Talk:Marbh-Maigheach/@comment-25947144-20170130212501/@comment-28266772-20170131094054

Thank you very much for taking the time to read and comment. I put most of my efforts on trying to create atmosphere and the sense of a real mythology so its great to see those paid off. I would have liked to put more effort into Odel and the protagonist but I really wanted to keep it under 10000 words. I already feel like it's longer than it should be. Either way, it's a point of pride that you thought the myths might have been real. I did a lot of research to get the feel of those celtic tales correct.

One thing I learned was that they're amusingly surreal. It's always like, "Brallwythwch was walking down a road when he saw a mermaid who offered him a pipe. She told him that if he smoked the pipe once a day his goat would shit a golden apothecary, but if he smoked it twice a day then all his apothecaries would turn into ravenous pox-riddled crows who would peck out his eyes. So Brallwythwch turned into a cat and lived under the mermaid's tail forever. The end."