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This is a Mummy. To me this is how evil priests become litches, but there is a slight difference. To become a mummy you do not have to be evil, although many are. And the mummy is undead UNTIL he gets all the contents of his canopic jars back. At this point he is a resurrected immortal and living. What keeps many mummies undead is that they lose some of their organs from their canopic jars and have to hunt them down or take other peoples organs. Other than these details, they are litches who can come back to life. Most of their powers are from their priestly (or wizard) spells/prayers. So sand control, magic, they already knew that stuff when they were alive.I would imagine there is a price to pay to the God(s) for this resurrection to life. I'm not sure what it is, but it must be steep.
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must wonder. when will you bless us with more magical monsters? (know i kind of thrashed the mummies, but i jsut don't like mummies. and i don't like zombies much, neither).
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I go in order of type. I godda' finish the undead, then I'll move on to the next "type".
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.....sudden question.
after restoring themselves, are mummies still killable? i mean, it would be kind of unfair in an rpg, or any media, if their was someone truly immortal....... except code geass, where immortals are few and no stronger or weaker than a human.
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...... changing the subject back to the original, what could possibly be left amognst the undead? i am rather uncertain, except for the thousands of side undead that the dnd created and some creatures that could be generalized into what you have already done. i fact the only one i can think of off hand is this freaky witch monster, vampire undead bitch that separated from her lower body to kill unborn babies in order to feed.
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I think the original myth of mummies means they are merely alive again. After full resurection they are merely living again. I don't think the resurection gives them any supernatural powers. It's basically a long term contigency resurection spell in which you are undead until fully restored. Upon getting your organs back you are a living human being. I also don't think mummies were evil or good, it depends on the individual. I also think their resurection was contingeant upon the serveice of the Gods. but I also believed that the kingship of the egyptians were part human and part "god" so these individuals were exeptional in the first plave with larger than normal brains and slightly taller and slender bodies. Theit skulls are in musiums for display to this day and they have huge elongated craniums that hold more brain mass than ours. In real life they were emulating the anunnaki, whome they called gods, in hopes to be resurected again and brought to the heavens, Nibiru, in which they can be immortal. But for fantasy gaming sake we will say gods, and resurection.
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mgiht as well say gods. anunnaki are fictional as nibiru and a moral politician.
the idea of glorifying horrible body deformation is not new. in old tribes they thoguht people with deformities were touched by spirits. it is possible that their strange skulls and bodies were simply formed by inbreeding. that was a disturbingly common practice throughout history amognst royal families. thinking they were keeping their blood strong, when in reality they were damning the descendants with mal formed bodies and minds.
there is far more proof determing they were simply deformed people, and ended p with those disturbing shapes through inbreeding and malnutrition; they may have medical science, but they knew nothing about nutrition yet. also, there is no proof that they were more itnelligent. in fact, i am sure that deformed skull hampered mental proccesses and made them more vulnerable. a stretched brain or, maybe, too much space in their heads, which can be deadly. from what i see, the result of a far larger brain would be devistating, and the structure of the skull, neck, and so on does not configure to allow that. to support more brain, you would have to b e physicall smaller, so you do not use up more energy; a long, skinny body would not work, for you would also need to transport a large amount of nutrients to your brain, and thsoe thinner veins would not work. in fact, if the brain was as big as they claim, the body would be a noodle, even fi smaller, because most of your nutrients would be sent into your head and not your body. tiny muscle mass. and, on an evolutionary standpoint, that is devolution.
in fact, i have a sneaking suspicion that the pharoahs were, in fact, mentally abnormal when they had these deformities. they did not rule anyone. they were figure heads, and the nobles of the realm manipulated them, and claimed theri deformities were the result of being close to gods. with no one knowing about the results of inbreeding till thousands of years later, everyone would beleive it.
that is even more common in hsitory than deformity caused by inbreeding.
there is no possible way that one could mix alien and earthly dna. as one man said, it is more likely we can reproduce with a lilly than an alien. we would be talking about a life form that evolved in a different environment, have different forms of ancestors. their dna may well be entirely different from outs, along with body chemistry. not exactly saying there would be guys like this [link] but this guy [link] is possible. and how could aleins, and why, alter earthly dna when they are only ware of how their own dna works? more evolved does not mean with better dna and brains. from what we know, for them to really be smart,er they would need to somehow use pure eletrical impulse instead of chemical eletrical in thier heads, instead of a larger brain. their brains evolved into an organic computer. then they would not need to transport more nutrients to their brain to support larger size, when the brain need only be just large enough....... which could also evolve into a strong body, now that the brain does not need as much nutrition.
i will not go into detail on how theri bodies could not, and possible be destroyed, by earth' atmosphere. foreign diseases, molds, gravity, temperature, who knows! especially considering we are talking about traveling thousands of light years, pherpas more, to a planet where it is uncertain if they could use anything from that planet to replensih thier food stores. cause i don't care how much you evolve, you can sitll die, still need to eat, though perhaps sleeping i think might nto be needed depending on the chemical and body structure.
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I'm not sure you understand what a lot of crypto archeology is saying. Let me just give you a few people to look up on YouTube. Lloyd Pye is someone who mainstream science is trying to ignore but they can't. You will see what I mean if you look up his Star Shild skill and it's characteristics. Also look up one of Zacharia Sitchins last press confeerneces before he dies, it is almost 2 hours long but it explains many htings. I admit there are some things that don't make sense to me either but when there is smoke there is a fire. I think the implications to something is more telling than not, now wheather it is exactly as we think it is is another matter, but i think we're getting closer sns closer.
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.......actually, no, i k,now what i am talking about. as i once observed, their claims are utterly far fetched, and at times are complete lies. on a hundred occassionia their claims are false or only half studied. anyone can just go on the itnernet and see ifd these claims are true. lloyd pye i can forgive, sorta. the dna on his star child skull reveals the male pure blooded Human had a fatal skull deformation. zacharia sitchin is far less so. he is poor at translation, has no expertise in any of the necessary fields ot make his claims, and you need only reference the concept of how does a species from an entirely different planet, different evolution, reproduce with us.
you would be surprised how many of these so called experts are far from that. most have no expertise or college degrees, are criminals of fraud, and warp ifnormation to their own needs, ignoring in entirety everyone elses hard earned research by people who know thier fields, and evne insulting them by just saying they are wrong without giving reason to. they allow no criticism in ancient aliens show, and will try to find aliens in everything.
now, if they had a real scientist who came on the show and gave a half and half on the subject, gave claims for and against it equally, or just period, then i owuld be interested....... but no, that is impossible. if someone truly and full heartedly attempted that, attempted to the claims of ancient pharoahs being half alien and the such, they would end up having to admit that the claims made are completely fictional. looking up the truth on these things yields the truth.
simply put, ancient alien theorists have no backing to their claims than their own imagination, often claim lies about ruins and their materials, and will interpret a picture with what looks like attennied humanoid as alien pictures......... and why would you do that? if these aliens can fly through space, land her, why would they have helmets with attenna; this very day, we have cell phone sthat do not use big old attennas.
all i am saying is that i do not trust amateurs, liars, thieves, and criminals with their informatoin. instead of looking up information for, look for informaiton against the claims. you will find there is no true backing for it.
simply put, i do not trust ancient alien theorists. their theories are far too farfetched, fail to truly explain themselves or have any credible backgrounds of research or training in archeology. and they completely ignore genetics, itnerplanetary differences in environment, and why would aliens come and leave, when it is obvious that, as a different civilization, they would sitll use money to finance everything they do. these guys treat the alien theories as if they really were talking about gods instead of actual beings. and, worse of all, they boldly claim that humans are simply too stupid to make the likes of the pyramids and such without guidance by another speices, mentally or technololgically........ the pyramids are made of small blocks, it is ismple to contruct a square building, and
not beyond the idea of aliens having visited, i iwll admit. but obviously they wanted nothing from earth to begin with. if they are so advanced, they do not need gold or jewels. and there are so many other viable planets and meteors to get theri materials from. ones not populated by pontentionally hostile sapient beings and an environment that may or may not let your biological systems adapt.
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/shrug, to each his own. I am not saying aliens are gods, nor if even it is phesable for aliens to even visit us from another solar system because of the distance, but I do say that the main stream has things somewhat wrong and that there are archeological anomolies that the main stream chalk up with bull shit flimsy explenations or shrug their shoulders and have nothing to say at all.
I am not a moron, and don't fall for bullshit. I have good judgement and am always a sceptis. It is because of this reason that some of the stuff I have found out becomes more and more intrigiung. Religio-mythology is full of eidolons of ancient misinterpretations. The key is to find out what they are interpreting with their ignorance. There are people way more educated than you and me who have been researching this stuff for up to 70 years of their lives, Zacharia sitchen comes to mind. I don't think there are many main stream archeologists/anthropologists who have been alive that log let alone studies ANYTHING for that long. I find he merely recites what is written, wheather or not what is writtes is completely true is another matter, however there is smoke...so there must be a fire. However big we don't know, but a fire none the less.
You can keep on your mainstream, it's safe, it's comfortable and it doesn't mean we have to work or find out anymore and, most of all, means we don't have to swallow our pride and admit we may have been wrong about certain things. The mainstream is correct about many things, that's why it's the mainstream. But the mainstream is stuck and immovable. This is why people like Briane Greene have developed M-theory and still to thes day it is not hugely accepted, even though classical physics is shit at explaining sub atomic particles and has absurd or no explanations for anomolies like black holes, speed of light and quarks. M0-theory elegently explains these things, and, as preidicted, they have found a particle faster than the speed of light. This turns phisics on it's head, but you go ahead and trust the mainstream. You have to understand people, even scientists and archeologists, are prideful and afrais of change. Amany of them rely on their position for prestige and rely on the mainstream. sothings aren't as perfect as you think. And it is even worst in archeology and anthropology. There is all sorts of bullshit in the mainstream than many less popular archeologists hacve pointed out the error of time and time but the mainstream "hush" them or ignore them like the CIA. If you find contraversial information and/or proof you are ostrasized in the mainstream. I choos not to be spoon fed myself and have an extensive amount of books on subjects like these. I am also planning on going back to school and getting my degree in anthropology and maybe even archeology. I no longer wish to be spoon fed, I don't take their word anymore. I research myself and try and think of the patters I see and fallow researchers I feel make sense.
BTW, Zacharia Sitchen is no ameteur and, in fact, makes others look like ameteurs. Again 70 years of research is nothing to balk at. At any rate, do what you will. I am an Atheist so am not hindered by religion and, as usual, am more open to the possibilities of our universe than religious people are capable of being. Something about religion makes people intolerant to change.
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i am the opposite i guess. partially religious but that gives me common sense. it is easier to imagine gods more as just the imaginings of ancient people than anything elose
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That's what most implications of Gods, Angels and Demons imply.
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but, my views to yours yours to mine......
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that is why immortality can't work. you would have to somehow not only reapri cells and body structure, but gain the needed materials. so then you must eat and drink, and that might back fire as the nutrition is not being used to support you body' synergy and to restore cells only, which means you would have to eat far more than you are physically able to. and there is not such thing as nanotechnology Creating the needed material. it takes the force of hydron collidar to break an atom after all.
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even if you turn yourself int oa robot, you would need metallic materials, and also, everything will wear out eventaully anyway. the joints, the wires, the processing.
......but i digress (which is like a fucking secondary fetish to me i guess)the ting is, all mummification was is a shallow but sacred form of burial. they believed that their aftelife depended on the rituals and material items. they did not expect to be resurrected, they expected to pass on into the next world with what the were buried with. the embalming process was simply a glorified method of making sure a body did not become decaying ot diseased before they could be buried, especially royalty; the pyramids are really just the biggests, nastiest pieces of Arrogance in the entire world. let's face it, if they could have managed the shape, the pyramids would just be giant phallic shapes, if you get my meaning.
sigh, i like talking to you, but don't mention any more ancient alien theories. not only is the evidence against them utterly overwhelming, but any of the shows they have are so utterly biased it makes me vomit. not to mention they say Everything came from aliens. they would say we shit and piss only because the aliens ATE it if they came up with the vaguest theory. half of what i hear in thsoe theories sound like the premise of an episode of one of those campy superhero shows in the eighties, except with lots of actual sex instead of implied.
i do believe this guy sums it all up pretty good [link]
and when it comes to mummies..... i really can't see them as any more but skeleton with dry tissue still on them. because they are hollow, no brain or anything, and the organs would be nothing but dust. unlike zombies, skeletons, vampires, and ghouls, the mummy was the Only one that was not originally a monster before it was put into a movie. admtiably, they were known to be cursed, but that was no from the mummy itself but because of, supposedly, protective spells put on them to punish defilers of the corpses.
......admitably, i like these guys though [link] draugr, from elder scrolls, if only because they are stronger and imposing, especially high level ones; better get a silver sword, you'll find one on the nearest werewolf hunter.
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Ooh, a very nice version of one of the most classical representatives of the undead. I like how you made them similar to litches, with great intellect and magical powers, rather than just showing them as dry zombies wrapped in bandages, like most modern stories do. Very impressive.
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there are not enough mummies in horror stories, egyptian or otherwise. mummies are underrated, dammit.
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with good reasons in my opinion, no offense to thee. mummies were never monsters, just corpses, till hollywood.
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And usually not Egyptian, which is getting annoying. In middle eastern/Persian/Egyptian movies in general there seems to be a lack of middle easters. I saw Prince of Persia and there were no Persians, there were, however, plenty of anglo-saxons pretending to be Persians. In the Mummy movies there were a handful of minor rolls played by some middle easters but the main role, the mummy, was not Egyptian, Arabic, Persian, or anything Mesopotamian or north Afrcian. He was a hite dude with a tan. Then there was Cleopatra, LOLOLOLOLOL Screw Liz Taylor, if she is Egyptian, Mediterranian, Greek or whatever, then I can play Gengis Kahn. Nut it goes the other way to, the new Conan movie was tripe. Not only because it was completely innacurate to anything Robert E. Howard has EEEVER written but because Jason Momoa is Somoan. Conan (the name being Celtic in origin)is from the north. Cimerians aren't Pacific Islanders.
Oh well.
Yea, there needs to be more mummies for sure.
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That's it, I'm am going to start work on my own Monster Manual. Thanks for the inspiration!
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the god set could play part in there creation since the sand spells whould indicate set. god of the sands
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...........you know, i never thought of the mummies as anything related to actual myth. in fact i hate mummies. because they are totally and purely birthed by that hellspawn on earth HOLLYWOOD. they are far worse than zombies........ i would class them on the same level as Twilight....... yep, i went that far.
Mummies are the same as Twilight.
what i mostly hate about them is that they are so....... i don't know. they just don't fit in any fiction i can think about without standing out like a pile of dog shit in a bed of flowers. not ot mention that killing them is so obvious; matches! or, even better, water! and in your version, it is unfair they would be totally immortal; not even the demon lords could handle that. it BREAKS the fantasy........ it would end reality itself, with your whole magic cannot overpower the ways of the universe without destroying it idea.
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........ sorry if i am sounding rather negative today. guess i am rather tired and weary today...... and i hate mummies. i guess, in all of your gallery, there had to be one thing i hated.
the good thing is that my hate is born only from the fact i just don't like mummies. your design for it is superb. however, if you hate twilight, you don't care how well someone draws edward, now do you?
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....... sorry, wrong meanign. i meant that if someone draws edward, you can acknowledge a good design and work, but you will still hate edward........ god i need a snack or something.
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