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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8295137" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Just been thinking. This is also the time of the Volcae Tectosages' invasion of Greece and Anatolia under Cambaules and his three generals: Brennos, Bolgios, and Cerethrius, likely forming the base myths for many of the most popular Celtic myth archetypes that we see echoing all the way into medieval Grail cycles in the form of the Fisher King, the Mabinogion in the form of Bendigeidfran and , and the Irish sagas. Their sacking of the Temple of Delphi and the cursed gold of Tolouse may even have been the basis of the Andvarinat/Rhinegold in the Nibelungenlied/Volsungr Saga (taken a step further, it's possible that the only reason why the gold from the Temple of Delphi wasn't cursed during the Hellenic and Hellenistic periods was because the Apollonian priesthood integrated the Python-worship of the cthonic oracle into the Apollonian rites and established the Pythian Games - the curse on the Temple's treasure goes back to the invasions of the Greeks into Minoan lands, when Python was likely created as a concept fusing the chaoskampf dragon Typhaon with the local iteration of the Minoan serpent mother goddess, Delphyne (elsewhere in the region known as Rhea). At the same time, the invasion story is also the origin for the Galatians in Anatolia.It's a great period for exploring with D&D fantasy tropes.</blockquote>