Merlin of Chaos

I need some ideas for religious stories--parables if you will--to flesh out the religion in Altaia. I realized today after having a discussion about them that one of the issues I have with the religion system I use is that the Gods have no personality, really. They all do the things they're meant to do in the sense that they represent something, but to get some personality, there has to be some stories about how they interact.

If anyone wants to give me some ideas, the stuff I have is defined here.

Caveats:

Most of the stories should probably have some overarching reason that they've been preserved. Either they're a moral tale of some sort (and I'm talking pagan morals not present day stuff) or they explain why something is the way it is.

Khunin-An shouldn't appear in the stories at all. He's never really been around and is now gone, as far as this pantheon is concerned.

The stories are likely to be best if they have Gods interacting, either with each other or with the world; many of them before the Veil, but there can be stories from after the Veil that are about the Messengers. (These are actually a race of beings that can cross the Veil, there are a few levels of them and the more powerful they are the less they can cross the Veil.)

I'm really just looking for ideas here, tho hey, if someone wants to write a whole story for me I wouldn't say no.

Another 250 words tonight. But I only had about 45 minutes of writing time, and a bunch of that was spent not writing, so 250 words is a pretty good bit of progress. And it is forward progress, which is much better than, say, since October of last year.

Total word count: 64,958

Estimated final word count: 90,000 (and rising)

And 2100 words into chapter 18.

Yay flowing words! Hopefully I'll feel up to writing tomorrow and can churn through this thing.

Talk about completely random. I popped into buttonmen chat and ended up doing an off-the-cuff collaborative story based upon some random words. It came out ok, and is worth keeping. This is edited only for formatting, not for content.
( Cut because only 3 of you want to read this... )

3,813 words. 55,475 total. 9 chapters (approximately 33,000 words) remain in my outline. This has actually
expanded by a chapter, as certain things got a little long winded around chapter 14.

Cracks in the Window, Chapter 15 WORD Format
Cracks in the Window, Chapter 15 PDF Format

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Well I got 350 words today, which is the first I've written on the project in several months. It's not a lot, especialy by my binge standards, but it'll do for now. It has my mind churning on the project again...and I would really like to finish it by the end of the year.

Kett (the main character in Cracks in the Window) started pacing in my head last night. This means, theoretically, more novel writing.

Except for the fact that I've not very much time. 18 units and a game that I still have a lot of work left to prepare for. Bah!

Chapter 14. 3,492 words. 51,664 total. One chapter behind on my outline, so I may end up 24 chapters instead of 23. That's okay.

Cracks in the Window, Chapter 14 WORD Format
Cracks in the Window, Chapter 14 PDF Format

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I went ahead and cleaned up the directory for Cracks in the Window somewhat. It does mean that the old links for chapters 1-9 will no longer work, but if you simply go to the parent directory you'll get a directory listing; I renamed all of the single digit chapters to use two digits so that they'll show up in the proper order.

After a 2 month hiatus, I did some more writing. I didn't actually need very much to finish this chapter:

Cracks in the Window, Chapter 12 WORD Format
Cracks in the Window, Chapter 12 PDF Format