The Second Apocalypse

Earwa => General Earwa => Topic started by: Wilshire on April 17, 2014, 02:17:18 pm

Title: Poll on a website seemed reminicent of TSA
Post by: Wilshire on April 17, 2014, 02:17:18 pm
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5480

Answer number 5 recalls the Inchoroi and the Scylvendi.
Title: Re: Poll on a website seemed reminicent of TSA
Post by: Alia on April 17, 2014, 02:40:11 pm
Actually, it's from Conan.
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Post by: Wilshire on April 17, 2014, 03:09:18 pm
Yeah well I thought it sounded like something Cnaiur/Scylvendi would say. You and your knowledge/logic....
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Post by: Madness on April 17, 2014, 04:30:48 pm
Lol, is Conan the original barbarian archetype?
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Post by: Alia on April 17, 2014, 05:57:03 pm
I suppose so - even if there was anyone before Howard who had a similar character, it never became popular.
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Post by: Cüréthañ on April 17, 2014, 10:23:55 pm
Maybe the dude from Gilgamesh - Enkidu, I think?
Title: Re: Poll on a website seemed reminicent of TSA
Post by: Alia on April 18, 2014, 07:17:29 am
In a general sense, yes, Enkidu would be the first. But in popular culture it's Conan.
Title: Re: Poll on a website seemed reminicent of TSA
Post by: Srancy on April 18, 2014, 05:14:14 pm
Quote from: Alia on April 17, 2014, 02:40:11 pm
Actually, it's from Conan.

HA! Crom laughs at your four winds.
Title: Re: Poll on a website seemed reminicent of TSA
Post by: Madness on April 20, 2014, 02:01:50 pm
How come we've never riffed Howard/Bakker... there should be some Cnaiur/Moenghus the Younger fodder in there somewhere?
Title: Re: Poll on a website seemed reminicent of TSA
Post by: Alia on April 20, 2014, 03:12:47 pm
Well, the only analogy I can see is that Scylvendi perceive "civilised" races as corrupt and contemptible, which is a sentiment often expressed either by Conan directly or by the narrator.
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Post by: Madness on April 21, 2014, 01:22:53 pm
Interesting... echoed by Cnaiur ;).
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Post by: Alia on April 21, 2014, 04:02:00 pm
And the fact that he has black hair and blue eyes, perhaps?
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Post by: Madness on April 23, 2014, 12:03:30 pm
If I recall correctly, LTG suggests Bakker is a Conan fan.
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Post by: Alia on April 23, 2014, 04:55:44 pm
And last night I suddenly realised something that's been nagging me. I knew that the scene in TDTCB where Cnaiur is lying in the mud on the bank of the river Kiyuth and pretending to be dead reminded me of something. And then I realised - there's a similar scene in Karl E. Wagner's "Dark Crusade", where Jarvo, the general of a beaten army, is lying in the mud and his enemies think he's dead.
Title: Re: Poll on a website seemed reminicent of TSA
Post by: Madness on April 24, 2014, 11:55:59 am
Interesting... that seems like something Bakker would read.