tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post686818284932041715..comments2024-03-19T14:50:46.819-07:00Comments on The Realm of Zhu: An Oldhammer Reader: The Fabulous RiverboatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-26247361696852060092016-09-24T16:28:17.843-07:002016-09-24T16:28:17.843-07:00The Tzohar and the understanding of its nature, or...The Tzohar and the understanding of its nature, origin and meaning almost seems like a Grail-Quest of its own, but a thousand times more esoteric! Throwing Milton into the mix will only make things even more interesting! Let me know if you ever find anything...<br /><br />On the subject of the Grail being a stone from Lucifer's crown (to which I keep obsessively coming back to) there is a DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03280915808252372028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-6405224825373569782016-09-24T13:00:43.316-07:002016-09-24T13:00:43.316-07:00Ah, everything is meta. Thanks for the link - Grai...Ah, everything is meta. Thanks for the link - Grail lore seems to be a never ending rabbit hole! As an aside, I would like to have a stronger grasp on the matter of the Tzohar tho, especially in regards / opposition to the Miltonian <i>prima materia</i>, the stuff of Chaos, but the efforts involved would require more focus than my multiple obsessions allow!<br /><br />Your campaign scenario Zhu Bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13945636483237344750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-67621322017582617502016-09-23T10:24:43.292-07:002016-09-23T10:24:43.292-07:00By the way, if you're interested in how the my...By the way, if you're interested in how the myth of the "stone from Lucifer's crown" was falsely attributed in the 19th century to Wolfram's Parzival, <a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/the-holy-grail-as-lucifers-crown-jewel.html" rel="nofollow">here is an interesting article from 1904</a> which reads almost like one of your analytic blog-posts.<br /><br />I don't DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03280915808252372028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-4946435821248982252016-09-21T02:40:34.314-07:002016-09-21T02:40:34.314-07:00That's brilliant, Zhu! I have seen the Noah fi...That's brilliant, Zhu! I have seen the Noah film (which I really liked) and wondered what the glowing rock 'Zohar' was all about. I knew it was likely some obscure reference to rabbinical myth, but knew not what until now. This has given me some great ideas and I may have to re-write my idea for the proposed wargame scenario.<br /><br />Firstly, I'm shamelessly stealing all the DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03280915808252372028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-33230089239063516552016-09-20T13:39:09.176-07:002016-09-20T13:39:09.176-07:00That sounds quite cool. I hope the Saracens are ke...That sounds quite cool. I hope the Saracens are keeping people away from the danger, and haven't been corrupted by its fluence!<br /><br />The other stone I was thinking of, and often considered to be part of the origin of Tolkiens Silmaril conception is the Zohar of Genesis and Rabbinical legend - <a href="http://ejmmm2007.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/tzohar-miraculous-light-of-noah-window.html" Zhu Bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13945636483237344750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-33483586871019374432016-09-20T10:06:36.098-07:002016-09-20T10:06:36.098-07:00All this chat about Parzival has led me to create ...All this chat about Parzival has led me to create a new wargaming scenario set in the Third Crusade. The Gemstone of Paradise that fell from Lucifer's crown has been found in the desert (after untold millennia) by the Saracens and kept under guard in a castle. The German Knight, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, and his Frankish friend, Guiot de Provins, have learned of its location and seek it out DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03280915808252372028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-16550610455642794952016-09-20T03:14:25.158-07:002016-09-20T03:14:25.158-07:00Oh yes, I'd completely forgotten about that! ...Oh yes, I'd completely forgotten about that! The meteoric warpstone, the central importance of the river, multiple factions racing to retrieve it for their own ends, all quite Riverworldian. Zhu Bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13945636483237344750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-61538732573213957742016-09-20T00:00:34.316-07:002016-09-20T00:00:34.316-07:00There is a warpstone meteor in Death on the Reik, ...There is a warpstone meteor in <i>Death on the Reik</i>, and that's a good twelve years before <i>Mordheim</i>.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-10965426261128878062016-09-19T07:50:54.293-07:002016-09-19T07:50:54.293-07:00The theory that Parzival's Grail is a stone fr...The theory that Parzival's Grail is a stone from the crown of Lucifer is fun and may indeed have inspired Tolkien, but this particular aspect of the legend (as well as the stone being green in colour) is in fact a literary myth, derived from some 19th century re-imaginings of Wolfram's work. Wolfram himself never wrote anything of the sort in the original text of Parzival! He only DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03280915808252372028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-68368688519629863822016-09-19T02:39:03.597-07:002016-09-19T02:39:03.597-07:00The Black Stone is the one at the foremost of my m...The Black Stone is the one at the foremost of my mind. There's also some modern interpretations of the Ark of the Covenant. I realise I'm also guilty of back-dating Warhammer lore, as the warpstone meteor of Mordheim is a significantly later conception than the collapse of the Old Slann Warpgates spewing warpstone into the world. Still.<br /><br />From a quick google - Parzivals Grail Zhu Bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13945636483237344750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-43837968421249802642016-09-19T01:56:45.133-07:002016-09-19T01:56:45.133-07:00Hey, thanks for the tip off. Phoenix: Dawn Command...Hey, thanks for the tip off. <i>Phoenix: Dawn Command</i> has a nice art style and looks like it would make a nice premise for a YA book series. <br /><br />From what I can gather, the resurrection in P:DC occurs back at a stable home-base, so would work better for a table-top collaborative RPG than Riverworld, which would displace the PC to somewhere entirely remote. Whilst it definitely looks Zhu Bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13945636483237344750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-18686624691572100542016-09-18T15:55:08.679-07:002016-09-18T15:55:08.679-07:00Regarding meteorites in Abrahamic religions, I can...Regarding meteorites in Abrahamic religions, I can think of the Black Stone in Islam. Its connection to Adam and Eve is interesting, but doesn't offer much of a technological boon.<br /><br />In Christianity there is something like a meteorite described in St. John's Revelation (Chapter 8) -- "Wormwood" -- but it brings poisonous disaster to the world rather than technological DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03280915808252372028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-18213755069272803522016-09-18T13:37:23.556-07:002016-09-18T13:37:23.556-07:00There's a new rpg out called Phoenix: Dawn Com...There's a new rpg out called <i>Phoenix: Dawn Command</i> in which character progression can only occur if the character dies:<br /><br /><i>In Phoenix: Dawn Command, you don’t gain power by killing others; you gain power by dying. After each death, you add additional cards to your deck and new abilities representing the lessons you learned from your previous life. However, there’s a catch: thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.com