The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Thomas Shey]

I have read that slowly the Byzantine Varangian Guard, were slowly replaced by English mercenaries, so some connection. Though I was reading an English historian, they think a lot is just invented, such as at Sutton Hoo, the artifacts are of Saxon style, though of British craftsmanship.

If it was phrased as "English" that was far later than the 400s.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Some Anglo-Saxon refugees fled to modern day Ukraine.

The great truth is there was an enormous amount of wandering about throughout Europe and nearby terrain. Its pretty astonishing.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Your campaign needs some John Murray Spear, or an acolyte of his.

“John Murray Spear (September 16, 1804 – October 5, 1887) was an American Spiritualist minister who was most known for his attempts to construct an electrically powered Messiah which he referred to as the "New Motive Power".

John Murray Spear - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Oh, I have notes on him. But he's in the Northeast with his God-Machine, while the party hasn't left San Francisco. If they visit Andrew Jackson Davis (who I have as a pen-pal of Emperor Norton, whose detailed visions frequently supply Norton with plot threads), then I have a lead for them to Reverend Spear, should they choose to follow it.

 

[Autumnal]

I like the cut of your jib!

 

[RealAlHazred]

I like the cut of your jib!

I see I have another note on him. If the campaign continues through 1869 (currently in 1868), they'll actually meet Spear in San Francisco, where he visits with his wife and talks about free love, abolitionism, and other radical topics. Should be interesting.

 

[Scribe]

I often wonder what people do. I was about to dump my life into this thread, because I really cannot fathom how some of you think and function lol

 

[Autumnal]

Eh. No mystery about it. I proceed by a commodious focus of recirculation, just like James Joyce said.

 

[Ondath]

After the Norman conquest, a lot of Anglo-Saxons that fled England ended up serving as members of the Varangian Guard. However, that was 600 years after the Roman Empire left Britain. (Some of the Anglo-Saxon Varangians even ended up fighting against the Normans as they conquered the Byzantine provinces in southern Italy and Sicily.)

That is hilarious. Imagine going to the other end of a continent after your homeland was conquered by Nordic/French warriors, you serve a completely different lord... And you have to fight these Nordic/French warriors again!

 

[eyeheartawk]

I hate to break this to whoever needs to hear it, but, uh, people who go to school for MBAs don't do it to be benevolent or out of a sense of altruism.

 

[Hussar]

I hate to break this to whoever needs to hear it, but, uh, people who go to school for MBAs don't do it to be benevolent or out of a sense of altruism.

However, neither do they do it so they can become heartless monsters only out to screw over everyone they can.

People are just people.