The Works of Autumn Cox

I have always been fascinated with Mythology, legends, and folk tales. Fun fact: in high school, I was contemplating applying to college on a career path to become an anthropologic archeologist, specializing in the history of faith an religion. I wanted to understand why we believe what we believe, and where it all started.

While that path wasn’t one I ended up walking down, I never stopped finding inspiration and new wonder, when reading about global mythos. How things overlap, how characters in Greek or Norse mythology may be named differently but still hold a lot of the same impact among an African or Asian hierarchy of gods.

Alternately, how the nature within the space we live lends itself so perfectly to such disparate understandings of the creatures that live there. Native American Cryptids may have the same drives as those of Tibetan or Hmong, but have vastly different appearances and origin stories.

For the next few posts, I thought I would share some of the interesting mythology I’ve found, that has acted as inspiration and basis for various characters within the Mortal Scales Trilogy.

If there are any characters you’d like to learn more about, please comment, and I would be happy to share the mythos, and maybe a character sketch to give a better vision of who they are!