: Hey guys,
: I got some hot shit on the true origin of a certain
: Kingdom in MythWorld.
: In Celtic Myth, there was a city known as Ys off the
: coast of Brittany in the North of France across the
: water from Cornwall. Since there was a strong
: connection between the Cornish people and the Bretons,
: it was often known as Ker Ys, adding the Cornish
: prefix.
Heh, I already knew about this. Ys is an alias for Atlantis, the universal sunken paridise in all myths and religions. It's likely, as with Noah's myth, it's a combination of two related truths.
: This city was ruled by the King Gradlon and had strong
: nautical trade routes but they faced the major problem
: of coping with a high sea-level. They devised a system
: of locks and walls to contain the waters, however,
: which worked very well...for a while.
: Anyway, Dahut, the daughter of the King's adviser Saint
: Guenole (Winwaloe in Cornwall) was prophesied by her
: father to eventually bring about the city's downfall.
: She fell in love with a demon from the sea called Cado
: who himself wanted the city to be destroyed. Under his
: influence, Dahut willingly gave him the keys to the
: sea barriers and...well, I don't need to tell you what
: happened next.
: Well, the city became submerged and Dahut drowned having
: been abandoned by her family and now by Cado. She is
: said to appear occasionally in the form of a siren and
: the sight of her is a bad omen.
Very cool. Good scholarship!
: So, Mr. Jones et al. of Bungie are flicking through their
: mythology books one day when they stumble upon this
: tale of woe.
: "Aha!", exclaims Jason, "I believe we have
: something for our game. Let's shove it in...here! Wait
: a minute, I don't like that name, let's change it.
: Yeah, Yer Ks sounds so much better than Ker Ys."
: And so it came to pass that Myth had a Sunken Kindom of
: Yer Ks which you will all find in the top-left hand
: corner of any Myth map, well maybe not the Myth 3 one
: (it might not be sunk then...hehe), but who knows.
Very nice, and definitely true.
: This ties in very well with Forrest's theory that
: MythWorld is in fact France.
:
: http://myth.bungie.org/legends/delusions/forrest_connections.html
I have to respond to this in a new thread. Thanks for stirring back my posting! :-)
: And as George W Bush would say: "Subliminable
: message, coming up?!...er, I think...duh"
: ...Join MythWars...
Done.
: See y'all around