{"id":357,"date":"2013-03-12T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/a-hero-is-born\/"},"modified":"2023-02-26T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T23:06:47","slug":"a-hero-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/a-hero-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hero Is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary characters are mythic from birth, and some are mythic from conception. If you’re playing a game about mythic heroes, use this table to explain why<\/i> they’re so mythic. In a lot of case, knowing a character’s birthright will help you come up with a Gimmick.<\/p>\n

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  1. Divine Bloodline<\/li>\n
  2. Fairy Blood<\/li>\n
  3. Demonic Heritage<\/li>\n
  4. Miraculous Birth (virgin birth, parthenogenesis, hatched, etc.)<\/li>\n
  5. Heroic Ancestry<\/li>\n
  6. Born of Battle<\/li>\n
  7. Raised By Animals<\/li>\n
  8. Seventh Son of A Seventh Son<\/li>\n
  9. Born with a Birth Caul<\/li>\n
  10. Blessed (by gods, wizards, fairies, or whatever)<\/li>\n
  11. Birth Marked By Great Person’s Death (character is probably thought to be a reincarnation of that person).<\/li>\n
  12. Animal Played A Role In The Character’s Birth (even as just a witness)<\/li>\n
  13. Subject of a Prophecy<\/li>\n
  14. Born Under A Blood Moon<\/li>\n
  15. Born At A Crossroads<\/li>\n
  16. Born On Midsummer’s Eve<\/li>\n
  17. Born On Winter Solstice<\/li>\n
  18. Born On Halloween<\/li>\n
  19. Born During An Eclipse<\/li>\n
  20. Natural Disaster Coincided With Birth
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    Legendary characters are mythic from birth, and some are mythic from conception. If you’re playing a game about mythic heroes, use this table to explain why they’re so mythic. In a lot of case, knowing a character’s birthright will help you come up with a Gimmick.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1996],"tags":[69,130,886,1854,1981,2504],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumb-tables","tag-magic","tag-character-creation","tag-dumb-tables","tag-gimmicks","tag-powers","tag-birthrights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}