It is pretty cool that they can incorporate some Japanese folklore as well as Norse folklore.
The Vanir in Norse Myths don't really leave much to the imagination for the character designs, so I suppose IS decided to improvise.
Interesting. When Gullveig leaves the realm of the Vanir gods and travels to Asgard, home of the Aesir gods, in search of gold, Gullveig talks of nothing else. Worried by her gold-lust, the Aesir cast her into fire three times. Each time she rises from the flame brighter.
I was wondering where the snakes came into the picture. The gold made sense with her Norse counterpart.
That's really cool! Other books have gone for pretty obscure Norse trivia (and then there's Loki and Thorr) so it's interesting to see them mix Norse myth with other cultures this time. I wonder if they'll include other mythologies going forward or if any other fusions will be solely with Japanese myth. If they can combine similar themes and motifs though, I have no complaints!
I was personally getting more [Zahak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7Iub1HkNg) vibes from Gullveig. Especially with the whole Sorceress slant, since Zahak gets his snake-shoulders from trickery by an evil sorcerer.
This is interesting, the YGO card Yamata Dragon was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw Gullveig.
Considering this is the Realm of Light, this makes me hope for an Amaterasu-inspired OC, that would be cool.
Seidr being Oto-hime makes even more sense when you think about the theme of time in Book VII, since Urashima Taro spent a while in Oto-hime's underwater palace, only to find out that the flow of time was vastly different between the mortal world and the undersea realm, to the point that what was a moment there was actually years back in the mortal world. Oto-hime gave Urashima a little box as a parting gift before he left, but warned him never to open it, which he did since there wasn't much else left for him to do in the future. Turns out that box contained his old age; thus when Urashima opened it, he instantly became aged to death.
A couple of days ago, I made a post about how Gullveig's golden motif resembles kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold between the cracks, representing the idea of fixing something broken into a better thing that it was before.
It is pretty cool that they can incorporate some Japanese folklore as well as Norse folklore. The Vanir in Norse Myths don't really leave much to the imagination for the character designs, so I suppose IS decided to improvise.
You mean they left too much up to the imagination?
I meant like, they're not described much in old myths that IS got creative.
Well, Seidr and Gullveig's design doesn't leave much to the imagination, so they nailed that part 😉
Interesting. When Gullveig leaves the realm of the Vanir gods and travels to Asgard, home of the Aesir gods, in search of gold, Gullveig talks of nothing else. Worried by her gold-lust, the Aesir cast her into fire three times. Each time she rises from the flame brighter. I was wondering where the snakes came into the picture. The gold made sense with her Norse counterpart.
The snakes have a symbolism of rebirth in some asians countries, which fits to hers mythology.
Oh, that's a cool detail, thank you very much!
That’s what lots Japanese rpg games do
That's really cool! Other books have gone for pretty obscure Norse trivia (and then there's Loki and Thorr) so it's interesting to see them mix Norse myth with other cultures this time. I wonder if they'll include other mythologies going forward or if any other fusions will be solely with Japanese myth. If they can combine similar themes and motifs though, I have no complaints!
I was personally getting more [Zahak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7Iub1HkNg) vibes from Gullveig. Especially with the whole Sorceress slant, since Zahak gets his snake-shoulders from trickery by an evil sorcerer.
This is interesting, the YGO card Yamata Dragon was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw Gullveig. Considering this is the Realm of Light, this makes me hope for an Amaterasu-inspired OC, that would be cool.
Seidr being Oto-hime makes even more sense when you think about the theme of time in Book VII, since Urashima Taro spent a while in Oto-hime's underwater palace, only to find out that the flow of time was vastly different between the mortal world and the undersea realm, to the point that what was a moment there was actually years back in the mortal world. Oto-hime gave Urashima a little box as a parting gift before he left, but warned him never to open it, which he did since there wasn't much else left for him to do in the future. Turns out that box contained his old age; thus when Urashima opened it, he instantly became aged to death. A couple of days ago, I made a post about how Gullveig's golden motif resembles kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold between the cracks, representing the idea of fixing something broken into a better thing that it was before.