When someone asks for info on Finnish mythology, everyone knows

>>52553225
No. What we know about Finnish mythology is reconstructed and plainly made up in the 19th century. Original sources don't exist, because it was oral tradition. The best we can do is to look at folklore and extrapolate from there what kind of belief system might have originated such traditions and sayings.

>>52553292
Finns will happily tell you all about their made up glorious history, though.

>>52553292
That's not the whole truth. There's a lot of late 19th and early 20th century bullshit to be sure, but some Swedish-language notes have survived from when the indigenous beliefs weren't extinct yet.

Swedish-speaking researchers also studied ancient Finnish religious practices after the fact but before the 19th c.

>>52553225
I can tell you an even bigger secret: Kalevala isn't even Finnish. It's Karelian, and the Karelians are quite distinct from the Finns.

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>>52553225
>Question is: do we actually KNOW enough about Finnish mythology and ancient history

Of course we do

>>52553225
I am from Finland, intrested in old mythology (mostly older pagan gods and shamanism, not so much Kalevala), love all thigns tabletop. I have also more info on occultism than average people(my grandafther is mentally ill and thinks he is a reincarnated shaman). So yes, I could not sure about you. I've made CoC campaign from my old book, which is a collection of folklore and old wive's tales.

>>52555111
Can you share?
Are there online resources available?

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>>52553639
>>made up
>implying

If Finland is so good, how come it never got represented in Civilization?

>>52555277
WE WUZ SNOWMANS AND SHIIIET!

>>52555596
But mongols are like in every Civ, m8.

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>>52555596

Racism.

A game about reindeer herding?

>>52556045
What's the source of or story behind the image on the left?

>>52556422
That might actually be entertaining. Kind of like those super specific mini RPGs, you know what I'm talking about?

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>>52553225
> Question is: do we actually KNOW enough about Finnish mythology and ancient history (beyond /his/ tier speculations) to run a game about it, it does our knowledge really simply just begin and end with that single poem, however interesting it is?
UNREAL WORLD.

>>52556671
I'm going to take a wild stab I the dark & say Photoshop.

>>52558596
It's more likely than you think.