Athena is the daughter of the Titan, Metis, and Zeus. After Athena’s conception a prophecy was made that Metis’s son would be greater than his father. To avoid the birth of one who could overthrow him as he had overthrown his own father, Zeus had to do something. Acting without thinking, Zeus swallowed Metis and had her dwell within his belly. Metis whispered sage advice to Zeus while in his stomach as she is the Titan of Wisdom.

Athena was born within Zeus’s stomach and Metis raised her and clothed her there as well. When she was ready to emerge she began pounding on the inside of Zeus’s head. This gave the father god an enormous headache. He asked Hephaestus to hit him on the head and when he did Athena sprung out, fully formed and fully armored as the goddess of wisdom, owls, strategy, olives, weaving, and heroes. She is one of the three virgin goddesses and Zeus’s favorite daughter. She will always help out a hero who needs it.

Athena has aided many heroes within Cimmeria, but her recent favorite was Torin Stoneblade. She assisted him many times, but most famously during the Battle of Nox. Athena convinced the Hecatonchires to attack the Xorian city in order to claim the White Orb of Dragonkind from the Museum of Power.

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Welcome to the GoCorral website! I’m Isaac Shaker and this is a place for me to write about D&D and occasionally other topics. I host a podcast called Setting the Stage that interviews different DMs about their campaigns. I’m currently focused on completing the Cimmeria campaign setting and turning it into a book.

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73 – Duncan and Extraordinary Locations Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs

Duncan Rhodes comes on the show to talk about his new book, The Creative Game Master's Guide to Extraordinary Locations: & How to Design Them or just Extraordinary Locations. The book is filled with 30 adventure locations to drop into your campaign, modify, or use as a full adventure path! The locations are loosely stated out for D&D 5e but could easily be adapted for any fantasy system. Additionally, the book has a step-wise guide for crafting your own adventures based around locations just like those in the book.To follow Duncan's blog postings you can check out Hipsters & Dragons: https://www.hipstersanddragons.com/And his book, The Creative Game Master's Guide to Extraordinary Locations: & How to Design Them, is available on Amazon and most likely at your local book or game stores: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Masters-Guide-Extraordinary-Locations/dp/1965636306Our website: https://gocorral.com/stsWant to be on the show? Fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/U11TbxtAReHFKbiVAJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/Nngc2pQV6CSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SettingtheStage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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