Sample file MYTHOS Contents A World of Epic Deeds......................6 Triumph of Bronze...............................41 Primeval Darkness.................................7 Weapons...................................................42 Uranus and Gaia in Love......................7 Melee Weapons Table........................44 Castration of Uranus.............................7 Ranged Weapons Table.....................45 Titans Seize Power.................................8 Armor........................................................45 Golden Age of Cronus............................8 Hellenic Armor Standards................45 Titanomachy.............................................9 Shields.......................................................47 Silver Age of the Olympians............10 Assembling Armor...............................48 Prometheus Creates a New Metal Armor Properties....................48 Mankind from Clay..............................11 Armor Table...........................................49 Rise of Atlantis......................................11 Mundane Items......................................50 Pandora and the Plagues of Basic Goods.............................................50 Mankind...................................................13 Clothing....................................................50 Fall of Atlantis.......................................13 Dyes...........................................................51 Violent Bronze Age..............................14 Tools and Kits........................................52 Gigantomachy........................................14 Animals and Mounts...........................52 Mighty Typhon......................................15 Vehicles and Transport.....................53 The Flood.................................................15 Services....................................................54 Dawn of the Heroic Age.....................16 Food and Drink.....................................54 Dionysus Enters the Pantheon.......16 Mundane Items Table........................55 Olympians Rise Up..............................17 Transportation Table.........................57 Heavenly Contest and the Birth of The Threads of Fate.......................59 the Mysteria...........................................17 Fate Points...............................................59 A Brief Account of Some of the Doomchaining........................................60 Heroic Deeds..........................................18 Doomchaining Strength Table........61 The Dynasty Wars...............................19 Predestined Roles.................................62 Present Day............................................19 Sample Roles..........................................62 Timeline....................................................20 Veneration...............................................65 How Heroes are Born....................23 Fate’s Effect.............................................65 Character Overview.............................23 The Gods...........................................67 Heroic Concepts....................................24 Patron Deities.........................................67 Tweaking and Mixing Concepts.....27 The Pantheon.........................................68 Backgrounds...........................................28 Changing Patron Deity.......................68 Patron Deity............................................28 Deity Profiles.........................................68 Skills...........................................................29 List of Patron Deities...........................72 Crafting.....................................................29 Zeus............................................................72 Firearms...................................................30 Aphrodite................................................73 Knowledge..............................................30 Apollo........................................................75 Language..................................................30 Ares............................................................77 Lore............................................................30 Artemis.....................................................78 Operating.................................................30 Athena.......................................................80 Performing..............................................31 Demeter...................................................81 Science......................................................31 Dionysus..................................................82 Equipment...............................................31 Hades.........................................................84 SampleQualities....................................................32 Hephaestus............................................. file86 Sample Qualities...................................32 Hera...........................................................87 Optional Quality...................................35 Hermes.....................................................89 Divine Qualities.....................................35 Poseidon..................................................90 Mystery Cult Qualities........................38 Votive Deeds...........................................92 Outfitting Heroes............................41 Creative Works.....................................93 Currency...................................................41 Reward.....................................................94 2 CONTENTS Failure to Perform...............................95 Argos.......................................................142 Group Votive Deeds............................95 Athens....................................................143 Epic Games..............................................95 Corinth...................................................144 Divine Attitude.......................................95 Mycenae................................................144 Divine Attitude Scale..........................96 Phthia.....................................................145 Favored....................................................96 Sparta.....................................................145 Beloved.....................................................96 Thebes....................................................146 Disfavored...............................................97 Tiryns.....................................................147 Despised...................................................97 Royal Houses........................................147 Punished..................................................97 Royal House of Atreus.....................149 Wrath........................................................21 Royal House of Cadmus..................150 Earning Disfavor and Despise........98 Royal House of Heracles.................151 Divine Reaction Table........................99 Royal House of Lacedaemon........151 Sacrifices..................................................99 Royal House of Proetus..................152 Propitiation............................................99 Landmarks............................................153 How to Sacrifice.................................101 The Argonauts’ Treasure...............153 How Much Do the Gods Demand? The Calydonian Howling Forest. 153 ...................................................................102 Delphi’s Oracle and Festivals.......154 Stealing Offerings..............................103 The Eleusinian Mysteries of Atonement............................................103 Immortality..........................................155 Regaining Favor.................................105 The Lake of Stymphalia..................156 Divine Items.........................................105 Mount Olympus..................................156 Divine Items List................................106 Mount Pelion: Home of the Centaurs Secret of the Mystery Cults........110 ...................................................................157 Mystery Cults.......................................110 Nemea’s Roaring Cave and the Gnosis Ranks.......................................111 Nemean Games...................................157 Membership........................................112 The Olympian Games.......................158 Initiates..................................................114 The Swamp of Lerna........................159 Weird Properties...............................114 Taenarum: The “No Return Mystery Cult Talents........................114 Promontory”........................................160 Talent Properties...............................115 Epic Deeds......................................162 Mystery Cults List..............................116 The Epic Mood.....................................163 Adonis....................................................116 Setting Features..................................165 Aegis........................................................118 Prophecies............................................166 Agon........................................................119 Prophecy Generator.........................166 Algos.......................................................120 Omens.....................................................167 Asclepius...............................................122 The Omen’s Origin............................167 Erebus....................................................123 The Omen’s