Motifs
The same ending, told a hundred ways. Every story in the archive carries its motifs — these are the threads that run through all of them.
flood
The world drowned: from Utnapishtim's cube of a boat to the wooden people of the Popol Vuh.
13 stories in the archive
fire
The world burned: Surtr's sword, the Stoics' ekpyrosis, the molten river of Zoroastrianism.
13 stories in the archive
battle
The world ended in war: gods against monsters, Marduk against Tiamat, the armies of Vígríðr.
12 stories in the archive
judgment
The world was weighed: hearts against feathers, deeds against the scales.
24 stories in the archive
remnant
Someone always survives: a pair in a wood, a family in a boat, a seed in the dark.
35 stories in the archive
cyclical
The end is a habit: suns that die and are remade, kalpas that exhale and inhale.
24 stories in the archive
ice
The end is cold: Fimbulwinter, winters without summer, the world forgetting the sun.
2 stories in the archive
decay
The end is a decline: ages of gold turning to iron, dharma collapsing by degrees.
20 stories in the archive
cosmic
The end is the cosmos itself: calendar resets, fallen stars, the machinery of time.
23 stories in the archive