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[Jack the Red]

There are the 12 Zodiacs.
The Norse (dwarven)
The dead Olympians
And a fourth that are kind of based on Sumarian/Babylonian which includes Marduk, Tiamat, and dunno, dunno, and dunno.

And the goblin's Dark One is a newcomer.

Don't forget Banjo and Giggles.

(sorry, I had to...)

 

[jeffh]

Someone please remind me, how does Tiamat fit into the Scribble cosmology? We've got norse pantheon for the dwarves and the 12 zodiac for the east and the dead olympians, plus the ascended dark one for the goblins right?

Tiamat - at least the name - is originally a Babylonian divinity, and that was the other of the original four pantheons.

I suspect (haven't really looked into it) that the D&D Tiamat has about as much to do with Babylonian mythology as the Final Fantasy Shiva has to do with Hindu beliefs, but it's close enough to hand-wave, at least.

 

[Voadam]

Tiamat - at least the name - is originally a Babylonian divinity, and that was the other of the original four pantheons.

I suspect (haven't really looked into it) that the D&D Tiamat has about as much to do with Babylonian mythology as the Final Fantasy Shiva has to do with Hindu beliefs, but it's close enough to hand-wave, at least.

Mesopotamian myths have her as the Chaos dragon of the salt waters, a primal entity who gave birth to the gods and monsters. The gods eventually entered into a war with her and Marduk as the War Champion of the Gods defeated and slew her then used her body to create the world.

I suspect the five chromatic heads was a Gygaxian D&Dism. 1e Deities and Demigods has a picture of Marduk fighting the D&D Tiamat who was seen earlier in the 1e MM. Gygax drew a lot of various individual elements of real world myth into the MM and repositioned it a little for D&D.

 

[Anthraxus]

It is possible that the Oracle KNEW it was his own death that Belkar would most directly cause, and therefore was trying to make Belkar think he already fulfilled his prophecy by stretching it in the other situations (thus hoping Belkar wouldn't kill the oracle but in the usual self-fullfilling prophecy way, he aggrivated belkar to the point of getting himself killed by him).



Again, just saying it's possible.

That's my take on it as well. Gack.

Good stuff.

 

[Kishin]

Feel free to advance the plot any day now, Rich. Your main character has been dead for approximately one fourth of your strip's written life.

Seriously, stuff needs to start happening again. The humor is still decent, but everything else has been on a slow slide since Azure City.

 

[Loki-lie-Smith]

Belkar will forget he killed the Oracle right?

Pointless kill FTW!!!!!

Then again the halfling is all about momentary satisfaction, isn't he?

 

[Vanuslux]

Belkar will forget he killed the Oracle right?

Pointless kill FTW!!!!!

Then again the halfling is all about momentary satisfaction, isn't he?

Unless killing the Oracle breaks the magic that causes the forgetting.

I agree that it's insane how long Roy has been dead in terms of number of strips since his death.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I agree that it's insane how long Roy has been dead in terms of number of strips since his death.

It could be worse, Rich might be trying to recapture the magic of Weekend at Bernies.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I wonder if the Oracle knew it was coming? If he did, surely he would have done something to try and protect himself.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

It could be worse, Rich might be trying to recapture the magic of Weekend at Bernies.

I wouldn't put it past Belkar!

Olaf the Stout