Kristoffer's encouragement thread - Page 8

Cor · #71 March 13th, 2007, 02:14 PM

How about a race of cat people, who look like the Egyptian Godess Bast or God Sekamat. They could be in the Persian culture. Very good with ranged and stealth, Would have assasins and spies. Warriors would be lion headed and slow, but capable of beserk.

Wish · #72 March 13th, 2007, 02:33 PM

call me a purist, but ancient Egypt != Persia.

I think Persia would be more Zoroastrianism - though some of those aspects are incorporated into arcosephale. There was actually a fairly decent persia mod for dom 2.

If you want to do an ancient egypt, have it be egyptian - all animal headed sacreds and pharoahs or son of the sun for pretenders.

Cor · #73 March 15th, 2007, 02:19 PM

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Wish said:
call me a purist, but ancient Egypt != Persia.

I think Persia would be more Zoroastrianism - though some of those aspects are incorporated into arcosephale. There was actually a fairly decent persia mod for dom 2.

If you want to do an ancient egypt, have it be egyptian - all animal headed sacreds and pharoahs or son of the sun for pretenders.

No your right, I just want to see race of cat people. I think they would have fit Egypt better than lizards, but since egypt is taken Persia was the next best.

Making the Persians Cat people is no less arbtrary than having the egyptians as lizard men. None of the major egytian gods were lizards withthe possible excetion of SET. Apep was an egyptian demon, and a serpent. It was never worshipped however.

Anyway in D&D there was the Persian Cat people where they called Rakasha ? that was the inspiration for the suggestion.

Aleph · #74 March 16th, 2007, 10:56 PM

Sobek.

I'm curious why you want cat people. As a visual, I suppose it's nice, but similarly potent nations already exist. Unless you want to go up against Ermor so you can stage Lion-O battles vs. Mumm-Ra, the Invincible!!!

Wish · #75 March 17th, 2007, 01:03 AM

obviously its because hes a huge fan of "Baby Cakes" and Brad Kneely

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Wish · #76 March 17th, 2007, 01:09 AM

(also already mictlan has c-c-cat people. Alright!)

Sombre · #77 March 17th, 2007, 03:22 AM

I made a mod (Avernum) which contains several catmen (nephil) units. Just so you know.

Endoperez · #78 March 17th, 2007, 07:16 AM

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Cor said:Anyway in D&D there was the Persian Cat people where they called Rakasha ? that was the inspiration for the suggestion.

"Rakshasa" probably just means "demon". It's from the general direction of India/Sri Lanka. The EA Lanka nation has various demons, but I don't think any have feline features.

Edi · #79 March 17th, 2007, 08:14 AM

Wrong, Endo. Palankasha is a tiger-headed demon, and the Manyusha Rakshasi has a leonine mane, even if it has little resemblance to lions otherwise.

If we wanted to have a Persian/Egyptian type cat people nation, the Tigrans from AoW2 and AoW:SM were pretty much that style, so something similar might work, with FAS magics being the most common, having assassins and spies.

Aleph · #80 March 18th, 2007, 11:00 AM

Rakshasas and Rakshasa Warriors are both Lankan summons.

DnD does indeed have the Rakshasa. It's natural form looks like a humanoid tiger. Stats below.

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/rakshasa.htm

The Tigrans were a savage race - if I recall they had some of the strongest domination/enslavement abilities in the game, with an extra focus on illusion as well.