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Happy Tuesday, All!
I’ve updated the FREE DESKTOP image in the voting link above.
Please vote by clicking the link and get a free Dreamland desktop!
Thanks for the advice on the grammar and such yesterday.
I’ve made the changes you suggested. You guys are so cool.
🙂
Hope you’re enjoying this.
My boys are loving seeing me make hieroglyphics. I really wanted to do something Egyptian as Brendan’s a real big Egypt fan.
He’s been “helping me” as I go along (he can name all of the gods and such).
Thanks for reading
Scott
PS. I got word that the first computer is on its way!
Thank you all again.
Will take photos when it comes in.
Yay! for new computer! Yay! for the story update! You, Scott, are rockin’. 😀
Yarr. Egyptian stuff is fun. (ancient, not modern) I can spell my real name in hieroglyphs :}
So is this before or after Rameses II got his clock cleaned by Moses? Just wondering.
I think it’s before, because it is said that Ramses II died when the red sea came back. An I assume that when Moses’ people were slaves, Egypt was economically rich and powerful, wich works with the idea of a peace treaty.
As always, you work is wonderful, Scott! I’m so glad your new computer is on its way, I wish I could donate 🙂
From my recollection (and re-reading WIkipedia) it wasn’t Mursili that Ramses II had the peace treaty with but the uncle who deposed him Hatusilli.
So, there would appear to be precedent for Arthur’s idea that showing enemies Dreamland makes things better… so what was Nicodemus’ beef? Unless something awful happened at the end of the decade to rock our scaly overlord’s world.
Well, well. We’re about to learn what made the Nightmare Realm so touchy about grown-ups entering Dreamland. Finally. Wonder if the disaster was bad enough to make Alex recalculate the whole hero/villain table. Especially now that he’s just been so almost casually rejected by his subjects and his girl like a tool that outlived its usefulness.
And while trouble’s brewing in Ancient Egypt, we’re #4 in the TWC chart with 183 votes. It doesn’t mean much this early in the game, of course, but we’re #4. Even if for a few minutes. And then again, we can stay there if we vote!
Huh. Is that really the picture you meant to upload to TWC, Scott? I remember this *aliased* arrow all too well.
Oops. Sorry, haven’t seen this. Been busy typing. 🙂
He must have uploaded the picture after “midnight” at TWC.
IIRC, voting incentives all update at the same time. So he changed the incentive after today’s incentive update, which is why it hasn’t changed. It should change tomorrow.
We’re #3 now. 🙂
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it looks like you’ve got one ready for us at the end of the decade of peace. 🙂
Should be Bognok.
Try again, please.
True.
From what I read…it was Mursili who fled to Egypt. So I used he and Ramses as the ones who drafted the peace treaty.
I guess I could have said it was signed with the new king of Hittites. Would have been a bit more accurate.
Artwork is amazing and I love how youre tying Dreamland’s past in with our own and they affect each other.
In response to the Moses/Ramses comments, Ramses II would have come long after Moses regardless of the popularity of placing them together. A much better dating of the Biblical events are that the Hyksos reign is referred to as the king who didn’t know Joseph and the people who the Israelites outnumbered, that the famous Hatshepsut as the princess who found Moses (and he would never be raised as a royal prince because he lacked the “blood of the gods”- just as a high official), that Thutmose III was the Pharaoh that Moses ran from and Amenhotep II the Pharaoh of the Exodus. Amenhotep II’s successor was Thutmose IV who was not the crown prince and no one knows what happened to his elder brother (who would have died in the last plague on Egypt).
By the way, I love the comic and follow it avidly. The characters are great and the plot very engaging, not to mention the excellent art.
Wow, Ashendel is as old as most ancient structures on Earth. These depictions of Dreamland peoples and places in hieroglyphic form are turning out really well.
OK, people. We’re number 3 with 498 votes. Keep voting! 🙂
Thank you all!
It’s been very challenging with these hieroglyphics and history research and all.
To give you an idea of how this all came about…here’s what happened:
1) I had “the guardians” planned from the beginning. But no real description for them
2) Brendan really started to get into Egyptian stuff recently…so it was a fun way to incorporate something he liked into the story
3) I researched “greatest pharaoh ever” and Ramses II was the hands down winner on Google
4) None of my research formed a connection between Ramses and Moses. There’s no archeological evidence to support a Moses/Ramses II connection. So…to be honest…it never entered my mind.
5) I’m kind of learning this as I go. And (as I did with the Arthurian storyline) I’m doing my best to piece history/legend in with my own story.
It’s a TON of fun…but I would never…EVER…consider myself knowledgeable in these things. So please…if you see where I can improve or need to correct something…TELL ME.
🙂
“Peace and prosperity would thrive in the land for another 15 minutes.” 🙂
(A decade, that’s not long.)
Hmm. I wonder if we will see that they all agreed to destroy the portal in the end of this story, or if it has been hidden, or if it is “handed over” to the Guardians for guarding/safekeeping?
Very exciting story part, and it works for the historical parts – I think most people don’t know that much details about pharaohs to know if those two did or did not live at the same time.
i guess it is true history does tend to repeat its self.
I don’t think for fictional works, that it’s a problem if the parts don’t line up exactly. In fact, it can be more fun if things don’t work out exactly as the Historians say. (The historians don’t know about Nicodemus or Dreamland anyways!) It is dead on accurate that the Hittites introduced the first known treaty in human history,
Yep, seeing Bognok now. Gotta be a result of the recent TWC troubles.