I don't think we can infer anything. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Thursday, January 07, 2016, 14:35 (3338 days ago) @ Ragashingo
edited by Funkmon, Thursday, January 07, 2016, 14:46

I think we can only assume they ripped off the names, from Fenrir to Dvalin. I don't see a lot of Germanic paganism in the stories per se, but it does rely heavily on fantasy concepts ultimately sourced from things like heathen rituals and pre-Christian Europe culture.

In terms of piecing Destiny's story together from Norse mythology, I don't think it can be done. The names were, as I said, probably just ripped off.

As for the ages, I never learned much about the Vola prophecy, but I read it differently to some translations. I also barely can do Icelandic. Here's one I found, then I checked it in both the King's Book and the Hauksbok. Seems to be about right, except the Hauksbok has a line about the ground exploding and trolls flying around.

Bræðr munu berjask ok at bönum verðask
munu systrungar sifjum spilla
hart er í heimi, hórdómr mikill
skeggöld, skalmöld, skildir ro klofnir
vindöld, vargöld, áðr veröld steypisk
mun engi maðr öðrum þyrma

Brothers must fight and become killed,
Sister-sons (also means cousins) must spoil kinship (blood, probably double meaning for effect);
Hard is the Earth with mighty whoredom;
beard age (definitely beard, may be poetic for ax, but ax is øx), scabbard age, shields are cloven,
wind age, wolf age, until the world falls,
And no man will spare others.

The damn thing's hard to understand, but it definitely says beard age. Wolf sometimes mean murder, and wind sometimes means storm.

I think we can search through the poem and find elements of Destiny's story in there, like the ground exploding (the cracked moon and hellmouth) and trolls flying around (wizards, the female form of troll is used), but I think it's like looking through Nostradamus's quatrains. Some shit's gonna be in there due to the game being a fantasy.

Other stuff doesn't fit at all, for example, there are no beards in Destiny.