Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis) Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat...
Anthony Pastores do we think the black-blooded guys we fought/that turned into a blob thing were the same ones that were guarding the tunnels to the east?
ReplyDelete1. Spy Games
ReplyDelete2, Red Planet
3. Massive Wood
4. Reed Boat
5. Bad Rajetz
6. Sigil
7. Tekumel
Robert Parker I'm not sure that it's worth listing Bad Rajetz - I don't think we're ever going to go back there, given that most everyone wants to keep operating out of Kezmarok.
ReplyDeleteThe heavily warded urn underneath the Kirbyesque Space God statue, in the bagling's lair, Cerulean Vaults. Current bets are it either containing a formless spawn, djinn, or other loathesome critter.
ReplyDelete(Current plan - either floating disk it up or carry it up in a padded coffin?)
The two WW2-style submarine doors in the southeast-wards room from the elevator, Cerulean Vaults.