Occultus and the hidden Factions (Discussion)

[Alsatia]

If you've been going through The EB forums, you'll find a few EB members with an Occultus sig on them. They seem to show a design for one of the new factions. I have made this thread to discuss what they could be. The EB team will probably will not give us a fresh stele if we get it right.

Here are some of the Occultus sigs.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Actual code from the new EB Website; which may help you understand EB better:

if(! ($testmode || isFlagTrue($ps,'complete'))) {
	redirect('occultus_error','url');
	return false;
}

[oudysseos]

Good luck with that. The new faction sigs are very well obscured: if you actually get one right I'll give you a lollipop.

[Skullheadhq]

All is cloudy

[lenin96]

Hmmm... in Oudysseos' Occultus signature picture you can notice something which look like someones shoulders, and you can see armour on them. Bosphorans? A Steppe faction?

[Martelus Flavius]

Bosphorans? A Steppe faction?

Nope, I wouldn't say so, or well maybe right!

But if you observe better you can see a red backgroud with golden emblem... Isn't Red the color of a imperialist faction? And what about its golden emblem?

And it is not, as we were not perfidious enough to redraw allready known faction emblem and cover them with the occultus label! (But as said we are not like that!)

Well you'll excuse me but I have a very passionating lake sediment to study...

Regards

Martelvs

[bobbin]

Hmmm... in Oudysseos' Occultus signature picture you can notice something which look like someones shoulders, and you can see armour on them. Bosphorans? A Steppe faction?

I'm thinking it looks more like scales a dragon maybe?, definatley something serpentine..

Edit: the bosphorian kingdom tended to depict gryphons on thier coins so it could be that.

[Cyclops]

Alsatia wasn't Cheez-Wizzery mentioned as a possible outcome if you did this? You are a brave man.

Good luck with that. The new faction sigs are very well obscured: if you actually get one right I'll give you a lollipop.

I heard that you guys have produced over 100 new occultus sigs, each a micro-shade lighter and less obscured than the last, which you are introducing as the faction release dates approach, perfectly designed so they become legible the exact day the next stele arrives.

Now I think there is a clue in Martelus Flavius post: he says he is studying lake sediment. This is so unlikely that I consider it a taunt, if not an outright clue. Let us probe further...

Now a pool is a small lake. What is the Latin word for pool? Lacuna. Now lacuna can also mean a gap. What do they sell at the Gap? Pants. And pants have pockets. What else has pockets? A snooker table. And what colour is the chalk on a snookier cue? Blue, like the sky. And what do we find in the sky? Star signs...and following on from the clue about the lake, its probably Pisces (or Acquarius, or Capricorn or even Libra but lets not get carried away, I think its clear he means Pisces).

So I feel theres a clear indication the occultus faction was founded by a leader whose star sign was (probably) Pisces, or otherwise was some kind of goat-bodied sea creature. I think we all know who that is, I mean I don't have to spell it out for you do I?

[Urg]

Hahaha. You're funny.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

There's no secret it will be a nomadic faction - there's no great use of scales West of the Steppes, never mind scale sleeves.

[Fabio Scevola]

Lol. You are really funny (@ Ciclops). And your reasoning reminded me those complicated mice catcher machines (from Tom and Jerry).

[Ibrahim]

If you've been going through The EB forums, you'll find a few EB members with an Occultus sig on them. They seem to show a design for one of the new factions. I have made this thread to discuss what they could be. The EB team will probably will not give us a fresh stele if we get it right.

Here are some of the Occultus sigs.

the first and fourth pictures belong to the same faction.

[Apraxiteles]

And the third one was exposed as a recycled Arverni.

[a completely inoffensive name]

They are all recycled.

[Ibrahim]

They are all recycled.

sh!!

[bobbin]

If you've been going through The EB forums, you'll find a few EB members with an Occultus sig on them. They seem to show a design for one of the new factions. I have made this thread to discuss what they could be. The EB team will probably will not give us a fresh stele if we get it right.

Here are some of the Occultus sigs.

The first and forth one definitley aren't the saka rauka i can tell that much, you should probably remove the third one as its an old occultus from a previous version of EB.

There was another green one which seems disappeared for now.

[Alsatia]

I left the third there because, at one time, It was a hidden sig. (i'll edit it and cross it out...)

[Andronikos]

I still somehow don't think that it is the Arverni sig, the green color is different than in the Arverni bowl and that thing that should be the hammer seems to have too acute angle.

EDIT OK, it's it, the Arverni writing is still there, that makes the hammer look weird

[Skullheadhq]

The red one could be Atropatene, looks eastern. What do you guys think about Atropatene?

[bobbin]

Its a good a guess as any. Not sure what their symbol would be, probably something based around Zoroastrianism.