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 Lodge for a lovely chat with charming Basil Sawtooth himself!
• Tour Brightmarket, see the sights, buy some trinkets, wrestle with a gang of thieves for a chest of government-toppling documents, deeds and gold.
• A pleasant stroll at speed into the Brazen Dome where being squashed by the inexorable lowering of the ancient edifice is the least of your problems.
• Make your way through the historic Shallows, meet new people or better yet, avoid them.
• Escape your new friends to the scenic and occasionally safe Midvaults and immediately wish you hadn't.
• Caught between an inexplicable puzzle and a pack of hungry and oddly chatty ghouls is a good time to explicate in a hurry.
• The big Benson, Benson and Byrde Bank building is in sight, but there are still shadowy forces who would prefer you didn't make it in.

Is this a fascinating look into the real guts of the creative process and mechanics of adventure design or just two blokes giggling about the word 'shaft'?

Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.

Episode 12: Debts and Deepvaults Supplementary Material COMING SOON (we ran out of time, sorry).

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Trigger Warnings: colonialism, war, death, racism, prejudice, cannibalism, organised banking

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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 support of the pseudo-scientific practice of psychomageiatism, a nonsense theory created to oppress the poor and justify the social standing of the wealthy.

And we delve into Weftenfray, the knot magic of the Halflings and how its intricate patterns hold the power to reshape the world (as well as the darker aspects of that mysterious practice).

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Episode 11: We Are Knot Okay Supplementary Material:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oSTdUsoyeKi_BvmGIkyoDVchb1kUHpuT8ReCIyEfKG8/edit?usp=sharing

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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 Nobility. Their titles and duties and how the gamut from the very top down to those barely above the common-folk all fit into society.

Switching focus from the broad to the specific, we take a close look at just one family of Consociate nobles in Heliakon; the Khedia O’zeenasea. How position and the past have shaped them and how they, in turn, may shape the future.

Also Blood Farmers turn out to not be as nice as their name makes them sound.

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Episode 10 - Divine Rights & Wrongs Supplementary Material:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fCJeHIG1XVRitBEsuM1wNh6Chbmz6T5cA25UR47gN_M/edit?usp=sharing

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!~ Big thanks to guest voice actors Robbie and Temmie! ~!

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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 influence of the Bureau for the Propagation of Virtuous Principles!

We explore the changes the printing press and its publication of the very popular serzeyns are making to how news and ideas are distributed in Heliakon and beyond.

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Episode 9: Truth Decay Supplementary Material: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QsIsFKsm5CLwp2dBPYJcmqRKeNnFJMZWP4DnpoZkHCk/edit?usp=drive_link

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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 the Skeleton and then worrying about the Wight.

The Southern half of Heliakon gets its' Districts Delineated and described before we leave the great city for the lands to the West and explore the unsettlingly vermilion Bloodwoods and visit the fascinating Frog Country while we're in the area.

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Episode 8: Mutually Assured Decay Supplementary Material:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMcqNuDm8M--LZeKW4K5hQ-bui_mez9PMWBOCpufgC4/edit?usp=sharing

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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, touch on the use of wraithquartz by both sides of the conflict as well as how each faction feels about war which culminated in Heliakon's great partition.

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Episode 7: Hero to Halo Supplementary Material:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U50yqTPcfvEAOGH_GCzC2GFdhLGdGM11fGwT4qsw2v4/edit?usp=sharing

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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 Gruvold dislike crossbows.

As a fun little bonus, we ask each other a personal question each in Ready, Setting, Go!

Not THAT personal. We're not that kind of podcast.

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Episode 6: Gnome Pain, Gnome Gain Supplementary Material:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0njR9VTBHNlzFF6XtlAwoKz15dTGNLG8NDnPr6NhZY/edit?usp=sharing

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