SMGEN

SMITE ...Lore!!!

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"Wait - what? This game has lore!?" - You (the newfag reader), just now
"who gives a fuck about the lore?" - You (the experienced player skimming over this doc to make sure I'm not feeding bullshit to newer players), just now

Yes, ...SMITE!!! has lore and an ongoing narrative, and it would be amiss of me to not make a true introductory doc - both for Lore and World Mythology in general.
But note - the Lore has next to no impact on the game itself - it's just a thing on the side that might amuse you for a while, with some parts that are better written than others. Don't take it too seriously. Now re-read the previous sentence.
If you don't care, the 'lore' is basically all fluff, and you can safely skip on it. The only thing it affects are the 'story' events and the aesthetics of the maps (with almost no lore-related skins whatsoever, and skin releases usually being irrelevant to the topic of the 'event' they drop in). I'm almost certain that this has almost no bearing on any new God releases either.

However, there's a good chance that mythology and cross-Pantheon interactions were one of the appealing factors that brought you towards playing this game... in which case, I can only hope you enjoy your time reading.

If you just want to get started and don't really care about the additional stuff; start here: https://rentry.org/smgenlorePh1#foundational-core-lore-the-elysian-uprising There are links within the docs to take you to the next ones along. Enjoy!

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HEADS UP: There's a lot of embedded images throughout the docs, for lack of an alternative method. For the most part, I've compressed them as well as I could to save on loading times without losing (any) quality; but if you've still got limited internet in the current year, pause the loading once you can see text. If there was a more lightweight way for me to do it, while keeping it inline and high quality within a doc like this, I'd do it - but as is, it's the best I can work with (short of making and hosting a dedicated site for it). If you don't know what that means, basically every image has to load in full at once, instead of just the stuff your screen displays. Takes a while to load fully when you've got as much stuff gathered as I have for you, and chews through limited data allowances. It's also why the doc is split up into multiple pages, just to save on loading times. *Update: If some images are died, blame catbox, I've fixed all the ones I could find.

Also, if the white light is blinding your *delicate* eyes, Rentry has a night-mode you can turn on by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on the Sun icon in the bottom-right corner. Don't worry, the docs are made with it in mind in terms of transparent images - just try not to spoil yourself while down there.

Just trying to be considerate.

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  2. Links to each Doc
    1. Introductory Notes (Skip)
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    3. Actual Mythology (>3,500BC to 2012) + The Gallery
    4. First Phase (2011 to 2017)
    5. Second Phase - Part 1 (2017 to 2020)
    6. Second Phase - Part 2 (2020 to 2022)
    7. Second Phase - Part 3 OR Third Phase (2022 to 2024)
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    9. Asides (Skippable)
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  4. ultra ultra tl;dr (placed at the bottom, so it doesn't ruin it for the people who want to read it properly)

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Arc names are... personally given, for brevities sake.

Introductory Notes (Skip)

https://rentry.org/smgenlorepreface
This Doc covers the following arcs:

  • Foreword (Skippable)
  • What is and is not canon? (Skippable)
  • General Setting / Da Rulez (Skippable)

Honestly. it's mostly just here for posterity, I'd unironically advise you don't read, unless you really care about the writing process.
tl;dr I've put real effort in, hope you like it, my name is Anon Faggotson, age XX, I write like a faggot, you might want to zoom your page out to ~70-80% so you can see full images clearer.

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https://rentry.org/smgenloreclassics

Huge doc - will probably take longer to read than the lore. BUT if it wasn't important, I wouldn't have made it.

Completely skippable if you've DYOR, this doc covers the fundamental concepts behind each Pantheon and a small amount on their history. Nothing to do with the actual SMITE lore, just covers all the Pantheons in a tl;dr format if you weren't read up on all of them.
After all, if you're European, I wouldn't expect you to know the Mayan Pantheon in detail; if you're Central / South American, I wouldn't expect you to know that much about the Chinese Pantheon; if you're Asian, how could I expect you to know much about the Celtic Pantheon and if you're North American, I wouldn't expect you to know anything. So on / so forth.
The Galleries are there to lure you in anyways if you have DYOR - various collections of the highest quality God Splash Art, along with all their promotional material and relevant concept art; split by each Pantheon. Most of it is 4k and there's stuff I can assure you, you won't find with ease otherwise.

First Phase (2011 to 2017)

https://rentry.org/smgenlorePh1
This Doc covers the following 'Arcs':

  • Pre-Lore / Non-Canon Lore Attempts
  • Core Lore / Foundational Lore / Canon Backstory Snippets
  • The Pantheon War

Second Phase - Part 1 (2017 to 2020)

https://rentry.org/smgenlorePh2P1
This Doc covers the following Arcs:

  • Apocrypha (Discoveries / Odysseus' Journey / Land of the Rising Sun / Celestial Voyage)
  • O-O's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crus-Hades (The Odyssey / The Fall of War / Divine Uprising)
  • Holding out for a Hera (Hera's Odyssey / Legend of Camelot / Council of the Gods)
  • we wuz kangz n shit nigga (Battle for Olympus / Odyssey: Underworld)

Second Phase - Part 2 (2020 to 2022)

https://rentry.org/smgenlorePh2P2
This Doc covers the following Arcs:

  • Cheap Chinese Knockoff Gods (Jade Corruption / Grim Omens)
  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAA NIGGERMAN SAVE MEEEEEEEE (New Moon / Odyssey: Reckoning / SMITE Friends / Dawn of Babylon)
  • The Gamer Grrrl Great Reset (Talons of Tyranny / Court of Midnight / Odyssey: Perilous Seas / Yulefest / Dharmic Era)

Second Phase - Part 3 OR Third Phase (2022 to 2024)

https://rentry.org/
This is just a placeholder for if the game / lore is still alive by then. Hopefully I'm also still alive.

  • ??? (Heavenly Light / Courage & Honor / Odyssey: Soaring Isles / Yulefest 2022)
  • ??? (The Bright Sword / Hope Reborn / Prism of Souls / Odyssey: Immortal Revelry / ??? / ... )
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Asides (Skippable)

These are all meant to be read alongside the lore itself as additional mythology / context, and are linked throughout the above anyways when it's best to read them - telling you about various, mildly interesting topics, or things that make you go....hmm....
Just linking them all here so there's a central place to access them if you miss one.

General Asides
https://rentry.org/smgenloreAsidesPt1
https://rentry.org/smgenloreAsidesPt2

Non-playable In-game Gods & Unused Designs
https://rentry.org/smgenloreNPCs

Item Shop Mythos
https://rentry.org/smgenloreItems

Voice Actors Aside
https://rentry.org/smgenloreVAs

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ultra ultra tl;dr (placed at the bottom, so it doesn't ruin it for the people who want to read it properly)

  • More People = More Gods = More Conflict
  • Zeus dies, killed by someone
  • Big conflicts in Egypt + Scandinavia kicks off, as Greeks try to find whodunnit
  • Ragnarok begins, because Hel / Fenrir escaped as a result of above
  • Susano-O goes on an adventure. The Morrigan was the one instigating most of everything. Ragnarok is still ongoing
  • Ares goes on an adventure, kills loads of Gods. Finishes up with Anubis, who was scapegoated for Zeus's death
  • Hades becomes a big bad
  • Bellona goes on an adventure, stops Hades with Pele
  • Hera cleans up Fenrir / Hel
  • Jormungandr wakes up, plans to kill all the Gods, Hera summons King Arthur and defeats him with Merlin
  • Hera tries to get everybody to get along, fails miserably
  • Olorun declares himself God-Ruler of the Greek Pantheon and the wider Divine Realm, fighting stops
  • Persephone was holding the dead Gods back, dead Gods are recovered
  • Persephone accidentally wakes up Cthulhu
  • Tsukuyomi solos the Japanese Pantheon
  • Cthulhu fucks everyone's shit up
  • Cthulhu is sent back to sleep by Tiamat
  • Tiamat declares herself God-Ruler of the wider Divine Realm, fighting stops (but it's not ok this time around)
  • Gilgamesh attacks Tiamat unprovoked, kicks off a new conflict
  • Tiamat gets BTFO, releases Scylla and Charybdis in response, who genocide a fuckton of mortals
  • Tiamat convinces Atlas to drop the heavens so she can just start things fresh, que Apocalypse
  • Shiva killsteals reality itself and starts everything fresh anyways
  • [Ongoing lore is ongoing]
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