Deities, plants, etc.
Okay, so here's what I'm thinking for our Egyptian gods:
Animals: Bast (also Bastet and Bubastis. She's a well-known goddess associated with cats, often depicted as being a lioness or a housecat. We can probably just expand her mythos a bit and make her a protector of all animals.
Plants: Osiris He's the famous god who died and posthumously fathered a child. Before he was killed, he was the god of vegetation and fertility.
For animal species I would suggest lions, vipers, and some form of bird (probably a hawk). These are all animals that are native to Africa, and particularly the Egyptian region. They're also all carnivores. Our herbivore (for the special card) should be a cow, as cows were sacred and the primary livestock of the Egyptians.
For plant species, let's do wheat (one of the first plants to be farmed, and something that our chaos factor, humanity, would be attracted to), either palm or fig trees, and mandrake (a flowering plant with medicinal properties...handily enough, there is a mandrake flower on Osiris' crown). I haven't found any poisonous species...we may have to invent one or something.
We can chat about attributes for all these at our meeting this afternoon. I've some thoughts, but I haven't had chance to sit down with the board yet, so assigning things like growth patterns would have been tricky.
-Diana
Animals: Bast (also Bastet and Bubastis. She's a well-known goddess associated with cats, often depicted as being a lioness or a housecat. We can probably just expand her mythos a bit and make her a protector of all animals.
Plants: Osiris He's the famous god who died and posthumously fathered a child. Before he was killed, he was the god of vegetation and fertility.
For animal species I would suggest lions, vipers, and some form of bird (probably a hawk). These are all animals that are native to Africa, and particularly the Egyptian region. They're also all carnivores. Our herbivore (for the special card) should be a cow, as cows were sacred and the primary livestock of the Egyptians.
For plant species, let's do wheat (one of the first plants to be farmed, and something that our chaos factor, humanity, would be attracted to), either palm or fig trees, and mandrake (a flowering plant with medicinal properties...handily enough, there is a mandrake flower on Osiris' crown). I haven't found any poisonous species...we may have to invent one or something.
We can chat about attributes for all these at our meeting this afternoon. I've some thoughts, but I haven't had chance to sit down with the board yet, so assigning things like growth patterns would have been tricky.
-Diana
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