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I presume that the implied outcome fromloki's plot is that the tribes you recruited before are devastated by the infighting. In part I presume because the designers did not think people would generally assassinate the leaders and have people end up with a game crushing army. That's also the thing that makes Loki's plot look utterly ineffective. [edit] That previous mission was probably supposed to be a mess of orgiastic destruction as you just mash armies against each other and end up with a huge mess and bodycount. Munin fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Nov 20, 2017 |
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Hunt11 posted:It shows that they payed attention to Greek myths as Hades was always one of the nicer gods outside of that stuff with Persephone. And even with Persephone he ended up being far nicer than most of the other Greek gods would be in that kind of situation. Then again that isn't saying much...
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cheetah7071 posted:It's important to remember that organized religion, with codified dogma that is reinforced over its entire geographic area, is much less common historically than you'd think. It didn't really hit the west until Constantine manhandled his bishops into agreeing on a single version of Christianity. So all the various Greek cities told different versions of the myths because in a very real sense Ephesus and Athens didn't have the same religion, they had different religions that shared many common elements. I mentioned Ephesus specifically because it's a pretty noteworthy example of the gods we know being worshiped very differently. There was a very popular earth mother style goddess called Cybele in the non-Greek parts of Turkey, which Ephesians adopted from their neighbors. Except they wanted to worship their own gods instead of foreign ones, so they decided that Cybele, as a female goddess associated with nature, must be Artemis (who is basically nothing at all like an earth mother in the version of the Greek pantheon you usually hear). Artemis-as-Cybele was the main cult in Ephesus even, and produced some very striking religious art, such as this: Add to that that cities would take particular gods as their patrons. One of the reasons Athena generally shows up in a good light these days is that so many of our sources are Athenian. Heck, there might very well be an island out there with a myth concerning an evil trickster or trickster god who washes up, gets welcomed into the home of the chief, gets everyone rip roaring drunk and then puts his scheme into action. His accomplices put sheep hides over their coats to fool they eyes of the herders they are not spotted and successfully made the entire herd flee at once so they can rustle the lot. The trickster then successfully diverts suspicions by desecrating the temple leaving specific messages and ends up causing a blood feud with the island next door which takes a couple of generations to sort out.
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