[Horror] The Holy Land, and not so holy...

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Max Schreck

But the Sumerian high culture was in southern Mesopotamia, not Syria.

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Not familiar with it. Will check it out thanks.

Actually, you got me thinking of Sodom and Gomorrah. Might check them out as well.

Between this post, that post, a month-old IRC game thread (my idea) and the thread tag . . .

How's Sodom doing?

[Max Schreck]

Originally Posted by Molokh

Between this post, that post, a month-old IRC game thread (my idea) and the thread tag . . .

How's Sodom doing?

You never let up, do you, old boy? :)

So as not to threadjack this fine thread with my own pretentious horror setting, I direct you here for my longwinded answer.

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by Max Schreck

But the Sumerian high culture was in southern Mesopotamia, not Syria.

I know. They migrated for privacy. IMHO, tis a bit hard to engage in nefarious occult practices in the middle of a high population area.

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Molokh

How's Sodom doing?

I heard it's completely b*gg*r*d.

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by Max Schreck

It was just that as I understood the OP, he seemed to want his campaign grounded in the "Holy Land," because he wanted to use Sumerian demons, and then I just had to chime in that Sumer belonged to the Mesopotamian cultural sphere (one could even argue that it was the progenitor of said cultural sphere), and not the Syro-Palestinian/Levantic.

Ah, good point. The PC's start out as a bunch of 'field archeologists' working on Egyptian remains in southern Palestine. There will be a choice of leads which could encourage them to travel north.

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by William

Are you taking events from the Bible as historical? Both Pharoah and Herod ordered a generation of Jewish boy-children slaughtered, the first in an attempt to kill Moses and the second in an attempt to kill Jesus. (Most likely, of course, the author of Matthew simply lifted the concept whole from the preexisting myth, and neither story is supported by historical evidence outside the Bible.)

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Necromancy <=> slaughtering of hundreds of children. Sounds like they can go together quite well.

[arnej]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Given I might need some Horror related ideas prior to the release of GURPS: Horror 4e, where on the tangled Web could I find tropes that relate to the Holy Land, and Things Better Left Undisturbed? I am after acts of barbarity, such as the Crusader massacring of Jerusalem, Richard the Lionheart’s pillaging of Cyprus, etc, as well as miracles and non barbaric events. Incidents relating to the Seljuk’s would be appropriate as well.

Might be a little far afield, but some of the background in TimPower's Declare, involving Mount Ararat and djinn, could be useful red herrings.

arnej

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by arnej

Might be a little far afield, but some of the background in TimPower's Declare, involving Mount Ararat and djinn, could be useful red herrings.

Ta. Will check it out.

[Philosopher Rogue]

Originally Posted by arnej

Might be a little far afield, but some of the background in TimPower's Declare, involving Mount Ararat and djinn, could be useful red herrings.

arnej

Great book! Anything by Powers is great. I remember a GURPS Tim Powers page on the web a looong time ago. I use a lot of his Expiration Date/ Last Call/ Earthquake Weather/ Drawing of the Dark material in my game world.