WINNING!

So... I have been holding out on each and every one of you. I have been keeping a secret for some time now, and it's long past time that I let it out. So... here is my confession: I am a goddess. No really. I wish you would stop laughing and let me explain... :)

I haven't written a whole lot about it here, but I do game. Like game as in role playing games. Yes, I really AM a geek. If this surprises you perhaps you missed the name of my entire blog... But I digress... I have been playing a game called "Hellfrost" for about a year and a half, maybe two years with a group of friends. Hellfrost is a fantasy setting with a Norse feel to it. Oh... and a magical ice age is descending. In it, I play a cleric (or priestess, if you will) to a goddess of animals and plants (Eoster). One of my advantages is an animal companion. My character chills with a big dire wolf named Gulbrandr. And wolves and dogs have been pretty abundant in the story of my character.

I know... BORING. You just needed to know all that before I told the actual story. About six weeks ago, I was talking to the game master (or "GM) and asking him how I could use an animal trapping (a trapping, for those of you who don't know, is how a spell looks or more to the point how it is cast. Trappings flavor how magic looks in the mind's eye during game play) for a spell I could learn. Our GM is fairly active on an online forum for Hellfrost on which the creators of the setting can answer such questions. So, he took it to the forum for suggestions. He got a few that were pretty interesting. He shared in this post that my character seems to be specifically in tune with canines.

Fast forward about two weeks. I am sitting at the coffee house with some friends when my phone rings. It's my GM. I (of course) answer (did I mention that he is also my boyfriend? ;) ).
He tells me Wade "Wiggy" Williams (the writer for Hellfrost) contacted him because he wanted to make a minor goddess of canines. He wanted the GM to talk to me to see if I would give permission to use some variation of my name for this new goddesses name. I told my GM that (duh!) that would be awesome and hung up the phone. Then I proceeded to geek out for the next week or so.

The goddess has been written up and is a part of a free PDF supplement available online thru Triple Ace Games. Her name is Ellanhere, a minor goddess under Eoster. For those of you who don't know me personally, yes, that is parts of my first, middle, AND last names. And for all of you reading, no, we are not entirely sure how it's pronounced... :)

And THAT is how I became a goddess. Now... Where's my tribute?

GGC