I've been pondering some Antioch questions cause I remember that there was some sort of special smiths living there. Does Antioch still exist? And if so does it need a Continent Writer?
I've been pondering some Antioch questions cause I remember that there was some sort of special smiths living there. Does Antioch still exist? And if so does it need a Continent Writer?
Antioch???????
Can someone fill me in on this? I don't believe I was around when this existed.
Antioch was a former Althanas region. There are no plans to bring it back as a forum or to add any new forums within the foreseeable future. However, it still "exists" in the sense that you can role-play there in Other Regions.
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Thanks bro I have some ideas I wanted to try concerning Antioch. I appreciate the thumb's up. I'll get started on an Antioch project soon after the FQ ends in the Other Regions area of course.
~~Pavel
Mistriously enough there is no existing recond of antioch in the Althanian almanacs; only reference to it.
And since I am new it bothers me; why isn't such a crucial region deleted from Althanian records? It just seems to talk of it as a far away land where a bunch of things hapened and somwhow affected Althanas.
I love that name by the way... Antioch... spiffy
The wicked arrogantly hunt down the weak.
Let them be caught in the evil they plan for others.
Lord, make them feel true terror,
Let them remember that they are naught but men.
Just curious, where is it still listed? If it still appears somewhere as being a major region, that's something that needs to be taken care of.
"The problem with escapism is that when you read or write a book, society is in the chair with you. You can't escape your history or your culture. So the idea that because fantasy books aren't about the real world, they therefore 'escape,' is ridiculous. Even the most surreal and bizarre fantasy can't help but reverberate around the reader's awareness of their own reality." -- China Miéville
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Antioch is the name of a real-world city. That was part of the reason it never had widespread approval; the name wasn't original.
This was before my time, but I do know that much about it.
The original writer of Antioch is still lurking about, just so you know. The fabled Lavinian Ale also originated there, Nya~
If you'd like more information on the region, just ask your friendly neighborhood Hex mage/Thief Extraordinaire Seth Dahlios.
The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world...
~Pippa Passes; by Robert Browning
Read this question and tell me why you think it should be o_O Antioch existed, it can't just be wiped out of Althanas' history. It still exists in the Althanas canon, we just don't have a subforum for it.Originally Posted by ~Poseidon~
Cold, jade eyes that liquify
eyes that are merciless,
staring in mute mockery
and in mockery of the muteness
Put simply, Lornius became Antioch, which became Lornius again.
In more complicated terms, Dirks was the Lornius writer, got promoted, so Dissinger became Antioch writer. Dissinger got promoted (and later wrote a new continent). I fought a war, and Lornius was put back on the map over Antioch.
That is the story of Antioch. For all intensive purposes though, they can be two separate regions played in the other regions forum if you'd like.
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