Flo's History

Dungeon and Dragons, the first and most popular RPG game designed, isn’t lacking in the departments of monsters to throw at the players . Among them, the Manticore stands as one of its most utilized and popular one , serving as early challenges for low- level parties. But just like the vast majorities of dnd monsters, the Manticore take roots in real life mythology of the lands of the Achaemenid Empire, better known as Persia. Just like most ancient mythological monsters, the Manticore’s appearances varied from time to time but kept some core features. These being a man-faced lion with a scorpion tale delivering paralyzing poisons, while wings and throwing quills being added eve ry known and then. Behavior- wise, the Manticore was purely a feral predator, killing to eat rather than inflicting torment and its appetite was ravenous. Its three rows of teeth allowed them to chew anything between flesh and bone to metal and stone, leaving nothing of its victims behind. The creature wa...

The Bronze Age, time of the first great human civilizations starting with the people of Summer and ending with the fall of the Egyptians, Mycenaeans and Hittites. The later in particular will be the focuses of today, as they tend to be the lesser known of the big three, with Egypt being the best recorded Nation while Mycenaean at least enjoy its connection with the Greek City S tates. But the Hittites were here, and they were a major player in the Region at the time.    Ruling from their capital city of Hattusa, of which the ruins can still be seen in modern day Turkey , they emerged from a co ali tion of smaller cities known as Kussara before being united by a strong leader. This came in the form of the first Hittite king, Hattusili the first, who exploited a time of heavy unrest submitted the cities around the Halys River to his rule. His decedents would then continue to build their power base until forming the nation that covered most of Anatolia. Funnily enough, ...