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Next ramble - Xanatos and Gilgamesh:
As I said my first thought was Gilgamesh, since he also had the wish to find immortality - yet above all because Gilgamesh is the mythological hero whose mortality is an integral part of him: the same thing that you said about Xanatos... Both have had dealings with immortals, yet both are hopelessly mortal...
Other than that, admittedly they don't seem to have any other point of similarity... Perhaps (though a bit far-fetched) that Gilgamesh also starts like a bit of a villain until he discovers friendship. But comparisons between Enkidu and Goliath seem even more farfetched and I decided to stop that train of thought.
The Gilgamesh story is among my very favourite ones... And I love characters such as Utnapishtim (the survivor of the Great Flood - the gods turned him and his wife immortal). In fact I find Utnapishtim's version of the story far more fascinating than that of Noah or Deucalion - two stories which for me are so sketchy as to be really *dull*.
Anyway...
1. Do you have any plans about Gilgamesh or Utnapishtim which are more specific than "Eventually everything?"
2. Since Utnapishtim was turned immortal - do you think he's still around? :-)
Sure Noah wound up a boring drunk. And Deucalion was a bit of a stiff. But wouldn't you like to see Utnapishtim, Noah and Deucalion all sitting at one of these new post-Flood coffee houses, having a beer together, reminiscing about old times? How singers could really sing pre-Flood and how the smell nearly killed them on those damn arcs?
1. Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Utnapishtim (as well as Noah and Deucalion) all figured into my plans. Vaguely. That is, I have a few ideas for all of these characters. But they have not as yet fully coalesced in the old (and getting older) brain. But I will say that Jeff Robbins is involved with my Gilgamesh notions. (FYI - I never really made a Gil-Xanatos connection.)
2. Duh. :)
In the Gargoyle Universe are Prospero, Caliban, Ariel, and Miranda still alive? Secorax? Setebose?
What race is Caliban?
I'm not revealing any of this at this time.
The gargoyle universe has norse gods like odin
and oberon and avalon from celtic culture, and banshee
From egypt the is the god of death and such
in central africa there is anansi
from america india there is coyote
1.Does the gargoyle universe have any gods from india in the stroies.
2.if so when do the stories take place....
3.Who are the gods in your stories
Eventually, all things will be incorporated one way or another. Sort of a unified field theory for myth & legend in the Garg Universe.
Since you plan to include Dracula, I have to ask you: Have you read about the historical Vlad Dracula the Impaler? And do you plan (as you did with Macbeth) to have his story incorporate more real history than we usually seen in the vampire stories about Dracula?
This guy seems to be one who was actually *worse* in real history, than he ever was in fiction... *shudder*
I'm leaning toward a history-based Dracula and then taking it forward from there.
You mentioned here recently that if the series had continued, or if it were to be revived, you'd eventually do an episode based on the Faust legend.
My question about this: would this story be a bit of a problem from the S&P level, in view of the fact that a focal point of the Faust legend is his deal with the Devil, something that could be drawing very close to elements of a living religion? Of course, you already were able to use the Golem in "Gargoyles", and had plans to make use of the Holy Grail, so it's certainly likely that you have a means of making Faust and Mephistopheles's bargain workable in the Gargoyles Universe without bringing in explicit Christian elements, but I thought that I'd ask about this one anyway.
Where there's a will, there's a way. Assuming I can get back on the air at all.
1. Did Robin Hood exist in the Gargoyles Universe?
2. If so, do you see him as a normal human, or someone with some connection to magic?
1. In one form or another.
2. Not saying.
Did the mediaeval witch-hunts ever actually kill any witches? Were there even very many around to be killed at that time?
Maybe. Probably.
In the Gargoyles universe, whatever happened to Atlantis?
Not saying now.
Does the survival of the Loch Ness Monster have anything to do with the fae or the Lost Race?
No.
October and Halloween are approaching so I thought I'd ask some Werewolf questions.
1. Wolf is a genetically altered Werewolf. The Eye of Odin briefly turned Fox into a Werefox. Yet we never saw a true Werewolf despite Princess Katharine's hint; 'silver be for Vampire's and Weres'. Did you ever intend on featuring one in your stories or did the aforementioned characters fill your personal quota for Werebeasts?
2. Are the Werepanthers (can't remember their names) vulnerable to silver like Werewolves? They didn't seem like true Werebeasts to me due to the fact that they changed into full panthers and not hybrids, as is customary with most Werewolf tales.
3. Is it possible for a Gargoyle to contract Lycanthropy? (Mighty inconvenient since Gargs are only active at night)
4. Or a Fae? (Highly unlikely but you never know)
5. Or a New Olympian?
6. What is cause of Lycanthropy? Is it a curse based on Fae magic like in 'Mark of the Panther' or something else?
7. Is it something you're born with or something you contract? Or possibly both?
8. What would a Werewolf change into? A full wolf or a bipedal hybrid?
9. How much control do they maintain over their altered forms? Are they savage beast like the creature Fox turned into, or do they retain their lucid thoughts?
10. Do they change ever night, during the full moon, or at their leisure?
That's probably enough Lycanthropic related question for now.
1. Eventually.
2. Maybe.
3. Why not?
4. Doubtful.
5. Possibly.
6. Lots of causes obviously.
7. Ditto.
8. Can't give you one answer.
9. I'm not going to get that specific now.
10. Depends on the cause.
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