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[piltogg]

The angel most holy. The perfect, geometrical form. It contains within it's bonds EVERY geometrical solid. What does this mean for brikwars? All of the dice are combined into one! Illumination is the ultimate brikwars-religion. Combining dice-worship, brikthuluism, triangle-ism and the church of the great builder. ...and you people thought that this wasn't relevant...

[Hoboman]

So Illuminationisum is it?

[Zupponn]

[piltogg]

no. no. no. not the conspiracy version. The actual one. You know? started by Pythagoras? also including Goethe, Hegel, Leibniz, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and apparently king Solomon? Not so sure on that last one..... The one that seeks to liberate humanity from the clutches of it's oppressors? the one that seeks truth and knowledge in all it's forms? The one who wrote the manifesto I recently posted. Creation of a utopian society?

[Ross_Varn]

Current Integration with Briksphere Lore: Fail.

Recommended Steps for Success: Creation of a faction.

[stubby]

Current Integration with Briksphere Lore: Fail.

Recommended Steps for Success: Creation of a faction.

Actually I have to admit that Piltogg's correct, most of the materials I mixed together to kickstart the BrikWars lore were inspired by Illuminism, Pythagoreanism, and Lovecraft. It'd all still be greatly improved by its own faction(s) though.

[stubby]

A Brief History of Ostrogoths

So a little history lesson: In the fifth century A.D., the Arian tribes (the ones that the Nazis loved so much) split into two groups, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. The Visigoths had some good luck sacking Rome for awhile, but then they got defeated by Moors, and then they reached the depths of suckage sometime in the eighth century when they founded a kingdom in northern Spain and named it Asterios. So fuck those guys.

Now the Ostrogoths were cooler. They were constantly battling Rome also, and served under my own friendly ancestor Attila the Hun before rebelling and overthrowing his descendants. Their kingdom extended over all of Italy and into Bavaria, and they didn't give it a stupid name like Asterios. They were eventually overthrown in turn by the Byzantines, but weakened them enough in the process that the Byzantines were overthrown by Germanic tribes only a couple of years later.

So now the Ostrogs were out of power but sitting pretty in Germanized Bavaria, able to start fooling around with the weird Pythagorean mysticism that they'd picked up in their conquest of Rome and cook up a bunch of weird religious ideas. Centuries passed, and soon enough their Pythagorean Goth descendants were figuring heavily in the creation of Bavarian Illuminism, including such notables as J. W. von Goethe, J. Gothfried Herder, and the duke of Gotha. When the initial membership rolls were made public following the Secular Edict of 1785 and the outlawing of Illuminism, it became very clear that your chances of getting into the club had been much, much higher if you had "Goth" somewhere in your name.

So even within the Illuminati there was a super-group of racially pure Arian Ostrogoths, descended from the conquerors of Rome and carrying the mystery tradition of the Pythagoreans forward to become the Illuminism of the eighteenth century. The Pythagorean Illuminated Ostrogoth, or Py-Ill-Ostrog as he came to be known, was the Ubermensch of his age.

Forced underground after the Edict, they continued pulling the strings of international politics and finance in the early twentieth century, grouped into many-tentacled, many-eyed "Stroggoth" formations that Lovecraft would reference when he invented his monsters of similar name. Their political "Pyllstrogg" arms were instrumental in bringing about WWI, setting the stage in Germany for their attempt twenty years later to create the perfect form of government under their Stroggoth/Oktopustika banner and the Ultramensch Piltogg.

[piltogg]

FINALLY!!!! I thought nobody would ever figure out where the name was derived from. This is why I said "trust me, you don't want to know." when we had that thread about name explanations like two months after the forum started. and yes, the akkadian empire is obviously the embodiment of all of these principles, although, they haven't been described in much detail yet because the quest of piltogg isn't done yet. But once, it does... the plot is going to thicken like hugely alot. So be ready, the earth will shake.

[Tzan]

A Brief History of Ostrogoths

*boggle*

[Zupponn]

FINALLY!!!! I thought nobody would ever figure out where the name was derived from.

I just assumed you randomly typed it in one day, like I did with mine.

[enders_shadow]

The Akkadians we're actually an ancient people, and the first Empire (they conquered/united mesopotamia). The Assyrians are also historical references. Believe it or not, they are derived form Akkadians.

[piltogg]

correct again. Glad to see some people know some stuff. Although I should point out that the lovecraftian references in Rayhawk's explanation were not what I originally had in mind... but they work. This is also were that "goth people" thread fits in.

[Ross_Varn]

This is pretty awesome, I've gotta admit. It always makes me grin when I see the Assyrian Empire in the annuals of history. But you're just going to go and say that Natalya's faction is a part of this regardless?

[piltogg]

This is pretty awesome, I've gotta admit. It always makes me grin when I see the Assyrian Empire in the annuals of history. But you're just going to go and say that Natalya's faction is a part of this regardless?

well, the uniforms are very similar you know. It's only a matter of time before the Assyrians end up being involved in all of this. Probably that will happen as soon as I develop a story about the three pre-Pythagorean cults (sun, moon, ad mushroom) Thus giving Natalya an excuse to field sailor moon characters.