Well I've been a lurker so far, but I think I need to post something so my account doesn't go inactive, so here's a poem about gods.... Many of the lines are supposed to be indented, but the formatting disappears when I post it. Not sure how to fix that, so I've added some punctuation and spacing to clarify it.
Four are the gods of the mountaintop:
the crowned god;
the god of the sky in summer;
the god of the fast river
and small fish swimming upstream;
and the one eyed god
whose face is the sun
that gives no warmth but too much light
Five are the gods of the valley:
the bearded god;
the god of long roads;
the god of the earth in winter;
the god of smooth stones
and dry leaves on still water;
and the grey eyed god
whose Janus head
faces the mountains and the sea
Lovely poem. It has a nice feel, asymmetrical and organic. I'd like to hear more about your setting, as this piece looks promising.
I second Mr. Threat's sentiments. It really is a lovely poem, and I'd love to hear more about the world that inspired it. So let's turn that one post into one-hundred, shall we? Don't be shy.
Thanks very much. I'm afraid I don't have much in the way of a campaign setting that would be worth posting. I'm in a struggle to create a game world that feels fresh and exciting and dangerous, but I'm finding it hard to do. One thing I've been trying is to get away from the quasi-Medieval and into the pre- or post-historic. Probably everyone here has gone through that phase.
So this poem really is both sides of that coin (or both faces of Janus). I imagine it encoding the collective memory of a post-historic culture. The first stanza is a young world, where the gods are ambitious and vital. The second stanza is an entropic world, where the gods are wise and calm.