I think I started playing Age of Mythology when my mother bought for me during my homeschool years, in order to help me learn about the ancient cultures (or more accurately, to help me be more enthusiastic about learning). The help in learning about mythology was really unnecessary for me, but I loved the game. I used to spend hours playing it. My dad even bought me the expansion - The Titans. My favorite civilization is the Atlanteans, but before the expansion pack, it was the Greeks. The Greeks have the easiest time gaining favor. The Norseman have such a hard time of pleasing their gods, I almost never play as them. Of course, as the Atlanteans, I love that I never have to build drop sites.
Lately I've also spent a lot of time researching mythology - dragon mythology. I'm planning my second tattoo (so soon, and I haven't even got the first one yet, I know), and I can't decide what type of dragon I want. I was thinking a wyvern, wings hunches around it's long, stretched-out body, head reared, in a tribal-reminiscent pattern, and then later I could add a tribal armband around near the wings. I want my mother (she's an artist) to design it for me, but I don't think she will. She told me she would when I asked her. I was surprised that she agreed so readily, but then when she didn't do anything, I grew suspicious and asked her when she would do it. She said "I don't know." When I probed further, she did admit that she would not do it before I move away to college. Basically, that's her way of stalling me. She doesn't want me to get any tattoos, and she certainly doesn't want to design any of them for me.
