start the meter, my 15 minutes of nerd-fame has begun!

[Cheiromancer]

May your 15 minutes be as eternal and unfading as the legendary amaranth

I'm not aware of any legend about the amaranth. Could anyone tell me more, please?

 

[maddman75]

Wow - talk about your thread necromancy! This thread is teh comedy gold now, considering that King_Stannis is one of the mods and NKL these days.

 

[d20Dwarf]

I thought I was going nuts reading this thread...I hate it when I don't look at the dates on these things...

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Holy crud, I was just about to complain to the mods that someone was posting as Chairman_Kaga (who died two years ago).

Hey, Spoony Bard, could we get a huge red WARNING!!! (maybe labelled Dead Thread Revived) when someone revives a thread that hasn't had a post for over two years?

 

[Gez]

Holy crud, I was just about to complain to the mods that someone was posting as Chairman_Kaga (who died two years ago).

I was surprised he's kept his user title. Weren't CS account bought only by the year until very recently?

I'm not aware of any legend about the amaranth. Could anyone tell me more, please?

I should check a bit, but isn't the amaranth a flower said to be immortal?

Here's what I found:

The immortal Amaranth, "a flower which once in Paradise, fast by the tree of life, began to bloom, but soon for man's offence to Heaven removed," must not be omitted from our pages. Clement of Alexandria refers to it as the Amarantus fins, symbolum immortali tatis, and it was thus received for centuries. The name is from the Greek word for immortal, and was bestowed upon it from its never-withering flowers of ruby red.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

I thought I saw an awful lot of people posting on this thread that I hadn't seen in ages...
Then I saw the Chairman_Kaga post and just about had a heart attack.
Talk about unsettling. :\

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

I, too, thought I lost my mind.

 

[Cheiromancer]

Thanks Gez!


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I'm sorry, everyone, for animating a dead thread. I was actually looking for a post about Triel the fallen angel (aka Beelzebub) that contained the word "amaranth." So I did a search on amaranth, and out this came.

The post I was looking for concerned a backstory in which a promising planetar sought a promotion to solar, the better to fight fiends. His superiors thought he was too rash and warlike to be granted such power and responsibility, and so told him that such a promotion would not be granted.

Triel understood "would not be granted" as meaning "you have to get the increase in power yourself" and researched (or stumbled across) a ritual called "the Amaranth" which allowed him to gain solar-hood at the cost of murdering a solar and stealing that solar's essence...

Anyways, back to this thread.... who says fame is only 15 minutes long?