Mythtakes Happen

S02 Bonus Episode - Monstrous Mythtakes - Silly Snailor on the Seas of Fate A Bonus Episode where each host gives the name of a monster to the other, who has to ON THE FLY come up with a suitable background for it, fitting it into the world of the Celestial Deep. Today we look at the great iron-carapaced and fast-evolving Sparsharks that were a great menace in the early days of Deep exploration. W...

A new season and a new universe! We dive right in and immediately discover more points of conflict and discussion than ever before as we investigate the crucial Slurrbrine , the mysterious nature of the Leviathans , one of the stranger religions and the worlds of Mantarym & Orago . Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose. Episode 01: Fathoms for Favours Supplem...

It’s Season 2! Welcome to the wet and dangerous world of the Celestial Deep. In this setup episode, we discuss our inspirations, how we got to drowning an entire solar system as well as where on Earth this is heading. We decide on some important aspects of our Season 2 setting and set down some vital foundations for this year’s gaming narrative. Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these...

Mythtakes Happen is a worldbuilding podcast in its second season. This is a teaser for our set-up episode, coming January 1st. Here we lay the foundations for the glorious, drowned and fading solar system of the Celestial Deep and spend 12 scrumptious episodes adding depth to a setting YOU can use for free in your everyday TTRPG gaming.

Ever wondered how the professionals go about making an adventure from scratch? We wish we knew too! We gave it a crack anyway in our final Episode of Season 1. Chris and Aaron sit down with zero planning before the session (if you don't count all the previous episodes) to write the first playable adventure in Heliakon. We hit all (some) of your favourite places we detailed earlier; Go to Sawtooth...

The final episode of Monstrous Mythtakes for this season. We start off strong with the monumentally colossal Renkian Hellgoat , an animal so large and so volatile and also so mysterious as to render any description of it within the episode notes insufficiently detailed. I suppose you'll have to listen to the podcast after all. That's how we get 'em. Hehehe. We also explore the curious ecology and...

We talk about revolutionary movements in Heliakon and the Illegitimate Children of Foolish Empires and the way that people organise in the face of terrible things. Our world becomes more fleshed out with the addition of further ways we stand against imperialism and colonialism. Definitely no parallels with the real world here. We examine the Great Consociate Empire's Upright Doctrine and its suppo...

A brand new Bonus Episode of Monumental Mythtakes. Today we mix it up and talk about The Artful Dance of the Slime-Bellied Administrator Eagle in Watercolour , a painting of some renown. Who created this sublime art, and what does it mean to the people of Old Helidia? We also touch upon the Cobblestone Tower of Merit and its importance to the culture of the Unfettered League. Can a mere building s...

Gods and godlings galore! A plethora of pagan powers are introduced in The Celestial Pantheon ; twelve definitely gods and two maybe-kinda-sorta-nearly gods are all briefly described and discussed. From the Father of the Great Consociate, Gruvold to Gengolof the Great Scaletipper. From baker gods to bro gods. We then take a deep dive into the highest reaches of society as we examine the Consociate...

This is an older episode we have clawed from the archives, chronologically many months old at this point. We talk about Courson's Cunning Clawtig as well as the Bloody Bureaucrat Beetle . What do these creatures look like, where do they live and why would any loving creator allow them to exist? Well, you're in Heliakon now, baby and all bets are off. I'm sorry if that sounded a little bit pushy. W...

Have a proper gander at some of the way our fantasy societies distribute and formulate propaganda and disinformation aimed at keeping their citizens in line and angry at someone else. Marvel at the Society of Glass Vultures and their sneaky pursuit of distilled truth. Learn about the systems of education and art which propagate the philosophies of our imperial powers. Tremble at the oversize influ...

Sometimes the creative process hits a snag, and we don't mean the delicious kind. In this very special Bonus Episode, Chris and Aaron discuss what it means when the ideas in our heads do not well translate into commissioned art. What do we do when the wonderful artists we pay to make our vision come true create something wonderful, but at odds with our own concept? Today we set aside the Greater T...

We completely forget to do the episode on propaganda as we discussed last episode...did we mention that some mythtakes might be made? After goofing around for probably a little too long, we eventually get to the Mythtakes at hand, beginning with an extended digression on the Undead of our world; The Winnowed . After discussing the mechanism behind the magic we zoom in on the Zombie before studying...

Guest starring: Leo ? The handsome Leo, inspired by our genius, has spilled his seed into the fertile plains of Heliakon and added more depth to the rich tapestry of Vaesta practice in our world. What if friendship was real? What if the walls were not closing in and we all worked together to forge a better world? What if Chris and Aaron invited another bearded man to the podcast? Is this intersect...

Today we talk about the Gods. They're real in the world of Heliakon, and it is well known that great heroes of the age can one day ascend to those heavenly realms. But how exactly does that work, and what happens on the journey from Zero to Zeus? A conversational episode where we explore the metaphysical mechanics of divinity and more. We talk about the realities of living in a partitioned city, t...

In this Bonus Episode we really discover something about ourselves. We absolutely cannot make one of these without talking about strong, pulsating monsters and the peasants who fear them. Each host brings a name and a description to the other and FORCES them under duress to create a monster based on this limited data set. Today we talk about the Dire Roblin, a provincial faery gone wrong, as well...

There's something wrong the gnomes. Learn all about it and how to protect yourself from the scourge of the Gnome Plague. Also featuring Shatterfolk, crossbows and the dreams of small things and big things, young things and old... so very old... things. Learn how Gnomes and Goblins are held together by dreams of different sorts. Learn why you should just 'trust the process' and why priests of Gruvo...

Another Bonus Episode with a new format. Short and sweet, we talk Monumental Mythtakes. Each host comes up with someone from the history of our fictional world and something they left behind. The other host contextualises it for us. Together, we make art so sublime the greatest philosophers in the world cannot hold a candle to it. They try, but it just makes incomprehensible and ultimately unknowa...

We meet the Chods, the Hobbs and the Tomeworms as we take a deep dive into the Gangs of South Heliakon. But let's not forget the slippery and dangerous Butternut Boys ! We celebrate Fettersval , Gruvolly and talk about the mournful day of Catacord . A bit of a theme today, and well worth tuning in for this extra-long, action-packed episode. We also explore the many Districts of North Heliakon, get...

For the first ever in all the worlds, both real and fictional, Chris and Aaron present a whole new format of exciting Bonus Episode. No longer satisfied with making Small Mythtakes, today they are making Monstrous Mythtakes! Each host provides the other with a name, an extremely brief and frankly mysterious description of a monster and it becomes the other host's unenviable task to flesh that crea...

Today's episode explores the cutthroat world of a 'Lodge of Snakes', as well as the infamous 'Meatgrinder Lodge'. We talk about the secrets of magic, the methodologies and ways of various will-workers in our fantasy world and the linguistic sentence spells of the Vaesta. What does this mean for the continent of Delmarin and what toll do these magical paradigms take on the casters? Likewise, we tak...

Another beautiful, gorgeous, sexy and virile Bonus Episode just throbbing with content. Chris and Aaron take a break from real episodes and the day to day drudgery of the world to continue our quick format where each host presents the other with an Artefact, a Place and a Person and the other must to come up with how these things fit into our world on the fly. We talk about pale figures, Chris get...

We return to the glorious city of Heliakon and imagineer Orcs, but here we come to an impasse. Do we stay with the depressed and pessimistic orcs wrought by Chris or do we instead make a place in the world for Aaron's all-singing, all-dancing magical bard orcs? Listen to find out. We learn about the famous Stratomaach Serfé Mirakore; Queen of the Golden River and her contributions during the great...

Chris and Aaron are back at it with a True Seer, dirty socialist mathematics, an amulet of fun and a cat religion. In Small Mythtakes we continue our quick format for quick thinkers (not Chris) where each host presents the other with an Artefact, a Place and a Person and the other host has to come up with how these things fit into our world on the fly. And we do a good job this time. Are some of t...

Episode 2. Recording in person, but from a fish tank. We learn about the ghouls of Heliakon, and meet Liman Jorush, a very nice man with nothing to hide. There are secrets hiding in these undead creatures which could spell the end of the city. We zoom out of Heliakon itself and take a look at the great continent of Delmarin and the nations and city-states which still fiercely cling to independence...