An Occultus Faction possibly worked out?

[Iain.]

Atlantean? Are you dreaming? Cthulhu is Dagonic culture,

Cthulu is Dagonic?

Don't they teach you kids the Necronomicon in school any more?

Cthulu is r'lyehic. Or maybe Vhoorlian.

On topic though, I think it kind of looks like a lion, with the head being at the far right of the picture.

[Cyclops]

Cthulu is Dagonic?...

Well his name for it is unpronouncable...

...Don't they teach you kids the Necronomicon in school any more?...

Sblood, thou stinkard, I'll learn ye how to gust! Wolde ye swynke me thilke wys?

...Cthulu is r'lyehic. Or maybe Vhoorlian...

puh-leeeese. Justy because a nameless entity is born in a stable doesn't make it a horse. R'lyeh is just the city where dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.

Vhoorl, well you certainly have me there, wiki mentions a reference to it in Whisperer in Darkness: i had not registered that is was a HP reference. I guess "Nameless-gulfs-beyond Time-and-Space-ian" would break the culture limit.

I equated him with the children of Dagon because of the shared motif of Pacific sea-floor buildings occasionally surfacing (Dagon and Call of Cthulhu both feature this). Also Dagonic is pretty mucht he same as Punic so it'd fit.

...On topic though, I think it kind of looks like a lion, with the head being at the far right of the picture.

Maybe there's been a lurch back in favour of Cyrenaica? Or a second Numidian area faction? Oooh, African complexity!

[Glewas]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

All the talk about an animal facing right, then bulls, then bulls w/humps (Indian bulls, brahman bull, etc) led me on a google image search to the above. Search for "nandi" and you can see a lot more. Nothing exact, but there is a resemblance...

I don't remember how I got there (searching for bull coins I think) I came upon something of an Indo-Scythian empire that existed in EB's timeframe. Not that I follow much of the technical info regarding culture slots and whatnot, but if there isn't one available for an Indian faction, would the Scythian/Saka aspect allow these guys to fit - that is if they meet all the other requrements of an EB faction?

[Hannibal Khan the Great]

The Indo-Scythians are represented in EB by the Saka Rauka taking over Baktria and India, along with the resulting reforms.

[stratigos vasilios]

Hmmm to me it kind of looks like a cat? I tried to throw it in paint, inverse colours and follow along with the pencil... and while I was playing connect the dots I think I drew a cat... and a cat, to me, indicates an Egyptian region faction? Any chance it could be a faction nearby/underneath the Ptolmey? (btw apologies if this idea has already surfaced, I am struggling for time and failed to read earlier pages).

[anubis88]

Hmmm to me it kind of looks like a cat? I tried to throw it in paint, inverse colours and follow along with the pencil... and while I was playing connect the dots I think I drew a cat... and a cat, to me, indicates an Egyptian region faction? Any chance it could be a faction nearby/underneath the Ptolmey? (btw apologies if this idea has already surfaced, I am struggling for time and failed to read earlier pages).

Unfortunatly Axum/Meroe (south of Egypt) will not be in the mod IIRC...

[Murtagh]

Hi.

I have been following this forum for quite a long time now, but I haven't registred until recently.

I'm wondering about the small detail between the letters "T" and "U".
Can it be a part of the symbol itself, like a tooth or an arrowhead? Or is it a mountain/peak in the background?
If it is a tooth, we know more clearely that the symbol shows a predator or some mythological creature. If it a mountain however. Now that might give a geographical clue.

What do you think?

[stratigos vasilios]

Unfortunatly Axum/Meroe (south of Egypt) will not be in the mod IIRC...

What about west of Egypt? :P

Hmm but I think I read somewhere Kyrene was ruled out as a faction? I can imagine the EB members having a jolly good laugh at this thread, "they guessed that? suckers..." hehehe