Co-creation question for the Nine: what do y'all want to call the Big Battle that destroyed the TF guns?
Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being).
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...
The Charge of the Marlankh Reavers.. not for the whole battle though, I guess.
ReplyDeleteBattle at the Gates? The Spiking of the Bombards?
ReplyDeleteThe Battle of Borrowed Time?
ReplyDeleteThe Slaughter at Reavers' Folly?
The Carnage and the Cannons (in the Cantons)?
Fools Final Stand?
The Empty Coup & the 14th Decimation of the Aliens
ReplyDeleteI thought it was already the Last Chevauchee, though I must say that the 14th Decimation of the Aliens is pretty great.
ReplyDeleteIt should probably be named either for the hill North of the camps, where absolutely none of the action took place, or for the Gate of the 300 Eyes, which didn't figure into the actual battle at all.
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