Vikings

[The Scotsman]

Wriggle said
I love the tattoos. I think I may make my woman a tattoo artist. Like....I don't know...she's going to be an odd one.

The tattoos are fantastic. This should be cool!

Eddie Swiss said
How is it compared to GoT in terms of violence, and sexuality?

There is violence but there's very little bloody violence. Not very often do you see someone getting hacked by an axe and blood mist is present. However, that isn't a bad thing. You don't really notice the lack of blood, but it can get quite bloody when it wants to. There's about one scene of sexuality each episode, but not explicit at all. The most is a bare back whilst a couple is having sex. Some episodes it's only kissing. Maturely handled. A PG-13/12 rating. However, I've only seen the censored version. I don't know how the uncensored version compares.

Wriggle said
Murg, off to work people. Talk to you in a few hours.

See you later!

[Wriggle]

And I'm back finally! =.D

[Wriggle]

Bump.

[Red Wizard]

I could definetly do this. Count me in!

[Gisk]

Will there be any fantasy elements to this? Like, are the Norse gods real in our story, or is all myth really just myth?

[The Scotsman]

Gisk said
Will there be any fantasy elements to this? Like, are the Norse gods real in our story, or is all myth really just myth?

No fantasy elements, but maybe acts of gods? Maybe some lucky miracles? No definitive real gods. Sorry.

OOC may or may not be up today, sorry about that.

[Gisk]

How realistic do you expect to go? I've been doing a bunch of research on Viking combat and arms and armor, so I dunno how much of that I should apply. Or else how much I should point out other people's inaccuracies.

[The Scotsman]

Gisk said
How realistic do you expect to go? I've been doing a bunch of research on Viking combat and arms and armor, so I dunno how much of that I should apply. Or else how much I should point out other people's inaccuracies.

Relatively accurate. Keep the armour and weapons and items etc accurate as possible, but I can give some leeway on anything else that comes up. This isn't a documentary or anything. Feel free to add a little dramatic embellishment if you feel like it.

[Gisk]

Do you have a specific time and place for this? If I knew the year I could do a bunch more research.

Also, have you decided on the actual motives of the Viking raids? Greed, necessity? Revenge on Christian nations for wiping out pagans?

[Red Wizard]

"When" is especially important. The HBO series are supposed to be during the 10th century, I believe.

[Gisk]

Yeah, my biggest concern is "when" because it determines what our socio-political standing is. But exactly where our settlement hails from determines things like main profession and hobbies. For instance, if there were mountains nearby, rock climbing may have been popular. If we get don't need to hunt for subsistence, hunting may be popular instead for sport.

[Gisk]

Don't normally bump other people's threads, but this one is really interesting to me.

[Deamonbane]

From what I can tell, the HBO character Ragnar Lothbrok (Or Lodbrok, depending on the language, which means Hairy Breeches)... their actually not really sure if he existed or not, considering that he married the daughter of two of the most famous mythological characters in Nordic... well, mythology, Sirgurd (guy who killed a dragon or something) and Brynhildr, queen of the Valkyrie. It's also guessed that he is legendary because many of the famous things that he has done have been attributed to a couple other major Nordic kings of the same era.

That said, he is guessed to have lived sometime between 800 and 1000 A.D.

As for the reasons why Vikings went a-viking, it's very simple. During the summer, best time to be doing their raiding, most of the farms are... well, during the summer, there isn't much to do one farms, and the men can be spared, and since the men can't go to war against their neighboring Earls without the king's permission, they need to find elsewhere to go if they want to fight. Besides the obvious (greed, taking gold and goods from poorly defended monasteries and fishing villages), it was considered more honorable to go out and raid, pillage and overall end lives than sit at home. So, a grand mixture of greed, honor and cultural reasons mixed in. At least, that's what I figure out from what I've read. They never really made much of a thing about Christians killing pagans. Never really had much of a grudge against Christians, feeling like it was beneath them to hate the weaklings and whatever. The only times that they actually attacked in revenge was when a great chieftain was killed (Ironically, Ragnar's sons sailed with the largest fleet ever assembled of vikings to attack England after Ragnar was executed.)