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...
Where does the Thousand-Seeded Pomegranate come down on industrial necromancy (if one is able to pin said belief system down on such a thing)?
ReplyDeleteHumza K while the doctrine itself is inscrutable and obscure on the subject, support for the sect is strong among the Bazaar owners and their class interest runs pretty strong against the necromantic plantation economy—so basically opposed.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of an ancient empire in one of my games named Turalia, built on the concept of body taxes and labor paid back by the dead. Turalians lived lives of relative leisure and ease, with their fields worked by the headless reanimated
ReplyDeletezombies and skeletons of their lower classes.
The tax haven was eventually destroyed in the Goldenmouth Uprising of the caste-loving Adamites.
Luka Rejec a whole new meaning to trans-humanism!
ReplyDeleteChris Kutalik ahh! And I saw on the blog I maed the same comment four years ago!
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