Groovelet: Portable Mythology
Let’s imagine you need to crack together a world, or a story, or a video game.
There are a few ways to start writing a story - with a story outline, or by doing impressive amounts of worldbuilding.
The Groovelet: Portable Mythology is intended to help with either of these things, as a creative exercise/aid.
It is a Creative Commons framework, so you can do whatever you like with it! Copy it whole and make your own! You’re free to do that - heck, you’re encouraged to do that.
Okay, but What IS It?
The Groovelet: Portable Mythology describes a set of 12 interlinked archetypes, arranged on a wheel, with a web of symbolic interconnection linking and unifying the 12 “spokes” of the wheel.
12 archetypes, grouped into 4 suits, each with themes, oppositions, and a role in a larger story cycle, with contrasting elements arranged opposite from one another.
Each archetype in the Groovelet pantheon is thematically unique, distinct, with a built-in conflict with another Groovelet on the opposite side of the wheel.
Think of this like someone rammed the Greek Gods, the Tarot, TVTropes, and the Dan Harmon Story Cycle all together into one short, easy-to-read document.