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mythos

mythos

4 8.6
A set of stories and details that form the background of a film or book world
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪθoʊs/
  • Literature
translation icon : mitología
  • And they, they keep coming up in story after story after story in, in these mythos stories, which does make them kind of monotonous.
  • Cthulhu mythos

To make it logically work in that oroboros loop for our physics mythos.

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Examples

  • Take an already established mythos and make it sparkle.

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  • Many are saying, "you don't need every question answered to appreciate the mythos," etc.

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  • I also agree that the finale should have focused primarily on the characters and not the mythos of the island.

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  • Given that those three points are major, major themes of the Batman mythos.

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  • But in the early, in the early like advanced DND game, the Cthulhu Mythos was, was part of it.

  • " So I'll add here that this is a 'delightful and unusual take on the Arthurian mythos.'

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  • I'm not enough of a DC guy to comment on Sandman's integration into the greater mythos.

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  • I've made a point of saying that the mythos isn't something they can actively find, but rather it finds them.

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  • PJ, the JMS stuff is a must-read if you want to get into the new Thor mythos.

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  • The novel expands on the mythos, introducing new characters and settings that enrich the story.

Synonyms

lore
vsmythos
52 6.1

Knowledge and stories that people pass down over generations

focuses on deliberate fictional background and themes rather than oral tradition
mythology
vsmythos
47 5.5

A group of old stories from a culture about gods and heroes

applies to created series background rather than cultural tradition
diegesis
vsmythos
  • Literature
9.9

A made-up world inside a story that includes events and characters

focuses on the background stories and themes forming that world's foundation

How Foundational

canon
  • Specialized
12 7.9
mythos
  • Literature
4 8.6
background
365 2.6
setting
317 3.2
detail
1.0

Surface Forms

mythos singular
mythoi plural

Etymology

Mythos comes from an old Greek word mythos meaning 'story'. In fiction, a story's myth is the background tales, ideas, and rules that make a world feel real, so mythos is the full set of those background stories for a series or world.