Greetings everyone! As y’all know, I have some free time, so lemme share this series of WIPS I’ve been doing! Basically a sequel to this piece, set in the same universe but focusing on the gods themselves. Here are the head honchos of the Pantheons, and representing the Great 9 Powers of the Universe.
For those of you that haven’t been following me for a while, basically what I’m working on is a world building project where what would happen if gods, djinns and angels were to manifest themselves into our material universe? And it the scale of the setting is the literal universe, with gods ruling galaxies and deconstructing the trope ‘humans are special’... by making us humans the “alien invaders” to everyone else. A lot of my other work can be seen here on my Deviantart.
The goal is to reinterpret world mythology in a science fantasy like setting, but I also aim to at least try to stay faithful as possible to the original myths, while weaving an over-arching plot. Some interpretations of myths will be combined for the sake of characterization and plot.
From top to bottom.
- Nammu (who is also Tiamat), The Archangel Michael and Retinue (He’s nice to his friends and even has the local giant monster as a “bodyguard”), and Kukulcan duking out with Tezcatlipoca
- The Jade Emperor, Vishnu the Preserver and Amaterasu, whose Kusanagi contains the spirit of the not-quite-dead Orochi.
- The classic trio of Ra (who is really fun to work with in this setting), Odin and Zeus (who has more of his myth-accurate jerkishness).
Also... Amongst them there is no true ‘bad guy’ faction... I’m not a big fan of that kind of stuff unless one faction composed entirely of ‘bad guys’.