A Totally Serious and Surprisingly Sober Summary of Iremitie Mythology and History

ArcaneArts that makes sense. Thank you.

[ArcaneArts]

ArcaneArts OMG this is great!!! I love it.

This is neither here nor there, but I was flipping thru some of my old posts on here and I think I hold the record for the number of short (ten words or less) posts on this forum.

Anyway, what I wanted to ask for real was, I read the Mummy 2e manuscript and I thought I remembered that in the new version Ammut the Devourer was actually the oldest and most powerful of the Judges. Is that a change in canon or did I just misread that?

There's always been some fudging regarding how Ammut is regarded, which is not totally unsurprising since the Shan'iatu, as drivers of sold narratives, have at various times had different ways they regarded her and sold her to the Empire.

But the short hand answer is "No, Ammut is not a Judge." Sutek is, but Ammut doesn't judge. All are equally crunchy in her mouth.

Someone gave me a link to this very useful and super funny summary. That’s why I necroposted 😊.

ArcaneArts OMG this is great!!! I love it.

This is neither here nor there, but I was flipping thru some of my old posts on here and I think I hold the record for the number of short (ten words or less) posts on this forum.

Anyway, what I wanted to ask for real was, I read the Mummy 2e manuscript and I thought I remembered that in the new version Ammut the Devourer was actually the oldest and most powerful of the Judges. Is that a change in canon or did I just misread that?

[ArcaneArts]

Gratuitous, maybe, but I have this feeling a minor revival prior to 2E's Kickstarter will not only be enjoyable but perhaps be useful for people.

[Konradleijon]

I like it thanks for answering my questions!

[Omegaphallic]

Why did you feel the need to quote a post that’s almost four months old?

I enjoy necromancy. Serious I didn't look at the post date.

[ArcaneArts]

Why did you feel the need to quote a post that’s almost four months old?

I ask this question entirely too much.

[atamajakki]

Metaphor for the conquest of Egypt by the Greeks, one of it's great War Lion Goddess defenders gets domesticated and erotized, symbolizing the taming of Egypt, while Sekmet remains focused on War, Symboling Egypt can never be tamed completely.

Not sure how this applies to Irem exactly, but it popped into my head.

Sobek is mentioned in DE2.

Maybe in Iremite Mythology they could end up tied to the lore of Immortals or Minor Guilds.

Why did you feel the need to quote a post that’s almost four months old?

[Omegaphallic]

There’s something distinctly Curse about the idea of domesticating a feral war goddess.

Metaphor for the conquest of Egypt by the Greeks, one of it's great War Lion Goddess defenders gets domesticated and erotized, symbolizing the taming of Egypt, while Sekmet remains focused on War, Symboling Egypt can never be tamed completely.

Not sure how this applies to Irem exactly, but it popped into my head.

Sobek is mentioned in DE2.

Maybe in Iremite Mythology they could end up tied to the lore of Immortals or Minor Guilds.

[LostLight]

I've actually toyed with the concept of Sobek in M:tC as a force of balance of some sort- a circle of creation and destruction which devours civilizations to bring allow new ones to grow. Some kind of "anti Ammut" in the respect that it brings death to fertilize life, and grow life in order to feed death, a manifestation of the dual Rivers which Sutekh cried as he lost his eyes.

Probably shares a few aspects with Apocalypse's Wyrm, even though I haven't thought about it while writing the homebrew on the subject. Either it was subconsciously, or that it is just a commonly used theme *shrugs*

[BigDamnHero]

i do not know how and why Bastet got tamed do

...Because somebody wanted their hawt catgirl waifu?

[Konradleijon]

There’s something distinctly Curse about the idea of domesticating a feral war goddess.

yeah Bastet was a savage War goddess before becoming a motherly Hawt cat girl. kind of like how Set was a Good guy before Egypt got invaded. Set was the God of Foreigners and to add insult to injury the new ruling class got really in to Set worship.

i do not know how and why Bastet got tamed do

[nothri]

Since Ra was considered the Nameless Lion at that time, I suspect Bast and company may tie into him via the Eye of Ra myth. basically, he was convinced or tricked to bestow his power on another entity and promptly drove it insane. Maybe by insights seen on the Scroll of Ages?

[Paradim]

I am now putting some idle thought into how portrayals of Bast and Sobek might be of use for the gameplay and narrative of Curse. Arguably every god brought up in the game so far have had bearing on the existence of the Arisen, like with how Khepera relates to kepher and such.

(Maybe not Liquidity and Aridity, though I'll admit, those are entities I want to know more about.)

I think interesting questions get raised, considering the animal associations with each of the Guilds, as well as the visual appearances of Arisen when they're using some of their transformational powers.