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Marathon-Myth tangent
Posted By: Forrest of B.orgDate: 10/23/22 12:40 a.m.

In Response To: BREAKING NEWS (Miguelito)

: In the interests of roping in other side-IP, how cool would it be if they
: further explore the connection of Tycho to the Callieach in Myth? Matt's
: notes must be in some bin somewhere over there.

This reminds me of an idea I had recently that I'm surprised I don't recall hearing before:

The Marathon player-character is Destiny.
The creator of the world of Myth is Wyrd.
"Destiny" means fate.
"Wyrd" means fate.
Destiny is Wyrd.
The Marathon player-character is the creator of the world of Myth.

And of course the connection is dreams. The Marathon player-character dreams new timelines into being (or something) in Marathon Infinity, and magic in the world of Myth is called Dreams, with the world having been created from the One Dream.

Also, the Marathon player-character is hinted to have some kind of mythic cosmic counterpart, "The Dark One, the enemy and lover without whom [his] very existence would be pathetic and vulgar. ... [their] relationship is complex, and perhaps eternal". And Wyrd has Nyx, the goddess of Night, the time of darkness.

That inspired another thought in me that Myth should have been a trilogy that culminated in the impending return of the Old Gods -- who we learn were the original gods of that world, with whole races of people, before Wyrd and Nyx showed up and spattered a new creation on the face of theirs, fighting and eventually banishing them to an underworld in the process -- and a quest to reunite the One Dream, which has the intended effect of reincarnating Wyrd and Nyx, but so far as anyone can tell, just draws the whole world of Myth through some kind of portal in the sky, after which there are new stars, and the world is bent into a sphere (as in the Bending of the World in Tolkien's Akallabeth), and there are no signs of any gods, Dark or otherwise, anywhere. There aren't any answers to what any of this means. Something drastic has changed, the cycle of the Leveller has definitely been broken, but... what the heck does the future hold now? Implicitly, the new cosmos the Myth world has been drawn into is the same universe as the Marathon games... which is now effectively confirmed to be in the same multiverse as the Destiny games...

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BREAKING NEWSMiguelito 10/20/22 9:38 a.m.
     Re: BREAKING NEWSMiguelito 10/20/22 9:40 a.m.
     Re: BREAKING NEWSChlazza 10/20/22 9:59 a.m.
     Re: BREAKING NEWSGeneral-RADIX 10/20/22 11:39 a.m.
           Re: BREAKING NEWSChlazza 10/20/22 12:39 p.m.
                 Re: BREAKING NEWSMiguelito 10/20/22 7:03 p.m.
                 Re: BREAKING NEWSLion O Cyborg 10/30/22 12:44 p.m.
           Re: BREAKING NEWSBob-B-Q 10/21/22 8:39 a.m.
     Re: BREAKING NEWSVikingBoyBilly 10/20/22 1:44 p.m.
     Re: BREAKING NEWSTim "Mordeir" Branin 10/21/22 4:48 p.m.
           Re: BREAKING NEWSTim "Mordeir" Branin 10/21/22 4:56 p.m.
                 Re: BREAKING NEWSVikingBoyBilly 10/22/22 4:15 a.m.
                       Re: BREAKING NEWSTim "Mordeir" Branin 10/22/22 10:07 a.m.
     Marathon-Myth tangentForrest of B.org 10/23/22 12:40 a.m.
           Re: Marathon-Myth tangentGeneral-RADIX 10/25/22 9:44 a.m.

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