Had an interesting dream last night. Some godlike being or other was attempting multiversal domination by conquering all the other powers, in most cases capturing their souls and ensconcing them in a vast garden of glowing soul-orbs. There was a whole section for the various Zeuses, for example, along with various characters both from myth and contemporary fiction and video games. A few powers remained free, either because they were in hiding to rebel or because they were just to hapless or passive to be a problem.
There was also a thing about twelve weapons, each of which was itself a divinity, in your classic “Assemble them all and wield the secrets of the universe” style setup. My POV character was some sort of artificially created divinity or one of your unexpected half-godlings or something. She was in contention with the bad guy over collecting the weapons, having managed to assemble at least a majority of them, including the sword Auricant which the bad guy was particularly invested in getting hold of.
There was a very scenic chase/fight with the bad guy in a place I would turn into a video game stage if I had the skill, and then having escaped with her faculties intact, my character sneaked into the garden with her friend (another artificial power, created in the same process) to find some power in particular–I lost track of who, but I think another of the weapons that was hiding out in the false identity of some god or other? My godling was having trouble locating whoever she was there to find–the place was huge and widely spread out–but she was surprised to spot Odin’s soul orb, a bigass deep blue one (and how the hell did the God of Battles get vanquished?), and in lieu of a soul orb, there was just a marker for Dante from Devil May Cry.
She also ran into a couple of the other rogue elements there. A couple of hardcore pacifistic boddhisatvas, I think, who were trying to tend to the captured gods as best they could, and somebody I believe my brain made up, who was a rebel who visited the garden sometimes, apparently in hopes of figuring out what to do.
She got into an argument with these visiting divinities, about why they hadn’t freed any of these people if they really wanted to fight back. For whatever reason, in the process, she put together that the garden was full of trickery, and began to suspect that 1: that wasn’t really Odin, but a trap 2: various figures like Dante may well still be alive, or else they had fought all the way to the death and 3: at least some of the attendees in the garden were actually on the conqueror’s side and were actually there to spread lies.
At which point I woke up.