Scion Q & A

[ElBrotherMouse]

Alright, I'm feeling festive af right now and I wanted to make Santa Claus (As a mantle of Odin) Didn't feel it was right to make an entire new thread for a single homebrew thing but I didn't know where else to post this.

Santa Claus (Mantle of Odin)
Callings: Creator, Guardian, Liminal
Purviews: Passion (Joy), Frost, Journeys, Artistry, Forge

Good, Bad, Fugly, how is it?

[Aristarkos]

Alright, I'm feeling festive af right now and I wanted to make Santa Claus (As a mantle of Odin) Didn't feel it was right to make an entire new thread for a single homebrew thing but I didn't know where else to post this.

Santa Claus (Mantle of Odin)
Callings: Creator, Guardian, Liminal
Purviews: Passion (Joy), Frost, Journeys, Artistry, Forge

Good, Bad, Fugly, how is it?

What's the connection to Odin? My Santa Claus lore is quite murky but isn't Santa Claus originally a Christian Saint from Anatolia or something that got transmuted into Santa Claus of today by Coca Cola?

The Callings and Purviews are perfect though. Maybe he should have some sort of ability to see if people have been good or bad as well?

If you stat out Santa then you should probably have Krampus there as well.

[wyrdhamster]

Alright, I'm feeling festive af right now and I wanted to make Santa Claus (As a mantle of Odin)

There is community content about Christmas Pantheon, on real world Christmas figures Santa Claus, Père Noël, Krampus, the Yule Lads, or Frau Holle ( and few more ). It's even Pay What You Want.

[ElBrotherMouse]

What's the connection to Odin? My Santa Claus lore is quite murky but isn't Santa Claus originally a Christian Saint from Anatolia or something that got transmuted into Santa Claus of today by Coca Cola?

The Callings and Purviews are perfect though. Maybe he should have some sort of ability to see if people have been good or bad as well?

If you stat out Santa then you should probably have Krampus there as well.

Long story short, the many folk characters that influenced Santa Claus are all based on Odin in some manner. Hell the eight reindeer of Santa's sleigh are an evolution of Odin's eight hooved steed Sleipnir. I was writing a Scion fan fiction and I was doing a christmas special bit with Odin as Santa. Wanted to whip up some homebrew for the threads I post it in. Badass Santa is always awesome IMO.

There is community content about Christmas Pantheon, on real world Christmas figures Santa Claus, Père Noël, Krampus, the Yule Lads, or Frau Holle ( and few more ). It's even Pay What You Want.

That is actually good to know, may just pick it up after christmas. NGL I am very tempted to run a Christmas in July adventure for my own scion game. Well, if my group even gets to that. Hell I could probably fit it in as the next adventure of my Scion: Atlantis (as in the disney movie) pulp themed chronicle.

[TheStray7]

What's the connection to Odin? My Santa Claus lore is quite murky but isn't Santa Claus originally a Christian Saint from Anatolia or something that got transmuted into Santa Claus of today by Coca Cola?

The Callings and Purviews are perfect though. Maybe he should have some sort of ability to see if people have been good or bad as well?

If you stat out Santa then you should probably have Krampus there as well.

Here's a more in-depth rundown of the connections between Odin and Santa.

https://sonsofvikings.com/blogs/hist...ule-traditions

Oh, and if you really want some Scion flavor, here's Santa as a Scion, written by the guy who wrote The Wizard of Oz books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Li...of_Santa_Claus

It even got one of those Rankin Bass stop-motion adaptions!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Li...us_(1985_film)

[Aristarkos]

Long story short, the many folk characters that influenced Santa Claus are all based on Odin in some manner. Hell the eight reindeer of Santa's sleigh are an evolution of Odin's eight hooved steed Sleipnir. I was writing a Scion fan fiction and I was doing a christmas special bit with Odin as Santa. Wanted to whip up some homebrew for the threads I post it in. Badass Santa is always awesome IMO.

Ok, I did not know that. I've always considered Santa Claus a mashup of Christian and British pagan mythology, especially Father Christmas from England.

Odin and Santa Claus seem like complete polar opposites as characters. But maybe that's why Odin is such a grumpy and mean person in mythology; he extracted and isolated every little fragment of generousity and kindness into one of his mantles.

[Florin]

If i play a solo game, should i increase the number of active knacks that a scion can have active at the same time?

Depends on the feel you want for the game. I probably would adjust the antagonists and obstacles down in power a bit rather than adding knacks. That lets me as SG fine-tune things easier.