#orlog

[ravenousnightwind]

In the darkness, she stirred, and I saw her. Aquamarine. Lady who is now, present, has become. She who with sisters three weave the lives from the well to nourish the tree. She spoke in a kind voice, soft but urging. "Through your mind, your soul, your consciousness, you will find your thread. Only through the threads may things be changed or altered. Only by grasping your own thread can you hope to find what you seek."

Fading, then her light, though bright, was not blinding. Away she rejoined her siblings. Pondering, I sit and wonder what her words meant. Was it literal, or was it metaphorical? Through contemplation is the key to deciphering that which deities speak. As Frigg once told me; "It is through symbology that you see into the wyrd, and it is through that perception of which you will find hidden meanings. Be wary, though, for you can only see so far. Your skill, no matter how great, will hinder you due to your circumstance of being."

#skuld #norns #the norns #frigg #norse gods #norse pagan #norse paganism #norse pagan witch #witchcraft #male witch #spiritual development #spirit working #norse polytheism #wyrd sisters #wyrd working #wyrd #orlog #heathen #pagan #magick #heathenry #paganism

[sarenth]

Urðr is Carved

Urðr is carved It starts as a line of resolve A hint of feeling, Moðr Channels into Víli Becomes a hard line etched by Megin Wood’s Lykr separated by iron Sometimes a swift slash, others a slow, deliberate line Til the carver is finished and the carving is complete Hamingja builds Hamingja Örlog built carving by carving Through the hands of Lykr, Hamr, Hugr Through the…

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#animism #örlog #body #carve #carving #ham #hamingja #hamr #heathen #Heathenry #hugr #line #lykr #moðr #modr #orlog #poem #prayer #religion #slash #song #souls #urðr #urd #urdr #víli #Vili #will

[notthesomefather]

A great review about the Norns (Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld) and the attitude toward fate in the Norse sagas.

Dr. Jackson Crawford is Instructor of Nordic Studies and Nordic Program Coordinator at the University of Colorado Boulder (formerly UC Berkeley and UCLA). He is a historical linguist and an experienced teacher of Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, and Norwegian.

#orlog #wyrd #the norns #norse #pagan #heathen #asatru #norse mythology #Youtube

[romirplayhouse]

Em ASSASSIN’S CREED: VALHALLA ORLOG DICE GAME, você é transportado para dentro do jogo da @ubisoft , Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, porque o jogo é jogado lá, não tendo nem mesmo um autor específico. Através da rolagem de dados e utilização inteligente de fichas de bençãos, você deve retirar toda a vida de seu oponente, neste jogo da @imandoogames e @conclaveeditora #mandoo #mandoogames #conclave #conclaveeditora #ubisoft #assassinscreed #valhalla #orlog #orlogdicegame #assassinscreedvalhalla #dados #dice #würfel #jogodetabuleiro #boardgames #brettspiel #boardgamephotography #dicegame #jogodedados #forcesuasorte #pushyourluck #jeuxdesociete (em Playeasy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyANWzOZiI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#mandoo #mandoogames #conclave #conclaveeditora #ubisoft #assassinscreed #valhalla #orlog #orlogdicegame #assassinscreedvalhalla #dados #dice #würfel #jogodetabuleiro #boardgames #brettspiel #boardgamephotography #dicegame #jogodedados #forcesuasorte #pushyourluck #jeuxdesociete

[redeyeflyguy]

Wonderful Things That May or May Not Be Wonderful!!! Vikings are awesome but what kinds of games did they play? Answer: not ones with surviving rulesets. An issue when you want to add an existing ancient Viking game into your soon to be existing modern Viking game. This was the problem that was faced by the development team of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. A problem they solved by creating a brand new dice game based on a bunch of ancient dice games. They called it Orlog after the Viking concept of fate and it is fantastic. It’s a two player dice game where the goal is to knock your opponent’s HP down to zero. You do this by taking turns rolling sets of six dice each trying to create the right combination to both attack and block your opponent’s attacks. But that’s not all. Both players also get their choice of three Norse gods they can invoke. Doing so requires gaining God Favor by landing gold-trimmed die faces or stealing it from your opponent and once you have enough, you can do all sorts of things like damage, healing, re-rolling dice, sacrificing health to get more Favor and so much more. Being a dice game, there’s quite a bit of luck involved but there is still plenty of strategy and decision making to go with it. What gods do you want? How do you want to use said god powers? What dice do I keep and what do I re-roll? It all adds up to a wonderful game that's perfect to play in between drinking mead and pillaging monasteries. P.S. For the record, I haven’t played Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. My friend bought the physical version and we've had a lot of fun playing it together. That’s why this post exists. Remember playing games with friends and family is absolutely wonderful.

#wonderful #orlog #dice games #vikings #adaption #dice #fate #aesir #assassin's creed #ac valhalla #friends #family #board games #two player #playing together

[something-in-the-seas]

Valhalla!Odin: Eivor... you must choose glory. Leave all this behind, join me- God of War!Odin: now listen to me eivor, i am talking directly into your ear now. i need you to do me a favor. you will do this for me. i need you to go to east anglia, and i need you to ask that twink sitting on the throne if they have roses. you must get randvi flowers for her birthday cause you know damn well that stupid bastard sigurd forgot. she will be eating out of the palm of our hands if you do this. but, if you come back empty handed youll be in big trouble eivor. you will never see the light of day.

#god of war #odin gow #assassin's creed #assassin's creed valhalla #ac valhalla #eivor varinsdóttir #randvi #gow odin would play 8d orlog #blood upon the snow au

[moth-mamimi]

To the Ubisoft developer who made orlog and the dev who made it a requirement to unlock an order of the ancients clue, I hope you have neverending misfortune in your future

#I FUCKING HATE ORLOG SO MUCH #IF I COULD REMOVE ONE THING FROM AC VALHALLA IT'S ORLOG #I GENUINELY FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO HAVE AN ANEURYSM #FUCK WHOEVER DESIGNED IT AND THEIR WHOLE BLOODLINE #VIKINGS DIDN'T EVEN PLAY BOARDGAMES IT MAKES NO SENSE TO BE HERE #ac valhalla

[unamused-kookaburra]

I keep telling myself to watch my spending because I don't have any income atm and won't for another month but I also keep buying stuff as rewards for finishing each week of placement and motivation to keep going.

#i spent $48 at the crystal shop last week on a few new crystals. alter plates and some little tarot card holders #and i just bought a physical orlog game because it was on sale for $39 #plus a cardigan for my night shifts and some sticky notes for annotating my book but those are essentials #so its ok #personal

[bethesdaglitch]

I have such a love-hate relationship with AC Valhalla. Mostly hate. The micro-transactions are out of control, there’s too much fantasy shit in what’s SUPPOSED to be a historical game, the “dream” arcs or whatever are boring as hell, the stealth sucks, the enemy AI sucks, the graphics somehow got worse?? than the last game??? which I don’t understand, the “events” thing they tried with the open world map isn’t my favorite, I’d rather they just have side quests, and the fact that they make you buy the final DLC separately EVEN IF you bought the season pass is beyond greedy and ridiculous.

That being said, for some reason I got the urge to play it again and now I can’t stop. Am I enjoying it? I genuinely can’t tell. But god help me Basim can still get it.

#ac valhalla #I will admit that at the very least Orlog is more fun than I remember #I HATED it in my first playthrough #but now I’m the reigning Orlog champion 🏆

[dodecademons]

How has no one made this beanie yet irl?

Which one of you wants my money because ive been looking for any way to get his beanie. I've tried finding pink/blue beanies, white/blue and thought about using dye to make pink, thought about just getting a blue + pink beanie then gutting them and sewing them together, even thought about learning how to sew beanies to make my own. I literally redrew the logo on the beanie so i can vinyl print it onto a hat. I'm gonna figure out one day and i will experience nothing but joy.

#cyberpunk get on it #i think i saw it once last year on etsy but it's non existent now #the lengths i go to for little things like this you dont understand #i literally custom made those tarot cards from dragon age because i wanted the companion tarot cards and i use them as book marks now #i made my own dice trays and dice towers because i wanted them but they were always so expensive #I WILL BUY A MACHINE TO MAKE THIS BEANIE IF I HAVE TO #gimmie gimmie #dont make this another orlog situation #the mox #cyberpunk 2077

[skully-bones]

new and revised list of things i find enriching in video games bc i somehow forgot one of the biggest examples

sending people to their untimely demises in horror games

snow physics

gambling/card game that was solely devised to be a minigame completely divorced from the main game but it's consuming my life now

#big example: gwent #fuckin love gwent #orlog isn't as fun but it's fun enough and i like just zoning out to play every now and then #i am a simple creechur

[plumedepoete]

Voir Venise et s'épanouir - Brahim Boumedien

  Venise d’il y a longtemps Es-tu toujours la même Tu étais un printemps Pour tous ceux qui s’aiment   Je garde le souvenir Du palais des doges D’où l’on pouvait sentir Et apprécier tes roses   Cette place Saint-Marc Où l’on déambule Et d’où les gens s’embarquent Vers ton lido utile   Tes gondoles accueillantes Et superbement belles Glissent sur l’eau dormante Chargées de demoiselles   Je n’oublie pas tes ponts Dont celui des soupirs Où les amoureux vont Et que chacun admire   N’en déplaise au grand Charles Te trouvant triste à mourir Je meurs, moi qui te parle De te voir et sourire   Brahim. B Read the full article

#amoureux #Boumedien #Brahim #gondoles #lido #orloges #plume #poète #ponts #printemps #Venise

[acsuttles]

PS5 – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – The Sons of Ragnar – Speak with Ubba

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 Speak with Ubba. Testing my skills at Redwaldo. Exploring – Venonis. World Event Completed – The White Lady of Tamworth. New location discovered – Cweornric.   The Twit Saga Part 1 – World Event Completed. Ragnarsson War Camp Orlog.

#youtube #Ravensthorpe Orlog #Upgrade Equipment #Female Eivor #Assassin's Creed Valhalla #Eivor #Valhalla #Assassin's Creed Series #AC Valhalla #AC Series #The Sons of Ragnar #Cweorniric #Venonis #Redwaldo #World Event #World Event Completed #The White Lady of Tamworth #World Event the White Lady of Tamworth #PlayStation #Walkthrough #The Twit Saga Part 1 #World Event The Twit Saga Part 1 #Ragnarsson War Camp Orlog #Ragnarsson War Camp

[notthesomefather]

Örlög, Wyrd, and the Gods

"All beings, including the gods, have choices...

Remember that the creation occurred before the gods and goddesses existed. This means that they too have their own örlög. They too create their wyrd as they go along. In this way they are no different from us..."

-- A Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru, Patricia M. Lafayllve

As problematic as I find parts of this book, the chapter on Örlög and Wyrd really resonates with me. Personally, I'm at a time in my life that feels like a rebirth. It's messy, loud, violent, confusing, frightening, but also full of hope.

I've always found our gods to be so much more human than those of other pantheons and this is no exception. At this time in my life it comforts me immensely to know that the gods are writing their own stories as I write mine. We're in this together and they know what I'm going through (and then some). I feel so much less alone.

#heathen #asatru #norse #pagan #wyrd #orlog #personal

[themodernwitchsguide]

the norse gods

WYRD: destiny, the past that led up to the present

ORLOG: the relationship between actions and outcomes, the things in the present that affect the future

our primeval chaos this round,

GINNUNGAP: an area of abyss in between Niflheim (ice) and Muspelheim (fire). when these two regions grew in power and clashed, water was created

for once we only have one creation myth,

YMIR/AURGELMIR/BRIMIR/BLAINN: ancestor of the jotnar, he was born from venom that dripped from the rivers in Ginnungagap. fed on the milk of Auðumbla, Ymir bore a male and female out of his armpits and a six-headed being from between his legs. Odin, Vili, and Ve created earth from his flesh, oceans/rivers/lakes from his blood, mountains from his bones and teeth, trees from his hair, clouds from his brain, heavens from his skull, and Midgard from his eyebrow

AUÐUMBLA: primordial cow that was created from the fluid of melting ice in Ginnungap, she fed Ymir and licked the god Buri out of a salt rock over the course of three days

BURI: ancestor of the Aesir gods, fathered Bor

BOR: married the daughter of a frost giant, Bestla, and bore three sons, Odin, Vili, and Ve. these three grew tired with the unruly jotnar and killed Ymir, causing an avalanche of blood that killed all the giants except for Bergelmir and his wife

BERGELMIR: the ancestor of all "new" giants, resettled his race in Jotunheim

clan Aesir

ODIN: god of poetry, wisdom, war, and magic. Odin crowned himself king of the gods as he was the first one to decide to kill Ymir. he allowed himself to be hung from Yggdrasil for nine days and nine nights in order to understand the secrets of the runes and sacrificed one of his eyes in order to see the cosmos more clearly. some stories claim he could shape and understand Wyrd and Orlog. he had wolves named Gerki and Freki, ravens named Huminn and Muninn, and an eight legged horse named Sleipnir

FRIGG: once may have been the same goddess as Freyja, she is queen of the Aesir and goddess of beauty, love, and fertility, she was gifted with the power of foresight

BALDUR: son of Odin and Frigg, he was the pinnacle of beauty and likeability. his only weakness was mistletoe

HODR: son of Odin and Frigg, the blind god, he is tricked by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow, which kills Baldur

VALI: in some stories he's the son of Odin and the jotun Rindr, in others he's the son of Loki, but it makes more sense for him to be a son of Loki so let's just go with this. conceived to avenge his brother Baldur, which he did by killing Hodr and binding Loki with the entrails of Narfi

VIDAR: son of Odin and the jotun Gríðr, he is the god of vengeance, and is fortold to avenge his father by killing the wolf Fenrir at Ragnarok

HEIMDALL: son of Odin and "The Nine Mothers" (nine sea giants), god of keen eyesight and hearing, sometimes foresight. guardian of the Bifrost

TYR: son of Odin, god of war, justice, and order, he lost one of his arms to the wolf Fenrir

BRAGI: son of Odin, god of poetry

IDUNN: wife of Bragi, goddess of youth and fertility, her apples rejuvenated the Aesir gods and reversed the effects of aging

JORÐ: personification of the earth, consort of Odin, sometimes considered to be a jotun

THOR: son of Odin and the goddess Jörð, he is the god of lightning, storms, strength, fertility, and the protector of humankind. he wields the hammer Mjolnir

SIF: Thor's wife, goddess of faith, family and fertility

THRUD: daughter of Thor and Sif, goddess of strength

MAGNI: son of Thor and the jotun Járnsaxa, god of wrath

MODI: son of Thor, god of might

MIMIR: god of knowledge and wisdom, in some stories he is the advisor of Odin. he is sent either as a peace maker or hostage to the Vanir, where he is decapitated. Odin preserved his head and keeps it to guard a well on one of the roots of Yggdrasil

LOKI: god of mischief, wealth, and chaos. his children often caused trouble for other gods, Fenrir being the great wolf of Ragnarok, Jormungandr being the arch enemy of Thor, and Hel, who ruled Helheim

HEL: daughter of Loki and the jotun Angrboda, goddess of the underworld, she was tasked with taking care of the souls that ended up in her realm (since some ended up in Odin's Valhalla and some ended up in Freyja's Folkvangr)

NARFI: son of Loki and the goddess Sigyn, killed by Vali

clan Vanir

NJORD: patriarch of clan Vanir, god of wind, water, and fortune, he was the patron of fishermen and sailors

NERTHUS/NJORUN: although possibly just a female aspect of Njord, some theorize this is actually the sister-wife of Njord, mother of Freyja and Freyr. goddess of peace and prosperity

FREYR: son of Njord, god of peace, prosperity, male virility, and fair weather, ruler of Alfheim. after the conclusion of the Aesir-Vanir war, he was brought to Asgard as a hostage where he climbed his way up the ranks with charm and a good personality

FREYJA: daughter of Njord, goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and blessings. she is said to have introduced the gods to a form of magic called seidr, which was a form of seeing or changing the future

ODR: husband of Freyja, god of madness, wit and poetry. could also be an aspect of Odin, as they bear good similarities

HNOSS: daughter of Freyja and her husband Odr, her name means "gem"

GERSEMI: daughter of Freyja and Odr, her name means "treasure"

the goddesses of destiny, the Norns,

URD: "fate"

SKULD: "being"

VERANDI: "necessity"

#pagan #paganism #witchblr #witch #witchcraft #norse mythology #norse paganism #norse gods #norse pantheon #nordic #polytheist #polytheism #norse polytheism

[creature-wizard]

Why does Ragnarok feel like something the Christians made up?

I mean, it does describe the end of the world. Though personally I'm not currently convinced that it was completely made up by Christians, because once you look past this superficial similarity, there's some pretty different ideology going on. Like, Ragnarok is about a distant yet inevitable collapse of order as a consequence actions and choices made in the past, which is in line with views about wyrd and orlog. And the notion of the gods dying is in line with Norse animistic views. It just doesn't feel unlikely to me that some Norse polytheists, who noticed that things always have a way of ending, figured that this would also apply to the whole cosmos.

Meanwhile, the end of the world described in Revelation is a very intentional affair, with every disaster being set in motion by God's command. Where Ragnarok describes a complete annihilation or uncreation of the world as the destructive forces of nature finally prevail against social order, Revelation describes a world that is deliberately torn down by the supreme arbiter of social order so that a new and better world can be established.

So like... yeah, on the surface these two narratives might look alike, but thematically they are extremely different, so I really have a hard time believing that Ragnarok was a Christian creation.

#answered #ragnarok #christianity #revelation #norse mythology #norse paganism