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DPRagan In reply to ??? [2017-05-07 13:44:57 +0000 UTC]
yup thinking of some ot the elites also being the giants from Genesis and Exodus.
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WickedPrince In reply to DPRagan [2017-05-07 16:49:01 +0000 UTC]
This makes sense, descendants of old enemies of the faith. Depending on how one defines those giants it leaves room for other ideas as well. For instance one could slip Cthuloid entities in as giants considering their immense size.
Poul Anderson wrote a book titled "The Broken Sword" - I have one of his revisionist versions re-written and re-published 20 years after it's original edition. One of the antagonists of the early part of the story is a witch who thinks she's serving Lucifer, except that Odin tricked her with his own illusionary magic to serve his own agenda. During her death scene she cries out for Lucifer to save her, but he only shows up just before she dies and when she asks him why he didn't save her he says "What did you expect, I am the god of Futility."
Micheal Moorcock also came up with concepts I liked in his book "The War Hound and the Worlds Pain." Lucifer has realized that his determination to show how corruptible humans are has succeeded too well and now his efforts seem to be unneeded. Even he is beginning to feel like he's gone overboard and decides he wants to reconcile with God. But being the Great Deceiver he doesn't expect to be able to reach God to talk to him about it, so he brings in Our Hero to be his intermediary and prove his intent. In the end God admits that for there to be a choice between good and evil "EVIL" has to be a legitimate choice, so he asks Lucifer to continue his work. I think this ultimately was the one story Moorcock wrote that satisfied me. I never much cared for his anti-hero stories where the protagonist gets murdered in the end each time. Life is filled with far too many disappointments already, I prefer my fantasy stories to end with "and they lived happily ever after."
Heh, this is the way I think, every idea springboards others, whether they fit the original paradigm or not.
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DPRagan In reply to WickedPrince [2017-05-07 18:34:20 +0000 UTC]
Reminds me that I need to read CS Lewis (Other than Narnia)
Some of the biblical descriptions compares the Nephliem to men of renown (IE titans and whatnot) they were also man-eaters, a concept that continues in Jack the Giant Killer (Which is what jack and the beanstalk is derived from) and he faced a two headed giant...something was unstable in their DNA and probably the source for the Fomorians.
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WickedPrince In reply to DPRagan [2017-05-08 09:36:21 +0000 UTC]
I am not familiar with any of Lewis other stories. Shortly after I had discovered SF and Fantasy I was introduced to D&D. My interest in the fantasy game focused my reading interests into fantasy and pagan mythology. With that established I stopped reading SF almost completely.
As I mentioned to somebody else in this thread I never finished my reading of the Bible. I probably got around 20% of it in my late teens before becoming irrevocably bored with it. It is one of the very few books that I have started to read that went unfinished. Parts of it did have a lasting effect on me though.
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DPRagan In reply to WickedPrince [2017-05-08 22:08:35 +0000 UTC]
I believe there are "The Screwtape Letters" and "Mere Christianity"
Likely the Begats got to you, it's because it is also a record of laws and genealogy as well as history.
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WickedPrince In reply to DPRagan [2017-05-09 13:17:58 +0000 UTC]
He did some SF stuff too it seems. I went and read his Wiki bio. Between him and Tolkien the Narnia books were more suggestive of a Christian philosophy to me, yet it seems he only returned to Christianity with Tolkien's assistance. I was passingly familiar with Norse Mythology and Folklore before reading Tolkien's books so I saw the Old Norse influence, but the Christian influence is better hidden IMHO.
The genealogies were a big part of my loss of interest yeah. It didn't help that around that time I had more access to more entertaining stories either.
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DPRagan In reply to WickedPrince [2017-05-09 22:37:31 +0000 UTC]
Probably easier to skim over that part and get to the meat of the stuff.
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DPRagan In reply to WickedPrince [2017-05-10 22:47:56 +0000 UTC]
I believe you would be classified as Agnostic not Atheist.
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WickedPrince In reply to DPRagan [2017-05-11 02:07:30 +0000 UTC]
I am definitely agnostic. Agnostics believe there may be a god or gods, but we aren't sure, and aren't willing to waste effort on worshiping something that may not exist until we are sure. That said, reading a tedious religious tract for a religion I don't completely believe lost it's interest.
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NevermoreFox [2017-02-28 02:18:55 +0000 UTC]
Still a fan of this idea.
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MensjeDeZeemeermin [2017-02-27 04:17:41 +0000 UTC]
The additional artwork works very well. Evil is as evil does, not what it looks like.
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MercenaryX [2016-11-28 17:44:46 +0000 UTC]
Given how social justice Warriors are very man hating. This is actually very very informative. I would not be surprised if those type of people would be the Lieutenant's.
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nickitsune [2016-03-07 04:46:23 +0000 UTC]
Ever since I saw the latex like satyri I was enthralled, well done.:3
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MensjeDeZeemeermin [2016-01-25 03:03:45 +0000 UTC]
Your refinements add more definition to your fascinating thoughts and wonderful art.
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muddworg [2016-01-23 21:42:17 +0000 UTC]
wow now i feel very sorry for them . i probably work as a double agent on there behalf to lure elite to traps or ambush all the while feeding them false leads as long as i could maybe pick up some magic skills too
enjoys working in the shadows.
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DPRagan In reply to muddworg [2016-01-24 04:09:36 +0000 UTC]
lol, BTW this is an alternate universe from most Satyri.
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EliGladney [2016-01-23 20:23:41 +0000 UTC]
Wow, this really takes me back. . . Funny, the Exiled is actually what brought me to DeviantArt in the first place.
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darth603 [2016-01-23 19:51:39 +0000 UTC]
Always an interesting idea. What I find most interesting is that there'd probably be a large number of non- Christians who could end up as Satyri due to simply believing too much in separation of church and state- and when the BBEG sets himself up as both the temporal and spiritual authority, a lot of them would balk at the idea of supporting him, even if he was originally of their religion.
Could make things interesting in the camps, if nothing else. I could definitely see Exiled who tried to retain their former religion as doubly persecuted- once for standing up to the BBEG, and again for refusing to convert to Christianity post-exile.
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DPRagan In reply to darth603 [2016-01-23 20:45:47 +0000 UTC]
Depends on how many survive the Change Shock
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WageSlave [2015-10-10 02:41:00 +0000 UTC]
*ARISE! I command the comments to ARISE from the dead!*
*coughs*
Do you still give this concept thought every so often?
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EliGladney [2013-03-31 01:59:54 +0000 UTC]
I'm not really a credible critic or anything, but I have to say that this is one of the most original and interesting stories I've ever heard. Nice artwork, too. Ever try using a pen?
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DPRagan In reply to EliGladney [2013-03-31 14:41:27 +0000 UTC]
A long time ago, usually if I want to "ink" something now I do it on Photoshop.
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kitsune494 [2012-06-17 16:24:38 +0000 UTC]
do any of the exiled satyri have wings like the soap satyri do. you never really mention that one way or another
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DPRagan In reply to kitsune494 [2012-06-17 16:27:53 +0000 UTC]
Yes, Usable wings on the other hand...they seem vestigial. (look hard in the background of this pic [link] )
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kitsune494 In reply to DPRagan [2012-06-17 17:14:46 +0000 UTC]
do they have magic that can enable magic like in the spelling homework universe or is magic reserved for lieutenants only, I know you mentioned this in the faq but its not very clear
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DPRagan In reply to kitsune494 [2012-06-18 00:16:07 +0000 UTC]
It seems limited to those who have taken the mark, there might be some Paladin-ism or Healing gifts on the good side but that is rare and random. Same with Innate Exiled Shape-shifting.
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kitsune494 In reply to kitsune494 [2012-06-17 17:24:13 +0000 UTC]
enable flight not magic sorry, you mentioned this is fairly common on wigged satyri in the magic school faq
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Edgray727 [2012-01-27 14:59:01 +0000 UTC]
At first I was going to way that being a Political/Spiritual Learder of the U.S.A. But if he/she/it has read the Evil Overlord list, that makes a bit more senes. Also who is in charg of the "Way Points"? Other than the Mark of the Beast, what is/are the chip/s?
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axan312 [2011-02-04 05:39:14 +0000 UTC]
interesting addition and discussion with ... probably mean that the northern region/country are in a “little” ice age.
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DPRagan In reply to axan312 [2011-02-04 07:55:54 +0000 UTC]
Fire and Ice hehe
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axan312 In reply to DPRagan [2011-02-05 04:23:10 +0000 UTC]
well as far as I remember the documentary about super volcano it would happen.
And an easy way to get a new Ice age is simply disturbing the water stream on the ocean( sorry all technical and precise work are failing me )
It would also force people to move from the north to the south and make the job easier for the force evil as people are push in concentrated location.
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axan312 In reply to DPRagan [2011-02-06 04:56:09 +0000 UTC]
I'm talking more globally, or even only for North America, people going from Canada fleeing the cold temperature (newly Ice age) and going down to the US. I know the story you have in mind mostly take place in the States, I was just trying to think about what was happening elsewhere.
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DPRagan In reply to axan312 [2011-02-06 08:07:00 +0000 UTC]
Ahh, no problem. Still most of the volcanoes in Europe are in South Europe around the Mediterranean Sea.
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axan312 In reply to DPRagan [2011-02-07 16:50:22 +0000 UTC]
So basically nowhere is safe on earth.
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axan312 In reply to DPRagan [2011-02-08 23:11:10 +0000 UTC]
yes safe during an apocalipse is probably considered unsafe in the 1000 years of peace that follow it ... not sure if I remember the book correctly.
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DPRagan In reply to axan312 [2011-02-09 01:33:32 +0000 UTC]
Round about that.
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Levia-the-Dragon [2011-02-04 04:12:13 +0000 UTC]
Mmm, that does make snese with regards to the genderbending...
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