I was thinking of doing a rewrite where the Norse and Egyptian pantheons, which canonically exist, to actually play a part in the story. I was wondering if you had any tips or suggestions?
Can't help much when it comes to Egyptian as I'm a total dumbass there lmao with Norse though, honestly this might be a basic bitch response but I recently played the newest God of War games and they both weaved together the Greek and Norse pantheons brilliantly. One thing that I love is the fact Kratos is clearly not from Midgard/the Norse pantheon so he's essentially an immigrant but his son Atreus was raised in Midgard so his kid's the one with all the know-how on the languages and locales. It makes for a very compelling and cute dynamic to see Atreus go through his growing pains in the first game and get annoyed having to do all the translating for his emotionally stunted dad, and then later on in the second game when they've clearly spent a lot more time bonding, Kratos can actually read the language a little better than he could in the first game and Atreus is like "yeah good job :) <3" idk it's very wholesome and very sweet and it makes for a great way to reintroduce Kratos to a new audience, while also creating a divide between Kratos and his son that the game can use as its main driving narrative.
Another piece of pantheon-mixing media I love is HappleTea. It doesn't have a functional website anymore as its creator has moved on to other projects but you can still find it archived on other websites. It's hilarious and covers all sorts of myths from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Christian mythology in a very easy-to-understand and entertaining way. Here's a couple good ones:
(just note that I cut off the credit at the bottom of the comic because the URL is outdated as is the name that it's been credited to, the creator's name is Violet Riot!)
I guess my only tips would just be to do as much research as you can, and don't bite off more than you can chew! It can be super tempting to want to tackle all the myths out there but ultimately if you're going for some kind of longform narrative, you're telling a story, so you should be focused on it functioning from beginning to middle to end. Try to limit yourself to include only what you feel serves your story best!
