![]() ![]() It can get you thinking about what your characters would do if they were placed in a different setting, or if they chose to do something different in their life journey. This could also be played as a sort of split in time line was there a big decision that your character have to make? What if they chose a different option? ![]() The concept of this for characters and stories and characters have been floating around for a long time, an example of this would be with Marvel's Spider-man. These are some of my favourite things to play around with every now and then, and what it really boils down to is a bunch of what ifs. Today we are going to do a bit of skrying, seek the philosopher's stone, and elicit John Dee's occult confession.The Multiverse and/or The Alternate Universe Dee's long life is especially impressive given his regular appearance at the various courts of Europe and the accusations leveled against him of necromancy and espionage. ![]() Only three of his children survived him which is not such a surprise seeing that he lived eighty years during a time of religious upheaval, rioting, and plague. His third wife, Jane Fromond, was twenty-five years younger than Dee but they seem to have had a happy marriage and had eight children together. His reputation as an occultist has lasted through the centuries and is perhaps his largest claim to fame today, but it belies his effort late in life to try and distance himself from the label of conjurer. He was a mathematician, astronomer, consultant to explorers, alchemist, translator of angelic language, and amassed one of the most impressive libraries in Europe gathering around three thousand books and another thousand manuscripts. John Dee was born in London in 1527 and died in 1608 or 1609 at his home in Mortlake, Surrey. Although “The Shadow Kingdom” is a work of fiction-in fact, it is arguably the earliest example of the “Sword and Sorcery” fantasy genre most popularly associated with Tolkein's Lord of the Rings-it both drew on and introduced elements into occult and conspiracy lore that have been accepted by believers as absolute truth. The ambassador Ka-nu reveals a secret plot of shape-shifting serpent men hiding in Kull's own palace and the blunt warrior king swings into action in opposition to the conspiracy which reaches a terrible climax in the cursed chamber of a king murdered a thousand years before. The Shadow Kingdom tells the story of an Atlantean warrior, Kull, who becomes a Valusian king. Howard's “The Shadow Kingdom” sits at the nexus of two realms of occult lore: the canon revolving around an Atlantean Root Race established by Helena Blavatsky in her Secret Doctrine in the late 1880s and the reptilian conspiracy theory most closely identified with former sportscaster David Icke. ![]()
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