Mythology
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In the old days, before any fiction story exist, there were people so bored they got fucking high from consuming mushrooms or anything that makes a person hallucination that they started to seeing things differently. After that, they wrote a bunch of crap that may or may not be true such as stories about flying reptile that can breathe fire, long bearded man with short leg, even claiming the existence of supernatural deities that are watching over them. Whether or not these deities are real or not, people laughs at it. At first it was funny that some mad man claiming this ridiculous accusation exist, but eventually they became legend or myth, and as these legends passed down from generation to generation as either stories or religion, it gave birth to the fantasy genre we all knew and love. Mythology is the combination of history and fantasy because we can never be sure they are true or not. It often contain bizarre and fucked up them like incest and rape because people in early generation has no decency and they were high as fuck. All mythologies has their own world creation myth as a setup to how these associated deities came in to place. Of course with different cultures from country to countries, mythology can be quiet different and they all had their own angels and demons based on how their own cultures perceives them.
Connection with Fantasy Genre
As you can see, many an author took interest at the old legend and decided to include its elements in their own stories. Notably, Tolken took many elements from the Norse and Germanic Mythologies and popularized the concept of fantasy races like Dwarfs and Elves.
Mythologies
Greek Mythology
There's a god for every aspect like smithing, governing and war. The most important gods/goddess you need to know are Zeus the guy with the lightning power who is the god of all gods; Athena, goddess of wisdom and war born from Zeus having a massive headache fully grown up and armed; Hades the god of greek hell/underworld and Zeus' brother; Poseidon the god of sea and Zeus' other brother.
According to greek myth, came from a titan named Gaia is lonely, so she gave birth to another Titans and fucked him to make more babies. Cronus, the last of those giants, fears that he might be killed by his son one day so he ate each one of them as a new one is born from his wife Rhea, but Rhea hide Zeus and fooled Cronus with a rock to his belly. Zeus then grown up and killed his father, saving all his brothers and sisters inside his father's belly (and who were somehow undigested) and start a war that will exterminate all titans. After all titans are dead, Zeus formed a government with the rest of his gods while living a comfy hedonist life where he raped many mortal girls and had many bastard sons for the lulz.
Interestingly, Eldar and Elves of the warhammer deities and their background stories took a lot of element from Greek mythology.
Norse Mythology
Like the greeks ironically there's a god for every aspect and their most hated enemies are tower tall humanoid creature who the gods/goddess also related to, but was called frost giants instead of titans, but with a lot more references to snow, winter and wolves.
Basically at the early world's life cycle, there were these frost giants and they were sweats born from the armpit of Ymir, the first of giants. The said giant was born from ice and so was a giant cow. Then that giant cow accidentally created a god by just licking a salty rock and gave birth to the first god name Burri, who then fucked his waifu Bestla and gave birth to Odin and his brothers. Odin does not like giants since they came out of Ymir's stinking armpits like rats and they eat alot so he and his brother killed Ymir and thus also killed/drowned other giants with its flood of blood. Odin then use Ymir's body to forge a new world. The death of Ymir also brought forth many life form without Odin's touch like the Dwarves, who were basically ymir's corpse maggots.
Then like the Greek gods, Odin formed a government with gods/goddess of each daily life aspect. And then Ragnorok came.
Christian Mythology
The one everyone most familiar with in the western countries since you can learn them in church.
Many of the Christian mythology is taken from the old Hebrews bible, meaning Christian mythology is one of the many mythology that was derived from Jewish mythology, the same goes to Islamic mythology and many others from the middle east countries.
So in Christian mythology there's only one god: Yahweh, which most people would just refer to him as THE GOD since his name is too sacred to spoke of. He also has other name like Jehovah.
Before the world was born, there was this "war of heaven" (not this one) where Lucifer, the arch angel rebelled against god with some other angels, but was defeated and cast down to hell where the said Lucifer is trapped in the lowest level of hell, where his lower half is trapped inside a frozen lake of his own tears.
After that, god creates the world. It is said that the god created the world in 7 days, hence the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. He Then created many animals, plants and the two human: Adam and Eve. He observe them in the garden of Eden (Aka his research facility) watching them having fun and tell them not to eat the forbidden fruit of knowledge in the garden. But that promise was broken when Eve the girl was tempted by the winged serpent in the garden to eat the fruit. Adam and Eve having eaten the fruit, they gained knowledge and dignity which made them embarrassed by their lack of clothing. God found out and exile them to the mortal world. The serpent is also punished with his wings taken from him, turning him into the snek we all knew and feared.
In the mortal world, Adam and Eve worked hard to survive. They then conceived the two sons: Cain and Able. Cain is a farmer while Able is a butcher. They both offer their product to god but god only favor Able's (according to some, it was because Cain hid his best offering from god. By this point if you are a true Vampire: The Masquerade fan, you would know what's coming next, but without the vampire shit. Cain's punishment for murder is to never farm. Whenever his spill his brother's blood, earth became cursed so that it can never grow anything, basically deny Cain's favorite job and career. However, punishments differ in other mythologies and it's a clusterfuck. Cain and Eve later had the third son Seth, which is the true ancestor of human kind and Cain is then exile to the land of the Nod where he build the City of Enoch (because he can't farm) and conceived many other decedents. There's also claimed that Eve was not the first wife, but Lilith, a woman who was created from the same dirt as Adam. Felt too hot shit for Adam, so she ran away with an arch angel called Samael. In Vampire: The Masquerade however, she teach Cain cool dark magic and shit.