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*Comes back*
Wow, sprained me ankle and barfed so I got to go home early! I wonder what's happened while I was gone...?
*Sees the world be bathed in the afterglow of thermonuclear war*
>MFW:
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This is why we can't have nice things Ainur...
Post self-deleted by Shuanionta.
Why not? Escanthea is firmly Christian, implying that Christianity exists in this universe.
Yeah, that was a thing.
But there's no reason to believe it's the majority religion of the world. In addition, while Escanthea is Orthodox, Danceria and Nargothond, have both been worshipping the Valar way longer than ''that guy who did that thing with the fishes''. BP has probably been pagano-atheist for a good while and Thassy is probably Catholic. Finally, Femmi probably worships some lava-spewing mountain somehere, which also seems to bust that Christianity rules theory.
I like BP's plan way more. The fall of two stars is a phenomenon that would have been noticed by every major civilization of the time and would have remained in their mythologies for a long time.
I actually have a Pantheon. Had it since Day 1.
Psssh, whatever. Stop pushing your pagan nonsense on good, non-pagan states like Thalasus and I
You have to admit though, Christianity does borrow a lot of pagan and non-Christian beliefs. For instance, I never knew that the Book of John was referencing to Heraclitus who theorized that the whole universe was governed by a force called "logos", or cross translated to "Word". The rest is history. In fact, a lot of early Christian fathers dabbled in philosophy and local customs.
But don't you worry, you'll have two crusades to establish a steadfast Greek Orthodox hold in northern Danceria.
On the flip side, each of our cultures could have our own calendar (Christian versus Muslim versus Chinese...), while Nargothond may use the Before the Twins and afterwards, Danceria goes full Tolkein and recounts in Ages (Dawn Age is before Nargothondian contact, First Age is first contact, Second is the first uniting of Danceria against said Elves, ect.). Each of us can still use the Twins's disappearance as a memorable day in our respective calendars (as Femiminia states). The more Christian nations may state it as an omen and can conveniently crown the ordinary pig-herder as the king, or burn said pig herder for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or the fall of Angels, Saints, or in Escanthea's case "When Lucifer's eyes shut" (as a majority of both Nargothond and Danceria acknowledged the Twins as being a big deal in their religions, much to the disdain of the Christian communities).
My question is when do the Byzantines arrive on present day Escanthea to whoop Ezkani backside?
It's not necessarily pagan nonsense.
Pagans would interpret it as dark gods, but Christians(1) can interpret it as the work of the Devil. Perhaps the flaring of the stars symbolized Christ's birth, which just happened to be around the same time, only to be snuffed out by the Devil looking to suppress knowledge of the birth of the Christ-Child. Escanthean wise men, however, beheld a new, though dimmer, star in the sky (2), and followed it through to the manger, where the Nativity and subsequently the rest of the New Testament happened.
Scientists, on the other hand, recognize the markers of stars going supernova. So that's less exciting. Or maybe more exciting; it really kind of depends on your definition of exciting.
Pentagrians were never much for gods, but have had a long tradition of seeing particular cultural heroes as paragons of particular elements of human nature (which, it should be noted, are not always positive). This has, in recent years, transitioned more towards what we would now consider to be more like idolizing celebrity figures, which is tolerated begrudgingly by those whose privacy is being infringed, due to 'tradition'(4).
The reason we want a common calendar, however, is because even though the Chinese or Jewish or even regnal calendars all have some use, for the most part, everyone just uses the Gregorian Calendar (albeit now generally with 'Common Era' and 'Before Common Era' instead of 'Before Christ' and 'Anno Domini') because everyone can sort of agree on it.
And if people still don't like it, I'll play my previously-argued 'Pentagrian culture is the global culture' card to explain why we're all speaking English and using the Gregorian calendar – because that's what we do, dammit, now buy our blue jeans and listen to our pop songs.
~900s AD
And I'm guessing throughout all of this Feminamia is just chilling, looking at the stars, and when two go out, that's like the Tarot equivalent of The Lovers or something or I don't know yadda yadda yadda pseudo religious pagan stuf blah blah blah boom they have a similarish calendar, like the Mayans or whatever.
Orthodoxy doesn't have crusades. I don't know what you people are talking about.
You can be certain there will be orthodox crusades if ever there were a chance of reclaiming a certain City...
Constantinople would be in a different dimmension or something though, and in the 900s it was still very much Orthodox. I really don't understand what you're implying.
It's an alternate world. I'm sure we can have some other religion do crusadery things.
I'm saying the only reaso there weren't arthod8x crusades is because there didn't really have to be.
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*Walks in with a bunch of dwarfs* May the power of the arkenstone guide you!
What do you mean by 'I want a calendar'? That makes absolutely no sense!
If you're wondering, No, I'm not from Ainur, I'm from Europeia fyi!
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