I love when people explain their niche passion I know nothing about in great detail. I have a friend who'll go in depth into XVIIIth century boats, that's so heartwarming to hear.
*ahem*
Smite is a 3D 3rd person MOBA designed by the company Hi-Rez, and consists of Mythological figures battling each other in a constant struggle to win over the battlefield in their favour. The map consists of three lanes; the mid, duo, and solo lane, with a large sprawling jungle weaved in between each lane. Each team of gods consists of five players, and each one has a specified role: mid, carry, support, solo, and jungler. Gods are split into five different classes. Mages deal high long range magical damage and are typically used in the mid lane, hunters are long range physical characters who typically deal in the carry role, aided usually by a guardian (high health and defense, low magic attack) in the support role, and a warrior has all around stats and is usually played in the solo lane. Between the lanes is the assassin, who has high physical attack, high speed, but very low defenses, and is made to run through the lanes through the jungle, clearing jungle camps of monsters-
-to supply buffs, XP, and money for the team, and potential ganks on enemies to further a role. Each lane has waves of minions that will move upwards through the lane, and will stop to attack whatever stands in their way. Each lanes role is to defeat enemy minions, and move them into an enemy tower. Towers deal damage to whatever stands within them, and is dangerous for a player to be caught within, but minions are able to tank tower shots an amount of times before death, allowing the God to damage the tower and ultimately destroy it. The more towers get destroyed, the further ones team can get towards an enemy base, moving through the two towers and Phoenix (aka tower that can respawn after some time), until they reach the enemy Titan. Once the titan is defeated, the attacking team wins the match. The key to victory in smite is to defeat the enemy gods, play the role properly, and conquer the battlefield in their favour.
This is all without mentioning specific features such as jungle buffs, gold fury/fire giant, strategies, ganks, wards, and other info that could turn the tide in battle.
It sounds like jazzed up chess.^^ Ok so is the mythology involved here only Greek-Roman or are there more? I suppose the gods have all specific powers too?
There are numerous pantheons to choose from within smite; so far the list is Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Mayan, Chinese, Hindu, Japanese, Celtic, Slavic, Voodoo, Polynesian, Arthurian, Yoruba, The Great Old Ones, and to be added early next year, Babylonian. And yes, every single character has a unique playstyle than the previous character.
As for Agni, I dont know much about his backstory, but smite classifies him as a hindu god of fire, so yeah lol
Ok so like I read as much of the lore as I could from articles I found online. The only piece I couldn't find was the very first storyline written for the game, and thats because its found only in graphic novel form, and you need to pay for it. The basic gist of the original storyline though is that Loki, Hel, and Fenrir are planning on starting Ragnarok bc they're pieces of shit who want power, Loki ends up murdering Zeus, the murder is blamed on Anubis, Ra is imprisoned by Ares for not saying where Anubis is (causing the sun to poof), and Hades yoinks the throne of Olympus while its empty.
After that it was mostly a bunch of small stories. I mean, most of these are important, but they go by so fast it leaves your head spinning. Seriously, Ragnarok is covered in all of like 3 comics and its so fucking bizarre. I think most of these were just to advertise new gods being released, like susano, nox, xing tian, the morrigan, etc. So, for these stories, I'll give you the abridged version:
Amaterasu is fighting Xing Tian bc she sees this evil lookin black mist thats making people go all evil n shit, so Susano decides to chase after it. He comes across a couple characters and thinks it has to do with a god of the dead, so he and anubis split up to go search for it (at this point anubis knows ares is after him too so he wants to get the fuck outta egypt). The two of them go their seperate ways, and Susano eventually discovers that the mist was The Morrigan. She is not seen again after this and the mist is never really explained :/
The story then shifts to Ares hunting Anubis. He first murders chaac bc he knew where he went and refused to tell him where he went, stole chaacs greataxe, accidentally released izanami who agreed to help him find anubis, sylvanus says hello, ares fucks over he bo bc he was in his way, ends up in ganesha's temple where the kind elephant man tells him he needs to stop before ares throws a tantrum, finds anubis hiding under the floorboards-
-murders him, and lets izanami go free. Again, izanami roaming the earth is never brought up again, except once in a much later story where she's just... invited to a party. Huh, I never thought one of the most evil figures in japan would get that kind of special treatment.
Anyways, shit happens in Norway. Odin and Thor are fighting the forces that Hel is sending after them, Odin vanishes for a while, Thor is defeated, and Hel eventually claims Asgard to herself. Thats really all that happens.
So now that Hel has asgard, ragnarok can begin! ...and it ends in three short stories! yup, what a bummer. Anyways, first I should mention that athena in an earlier story decided to help out Ra from being imprisoned, and brings back the sun. Huzzah. Anyways, her and ares meet up at Hades's doorstep at olympus, Hades talks about his big plan to become king douchebag, ares likes it, athena does not, and the two seperate.
Cut back to the three short stories I mentioned, now its Bellona doing her own thing trying to stop ragnarok. First she has a lil spat with Chernobog for some reason (idk he was being mean and liked ragnarok), then she has a meeting with Baron Samedi for information, and then in the span of like a paragraph she is suddenly sealing up ragnarok into a deep abyss, with hades alongside it, with the help of pele. and just like that, ragnarok is over I guess.
Now, after this is when the stories FINALLY get interesting. They take longer than like 5 minutes to read, they have damn good writing, and its narratively consistent for once :D
So this one starts with Hera, bringing herself and her two best guards over to a now empty olympus, and deciding that some serious change needs to happen. So, she decides to crown herself queen of olympus and swears to end the shit that first started in the original few stories. She orders her guards to stay put and guard olympus as she makes her way out into the world.
She first comes across this destroyed village, with absolutely no survivors left standing. She runs into loki there, taunting her for the destruction the world has suffered, and that she'll never succeed in her plan, and then hera discovers that her two guards disobeyed her orders and followed her to the town. Frustrated with both loki and her guards, Hera punishes them by combining the two humans into a giant two faced marble automaton named-
-argus. Hera stops and thinks "I probably shouldn't have done that", loki says "oh shit" and skedaddles, and hera just kinda shrugs it off and moves on.
First, Hera and Argus stops at Norway, finding a broken and defeated Thor. Thor had to escape battle after fighting for so long, and odin is STILL battling against ice giants and shit (you'll have to excuse me for this chapter, my memory is a bit foggy). They help defeat the last of the giants, odin just kinda peaces out, and Thor, Hera, and Argus make their way to Asgard to save it from Hel.
They have a real awesome battle against Hel and Fenrir, with the three heroes coming out on top, sending the villains away. loki tries to intervene near the end, but argus responds by yeeting him out a window. Seriously lol.
After that, Hera and Thor make their way out to other places, and Hera decides to show Thor what she has constructed in secret; an arena fit for the gods, where everyone can battle one another fairly, without endangering the-
-lives of humans or the planet in the process. However, Hera finds that the place is an absolute mess, and finds out that Bellona and Pele are chilling inside of it, with Bellona getting suuuuper cocky after defeating Hades and saving the world from ragnarok. Hera, trying her best not to get too angry as to break her own mentality of bringing peace to the gods, is saved by the bell when Ra teleports into the room and says theres big trouble going on. I don't remember how they come to this conclusion but they agree that they need to go to a certain place in the world in order to stop this threat.
So Hera, Argus, Thor, and Ra all hop onto Ra's lil ceremony raft and begin sailing the ocean. On the way the ocean begins to churn, and the raft gets destroyed, everyone making it to land, but Thor staying behind to fight the threat, which turns out to be Jormungandr. The others meet up at the weird meeting place, activate some sort of pedestal-
-and then boom! Surprise King Arthur and Merlin! yeah so before the next part of the story begins the story takes a slight detour and tells the Smite version of the king arthur legend, such as his wife dying in a war against the saxons, his son becoming a tyrant and being forced to slay him for the good of the kingdom, merlin being a weird but chill bro, and now ending up in this weird place. Anyways, back to the present, Arthur and Merlin agree to help take down Jorm since Arthur has slayed dragons before (even if arthur doesn't like helping the god that the saxons worship, aka thor), and even though they try their hardest, Thor is gravely wounded in his battle against Jorm, and everyone escapes on Ra's boat once again, bc that lil boat can fix itself lol
Back at olympus, everyone takes a minute to breathe (including a short but fun scene where merlin and hera play a board game lol), thor recovers, and merlin finds out that Jorm wakes up at the end of the time of the gods to destroy all pantheons, and not only is he awake early bellona (unknowingly) dropped the force of ragnarok on his noggin, but he is currently gaining power FROM ragnarok, and is slowly becoming harder and harder to kill by the second. Merlin finds out a spell that could potentially stop him though, so he, Arthur, Thor, Hera, Argus, and Ra all make their way to Asgard to stop Jorm (bc thats where he was gonna attack next)
Before the big fight starts, the story takes another quick detour to tell about the 'life' of Jorm, his purpose in the universe, and why he does what he does. It actually explains that Jorm isn't necessarily evil, but his purpose is to destroy the gods and then bugger off back to sleep so humanity can evolve WITHOUT worshipping gods all the time. Theres actually a real cool scene where a group of humans are being attacked by some kind of monster, Jorm saves them, they all begin praising Jorm, and he tells them off, saying that instead of spending all their lives looking up to a higher being, they should look to themselves instead, which I thought was actually kinda cool.
cool so the group comes in later, a fight scene occurs, and Merlin successfully wards off Jorm, sealing him away and taking away his connection to the force of ragnarok. He may be back one day, idk.
anyways afterwards the story decides to follow ra for a short minute, and when he gets back to egypt he finds a disturbing sight; someone has murdered osiris! and standing above the corpse is horus! ah, except horus is quickly found to be innocent and that set was the real culprit. Bc set is a lil bitch who's upset with his role compared to his brother. So they have a fight, Ra says "knock it off", and Set buggers off for now.
Anyways back at olympus, Hera gathers a ton of gods around from across the world to discuss peace. However, things don't go according to plan due to bellona knowing nothing but war, Thor thinking peace can never be achieved, and arthur just hating the norse pantheon for personal reasons, and the peace treaties don't go so well, everyone splitting off once again. All thats left is Hera, Ra, and Horus, discussing what happened in egypt (btw always assume that Argus is alongside Hera, he is literally her familiar), kukulkan decides to slither on in and say he-
-agrees with hera's plan, when suddenly, bad things happen! A new group of gods show up, currently made of Set, Discordia, and Thanatos, and they plan to cause chaos for the sake of causing chaos! They have a fight, they seem evenly matched at first, and then-- completely out of nowhere, bam! surprise Olorun! He crash lands into olympus, shows off his amazing powers by freezing time and taking care of the three douchebags himself (not killing, just sending them away), and declares himself the new honorary king of the gods. And... idk, people just kinda go with it I guess! Olorun is the new king! huzzah!
The scene then shifts to the underworld, where hades (he's back, doing fine) and persephone have been invited to Oloruns arrival party. They go there and mingle for a bit (this is where I mentioned izanami was at a party.. SOMEHOW), and Olorun reveals that he made the party so he could gather a ton of underworld/death based gods, including anubis he's back too btw (except they say that gods of death can't actually die forever, so huzzah, a reason!), and reveals his master plan; he wants to bring back the gods previously killed in earlier stories, specifically Zeus. At first, no one knows where Zeus is, but hades and persephone reveal that his soul is in the underworld, being held prisoner there bc hades is still a piece of shit. people get upset at them, they leave, and Olorun decides they need to pop into the underworld and save them.
So Olorun, Hera, Horus, and Baron Samedi (who joined in to see if Olorun is all he's cracked up to be) make their way into the underworld, going past the river styx, fighting persephone's plants, making their way past cerberus, and finally rescuing the souls of Zeus, Chaac, Mercury, and Anhur (idk what happened to the last 2, I assume it was in the first comic series I never read), but they find out that they had been bamboozled; Hades and Persephone are nowhere to be seen! Nope, it was a distraction for persephone to get herself to the world tree and start fucking with the branches. Why? I honestly don't remember. I know she HAS a reason, but I forget :/
Heimdallr tries to stop persephone before its too late, but he can't move fast enough, and one of her lil fuckers roots itself into one of the world tree's roots, beginning to infect it with.. something.
MEANWHILE IN CHINA (yeah idk why this is happening either but we had to introduce this character somehow), there is inexplicably an invasion of jade soldiers going on, terrorizing and murdering all they come across. Mulan is fighting against the invasion with her own personal army (bc the regular army would've had her head), and somehow she becomes so well loved and respected by the people that I guess she ascends to godhood in the middle of battle. Its not too unusual, the chinese are known for taking old great leader and claiming they became gods, like Guan Yu. Speaking of which, she gets approached by Guan Yu! He explains her new godliness, and they set out bc shits going down bc of persephone fucking with the world tree, and they need to move fast. On-
-the way they actually meet with persephone, who is SEVERELY regretting what she did bc it had a much different effect than what she wanted. They meet up with Baba Yaga who, after testing them on their mettle, tells them that something BIG is coming. Bigger than Jorm, bigger than ragnarok, something even worse. They make their way out, thanking baba for her help, and baba responds by never coming back into the story (she doesn't like getting involved with the gods that much).
Meanwhile back in Asgard, Odin commands Ratatoskr to inspect the world tree bc something is wrong, and ratatoskr finds that the giant serpent who lives in the world tree is gone. Scared away in fact. The giant serpent. SCARED. Anyways he meets up with Guan, Mulan, Persephone, Zeus, Hera, Heimdallr, and Olorun in the world tree, and they all witness the reveal of the big bad that kept being mentioned.. the one, the only, the ugly, its CTHULHU! :D
So yeah due to persephone fucking with the world tree Cthulhu is now awake and he decides he wants the world all to himself. So, his very presence begins driving the world mad, causing humans to become brainwashed and insane, worshipping him and slaughtering everyone they come across. The gods watch on in horror as this happens, lots of people try to butcher persephone for what she did, but olorun and hera stop them bc they still want peace, and she leaves. Hades responds to the underworld break in and the new influx of dead due to cthulhu by sealing away the underworld to everyone, odin.. just kind of vanishes I guess, and a bunch of gods meet up to discuss the situation. In this meeting we find out that zeus's brain got a bit fucked in the underworld and now has a super inferiority complex with olorun taking his title, and I mean, who can blame him. Zeus gets peeved and decides to go off on his own to try and find a group of "the most powerful" gods to help him destroy cthulhu by-
-himself.
Meanwhile in Japan (bc we haven't had enough meanwhiles in a while!) the japanese pantheon are surveying the situation they're in due to cthulhu, and tsukuyomi decides to create an impromptu family meeting and attacking amaterasu, trying to use the situation to take japan for himself bc his ego is too big for his own head. Though he loses the first fight, he responds by taking down as many cthulhu worshippers as he can, and convincing those still sane to worship him instead, weaking the other gods and increasing his own strength.
Zeus is unsuccessful in finding gods to help him fight cthulhu (some like bellona, chaac, and xing tian have already been killed by him), since odin is missing, pele refuses to help, and while cabrakan was totally down to fight cthulhu, he went in way too early and got himself smooshed by hentai face himself. All zeus finds is a very sassy loki, who pisses him off and leaves. Olorun and Hera meanwhile are still discussing what to do, when zeus comes-
-back and demands his throne back from olorun. The two have a short but sweet spat as hera and argus break them up, yemoja runs down what some others characters are doing such as arthur, baba, and tsukuyomi (oh fuck I forgot to mention Olorun brought his friend yemoja into the fray during the underworld romp, sorry about that), and olorun gets the bright idea to unchain ares from his prison (athena threw him there after hades was sent away with ragnarok), and ares gets to work by slaughtering as many cthulhu worshippers as he can across the planet, even saving poseidon along the way (he got kidnapped by the cultists similar to how ares's men captured ra early on).
This brings us to right now in the story. Cthulhu is pissed bc of ares and is on his way to olympus for a fight, zeus hates olorun, amaterasu and tsukuyomi are fighting for control of japan, china is STILL being attacked by jade soldiers, odin is still missing for some reason, and still no one wants to explain to me what happened to the morrigan. No one is certain how the story is going to go, but based on assumption we can assume that tsukuyomi wins the fight but has a change of heart due to a talk with danzaburou (the newest character being released), the gods are gonna have to try and fight fire with fire by sending mothafuckin Tiamat after cthulhu (the first god of the new babylonian pantheon), gilgamesh will appear at some point, and I personally believe that the jade emperor will come in and not only do something with the jade army but also turn zeus and oloruns two man gong show into a THREE man gong show!
Ok so first let me tell you you have a very lively way of telling stuff ("sylvanus says hello, ares fucks over he bo" and many other stuff), second of all I cannot believe you took the time to check and type all of this.
That's a fun take on Argus, in my memory he had 100 eyes and was other than that a normal guy, but I really like Hera taking one guard to slap into another hard enough to create a new entity. Baron Samedi!! Love the guy. Persephone ఠ ͟ಠ find a room sister, and since her mom's Demetra, goddess of Nature, what's this Alabama bullshit?
"persephone, who is SEVERELY regretting what she did bc it had a much different effect than what she wanted." Well DUH I can only imagine the internal bleeding
But Baba Yaga is mood
"due to persephone fucking with the world tree Cthulhu is now awake" this has been a PSA for protection use
Wow that was quite a trip, I really expected such a detailed answer but it was fun. Lowkey makes me wanna check it, but only lowkey because I've already made the mistake of watching Supernatural and that's the same level of plot-craziness.
Unfortunately, smite gameplay has NOTHING to do with story; its fully online and against other people.
Baron is great, hes probably the most modern speaking character in the story, which makes me relate with him a hell of a lot more.
No persephone didnt fuck the world tree, she had her plants fuck it. Why? Again, I don't remember.
Also I'm glad to hear you like my style of storytelling. I tried to abridge it as much as possible while still keeping it entertaining lol.
Smite is a 3D 3rd person MOBA designed by the company Hi-Rez, and consists of Mythological figures battling each other in a constant struggle to win over the battlefield in their favour. The map consists of three lanes; the mid, duo, and solo lane, with a large sprawling jungle weaved in between each lane. Each team of gods consists of five players, and each one has a specified role: mid, carry, support, solo, and jungler. Gods are split into five different classes. Mages deal high long range magical damage and are typically used in the mid lane, hunters are long range physical characters who typically deal in the carry role, aided usually by a guardian (high health and defense, low magic attack) in the support role, and a warrior has all around stats and is usually played in the solo lane. Between the lanes is the assassin, who has high physical attack, high speed, but very low defenses, and is made to run through the lanes through the jungle, clearing jungle camps of monsters-
*fire dashes off into the distance*
As for Agni, I dont know much about his backstory, but smite classifies him as a hindu god of fire, so yeah lol
It's great that they're including a lot of pantheons.
Ok if you want to go into the lore I'm all ears.
After that it was mostly a bunch of small stories. I mean, most of these are important, but they go by so fast it leaves your head spinning. Seriously, Ragnarok is covered in all of like 3 comics and its so fucking bizarre. I think most of these were just to advertise new gods being released, like susano, nox, xing tian, the morrigan, etc. So, for these stories, I'll give you the abridged version:
The story then shifts to Ares hunting Anubis. He first murders chaac bc he knew where he went and refused to tell him where he went, stole chaacs greataxe, accidentally released izanami who agreed to help him find anubis, sylvanus says hello, ares fucks over he bo bc he was in his way, ends up in ganesha's temple where the kind elephant man tells him he needs to stop before ares throws a tantrum, finds anubis hiding under the floorboards-
Anyways, shit happens in Norway. Odin and Thor are fighting the forces that Hel is sending after them, Odin vanishes for a while, Thor is defeated, and Hel eventually claims Asgard to herself. Thats really all that happens.
So now that Hel has asgard, ragnarok can begin! ...and it ends in three short stories! yup, what a bummer. Anyways, first I should mention that athena in an earlier story decided to help out Ra from being imprisoned, and brings back the sun. Huzzah. Anyways, her and ares meet up at Hades's doorstep at olympus, Hades talks about his big plan to become king douchebag, ares likes it, athena does not, and the two seperate.
So this one starts with Hera, bringing herself and her two best guards over to a now empty olympus, and deciding that some serious change needs to happen. So, she decides to crown herself queen of olympus and swears to end the shit that first started in the original few stories. She orders her guards to stay put and guard olympus as she makes her way out into the world.
She first comes across this destroyed village, with absolutely no survivors left standing. She runs into loki there, taunting her for the destruction the world has suffered, and that she'll never succeed in her plan, and then hera discovers that her two guards disobeyed her orders and followed her to the town. Frustrated with both loki and her guards, Hera punishes them by combining the two humans into a giant two faced marble automaton named-
First, Hera and Argus stops at Norway, finding a broken and defeated Thor. Thor had to escape battle after fighting for so long, and odin is STILL battling against ice giants and shit (you'll have to excuse me for this chapter, my memory is a bit foggy). They help defeat the last of the giants, odin just kinda peaces out, and Thor, Hera, and Argus make their way to Asgard to save it from Hel.
They have a real awesome battle against Hel and Fenrir, with the three heroes coming out on top, sending the villains away. loki tries to intervene near the end, but argus responds by yeeting him out a window. Seriously lol.
After that, Hera and Thor make their way out to other places, and Hera decides to show Thor what she has constructed in secret; an arena fit for the gods, where everyone can battle one another fairly, without endangering the-
So Hera, Argus, Thor, and Ra all hop onto Ra's lil ceremony raft and begin sailing the ocean. On the way the ocean begins to churn, and the raft gets destroyed, everyone making it to land, but Thor staying behind to fight the threat, which turns out to be Jormungandr. The others meet up at the weird meeting place, activate some sort of pedestal-
cool so the group comes in later, a fight scene occurs, and Merlin successfully wards off Jorm, sealing him away and taking away his connection to the force of ragnarok. He may be back one day, idk.
Anyways back at olympus, Hera gathers a ton of gods around from across the world to discuss peace. However, things don't go according to plan due to bellona knowing nothing but war, Thor thinking peace can never be achieved, and arthur just hating the norse pantheon for personal reasons, and the peace treaties don't go so well, everyone splitting off once again. All thats left is Hera, Ra, and Horus, discussing what happened in egypt (btw always assume that Argus is alongside Hera, he is literally her familiar), kukulkan decides to slither on in and say he-
MEANWHILE IN CHINA (yeah idk why this is happening either but we had to introduce this character somehow), there is inexplicably an invasion of jade soldiers going on, terrorizing and murdering all they come across. Mulan is fighting against the invasion with her own personal army (bc the regular army would've had her head), and somehow she becomes so well loved and respected by the people that I guess she ascends to godhood in the middle of battle. Its not too unusual, the chinese are known for taking old great leader and claiming they became gods, like Guan Yu. Speaking of which, she gets approached by Guan Yu! He explains her new godliness, and they set out bc shits going down bc of persephone fucking with the world tree, and they need to move fast. On-
Meanwhile back in Asgard, Odin commands Ratatoskr to inspect the world tree bc something is wrong, and ratatoskr finds that the giant serpent who lives in the world tree is gone. Scared away in fact. The giant serpent. SCARED. Anyways he meets up with Guan, Mulan, Persephone, Zeus, Hera, Heimdallr, and Olorun in the world tree, and they all witness the reveal of the big bad that kept being mentioned.. the one, the only, the ugly, its CTHULHU! :D
Meanwhile in Japan (bc we haven't had enough meanwhiles in a while!) the japanese pantheon are surveying the situation they're in due to cthulhu, and tsukuyomi decides to create an impromptu family meeting and attacking amaterasu, trying to use the situation to take japan for himself bc his ego is too big for his own head. Though he loses the first fight, he responds by taking down as many cthulhu worshippers as he can, and convincing those still sane to worship him instead, weaking the other gods and increasing his own strength.
Zeus is unsuccessful in finding gods to help him fight cthulhu (some like bellona, chaac, and xing tian have already been killed by him), since odin is missing, pele refuses to help, and while cabrakan was totally down to fight cthulhu, he went in way too early and got himself smooshed by hentai face himself. All zeus finds is a very sassy loki, who pisses him off and leaves. Olorun and Hera meanwhile are still discussing what to do, when zeus comes-
That's a fun take on Argus, in my memory he had 100 eyes and was other than that a normal guy, but I really like Hera taking one guard to slap into another hard enough to create a new entity. Baron Samedi!! Love the guy. Persephone ఠ ͟ಠ find a room sister, and since her mom's Demetra, goddess of Nature, what's this Alabama bullshit?
But Baba Yaga is mood
"due to persephone fucking with the world tree Cthulhu is now awake" this has been a PSA for protection use
Baron is great, hes probably the most modern speaking character in the story, which makes me relate with him a hell of a lot more.
No persephone didnt fuck the world tree, she had her plants fuck it. Why? Again, I don't remember.
Also I'm glad to hear you like my style of storytelling. I tried to abridge it as much as possible while still keeping it entertaining lol.