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Hey, wait a second !

http://pohanstvi.net/slavia/svarog.jpg

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The similiarity is striking. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

But who is he?

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The picture's URL is:

http://pohanstvi.net/slavia/svarog.jpg


Searching after Svarog, I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarog
He is a fire-god, or in even older legends, smith-god. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif The picture fits, but myth not.

Google produces some scary results, though, so make sure you aren't using the "I'm Feeling Lucky" option. Really! I mean it!

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Scary results? How...eldricht scary results?

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Hopefuly not the kind of scary results you'd get by searching for Dwarf Fortress' favorite food - Plump Helmet.
(I didn't search for it myself, but saw the warning against it in the DF forums)

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Why does he wear an Iron Cap instead of an Ice Cap ??

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A slavonic diety. I'm not sure if the original painting was a representation of Svarog though. I got enamoured with it and couldn't resist remaking him into a pretender. Until I manage to finish a Slavonic nation he appears as a pretender for Caelum and Ulm and perhaps some others.

Some other pretenders are remade statues of antiquity. I would guess Svarog and Sarapis (Lord of Rebirth, one of my favourite gods. I once made an essay on Isis and Sarapis in the roman empire) are the pretenders most like the originals.

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Okay, so we know one upcoming nation.

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Endoperez, thanks for this Herculean undertaking to whet our appetites with pictures for Dominions 3. I've been enjoying it a great deal!

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> Okay, so we know one upcoming nation.

Actually you know one nation I would like to make. I have more, about five or ten quite clearly defined and about as many diffuse ones. Slavonic nation is currently in the latter category, but that might change. I intend to get myself an Encyclopedia of Religion. 11.000 pages / 84 lbs of religious entries http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. IIRC there are several good entries on slavonic religion there for some inspiration. I havn't used it since I studied and I believe I would have to go to Lund (university city near Malmö) to get acess to it. Much better to have it in your own home http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. I once used some of the slavonic entries in an Ars Magica campaign with a story set in Riga.