The marketing for Kaldheim has started and they decided to use both Nordic mythology and heavy metal as an inspiration.
Now, I'm not an expert in Nordic myth-I know what most people probably know, maybe a little more-and while I consider my knowledge of heavy metal to be reasonably good, it isn't as deep as someone who makes their living at BangerTV.
But of course the "hot takes" are already out there about how this or that isn't 'metal' or how using censored swear words isn't 'hardcore' or whateversuch nonsense.
Which is what it is. It's nonsense. This seems fun. The attitude seems fun. Corporate entities aren't supposed to tell their audience how fucking great something is because that alienates a portion of the audience. Ignoring this basic fact of marketing for whatever these people have in mind as 'real metal' is just a form of gatekeeping, saying that something we like isn't something YOU should get to be a part of.
I hope this set has some fun with metal tropes as much as it plays with Nordic myth! Heavy metal is inherently silly and fans, of all people, should not take it too seriously.
On a more serious note; anyone with any kind of take on how Black or basically any non-white people don't belong in their Viking influenced Magic set can get the hell outta here. I have no time at all for that racism.
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