No way dude! Link-whore away! I want to make sure folks keep up with this, and I know not everybody knows all the places in which we’ve written about it. No worries at all.
I also hope that might encourage people to try working on oracles for their own bioregions.
Right! In fact, I think (I hate to say it) that this thread has started to veer off topic, but in an equally fascinating direction. Let’s save Mythdeck musings for a new thread, which I’ll create now, and use this thread just for oracle offerings.
[EDIT: Oops, I mean the exact opposite. I’ve created a new thread just for Oracle Offerings, and let’s use this for talking about Mythdeck possibilities!]
FOLKS! I can’t tell you enough how easily you can make oracle elements. Watch! I now will pick up a book sitting right next to me, that I really like. Hm. ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’. Okay. Paging through it…okay, now I remember the story. My new Oracle element:
A good-hearted young wizard, destined one day for great magic, but for now unable to escape the horror and dread of his own pursuing shadow…
Easy, dudes! And as you mention Jason, books of local folklore provide some of the coolest stuff, but don’t worry too much - pick what you already love. It already sings to you, you know? If you want to plunder the Lord of the Rings nobody will stop you. That whole story couldn’t easily have happened in the Pacific Northwest, too. Western coast, eastern mountains, Desert to the southeast…hrm…Anyway, go for it!
But seriously, yinz, as much of a happy buzz as I've got off the very [i]existence[/i] of this thread, it doesn't mean too much until you start implementing it. What stories did native people tell in your bioregion? What stories do you and your neighbors act out now?
YES! And mix it in with stories from your favorite books, that make your heart sing.