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My ethnic nationality's semideific figure has hands made of fire which he uses to kill vampires
This has no bearing on anything. I just felt it was worth mentioning.
El Cid Campeador was a boss. "My country's being dominated by people who actually understand math?!?! FUCK THAT NOISE!"
I believe El Cid would probably voice his issues differently. Then again I don't know the folktale so hush my mouth I guess.
So let's hear about this Cid dude. Folklore/history/mythology time kplox.
Nobody cares about my fire-handed vampire hunter. ;_;
Seriously though, lay me some El Cid stuff.
Malk, your issue is that you gave up the whole jig front-up. It's like describing Siegfried via his invincibility as a result of slaying a dragon with Balmung and the drama of the tale coincidentally ensuring he sleeps with all the most beautiful women in Germanic Europe.
he was a pretty cool dude, that siegfried
....I think fire hands killing vampires is a pretty good hook...
Basically, Spain was being ruled over by the arabic people of the middle east, as we all know. El Cid fought them over guerrila style, inspiring other people to eventually raise their arms and whatnot. I'm not quite familiar with the tale, but I know there's a lengthy poem about it.
So he's kind of like Spanish Robin Pendragon.
Cool beans.
This is actually reminding me of a great part in American Gods where they talk about American folktales and how they're all bullshit no one really believed in all the real gods of America are borrowed ones.
That was an excellent book. On the other hand, I'm basically a whore for metafiction so
Back in my chaos/consensus magic days it was practically a bible for me.
Only he pays it money.
...how the hell is Don Quixote semideific? He was a senile old fart who managed to actually do a decent amount of good in the world while living the dream before reality crushed him, but he ain't exactly beating Saracens to death with an aneurysm trumpet while his brains leak out his ears.
He was referring to Cid, not to Quixote.
Also, here's the thingie about him I was talking about
Oh. Well that's mildly closer I guess. At least Cid had an actual vision of an archangel instead of just tripping balls on a regular basis, so that's a few less degrees of separation from the divine.
Now we just need to find their Erdos-Bacon numbers and we're set.
You guys are right. There should be a final fantasy game about Cid.
You guys are talking about the mythological Cid here. The real one was basically a mercenary and worked both for the moors and the christians. Hell, Cid comes from sayid which means "master" in Arabic
yes. that's the point.
^^And Alex brought up King Arthur and I brought up a dude with fire hands. I think it's safe to say 'realism' is off the table.
Zombie King Arthur, even.
Arthur is not technically dead, he is just resting in Avalon till Britain's hour of need strikes.
And I gotta say, with what's happened to Britain since his semideath at the hands of Mordred, its actual hour of need is gonna suck.
I wonder, was Mordred born evil or raised evil?
^^ My interpretation is that he was raised evil. Not that I can particularly support that, but we don't really get things from his perspective.