Mimgardr: A Purposeful Look

As we come down to the last three days, I want to give you a deeper look into how Mimgardr fits in with the rest of the Oblivion's Gate trilogy.

Oblivion's Gate is all about bringing together myth, folklore, legends, fables, science, and histories from all around the globe and creating a single unified picture to explain them. Mimgardr itself is intended to pay homage to pieces of lore that have survived for hundreds and even thousands of years, stories that have been retold again, and again, and again with little variation. Many of the world's oldest and most well-known legends and lore were combined into characters, settings, and experiences.
 
Over 500 different elements play a part in building the world of Dan Barker and Aaron Flanagan; however, Mimgardr is just the opening act. This book is my homage to days gone by and mystical stories long told as I set the stage for an enormous  struggle that envelopes the modern age of the world.

Remember this word collage I shared a while back when I first presented Mimgardr to you? Do me a favor: take another look and see what catches your eye.

If you've checked out my new Pinterest boards, then you've seen that I have boards dedicated to such topics as the Grim Reaper, the Headless Horseman, Fenrir, the leviathan, and realms. If you explore these and other boards, you'll find some glimpse into other tie-ins mentioned in this collage.

My desire is for Mimgardr to connect with people all around the world--to give everyone something they can grab onto and say "Oh yeah! I know what that is!" I want to bring all of our myths together and wrap them around a world that has long since banished them as legends....... when perhaps they aren't legends at all.

For example: What if Plato was wrong about the destruction of Atlantis? What if he blamed the gods jealousy purely out of spite? Or perhaps, where did the giants go who are spoken of in almost every world culture? Or the elves and dwarves? What about dragons, mermaids, and other such creatures? Why did the ancients believe in shape-shifting gods that ruled in various realms both above and beneath the earth? What if everything you know and the way you know it is just a lie?

Questions like these and others are what spawned the ideas that have developed into Mimgardr, and I want people to find thousands of questions like them stirring around in their minds while they're reading. Mimgardr is going to help kick the series off by giving us a harmonized glimpse of the world that will play into the rest of the series and our modern age quite powerfully.