Festival of the Gods

[bearshermark]

Who: Eleven and OTA (everyone is invited!)
Where: Temple District
When: September 10th, Sundown- Evening
What: A Question of Belief Adventure Festival!
Warnings: Unlikely

[ooc: prompts in the comments! please feel free to make your own starters off the temple tours and festival streets prompts if you'd like! As this is a culmination of Eleven's adventure, I am going to make every effort to tag everyone that tags in]

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[bearshermark]

[That gets his attention swiftly. Eleven turns his full attention on Loki, brows drawing together]

Atop its branches.. I've been to Yggdrasil and flown around Her, but while there's certainly a generous canopy, I've never seen anything above Her branches.

[whose_son_am_i]

Is she a literal tree in your world then? In mine, she is a collection of 9 realms--9 different worlds, all branching out as one galaxy.

[bearshermark]

[It takes a good minute to envision in the way Loki describes it- a little beyond him, even. A more cosmic version of Yggdrasil]

..Yes. She hangs in the sky- the source of all life and light on Erdrea. Each life is a leaf on Her branches.

(I messed up a detail in the earlier tag, plz pretend I didn't >.< )

[whose_son_am_i]

Hmm. A view of it can be seen from some of the Nine Realms, but not all. Do any of them sound familiar too? Asgard, which is seen as the head, and brings order to the rest of the nine realms. Above it lies Muspelheim, and near it lies Vanaheim, as does Alfheim, and Nidavellir. Below these, but still higher up lies Jotunheim. Lower down, the cosmic nimbus of planets that spiral around to form Yggdrasil and orbits Midgard. Some call it Earth. Lower still lie Svartalfheim and Niflheim.

[It was a lot of information that Loki just gave to El, he'll give him a moment to process.]

no worries

[bearshermark]

[Eleven hesitates. None of them sound familiar save for the last]

Ah, there's a city in my world called Sniflheim. It's cold, in the far north. I haven't heard of any of the others.

Re: no worries

[whose_son_am_i]

Niflheim is the realm of primordial mist and ice, so I suppose that correlates. I wonder even more now, about your world and its influences to have that crossover, yet nothing else.

[bearshermark]

[Eleven hums shortly, then shrugs]

It is curious. How strange to think that your Yggdrasil isn't a real tree, too.

[whose_son_am_i]

What about the gods in you world?

[bearshermark]

[He tips his head]

While there are a handful of other spiritual beliefs, Yggdrasil is our Goddess. Each of our lives is a leaf on Her branches.

[whose_son_am_i]

Whereas in ours, it is simply the way to conceptualize how the nine realms exist as part of each other, and a recognition of how to travel between them. A 'tree of life' in metaphor. It is the Norns who weave the fate of all, from Yggdrasil's base in Urðarbrunnr.

[bearshermark]

[It's a lot to wrap one's mind around, and so Eleven falls quiet for a good minute doing just that]

..I wonder how that all came to be- both in my world and yours. A strange coincidence that they share a name.

[whose_son_am_i]

There are other worlds that do know of mine. I've been recognized by name from a few of their myths, so perhaps there is some 'thread' that weaves Yggsdrasil and the concept of it throughout the multiverse.

[bearshermark]

[He smiles]

Oh, so you're a mythical figure, too? But known throughout multiple worlds. That can't be easy.

[whose_son_am_i]

I'm known in my home 'world', in this case encompassing the nine realms and beyond. But this is the first new 'universe' or I suppose dimension?--that I've been to. It's been interesting to find that some people from the various other dimensions know of me, and others do not.

[There's a smile, and a little bit of an ironic half-bow.]

Back home I am the God of Mischief, a Trickster.

[bearshermark]

[Eleven blinks, pausing in his step]

A God? [A minor one by the sounds of it, but even still, he can't help but feel a touch more self-conscious]

The magic that pulled us here must be quite powerful.

[whose_son_am_i]

I agree, which is why I plan to study it intensely.

[Along with the other magics here. Because how DARE they be stronger than his own. Nope--he was a master of Magic, and he would master the magics here.]