Kerrle on 29/4/2005 at 22:49
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let me tell you one thing, and i dont mean to be sarcastic or mean or anything, but you can relate the Da Vinci Code to literally anything
What does that mean?
Rybe on 29/4/2005 at 22:53
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Apparently the Keepers are enemies of all moving creatures.
BTW, I also just finished A&D and am 1/3 through Da Vinci. They're both pretty good reads, though I recommend a strong imagination for the last 10% of A&D. I found myself re-writing the ending in my head cause Brown dropped the ball big time (in my opinion).
Hehehe, i agree 110% I'm afraid to read Da Vinchi code now because the end was so ridiculous....I was cracking up the whole time. But as for relating the keepres to any of it... no....you might as well relate the keepres to every single secret society ever. Secret societies with lots of power is a fairly common theme in lots of stuff...
And the enforcers were indeed enemies of anything that ran around on two legs, hell, maybe even four, but they seemed to leave the rats alone… :p
I'm still bitter that i can't throw rats at people in that game...
Slato Metakide on 18/5/2005 at 06:16
What you must remember with the Keepers is that they exist purely to keep 'Balance' in all powers - namely the Pagans and Hammerites, as well as interpret the prophecies etc.
[SPOILER]But what happened in TDS is that The Keepers themselves became the imbalance in the city.[/SPOILER]
njcl on 18/5/2005 at 15:29
slightly off topic but was not the world supposed to end in 2004 according to nostradamus??............i bet $30 it would.....j/k....... :wot:
Shug on 19/5/2005 at 00:03
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I recently read "Angels & Demons" and I am about 1/3 through "The DaVinci Code", and it really reminds me of the Keepers in Thief and how the "underground group" of scientists have great power and connections in the society. It kind of relates the Keepers and the Metal Age electricity and mechanics. Who which the Catholics (The builders)are enemies against.
For a start, the Keepers aren't highly respected members of society - they're faceless, nameless people who aren't even noticed walking the streets.
Second, they don't hold the power to sink the Hammerites, nor any other organization. It's a long shot based on cliched secret societies; the Keepers are really quite generic.
Tch on 20/5/2005 at 01:57
Dan Brown's characters are horrible. He should have stuck with writing travel guides or history books, because that's what he seems to excel in. Half of both of the books (and yes, I read both) are characters patronisingly explaining things to the other characters, and the other half is people's jaws dropping open, or falling to their knees in shock.
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the Popes death, which happened after this book was written so its eerie
Well, the man was old. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
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according to nostradamus
All this Nostradumbass nonsense really gets on my nerves. Aside from the abysmal track record of future-tellers in general, trying to find the future in N.'s writings is like trying to find them via the "bible code." Read "The Mask of Nostradamus" for a less mystical biography of the man.
Slato Metakide on 20/5/2005 at 05:42
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For a start, the Keepers aren't highly respected members of society - they're faceless, nameless people who aren't even noticed walking the streets.
Second, they don't hold the power to sink the Hammerites, nor any other organization. It's a long shot based on cliched secret societies; the Keepers are really quite generic.
Heh, sounds like someone's a little to in love with the order of the hammer. Keepers are actually just there to keep balance and their powers of manipulation, magic and whatnot are the reason why they aren't sinking Hammers with this power is because their sole purpose to exist is to keep Balance - not everyone can/wants to be a Keeper so sinking religious orders would be useless and the city wouldn't have control over itself bla bla bla.
Shug on 20/5/2005 at 09:59
I don't think you understand what I'm getting at, actually. Have you read the DaVinci Code? The parallel is a religious one; I really don't care that much about a game to rant on a forum about which faction is best.
For those who don't want their experience of the book to be tainted before they start:
[SPOILER]My point is that the Priory of Sion holds something capable of ruining the Catholic Church, whereas the Keepers have nothing as such to do the same to the Hammerite religion. The Keepers are all about a delicate balance act, whereas the Priory is more about maintaining a very great secret and ensuring its survival.[/SPOILER]
Slato Metakide on 20/5/2005 at 12:02
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I really don't care that much about a game to rant on a forum about which faction is best.
Neither do it, just me misunderstanding what I read yet again. Whoopsah again.
nickie on 27/11/2007 at 22:06
Apologies for resurrecting this thread but in trying to induce sleep last night, I put the Da Vinci Code on. So drifting away as I was, I bolted upright on hearing these words when our heroes arrive at the house of Sir Lee something or other. Tom Hanks starts to talk about the Priory of Sion and Ian McKellen's response is 'The Keepers?' and then goes on with blah-di-blah.
I didn't read the book - anyone know if this phrase was in it? Or if Brown is a secret Thief player?
