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...
I know not of what you speak.
ReplyDeleteRelevant bit from Hill Cantons post (emphasis mine):
ReplyDelete"There are few in the Overkingdom as peerless and celebrious as Casmyr the Catamite, the venerable hero famed for his slaying of the Great Bagiennik of Lake Vodvoda, the mucking of the Great Ego-Privy of Jac, and triumphing in a slap-hand contest with Chernobog himself. Casmyr--who has ascribed his enduring age to a daily routine of “plum brandy, raw potatoes, and lechery foul”--has let it be known throughout Sunlordom that he has discovered the location of the centuries-lost Brazen Cyst of the World —and its vast treasures--in the Cerny Mak foothills east of the Cantons. What's more he is offering a 15,000 golden sun bounty for a group of “young bucks strong of arm and black of heart” in the extraction of “surplus value” from the site. Interested parties should meet him at the guest-dacha of Marlankh's rada before the end of the month. "
And see:
"It is known that in the post-Hyperborean period that the Sun Lord roamed the world conducting great feats. Achingly similar stories of his virile prowess and - the bullwhipping of the Unachus, the felching of the White Goddess, etc - are told throughout the known world. One school of contemporary thought maintains that the Sun Lord was merely a mighty folk hero, a fleshy mortal sac like you and I, another that the many and diverse manifestations are the work of separate local heroes."
Chris Kutalik Of course not! You're just an innocent GM, no nefarious constructions whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what Casmyr looks like? (Might he look like, perhaps, a certain rambling old smith?)
Humza Kazmi the only artistic representations are of him in his prime in which he looks much like a slightly seedy Kirk Douglas in his own prime.
ReplyDeleteMy current thinking:
ReplyDeleteThere is more than one potential Sun Lord walking the world at this moment. Whether There Can Be Only One or they will amalgamate in some other fashion remains to be seen.
The old smith isn't a prospect for the current Ray, but rather a previous one.
Heeeere we are
ReplyDeleteBorn to be Gods
We're the Raaaaaaaays of the Sun-Lord-Verse
Fighting to survive
In a war with the Weirdest Powers