I say "greek" myself
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:18 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts about a tomb hunter game. > Hi all, > As many of you are aware I have been thinking of doing a Tomb Raider > style clone called "Tomb Hunter." However, in so doing I need to change > elements with in the Tomb Raider story such as main characters, enemies, > etc to make my game more my own then a one to one outright copy of Tomb > Raider. > For example, in Tomb Raider IV Lara Croft is on a quest to find the > Amulet and Armour of Horus in order to slay the evil Egyptian god Set. > Set for that game was the primary villen, and is public domain since he > is a major character in Egyptian myth and legend. > However, as an amature historian myself I know that Set, called Seth by > Greek writers, wasn't an enemy in the earliest Egyptian writings. His > character was the younger brother of Osiris , and he was the primary > guardian of Ra. His roll was to protect Ra from the evil serpent god > Apep, called Apophis by the Greek writers, and was a sort of heroic > figure. He usually was depicted in hieroglyphs as a half-man half-dog > like creature. > As the centuries passed he began to take on a more adversarial roll in > Egyptian myth. He became jellus of Osiris, and wanted Osiris's wife, > Isis, and so he eventually murders Osiris. Set then becomes king of > Egypt, lord of the gods, and Isis flees. Where she, as myth has it, > bares Osiris a son Horus who grows up to defeat Set, and becomes the > heir of Osiris and a god in his own right. > A few more centuries pass and in Egyptian tales Set becomes the lord > over Upper Egypt while Horus is the lord of Lower Egypt. When Egypt was > united historians recognize Set and Horus sort of got melded into one > character or a duel god like character. > Eventually, Set became associated as Apep, lord of the underworld, and > began showing up in Egyptian records as a crocodile, snake, dragon, etc > which had formally been reserved to forms of Apep, and Apep falls out of > Egyptian writings. > I'm writing all this biographical and historical information to get to > the heart of what I want to ask. Do you guys think I should replace Set, > (Seth,) as the villen for Tomb Hunter in favor of Apophis? > I think Apophis, (apep,) makes a much more cool enemy, and here is wy. > Apophis was said to be able to change between several different forms > such as a crocodile, giant snake, lizard, hippo, etc. He had the > ability to hitmatise an enemy with his eyes. He could bite a person > injecting them with a deadly venom. He also could curl up like a snake > around them and crush them to death. As a super villen he certainly > makes an interesting read in the ancient Egyptian stories. > As I illistrated above Set has two different basic characters. One of > the hero which was the dog like character which wouldn't fit to fight. > The later Set has all the qualities of Apophis, but has the added > advantage of adding in the conflict between Horus and Set. Though, if I > use Set one has to keep in mind this idea of Set as an advarsarial > character is totally dependant on time and Egyptian scribes which > changed his character by renaming Apep to Set. > So if you could pick would you have Apep or Set? > One other question I have is would you like the English translations of > the names or the Greek ones. In English the gods are Set and Apep. In > the Greek stories, later retellings of the stories, they were called > Seth and Apophis. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.10/943 - Release Date: 8/8/2007 > 5:38 PM > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
