Hopefully we'll learn more about Walkena the Child God. I noticed some of his followers in the NPC Guide, and would like to know more about the faith.
While Walkena is a big problem in Sargava (especially out in Kalabuto), Mzali is actually part of the Mwangi Expanse, so he's covered in more detail in Heart of the Jungle, our guide to that region.
Hopefully we'll learn more about Walkena the Child God. I noticed some of his followers in the NPC Guide, and would like to know more about the faith.
While Walkena is a big problem in Sargava (especially out in Kalabuto), Mzali is actually part of the Mwangi Expanse, so he's covered in more detail in Heart of the Jungle, our guide to that region.
What about Shimye-Magalla? I've wanted more info on him/her since reading the first (and only) reference in the Campaign Setting all those years ago.
...not sure if the T-Rex wants to be the receiving end of this, sir.
Triceratops beats T-Rex. ALWAYS.
drew way too many triceratopses goring T-rexes as a child on the rationale that those carnosaurs had it coming
may have drawn more pachycephalosauruses pulling a Zinedine Zidane on deinonychuses as well
and still thinks Archaeopteryx are the best familiar options ever
The strange perception of the public that the triceratops is the "good guy" is nothing more than a misconception, likely propagated by the projection that the triceratops, with its skull crest and horns, evokes imagery of a jousting knight riding off to save the princess. When in fact the triceratops is more analogous to a carrion-eating deformed rhinoceros. A DELICIOUS one, at that.
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I blame it on a generation that grew up watching bad animated films.
It's the underdog mentality. Triceratops is frequently depicted as the defender against scary tyrannosaurus's attacks. While siding with the oppressor is cool for some, others prefer the herbivore.
While siding with the oppressor is cool for some, others prefer the herbivore.
The odds are pretty good that Ceratopsids, and specifically Triceratops, were about as herbivorous, lovable, and "good" as your basic wild pig. And just as likely to trample you and eat your broken carcass. Look at a Triceratops skull and teeth - that is not the muscular attachment and dentition of a dedicated plant eater.
Of course, anyone who's ever watched a bloat of hippos murder a crocodile (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6918747.ece), or gotten on the wrong side of a water buffalo (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1181571/Four-injured-wat er-buffalo-goes-rampage-religious-festival.html) know better than to equate herbivore with peaceful. Big herbivores are, for the most part, psychotic.
Okay, the preview in the Gnomes of Golarion book has me very curious about this bit:
This book is going to show us how Erastil, Gozreh, Abadar, and Iomedae are percieved and worshipped by the native cultures, right? Man, I really want to see how Iomedae is handled. I hadn't even thought of her as even having a presense of note amongst the Mwangi cultures, owing to her relative late arrival and how concentrated her faith is up in Avistan.
I'm really eager to see the Mwangi take on her and the other gods. (Erastil = antelope-headed god? I can see it for the veldt, but isn't Sargava mostly jungle on top of jungle?)