>>93998693well, there's all these stories of tricking the devil in a deal, the aquelarres and assorted witchraft stuff, and all the stuff with saint john's eve, like walking through embers to purify yourself and all that, but my knowledge is pretty scarce, so the idea was to get some books and read up on all that, and for all I know that would have changed my view of what it'd be like.
still, what you're gonna get is what I had in mind at the time: there's this one lovecraft story with the romans on navarre I think, and I really wanted to capture the feel that gave me, whith all these "modern" myths and folklore being an echo of something lost to time
But that'd be just one side of it, you see, where half the population just gives in to the disease and consorts with the trolls and their dangerous magics, while the other side went full into inquisition trying to keep order. And like, it'd fit way better, right? Unlike for nordics, the old gods are way too mysterious to try and get close to them, and getting into the paganic and witchery would suppose a huge leap in faith compared to the protection granted to the faithful to God, more in line with the strength of nordic gods
so then you've got some pagans actually rejoining the old gods and folklore, the misled trying to spread the disease to please their troll masters, and the inquisition trying to stop both out of fear and fed by willpower and fanatism alone, while some french survivors from the pyrenees develop radio techniques to communicate even through troll territory to find survivos in northern france, but mostly helping the inquisition's government keep contact with all other sites, and the whole thing starting to collapse by the time the main, canon story gets going
