Seriously though, I've read the entire thread in 2-3 days, with a few breaks.
That's absolutely mad. I love it.
Seriously though, I've read the entire thread in 2-3 days, with a few breaks.
I really would love to hear more about this as well! As for Rome and Greece..
Here's my stab at a semi coherent narrative.
The Pinnacle Man originates in the Garden of Eden, somewhere around Israel/Africa. The Pinnacle Race founds the Kingdom of Israel. Around the time that Solomon becomes King and Israel splits in twain, a large band of refugees flee North to Greece. There, they separate into smaller groups, forming the Ancient Greek civilization. However, in the wilderness, they forget the Jewish religion. Still, they are virtuous and Christ has yet to come, so they are favored. The hordes of Persian Infees who laid waist to the Middle East are fended off. When not fighting the Persian king worshipers, they fight each other. One such war is the Trojan War. After the destruction of Troy, a band of survivors again flees, this time to Italy. One group founds a town upon seven hills. Rome. The city wouldn't be called that until Romulus rises to power. Ancient Rome continues to slowly build in strength and wealth, especially after the corrupt spawn of Romulus's once noble line are overthrown and replaced with the Republic! Meanwhile in the East, Alexander the Great, the first true Strong Man from Greece, makes his legendary conquests. However, in a sign of things to come, he falls prey to the feminine wiles of his "spoils." After his death, his commanders gradually do the same, copulating with the hideous Asiatic Infee Hordes. Thus, the Hellenistic powers stagnate and decline in unholy decadence. Back in the West, Rome is again conquering their fellow Pinnacle refugees in Italy, who had the "good sense" to slaughter or enslave the natives rather than breed with them. The Republic expands, destroying Infee Carthage, and reclaiming Greece, which has become impure (although they don't know that). They tragically begin to mix with the now impure Greek Infees, but do so more slowly than the Greeks did to their conquests. Meanwhile, the Empire is formed after the Civil Wars, with Caesar and Augustus being Patriotic Strong Men fighting against the decadent and Infee enthralled Senate. Their family refuses to accept Christ as their Savior, which dooms them. The Empire endures for centuries, even as the slow but never ceasing mixing of the races weakens them, as well as their wars against fellow Pinnacle Men in Germany, theorized to be the sons of another group fleeing the division of Israel. They even accept and spread Christianity. However, their sins of paganism and race treason catch up to them. Attila the Hun and his horde of Asiatic Infee Rapist-Aggressors is used to obliterate the decaying edifice. The Empire falls, and so too the Pinnacle Man. France, Germany, and Britain preserve their fluids by either successfully resisting or being isolated from the Hunnic Invaders. They begin anew. In the East, decadent and disgusting Greek Heathen Infees claim to be successors of Rome, but fall to slightly more vigorous Infees (Turks) after inventing the nauseating travesty of "Orthodox Christianity." Rome is dead, but her children live on in Germany, Protestant France, Britain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Africa and anywhere the Jews are.
The impression I get is that the Roman Republic and Principate-era Empire are "glorious empires Pinnacle Men rah rah" etc, whereas the Dominate era, being Christian and *spits* Catholic, would be "degenerate miscegenating decadent" etc. Hence the Rome of the Roman Catholic Church getting sacked by Germanic tribes * wouldn't be a propaganda difficulty, it would be propaganda glory: "glorious Anglo-Saxons sacked Catholic Rome before, we'll do it again!". So ironically the ultra-Christian RU would be idolising the earlier pre-Christian Rome, albeit as virtuous men who had yet to discover the one true faith of Christianity, and despising the later Christian Rome. (Of course the Americans' retort to this would be that Catholicism isn't Christian, it's devil-worship, so this wouldn't seem strange to them; but everyone else might find it quite funny.)
* I know that the image of savage Germanic barbarians at the gates of Rome isn't actually true according to modern scholarship—more like "military officers who'd served under the Romans as mercenaries and were in many ways as Roman as the late emperors whom they deposed"—but we're going with traditional historiography here. Obviously this has nothing to do with what actually happened.
That totally "makes sense." It would also explain why they can't find the Garden of Eden. Maybe it was in Lake Maracaibo or thereabouts but it sank into the sea as part of God's Judgement? Make it even more eldritch by saying it is still guarded underwater and that the Angel Uriel still resides under the waves, still guarding the original paradise. Cue scientists refusing to prove the whole Kirkist theory by saying "I don't wanna get smited by Cthul-er I mean Uriel. Ain't enough Enochian warding on any submarine to go looking for that."
Thanks. Oh, if you want some help regarding the realism of your little space phase in the future of WMiT, Ill be happy to help. You should check out Isaac Arthur's subreddit, and his youtube channel for things like that. Granted, his visions are on the order of several centuries or millennia later into the future (in the average of his timeline. See Iron Stars and Colonizing Black Holes [an episode on his YT channel] for really really really far future projects, but he's got videos on early to middle phase of space colonization, stuff like that.That's absolutely mad. I love it.
The scariest part of regular WMIT is that you don’t even need eldritch beings to drive humanity insane, they’re doing it all on their ownAll of this makes me want the WMIT: Lovecraftian Edition to be canon so bad.
The scariest part of regular WMIT is that you don’t even need eldritch beings to drive humanity insane, they’re doing it all on their own
Would be kind of hilarious if an actual angel (or some cosmic being who inspired the concept of angels) showed up and ORRA tried to destroy it because it didn’t look human enough (like the many eyed wheels that are Ophanim) or their wisdom and love clashes with AFC and Pinnacle Blood beliefs.
“Love they fellow man, regardless of his heritage”
“Sounds like Infee loving crap to me. Squad! Circular chap with the wing there? Five rounds rapid!”
YA PAPIST BONAPARITISRT FILTH, YOUR UNDER ARRESRT FOR TREASON...NO FRENCH PIG TALK HERE!!!AU CONTRAIRE
Or when hes standing in Judgement of everyone Jesus despairs at how everyone has turned to madness and hes just like "Guys, I suffered and died on a bloody cross for you people. Now im going to have to damn you all anyway,Man Humanity is disappointing"Concept: The Second Coming happens only for the RU to execute Jesus as a 'Beutelist agitator and enemy of Christian values.'
The Second Coming happens only for the RU to execute Jesus
Sounds like fodder for Joe Goebbels to write about:Concept: The Second Coming happens only for the RU to execute Jesus as a 'Beutelist agitator and enemy of Christian values.'
Is the Brigadier commanding this group?Squad! Circular chap with the wing there? Five rounds rapid!”
“Brigade Leader Alan Lethbridge-Stewart, Office of Racial and Religious Affairs London division, at your service”Is the Brigadier commanding this group?
Forget “fits rather well”, it just plain is WMIT.the earth from the Inferno episode would fit rather well into WMIT
Concept: The Second Coming happens only for the RU to execute Jesus as a 'Beutelist agitator and enemy of Christian values.'
"I ask only for a place in Valhalla at the right hand of the God of War!"