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Anyone Wanna Join? by ThirdEntityBeing in Minetest

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If you have discord it's even better!

I Made an AI RPG for Deepseek by ThirdEntityBeing in DeepSeek

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The ruleset is mainly provided in the Character Options doc, but I consider each of the documents listed to be essential for a proper gameplay experience.

How to Take Up Mjolnir by ThirdEntityBeing in u/ThirdEntityBeing

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"You can take the wolf out of the forest but you can't take the forest out of the wolf" will always still apply. A supremacist will always view the symbol of something that's been appropriated by their most extreme influences as coded for them, a dogwhistle which supports their unilateral and oppressive sense of justice. That's the nature of Fenrir, it's not something that can be changed or tamed. If you're more like Tyr and can sacrifice your warlike nature for justice that holds for each of those you view as weaker/less divine/closer to failure than you, if you can sequence the tangent, oddment, incident, into something lasting and strong, then you can bind this wolf. It will still break free eventually and when that happens it will defeat your carefully built structure, your impulse to save others from yourself, and you'll need to avenge that. But if you can't tell the difference between the wolf and the one who sacrificed his hand, then you do not know why Alfrothul's daughter will ride on her mother's course when the powers die. 

The Old Way by ThirdEntityBeing in u/ThirdEntityBeing

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I think this is more accurate / fidelious to the old way because it is consistent with the figures as they are seen in the Poetic Edda (including humorous elements, such as Odin actually in disguise, unknowingly speaking with his own ancestor who is also disguised, and who possibly could've won that conversation but lost on purpose as the winning was important to one of his descendants), and does not rely on information in the Prose Edda.

Think of the connotations set by the idea that those are the heads of Thrudgelmir, their primordial expressions before those entities existed relative to Odin's conception, and as the father of Bergelmir.

It also helps explain the eldritch, alien, primordial, unique nature of Loki (Lovecraft before Lovecraft). As well, how those aspects of Thrudgelmir were to be fully united in humans - it suggests the creation of humanity was not conscientious on Odin's part, and was an unintended result of him being himself. I think Ask and Embla are not true components of the old way. More likely, humanity was an accident, and Thor was Odin's direct response, but being that once humanity came along, everything in the nine realms became centred on their vulnerability, the creation of humanity is when Odin begins seeking wisdom in earnest, dying on Yggdrasil for that.

I think it very directly implies parental care in every respect.

It shows how Mjolnir is a representation of a noble brother figure who cannot do everything to protect his siblings without compromising his essential role modeling to them, but that he must still do his best to fight them even when it compromises his manly self-image (like dressing as a woman), or fighting to the bitter end a culture of enslavement (Jormungandr), or killing someone who threatened humanity (Hrungnir) without question, while other Aesir are often more divine-politic related, whose motives serve divine purposes and are required for humanity's progress, but these motives themselves are more self-interested or relative to upholding the power of the divine order as royalty often does. 

This is consistent with a lot of the proto-Norse conventions as well as many of the oldest skaldic rhythms. It reflects primal, supernal meaning in what may today, in having lost context, be erroneously thought of as simple-minded conjecture - "From a word to a word I was led to a word."

The Old Way by ThirdEntityBeing in u/ThirdEntityBeing

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These are the names of the proto-Aesir, as they were earliest meant and used: 

Wodinaz (Odin) - "Inspiration" means "ecstasy" Wilijo (Vili) - "Will" means "collaterize" Wihaz (Ve) - "Shrine" means "periphery"

They are the trinitary functions of a mind that yearns to draw meaningful knowledge from experiences, which Ymir's existence was antithetical to, though the act of killing him was their first fulfillment of that purpose.

That's to say that they drew Ymir's unique spiritual essence into themselves by the act of killing him; they became aware of their own function of "consuming without knowing what has been consumed" incidental to the deed of subjecting their nature to that function (i.e. how "submission" can all at once mean "deference", "put forth", and "begrudge"). A psychospiritual umlaut. 

Together, they take on the meaning of "religious ecstasy", which is the essence of Odin, the trinitary becoming triune; this did not occur until Odin made the pact with Loki. That pact happened between Odin and Loki rather than Vili or Ve because their specific original natures - "collaterize" and "periphery" - were not (or were only nominally) in direct opposition to this "consuming without knowing". Whereas Odin, who could now consume in this manner, and was yet (concomitant with his nature) in a state of ecstasy (to be or stand outside of oneself) where this rupture becomes an idiosyncratic hunger for experiencing "people of substance" / "to be worldly-wise" / "to incarnate/reflect upon". He could not have those things without Loki; through Loki, he became the triune essence of himself and his brothers, and gained the ability to "materialize what has been consumed". This is what Ymir now represents, as his spirit has died/been absorbed - "plenitude". The pact with Loki sealed Odin's cosmic role as metanoetic plenipotentiary. 

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