Discord
Changelog
02-21-2015, 02:08 AM
Hmm... Mulhorand as a land founded by pseudo Israelites?... an interesting proposition.
The laying of gods like Set as being Mulhorandi was my reason for associating with Egypt (for obvious associative reasons). If one were truly going to press insistently on a RL equivalent, I suppose the Judaic emphasis on education (real or mythological) would also lend itself to supporting that theory. Nepthys(sp?), the Mulhorandi goddess of trade would also suit that sort of ideational association (real or mythological).
The slave holding aristocracy, however, lends itself toward other associations (at least in my mythological understanding). Not Roman (though close, economically), not Persian (though close, culturally)... not Ottoman (though a closer fit if trying to shoehorn a mix of economics and culture into one... shoe).
I doubt it's historical, but a territory controlled by the mythical Hashishim (Hassan i Sabbah: Nothing is Real, Everything is Permitted... as related by the "historical" fiction of William S. Burroughs...) seems likely to be... closest? And, again, I find myself essentially falling back into the notion of Hyboria's Stygia...
An Ottoman (or Persian/Iranian) realm ruled by an absolutely powerful aristocracy (magocracy) along the lines/theories of the Nazis as portrayed in Raiders of the Lost Ark and/or Captain America (the cultist neo-Aryan mythologists)... in a world where all the superstitious (syphilis induced) wonders of an a la carte mythological smorgasbord that serves those leaders interests is materializable?... It's a harder thing to get one's head around than watching a Conan movie and placing the magocracy firmly in the camp of those who snake-whisper up arrows to shoot at blondes that defy them... or maybe reading a Conan short story about Amun-Thoth's plots... but if it makes things work for one, knock ... oneself... out.
;)
The laying of gods like Set as being Mulhorandi was my reason for associating with Egypt (for obvious associative reasons). If one were truly going to press insistently on a RL equivalent, I suppose the Judaic emphasis on education (real or mythological) would also lend itself to supporting that theory. Nepthys(sp?), the Mulhorandi goddess of trade would also suit that sort of ideational association (real or mythological).
The slave holding aristocracy, however, lends itself toward other associations (at least in my mythological understanding). Not Roman (though close, economically), not Persian (though close, culturally)... not Ottoman (though a closer fit if trying to shoehorn a mix of economics and culture into one... shoe).
I doubt it's historical, but a territory controlled by the mythical Hashishim (Hassan i Sabbah: Nothing is Real, Everything is Permitted... as related by the "historical" fiction of William S. Burroughs...) seems likely to be... closest? And, again, I find myself essentially falling back into the notion of Hyboria's Stygia...
An Ottoman (or Persian/Iranian) realm ruled by an absolutely powerful aristocracy (magocracy) along the lines/theories of the Nazis as portrayed in Raiders of the Lost Ark and/or Captain America (the cultist neo-Aryan mythologists)... in a world where all the superstitious (syphilis induced) wonders of an a la carte mythological smorgasbord that serves those leaders interests is materializable?... It's a harder thing to get one's head around than watching a Conan movie and placing the magocracy firmly in the camp of those who snake-whisper up arrows to shoot at blondes that defy them... or maybe reading a Conan short story about Amun-Thoth's plots... but if it makes things work for one, knock ... oneself... out.
;)