody Marianne"
There's a giant orange fish the size of a ship that sailors call "Big Freddy Fish"
On the island with an active volcano, there's a huge immortal gorilla pirates and sailors call "King Gord"
In the woods of Goke (Snow's kingdom) there's rumors of a deer the size of a house with glowing eyes. No one's actually seen this one or found proof that it exists. They call it Dolly Mama.
There's a werewolf in the woods that used to be Farkle called Marmon. He's taller than two men standing on their shoulders, and leads most of the werewolves in the dark woods
People in Dinvirty are always talking about mountain trolls or blob monsters made out of snow
In Goke there's also these creatures that are a cross between snow leopards and saber tooth tigers up in the mountains wherever there's snow. Those are real and my mcs get to fight them. The biggest one is called The Blizzard cat.
Scary Stories Parents Tell Their Kids
You can't be out at night because that's when Undral rules and dark magic seeps out of it's hiding places, and they hunt children who are out at night, but adults are safe
Dark magic users can summon demons from the underworld and live in the woods, so stay out of the woods kids (this one is specific to the area where Farkle, the fallen kingdom, used to be and where everyone is still suspicious of magic and the dark woods). They also tell kids there's werewolves in there, but that part actually turns out to be true
There's a witch named Goo-Goo-Mi who captures children, turns them into crows, frogs, or snakes, and keeps them as pets.
Lots of stuff about getting eaten or taken away by the cryptids i listed above
That's all for now, thanks for the ask @loveimogen !
