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New Gods

Tiamat and Gilgamesh are joining the battleground as part of the Babylonian pantheon. Tiamat will be a stance switcher who can summon creatures to help her. Gilgamesh is more than likely a warrior. […]

The winners of the Night & Day Contest are “Queen Bee Nox” by UnicornoExtremo and “SMITE Movie Poster” by BubiDiBup! Thank you to everyone who participated in this contest! The race was very close between all of […]

An Empty Sky

There was a flash – so bright, it almost wiped away the night. Then it faded and the night roared silently back, covering the land once more.

Ise Grand Shrine burned. Splinters of wood and […]

A new art contest is finally here! This time, the subjects are Nox and Hou Yi! You’ll need to draw either god (or both if you want) in any form you want. It can be a skin concept, a chibi, a comedic or serious […]

Pallid flames danced along the muddy coastline of the newborn island. The fires were celebratory in nature, kindled by the hands of hundreds of newly arrived pilgrims. Their vessels, whether junk, barge or cog, […]

Olympus echoed with the sounds of preparation. Gods from many pantheons made ready for the battle to come. The last battle of the last war. Or so some among them hoped, Olorun included. As he followed Hera down […]

Mulan ran her whetstone along her sword. The blade had not needed sharpening since her ascension to godhood, but it made her feel more at ease. She sat in an untended cemetery in the Taihang Mountains, listening […]

In the darkness, Tsukuyomi laughed.

There was precious little mirth in the sound. He had been born in sadness – in the tears from his father’s eye. And in sadness, he lived his life. The sadness of a dia […]

The air stank of smoke and death.

The Parthenon burned, and Athens burned with it. The city was aflame with madness. Baying crowds filled the streets, driven into a frenzy of despair by the coming of a new […]

The sky above Delphi was the color of raw jade when the Pythia mounted her tripod seat. The great colonnade of the temple creaked like ships masts in a storm, and the hillside quaked and quivered. The […]

Ratatoskr scampered down into the dark beneath the world, trying to ignore the biting cold. His paws ached and his fur was damp from the chill mists that swirled through the forests of Yggdrasil’s tangled, f […]

The old, dark forest shook as the great chicken-legged house burst through the trees, moving with hideous speed. Inside, crockery rattled thunderously and the shutters banged. The house’s mistress, used to the […]

Exhausted, Hua Mulan watched the sun rise. She sat on a fallen timber
from the village palisade, her spear thrust into the ground beside her,
and her sword across her lap. She had kept watch through the night, […]

The entries in this giveaway are all top-notch. I had a difficult time choosing winners because of just how amazing these pieces are. However, I had to narrow it down to three. I originally had two winners […]

With a shout, the rider urged her steed over the remnants of the broken gate. As the horse’s hooves slammed down onto the hard-packed earth on the other side of the wall, Hua Mulan leaned forward, sending her s […]

The attack had come in the small hours before dawn. It had happened so swiftly, so savagely, that the villagers could do nothing save seek shelter in the old temple. It was small and humble. But solid. Built of […]