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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ssampier" data-source="post: 5188332" data-attributes="member: 10205">the hills do have eyesWhisper72, cool idea, though not exactly what I had in mind. I should have been more clear. I was going to steal Ray Winniger's idea from his DungeonCraft column in one of the print issues of Dungeon. What if the lake was artificial and was created as a warning? The lake shape could spell-out a word of warning in an ancient language.The artificial lake shape idea is pretty subtle. The rule of threes says I can do it. I just need two more clues, too. That said I could still have an ancient temple with bathhouse or cistern as a clue also.Psychotic Jim, neat. I was actually thinking of using the ancient Estrucans for something. The Estrucans could have given the Romans the tradition of sacrifice without them realizing the ultimate purpose; bring back the Old Ones!The Hills of RomeI was reading more about the Seven Hills of Rome. Of course we know the Romulus and Remus story. The part I am not getting is why are important.  I see on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_built_on_seven_hills" target="_blank">Wikipedia there are a lot of cities founded on 7 hills</a>. I live in the Western Mountain States. My current city sits on 5,300 feet above sea level give or take. It's difficult for me to understand how hills that are relatively tiny are significant.Is the number 7 sacred? In one muddy thought I was thinking of making the number 3, 5, and 7 important. Why? They are all prime numbers... beyond that...</blockquote>

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