An Occultus Faction possibly worked out?

[paullus]

well played Cyclops, well played.

[stratigos vasilios]

Quick question, I'm not sure if it has already been suggested.

Moros's sig, is it the Hadhramaut kingdom/faction?

Now I know wiki is not a decent source to back up this suggestion (at which I'm inviting anyone who can assist this claim), and I think the sig has a lion in it, but has anyone suggested it's a griffin?

[Moros]

You got me!

No seriously just naming random peoples from the time frame is going to work...

[Ca Putt]

at this point of time I've actually lost all hope of deciphering moros's sig, do you have a pic of the lion/griphin featured in the sig ? the wikipedia picture is not really conclusive ;)
if correct, we know a faction, and you're a Hero,
If incorrect, you've founded a new consiracy theory, which may not be quite as good but great fun for the EB team and me cause I like reading conspiracy theories and knowing they are wrong :D

No seriously just naming random peoples from the time frame is going to work...

cool

[gamegeek2]

Naming random factions will find out the name. Now, which ones they are, is a totally different question...

[Brennus]

When the Occultus factions are revealed lots of people are going to do the raised eyebrows expression and utter the phrase "Ahh, I see" either that or lots of people are gonna go "WTH?! How were we supposed to get that?"

[anubis88]

When the Occultus factions are revealed lots of people are going to do the raised eyebrows expression and utter the phrase "Ahh, I see" either that or lots of people are gonna go "WTH?! How were we supposed to get that?"

But most will say : I knew it! I just didn't want to say it for sure :D

[Brennus]

But most will say : I knew it! I just didn't want to say it for sure :D

Ah yes, that ubiquitous modesty which pervades the EB forum, lol.

[bobbin]

"WTH?! How were we supposed to get that?"

Probably this reaction I fear.

[B-Wing]

It sure looks like a hump-backed lion to me. I don't think there's anything particularly Celtic about it. But when I focus specifically on the left-most portion of it, I can very easily imagine the head of either a canine-type animal or some horned mammal with big floppy ears... Like a gazelle with its ears turned down. If it were a gazelle, that would mean an Asian or African faction. But it seems that a Nubian or Ethiopian faction is out of the question, and I highly highly doubt they put another southern Arabian faction in. The most logical explanation: it's not a gazelle.

[anubis88]

I think it's a symbol that 99% of use haven't seen before.

[athanaric]

I think it's a symbol that 99% of use haven't seen before.

And I suppose you're that 1% that has seen the symbol. What did you have to pay the team? Did you have to prescribe your soul to bobbin?

[anubis88]

And I suppose you're that 1% that has seen the symbol. What did you have to pay the team? Did you have to prescribe your soul to bobbin?

Haha... No. I have no idea what it is. And i doubt anyone can say what that blur realy is. But people keep guessing, even tough i think it's impossible to know what it would be. One would have had to seen the exact same symbol many times (color, size) imo in order to put the pieces together.

But i guess one occultus faction must be in Arabia, since both gg2 and Moros used an occultus sig iirc

[Tudhaliya]

If you look really closely at GG2's sig, right at the bottom border underneath the letters of OCCULTUS, you'll see that the background was originally red. The green and grey was added on top of the red. So we have a stylized gold something on a red background, maybe a Skythian gold animal figure. Do the Saka count as an occultus faction?

[bobbin]

Occultus sigs are only for unrevealed factions.

ps the backgroud is definitely green, not red.

[anubis88]

Altough now that i look at it, it could definetly be an animal; the bottom above the "o", the head above the "s", the leg a between the "t" and "u", and the hump in the middle, could it be wings? Just tell me if i'm close at all

[bobbin]

It is a animal. Thats all I'll say.

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

It is a animal. Thats all I'll say.

The more I look at it, the more animals I see....Jeeez, I even saw a snail at one point...I'm gonna lay off the wine for the rest of the night. So, here's my guess....it's a walrus and you're going to surprise us with an hitherto unknown 'eskimo' faction

[Megas Methuselah]

Jeeez, I even saw a snail at one point...I'm gonna lay off the wine for the rest of the night.

Lol. But yeaaaah, you better lay off the wine. Many people consider "Eskimo" to be a derogatory term...

[B-Wing]

Many people consider "Eskimo" to be a derogatory term...

Seriously?? I had no idea. Wow. I'm pretty sure that's about the only way I ever heard Inuits referred to when I was in school not too many years ago. Of course we didn't have many (or any) Inuits where I grew up, so I don't guess anyone had any reason to know better.

[athanaric]

Many people consider "Eskimo" to be a derogatory term...

Ya, better call them by a name that means "humans". Cuz everyone else isn't...

[Megas Methuselah]

In Alaska, they use the term without complaint from either party. But in Canada, we refer to the northern Aboriginal brothers as Inuits. Glorious people, I like their throat singing, it sounds awesome.

Anyways, moving on... I think Gracchus is (was?) drunk, because I cannot see a walrus at all, whatsoever.

[stratigos vasilios]

Can anyone see in the middle of the sign, an outline of a cirle? It's green, is that be the factions symbol?

...Or do I want it to be the symbol so much I've convinced myself that it is but in reality it's absolutely nothing? Wow the EB team is really inside my head now...

[Hotseat_User]

what I'm wondering about: I remeber that bobbin's sig used to be just black. Now it's lighter in the middle and there are two columns or smth. in the middle.

But maybe you've just discovered - I'd lose track on this tread and only read the last two pages.

[Moros]

I think you're getting a bit paranoid or you haven't been sleeping enough. Or someone has been messing with your graphic settings or your screen's settings. Bobbin's sig hasn't changed as far as I know. It's not an occultus sig.

[stratigos vasilios]

what I'm wondering about: I remeber that bobbin's sig used to be just black. Now it's lighter in the middle and there are two columns or smth. in the middle.

Good to see the EB team is in someone elses head too.

[Brennus]

But what about the other Occultus sig? Nobody seems to have been discussing that one. Now I agree you can see even less in it but the font in which Occultus is written seems to suggest to me a Germanic or at least Temperate European faction, thoughts everyone?

[Tuuvi]

what I'm wondering about: I remeber that bobbin's sig used to be just black. Now it's lighter in the middle and there are two columns or smth. in the middle.

But maybe you've just discovered - I'd lose track on this tread and only read the last two pages.

The occultus sigs are supposed to get lighter and more revelealed as the faction gets closer to being announced.

[Horatius Flaccus]

You're sure?

And Bobbin never had an Occultus sig, like Moros already said.

[athanaric]

I say Moros' sig is a somewhat deformed dromedary on green. I just can't think of any other mammal with such an outline. You may also notice the rabbit-like nose and some kind of a mane on its neck. The head is also too far tilted back for a (weird) lion or smething in that direction.