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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tratyn Runewind" data-source="post: 1077689" data-attributes="member: 685">Hello, Reminds me of a story I seem to remember hearing about some of the early Viking landings in America.  According to the story, a party of Viking explorers in Vinland encountered several natives on a beach, sleeping under upside-down boats.  The first reaction of the Vikings on seeing these natives, who looked human, yet like no men they had yet seen, was to see if they were men (who can be slain by iron) or evil spirits to be avoided.  They thus took their swords and axes and chopped the natives (except for one, who escaped) to bits.  Satisfied with their ability to kill these new-met people if necessary, the Vikings dubbed them "Skraelings", meaning something like "weak ones".  If that doesn't scream "D&D adventuring group", nothing does!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />A more recent addition to the tales of early European settlement of America is the notion of the "Templar Refuge".  This story posits that when the Knights Templar were suppressed in the early 14th Century, a band of fugitive knights took the Templar fleet (and a large portion of the fabled Templar treasure) to America, which they knew of through Viking lore passed down through Scotland's Sinclair family, descendants of Norsemen and long-time allies of the Templars.  Lots of gaming potential with this tale, too, given the stories of missing Templar wealth, and the order's rumored involvement with dark magic and mysterious relics of power acquired through shady means in Egypt and the Holy Land, and the likely Templar desire for revenge on those who engineered the order's downfall...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Hope this helps stir up the old creativity kettle...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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