Solabusca on 4/3/2008 at 06:34
Quote Posted by The Magpie
Oh, well. What do you make of the three columns, then? The right hand for Earth and Fire, the left hand for Air and Water, and the center for Darkness, Life, and Light?
And I wonder a little (but not much) about those drawn-in diagrams, too. :p
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That, sir, is EXACTLY what I figure they are. The other symbols are probably mystic/alchemical in nature, but (as already stated by me) are not proper Glyphs, per se.
.j.
[EDIT: I'll also suggest that there is a tie-in to Lovecraftian elements in the Book of Ash - or at least to Powers That Should Not Be Messed With - it's obviously an evil old book/grimoire.]
jtr7 on 4/3/2008 at 06:57
Awesome! I'm drawn to the idea that the doodles are alchemical symbols. I like how the triangle picture is drawn near, and connected to, the Earth element, which ties with Azaran's "Plane of Earth", and maaaybe finding the Book of Ash beneath sands of forgotten kings (Pharanic Egyptian Book of the Dead?).
Now, again...I know it's quite a stretch--more of a thing similar to word association--but the triangle with the inverted arc bisecting the tip, and the square and squiggle inside made me think of a cone of vision looking down/earthward (triangle), a cornea (the arc), looking at an object like a book or a block of stone (square), floating over the ground or water (squiggle). Can you tell I'm tired?
Would the hand mages fight the undead if there were another cataclysm? Not to save anybody but themselves, and so long as their agenda was not threatened.
And I think the Hand Mages find the undead abhorrent, but probably aren't as afeared of them. I think they find the raising of undead worse than the undead themselves. Has anybody set Hand Mages loose in the Bonehoard?
R Soul on 4/3/2008 at 18:27
It looks like Azaran's lopped off a few branches.
Solabusca on 4/3/2008 at 18:30
Actually, it looks like it's been designed with the seven elements mentioned in the Trickster's Ritual as a basis, vs the 10 sefirot of kaballic mysticisim.
.j.
jtr7 on 4/3/2008 at 18:47
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nicked on 4/3/2008 at 19:12
Quote Posted by Solabusca
[EDIT: I'll also suggest that there is a tie-in to Lovecraftian elements in the Book of Ash - or at least to Powers That Should Not Be Messed With - it's obviously an evil old book/grimoire.]
Indeed. In Thief 2 Gold, the necromancers were going to have used the Book of Ash to raise a giant demon called a Balmoraal, which they couldn't contain.
jtr7 on 4/3/2008 at 19:14
And that's from Emil's Journal, right?
nicked on 5/3/2008 at 08:05
yes. There's also a little plan of a summoning chamber, with a pentagram and a dead necromancer, with a big demon. The demon has horns and little wings, proper old-skool satan-type.
