#ttw lore

[emedeme]

Do you have specific designs in mind for each type of Nymph?( dryads, naiads etc)

oh i love this questioonnn 🎶

I picture them as very elemental creatures, very connected to Gaia, Pontos, and the greater entities of the world... So that's why they have more natural and animal features than gods and humans.

We've already met Amphitrite and Aenon and they're the perfect Oceanids. Scaly skin, large fins, a strong tail, flowy hair... The Naiads, their river cousins, are very similar, but I picture them smaller and nimble, since they don't need to brave the open seas!

Then we have the Earth people - Oreads, mountain nymphs, Dryads, the guardians of the forests, and Satyrs!

I imagine the Oreads like a pocket version of the rock people from the Neverending Story (lol), with stone-like skin and very sturdy. We'll have some dryads, flower and tree nymphs during the story, but they take so much from Gaia physically and resemble her a lot. And then we've got Satyrs - we'll see both male and female satyrs around. They're loud and fun but very loyal (some of the first to join the rebellion), muscly and always ready to go.

This was a really fun practice to decompress hehe ✨ Thank you!!

[emedeme]

I like how monumental and massive Gaia and Uranus feel. They're on a different level from gods and titans - I wanted them to be the embodiment of greater entities, love how imposing they feel when you compare them to our tiny protags 😂

[emedeme]

Going through the time wars webcomic. I don't remember much from Greek mythology. Can you please explain like I'm five what specific the series is based on?

Hi non, thanks for reading! 💕

The Time Wars is a retelling of the Titanomachy, the myth about how the young Olympian gods defeated the previous generation (the Titans) and became the new rulers of the world.

Cronos and Rhea had six children: Demeter, Hestia, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus. He feared one of his kids would overthrow him (like he did with his own father lol) so he ate them... Except for Zeus, who was hidden as a baby and when he was grown up he returned to release his siblings.

That's where The Time Wars begins - except I'm taking some creative liberties and instead of inside Cronos's belly the gods were trapped in a timeless capsule in a cave until Dias (Zeus) rescues them.

As I said, it's a retelling, so some characters from Greek mythology/Hesiod's Theogony might appear and some might not, or be a bit different, and there might also be some original characters. They're also my personal interpretation of the gods and other characters, and I made some alterations and inserts depending on what I feel the story needs. But SUMMING IT UP: it's a war between a the younger generation of gods and their predecessors.

My comic is an action/fantasy story... with a lot of drama and tragedy on the horizon with teenage heroes being forced to be soldiers and make adult decisions too soon. It's also an exploration of generational trauma, with the mistakes and baggage of their parents and grandparents following them and shaping them up, and how to break free of it (or at least, try to heal).

[emedeme]

re: character names. does Persephone ever call her husband Aidoneus?

Hiii! Guess this is a sort of follow up to this 👀

The Hades and Persephone story that I'm currently writing will be a direct sequel to The Time Wars. By then, Hades has been "Hades" for A LONG TIME and in that story he's only called "Aidoneus" twice by people who knew him as a boy (spoilers out of context: by Cronos and Prometheus)

People who know him after he moved to the Underworld don't really have that kind of knowledge/closeness? But I think Persephone might call him "Aidoneus" in certain important and intimate contexts, tho it doesn't happen often!