Mot and the Banished Pantheon
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Posted on: 2012-03-07 24:08 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Yes, Mot was real.
If you go WAY back to the old Prima guide (yeah, I know) it mentions them "finding" Mot asleep. Plus we're given the (made up) names of some of the rest of the Pantheon (Lughebu being the most commonly mentioned) in missions and in some of those 'rites' - well, the ones they had in the old DA.
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Semetic Mythology, I think.
Mot 'Death', son of 'El, according to instructions given by the god Hadad(Baal) to his messengers, lives in a city named hmry ('Mirey'), a pit is his throne, and Filth is the land of her heritage. But Baal warns them:
that you not come near to divine Death,
lest he made you like a lamb in his mouth,
(and) you both be carried away like a kid in the breach of his windpipe.
Eerie.
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Shadow_Mokadara
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Mot was also mentioned in one of the scanner/paper missions. I forget which one, but I ran it relatively recently.|
Originally Posted by Stormbird
Yes, Mot was real.
If you go WAY back to the old Prima guide (yeah, I know) it mentions them "finding" Mot asleep. Plus we're given the (made up) names of some of the rest of the Pantheon (Lughebu being the most commonly mentioned) in missions and in some of those 'rites' - well, the ones they had in the old DA. |
One of the exploration badges in original DA also mentioned Mot slumbering under Moth Cemetary. I do not know if this was the original badge text, however.
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I'm also wondering why Mot would be sleeping under a cemetery somewhere in Paragon City. That's kind of like if Quetzalcoatl was found snoozing under the Hagia Sophia.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I'm also wondering why Mot would be sleeping under a cemetery somewhere in Paragon City. That's kind of like if Quetzalcoatl was found snoozing under the Hagia Sophia.
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http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Shadow_Mokadara
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One guess would be that coh-verse is like "american Gods" where followers of specific divines carry versions of them with them where they settle and they become independent entities. Its unlikely there are too many worshipers of mot still around, but descendants of cannanites who still arent big on dying could still have brought him.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I'm also wondering why Mot would be sleeping under a cemetery somewhere in Paragon City. That's kind of like if Quetzalcoatl was found snoozing under the Hagia Sophia.
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
Mot was also mentioned in one of the scanner/paper missions. I forget which one, but I ran it relatively recently.
One of the exploration badges in original DA also mentioned Mot slumbering under Moth Cemetary. I do not know if this was the original badge text, however. |
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I'm also wondering why Mot would be sleeping under a cemetery somewhere in Paragon City. That's kind of like if Quetzalcoatl was found snoozing under the Hagia Sophia.
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Dark Astoria was originally known as Astoria. Once an idyllic commercial center, much like Talos Island and Steel Canyon, this area thrived as people bustled about their daily lives. Even the presence of the pastoral Moth Cemetery did not detract from the beauty of this area. The Rikti Invasion came and went, and the people in this peaceful neighborhood were relatively untouched by the devastation. However, while the Heroes of Paragon were busy rebuilding the city, the trickster god of the Banished Pantheon stumbled upon something... beneath the sod and graves of Moth Cemetery lay an ancient god, far older than those of the Pantheon, and far more powerful. Wishing to use this power to release him and his fellow gods, he ordered all of his followers to invade the area and seize control of it. The city authorities and Heroes, already reduced in number and staggering from the Rikti onslaught, had no choice but to relinquish the area to the Pantheon and wall it off. Within the walls, the army of Husks and Shaman ravaged the zone, tore the ground apart and sacrificed every man, woman and child in their efforts to wake the god Mot. But all their efforts were in vain. To this day, Lughebu's soldiers search for a way to wake the sleeper, while the spirits of those who once lived there wander about, unable to sleep. |
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| Deep beneath the cemetery ziggurat the presence of the slumbering god Mot can be most strongly felt. The Banished Pantheon have longed to awaken the sleeper and so congregate here in large numbers. Treading upon this unhallowed ground you get the definite feeling that something does not want you here, an evil presence that wishes you ill. |
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My only question is, why is Lady Gaga on the promo screen with Mot? And how did she get her hair to do that??! =D
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Originally Posted by Mr_True_Shot
My only question is, why is Lady Gaga on the promo screen with Mot? And how did she get her hair to do that??! =D
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As for what mot is doing under Paragon?
That's a bit of a spoiler.
*SPOILER*
You put him there.
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I'll admit I'm not entirely up on the entirety of CoH lore, but I do believe that Mot was a real god once actually worshiped by the Canaanites?
It makes me wonder if this is the pantheon that was banished. Does this mean we might see an appearance by Ba'al and Qetesh?
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