Friday, June 9, 2017

Ever Heard of Mabinogi?

Well, if I could do this project again, I'm pretty sure I would add more care to the formatting of the pages and possibly remove certain aspects like the calendar. I think I would definitely break it down into essentials and make those essentials look really good.

I believe that this project reflects the work I put into it, because I was as meticulous as possible with the code and the base format of all of the pages. I also went in-depth with every aspect of the website and made sure that it was informational and entertaining. I am very proud of what I have done, and I hope that others find it just as impressive.

RIGHT! So while I was looking for pictures for my mythology figures, I hit the Elatha section. Elatha is an AMAZING BOSS when it comes to gods, okay? He was a member of the Fomorians in Irish mythology, which were technically the bad guys and the gods of destruction and whatnot, and they tended to be hideous demons and giants and such. Not Elatha. So Elatha was the most beautiful being in existence, as well as highly intelligent, skilled, a great leader, and a wonderful general. The guy wasn't even that ambitious or haughty. He was cool as a general. But the other Fomorians were like "no, we need you to be our king", and so he became one of the Fomorian kings. Long story short, Elatha couldn't be defeated by ANYONE and he was actually the father of most of the Tuatha De Danann (the good guys) leaders. He was never defeated, even during the big takeover.

So when I was looking for pictures for him, THAT IS WHERE THE PROBLEM STARTED. You see, there were some oddly consistent results in the image search that showed an anime-style boy with red hair and a pretty suspicious look in his eyes. He also had horns. And a very signature outfit that comes in a teeny Hatsune Miku box package, updated version! Can you see where I'm going with this?

I couldn't figure out where the heck this guy was coming from, and why he was named after Elatha or had a description involving the Fomorians, so I clicked on one of the links. I found an online game (MMORPG) called Mabinogi. Mabinogi. I have never heard of it. Oh what is it, you ask? Well, it is a fantasy world that uses ACTUAL MYTHOLOGY CHARACTERS AND MOST OF THEM SEEM TO BE IRISH WHICH IS CRAZY inside of it. Ah, and apparently the Vocaloids invaded it at some point. Cuz you know, Hatsune Miku does stuff like that. She just don't care.

Elatha is some kind of important character in the game and so were a crud ton of other mythology characters in it. Like WHAT?! THAT'S A THING?! I am now tempted to buy my first MMORPG. And throughout the rest of my Irish mythology character searches, guess which tag was always an option. This thing called Mabinogi.

Mabinogi. Maginobi. Maginobi. IT. IS. EVERYWHERE.

So...I should go right now because my friend is once again reminding me of the reason that we are always the last ones to leave for lunch. Yeaaaaaaah....that's me. BYE!

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