Sources on this page helped shape the idea for the Axis Mundi setting.
General References:
Wikipedia on Axis Mundi & Yggdrasil
Other RPGs
Dungeous & Dragons (various iterations)
- Planescape - The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons setting.
- Manual of the Planes
- White Wolf Wiki
- White Wolf Site
- Changeling: The Dreaming
- Right to Dream or whatever the heck that is
- Mage: The Ascension
- Anders Mage Page
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse
- Dark Ages: Fae
- Exalted: Fair Folk (not technically part of the World of Darkness, but a similar gameline by the same company)
Lacuna - by Jared Sorensen
Books & Stories
The Dark Tower series (and associated universe) by Stephen King
The Broken Sword - by Poul Anderson
High Sorcerery - by Andre Norton (or at least some of the stories there-in.
Story in that fantasy book by Gene Wolfe
The Books of Amber
Myth Adventures
The Deathgate Cycle - By Tracy Hicks & Margaret Weiss
0X - Pierce Anthony
The Black Company
Imagica - Clive Barker
The Books of Magic
The Maxx
The Cthulhu Mythos - In particular:
- Dreams in the Witch-House - by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Silver Key & Through the Gates of the Silver Key - by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath - by H.P. Lovecraft
- A Colder War - by Charles Stross
A Wind In The Door - Madeline L'Engle
The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
Movies & TV
Cosmological Inspiration
Sliders
Star Gate (more the TV series than the movie though)
The Temporal Perspective
One of the ideas behind the Axis Mundi setting is that the "axis" and branching nature of Ygg can and do represent different things to different people and in different circumstances. One of these things is time and the nature of causality.
Primer - Although somewhat tedious in the beginning, and difficult to follow what's going on throughout (though this may help clear things up, Primer is possibly the best treatment of time travel and it's consequences that I've ever seen. Starting out as the story of enterprising engineers trying to suppliment their regular income with a garage-business designing few patents and inventions, this story takes a subdued approach to the "discovery" phase of time travel, and gradually introduces the nightmarish tangle of consequences that tampering with causality can bring about.
Butterfly Effect - Another time travel film. This one more like hearing A Sound of Thunder read over and over again while watching a car wreck from several different angles. Again, highlighted the horrors of time travel and it's consequences, but generally in a longer term and more visceral way than Primer. Possibly Ashton Kuchar's finest work.
Quantum Leap - Especially the last episode which had an odd feel to it.
The Cell
Time Bandits
Similar Style & Tone
Audio
NIMBY and the D-Hoppers by Cory Doctorow
Quotes:
"Yeah, the light at the end of the tunnel isn't really a light
If we got any closer we would find that it's only a mirror
Reflecting our search lamps, here in the darkness, here in the homeland
We'll always be searching for permanence in quicksand
And frenzied collecting things that we just can't hold
But we will hang on with our teeth"
-Noah's Titanic
Antje Duvekot
TV & Movies:
Alien Cargo
Avalon
Big Fish
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Evangellion
Hellraiser: Bloodlines
Phantasm IV: Oblivion
Primer
Samurai Jack
Serial Experiments Lain
Soldier (Kurt Russel)
The Matrix
A Knight's Tale
Dr. Who (especially the Tom Baker episodes and those immediately after)
Dragon Slayer
Wing Commander
Star Wars (especially the 3rd-5th movies and the Clone Wars cartoon series)
Stargate SG1 (TV series)
Battlestar Galactica (recent TV series)
Books:
0X - Peirce Anthony
Tycho's Green Future
The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
Amber series
Interstellar Pig
Sandkings (several short stories in the book) - George R.R. Martin
The Black Company - The entire series.
Little, Big
Darwinia
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (less accessible)
Ladies of Wensishlar
His Dark Materials series
The Arabian Nightmare
Hellboy - by Mike Mignola & John Byrne
The Temple of the Sun - by Moyra Caldecott
Various Cthulhu & Hauster Mythos material.
Various fantsy short stories.
Various short stories by Andre Norton
RPGs:
Call of Cthulhu (& Delta Green)
Mage: The Ascension
Unknown Armies
Nobilis
Dark Ages: Fae
Changeling: The Dreaming
Video Games:
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Fable
Moraff's World
Silent Hill
Parasite Eve
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