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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 5116701" data-attributes="member: 1225">He needs a colossus -- a statue (of him, or at least an idealized him), a hundred (or two or three hundred) feet tall. Maybe a few. What's a good "lucky" number for the Empire -- 3, 7, 12? Yeah, there are that many (or they are building that many).Of course, anybody could build titanic statues. So his should move. They should salute his presence, maybe turn to watch the sunrise and/or sunset, kneel on holy days, and smash any impudent armies foolish enough to attack the Emperor's capital city. Ooh, maybe great enemies of the empire -- traitors and the like -- are executed by one of the colossi -- crushed to pulp inside the emperor's (stand-in's) titanic fists.Rumors that a newly-constructed colossus somehow went out of control and crushed half a company of workers and guards before the Emperor's arcanists regained control are, of course, ludicrous fabrications of diseased minds.</blockquote>