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Aug. 7th, 2012 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
death_gone_madI am really tempted to to use this (nsfw surrealism) as the eldritch-ish decoration to some grand, black door deep in the tunnel networks below the ruins of Ullek. I know its supposed to be Kali, but a lot of Kali imagery fits Amascut well, especially this particular despoiled maiden, birth and death stuff.
I can really get a lot of mileage out of Ullek if I wish to add Lovecraftian-ish horror to Amascut's backstory. Ullek was a major metropolis during the Second Age, and it was in reaction to Ullek's gluttony, wastefulness, and hedonism that Tumeken, Amascut's father (and by this time Amascut's madness was nearly at it's worst), created Crondis, the goddess of temperance and resourcefulness, from a crocodile that inhabited the swamps near Ullek. So, things were pretty bad. Well, not as bad as to cause the birth of Slaneesh or something, but then again, Ullek was just a city, not an interstellar empire. From Ullek could have come the modern cult of Amascut (which is very problematic, since Amascut is supposed to have no followers) which is focused on her destructive side and not on the whole death and rebirth mystery she was supposed to embody.
But if I ever do that, what would I put on the other side of that door?
I can really get a lot of mileage out of Ullek if I wish to add Lovecraftian-ish horror to Amascut's backstory. Ullek was a major metropolis during the Second Age, and it was in reaction to Ullek's gluttony, wastefulness, and hedonism that Tumeken, Amascut's father (and by this time Amascut's madness was nearly at it's worst), created Crondis, the goddess of temperance and resourcefulness, from a crocodile that inhabited the swamps near Ullek. So, things were pretty bad. Well, not as bad as to cause the birth of Slaneesh or something, but then again, Ullek was just a city, not an interstellar empire. From Ullek could have come the modern cult of Amascut (which is very problematic, since Amascut is supposed to have no followers) which is focused on her destructive side and not on the whole death and rebirth mystery she was supposed to embody.
But if I ever do that, what would I put on the other side of that door?