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shadowsword87 posted...

Somehow I think I hit the setting that PO would be the most interested in joining :P

Not necessarily? But keep in mind, I'm pretty keen on real world history in general, and I played a LOT of Vampire, so I'd occasionally deep-delve into history to come up with roots for characters. So it's an easy and interesting subject to discuss (and interests me more than a lot of constructed settings like Greyhawk or Eberron).

Off the top of my head, I had a Parthian vampire at one point (albeit only as the sire of an Andalusian vampire who was Embraced around 800 AD or so), and I did a TON of research on Marseille/Massalia to use as a setting for Dark Ages Vampire stuff (ironically enough, there's not a ton of in-depth history of the city available online, at least not easy to track down sort of basic details). I worked out a ton of details, and was going to post it online on my old WoD website, but I never did finish that particular project.

http://sites.google.com/site/celanteinn/lasombra/marseille

I also looked into stuff with the Sea Peoples (which sort of tangentially relates to the Greek Dark Ages) because the Lasombra are sort of tied to them canonically.

And, geek stuff removed from the equation, I actually had a couple of college classes on the Greek Dark Ages and burial practices from the period, so I was always at least partly interested in the region/era (not entirely dissimilar to when I went through Anglophile and Japanophile phases at various times).

I've been reading a lot of ancient and classical era history recently as well. The closest I probably get to your period was a pretty good book about Alexander the Great (mostly how his empire fractured after his death), and if you skew a bit farther west, a couple of books about Rome and Carthage around the time of the Punic Wars.


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