Atlantis was only mentioned in all of classical history once, and that was by Plato. No where else do we recieve mention of the so called city that sank under the waves. Troy on the other hand, and the Trojan War in general, is praised by all ancient Greeks as one of their "defining wars". So influencial is this war that later the Norse people would claim to be ancestors to the survivors of said war. In truth the only real reason historians and scholars don't believe the war happend is becaise they have a real problem with the idea that such a great war was fought over someones wife being kidnapped.
Don't forget there was a time only a thousand years ago when Vikings were growing crops on Greenland, which today is supposed to covered in permafrost year round.
Now let us say you were playing a rpg with paper and pencil, with a DM. Let us say that one of the ways he/she makes the game interesting is by making one of the NPC's a sexest merchant. Does this make the other players want to protest the DM, or the game in general? I think not.
Those letters could be the makings for a magic word. During medival times it was believed that words and letters could be arranged in specific patterns to create magical affects. An example of this is the word Abacadabra, Which though funny sounding today was actually thought to posses magical powers. If you look at how it is spelled you can see a diffinite pattern A, B, A again, then C, Back to A, and so forth. I don't remember what it is supposed to do exactly. However, I do know that in order to make it work you had to write it and not say it.
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Atlantis was only mentioned in all of classical history once, and that was by Plato. No where else do we recieve mention of the so called city that sank under the waves. Troy on the other hand, and the Trojan War in general, is praised by all ancient Greeks as one of their "defining wars". So influencial is this war that later the Norse people would claim to be ancestors to the survivors of said war. In truth the only real reason historians and scholars don't believe the war happend is becaise they have a real problem with the idea that such a great war was fought over someones wife being kidnapped.
Don't forget there was a time only a thousand years ago when Vikings were growing crops on Greenland, which today is supposed to covered in permafrost year round.
Now let us say you were playing a rpg with paper and pencil, with a DM. Let us say that one of the ways he/she makes the game interesting is by making one of the NPC's a sexest merchant. Does this make the other players want to protest the DM, or the game in general? I think not.
Those letters could be the makings for a magic word. During medival times it was believed that words and letters could be arranged in specific patterns to create magical affects. An example of this is the word Abacadabra, Which though funny sounding today was actually thought to posses magical powers. If you look at how it is spelled you can see a diffinite pattern A, B, A again, then C, Back to A, and so forth. I don't remember what it is supposed to do exactly. However, I do know that in order to make it work you had to write it and not say it.