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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #45 on: January 08, 2013, 05:00:49 PM »
Id like to meet an actual Saint, if any still survive.  Saint George would be especially cool (hopefully in the book where we see Ferrovax again).  And any of the curse immortals from the christian mythos, like Longinus or Cain
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #46 on: January 08, 2013, 05:04:49 PM »
The problem with Saints is that you meet them all posthumously.
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #47 on: January 08, 2013, 05:07:23 PM »
Why?  Most of them do quite a bit while still kicking around, from slaying dragons to cursing poor irish families to become furry killing machines. 
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #48 on: January 08, 2013, 05:09:40 PM »
You only get the title of Saint after you are dead.
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #49 on: January 08, 2013, 05:17:53 PM »
Well sure in the real world, because its a church procedure and they dont want to have a Saint fall off the Holy wagon.  But in a world where angels can hand out magic swords and go working miracles directly through people, there are other avenues to achieving the necessary requirements.  In fact, from what I can tell, every Knight of the Cross seems to qualify pretty well.   
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #50 on: January 08, 2013, 05:24:57 PM »
I would personally go with holy man rather then saint.  I know it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other, but it fits definitions better.
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #51 on: January 08, 2013, 06:30:00 PM »
Quote from: mithrandirthewhite on January 08, 2013, 05:24:57 PM
I would personally go with holy man rather then saint.  I know it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other, but it fits definitions better.
How so, apart from the whole still being alive thing?
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #52 on: January 08, 2013, 06:38:11 PM »
I would like to see Longinus brought into the mix hopefully with his spear.  we have the nails from the cross, we have judas' noose why not the spear.  Longinus was said to be cursed with imortality so he could still be around.
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #53 on: January 08, 2013, 07:19:24 PM »
It would be a great inside joke… Perhaps JB will elevate one or two of this forums more colorful posters to godhood.
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #54 on: January 08, 2013, 08:45:25 PM »
Quote from: SAZ on January 08, 2013, 07:19:24 PM
It would be a great inside joke… Perhaps JB will elevate one or two of this forums more colorful posters to godhood.
The Lady Duck is already Mab.  What more do you want? ;D
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #55 on: January 08, 2013, 08:47:59 PM »
Quote from: Second Aristh on January 08, 2013, 08:45:25 PM
The Lady Duck is already Mab.  What more do you want? ;D

Shhhh thats a secret !  (hugs)

and hey, wasnt the villains in WN named Helen and Priscilla?

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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #56 on: January 08, 2013, 08:52:40 PM »
Personally I thought Harry's mention of accidentally turning himself into a duck if he tried shapeshifting was a nod to our resident brain bleach poet :)
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #57 on: January 08, 2013, 09:21:27 PM »
It's hard to say. I dearly love Abrahmic mythology and anything to do with angels/the denarians. But Jim can't pull from that well to much without creating a firestorm of controversy. Much easier to deal with cthulu monsters and old pantheons.
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #58 on: January 08, 2013, 09:48:21 PM »
Artemis goddess of the hunt. I've got a WAG that the Erlking is actually Orion the hunter so that would be interesting to see Jim's would take on that.
Also Hercules as he was always my favourite hero.
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Re: mythological figures we'd like to see
« Reply #59 on: January 09, 2013, 03:58:41 AM »
Quote from: Ms Duck on January 08, 2013, 12:28:53 PM
not so much as hot, but more..cute by modern standards.

short, brown hair, lesbain, obsessive about her love interests, capable of walking in daylight, can pass for human, change her shape..

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I was thinking of Yutte Stensgaard as Carmilla in Lust for a Vampire (1971).  I guess I have learned more of my mythology from Hammer movies and the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show than school.




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