Rune MagicApr 9, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsThe main character in The Frostrune is Liv, a 13-year-old girl. You hardly notice this in the game, because we want the players to experience everything from a first person perspective. Still, the story is important. In this trailer video you are introduced to Liv as a very old woman, a woman who has experienced it all, who has been through numerous adventures, lived through Ragnarok, and then made a family and started her new life in the new world. These trailers are her stories to her grandchildren or great grandchildren, who knows. We are only allowed a few snippets here and there. https://youtu.be/CORq8faWNhY In this first trailer Liv is telling about runes, how they came to be and how they are used. We have had to cut out a poem because of the time constraints - but I want to include it here: “I know that I hung On the wind-blasted tree All of nights nine, Pierced by my spear And given to Odin, Myself sacrificed to myself On that pole Of which none know Where its roots run. No aid I received, Not even a sip from the horn. Peering down,I took up the runes –Screaming I grasped them –Then I fell back from there. ”-Hávamál So, we have Yggdrasil, the world tree. The 9 worlds are all placed in the branches and roots of this tree. Under this tree is the well of Urd, destiny and knowledge. Here you find the Norns, the maidens of destiny, Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, past present and future (roughly). And you find the runes, meaning secret. They only reveal themselves to the worthy.So, Odin, the king of gods, mister worthy himself you might think, has to stab himself with his spear and hang himself from the branches of that tree. He refuses any help from anyone, he only hangs there, on the brink of his life, and stares into that well. After 9 days and 9 nights, the secret runes reveal themselves to him. True story.Now Odin goes ahead and teaches these runes to everyone. Well, a lot of people at least. He teaches them to us humans, and the aesir and vanir and jotnir and dwarves and so on all figure them out, so he is not keeping them secret any more. http://www.grimnirmedia.no/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/379495_Kyss_meg._Foto_Jonas_Nordby_None.jpg This one says "Kiss me" As a tool for writing down words they seem to be relatively readily available to most during the Viking age. We wrote mainly on wooden sticks, and there are loads of finds of those sticks. A lot of accounting and IOU’s, a lot of messages, bunches of love letters and quite a few of insults are recorded. One of the most famous was found in Bergen and just say “Kus mik” - “kiss me”. http://www.grimnirmedia.no/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/runologi.jpg This one also says "Kiss me" There are also quite a few rune stones, especially in Sweden, usually saying something like “Olav made this stone in memory of his sons who died on an adventure in Russia” or something like that. http://www.grimnirmedia.no/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/British_Museum_Runic_Silver_Animal_Head.jpg Knife scabbard mou...Rune MagicApr 9, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsThe main character in The Frostrune is Liv, a 13-year-old girl. You hardly notice this in the game, because we want the players to experience everything from a first person perspective. Still, the story is important. In this trailer video you are introduced to Liv as a very old woman, a woman who has experienced it all, who has been through numerous adventures, lived through Ragnarok, and then made a family and started her new life in the new world. These trailers are her stories to her grandchildren or great grandchildren, who knows. We are only allowed a few snippets here and there. https://youtu.be/CORq8faWNhY In this first trailer Liv is telling about runes, how they came to be and how they are used. We have had to cut out a poem because of the time constraints - but I want to include it here: “I know that I hung On the wind-blasted tree All of nights nine, Pierced by my spear And given to Odin, Myself sacrificed to myself On that pole Of which none know Where its roots run. No aid I received, Not even a sip from the horn. Peering down,I took up the runes –Screaming I grasped them –Then I fell back from there. ”-Hávamál So, we have Yggdrasil, the world tree. The 9 worlds are all placed in the branches and roots of this tree. Under this tree is the well of Urd, destiny and knowledge. Here you find the Norns, the maidens of destiny, Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, past present and future (roughly). And you find the runes, meaning secret. They only reveal themselves to the worthy.So, Odin, the king of gods, mister worthy himself you might think, has to stab himself with his spear and hang himself from the branches of that tree. He refuses any help from anyone, he only hangs there, on the brink of his life, and stares into that well. After 9 days and 9 nights, the secret runes reveal themselves to him. True story.Now Odin goes ahead and teaches these runes to everyone. Well, a lot of people at least. He teaches them to us humans, and the aesir and vanir and jotnir and dwarves and so on all figure them out, so he is not keeping them secret any more. http://www.grimnirmedia.no/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/379495_Kyss_meg._Foto_Jonas_Nordby_None.jpg This one says "Kiss me" As a tool for writing down words they seem to be relatively readily available to most during the Viking age. We wrote mainly on wooden sticks, and there are loads of finds of those sticks. A lot of accounting and IOU’s, a lot of messages, bunches of love letters and quite a few of insults are recorded. One of the most famous was found in Bergen and just say “Kus mik” - “kiss me”. http://www.grimnirmedia.no/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/runologi.jpg This one also says "Kiss me" There are also quite a few rune stones, especially in Sweden, usually saying something like “Olav made this stone in memory of his sons who died on an adventure in Russia” or something like that. http://www.grimnirmedia.no/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/British_Museum_Runic_Silver_Animal_Head.jpg Knife scabbard mou...Now Available on Steam - The Frostrune, 10% off!Feb 2, 2017 - Product ReleaseThe Frostrune is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!* Unravel a mystery inspired by Viking myth and legend in The Frostrune, a classic point-and-click adventure based on historically accurate Norse culture and environments. *Offer ends February 9 at 10AM Pacific Time
