[Audyssey] Thoughts about a tomb hunter game.

[Richard Bennett]

Hey Tom, well I believe I prefer Apophis to Set. I also would rather have
the Ancient Egyptian names instead of the English translations. I also like
Ancient Egyptian myths, pyramids, and other things of the time; however, I
doubt that I know a 1/4 of what you seem to know about them. Good luck,
Bean

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From: gamers-bounces at audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-bounces at audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:18 PM
To: gamers at audyssey.org
Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts about a tomb hunter game.

Hi all,
As many of you are aware I have been thinking of doing a Tomb Raider 
style clone called "Tomb Hunter." However, in so doing I need to change 
elements with in the Tomb Raider story such as main characters, enemies, 
etc to make my game more my own then a one to one outright copy of Tomb 
Raider.
For example, in Tomb Raider IV Lara Croft is on a quest to find the 
Amulet and Armour of Horus in order to slay the evil Egyptian god Set. 
Set for that game was the primary villen, and is public domain since he 
is a major character in Egyptian myth and legend.
However, as an amature historian myself I know that Set, called Seth by 
Greek writers, wasn't an enemy in the earliest Egyptian writings. His 
character was the younger brother of Osiris , and he was the primary 
guardian of Ra. His roll was to protect Ra from the evil serpent god 
Apep, called Apophis by the Greek writers, and was a sort of heroic 
figure. He usually was depicted in hieroglyphs as a half-man half-dog 
like creature.
As the centuries passed he began to take on a more adversarial roll in 
Egyptian myth. He became jellus of Osiris, and wanted Osiris's wife, 
Isis, and so he eventually murders Osiris. Set then becomes king of 
Egypt, lord of the gods, and Isis flees. Where she, as myth has it, 
bares Osiris a son Horus who grows up to defeat Set, and becomes the 
heir of Osiris and a god in his own right.
A few more centuries pass and in Egyptian tales Set becomes the lord 
over Upper Egypt while Horus is the lord of Lower Egypt. When Egypt was 
united historians recognize Set and Horus sort of got melded into one 
character or a duel god like character.
Eventually, Set  became associated as Apep, lord of the underworld, and 
began showing up in Egyptian records as a crocodile, snake, dragon, etc 
which had formally been reserved to forms of Apep, and Apep falls out of 
Egyptian writings.
I'm writing all this biographical and historical information to get to 
the heart of what I want to ask. Do you guys think I should replace Set, 
(Seth,) as the villen for Tomb Hunter in favor of Apophis?
I think Apophis, (apep,)  makes a much more cool enemy, and here is wy. 
Apophis was said to be able to change between several different forms 
such as a crocodile, giant snake, lizard, hippo, etc. He had  the 
ability to hitmatise an enemy with his eyes. He could bite a person 
injecting them with a deadly venom. He also could curl up like a snake 
around them and crush them to death. As a super villen he certainly 
makes an interesting read in the ancient Egyptian stories.
As I illistrated above Set has two different basic characters. One of 
the hero which was the dog like character which wouldn't fit to fight. 
The later Set has all the qualities of Apophis, but has the added 
advantage of adding in the conflict between Horus and Set. Though, if I 
use Set one has to keep in mind this idea of Set as an advarsarial 
character is totally dependant on time and Egyptian scribes which 
changed his character by renaming Apep to Set.
So if you could pick would you have Apep or Set?
One other question I have is would you like the English translations of 
the names or the Greek ones. In English the gods are Set and Apep. In 
the Greek stories, later retellings of the stories, they were called 
Seth and Apophis.
 


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