Discussion City of the Masks

[Gemini]

does anyone know what the city of the masks story is?

 

[Slanputin]

I don't believe there is any specific background. At least, not from what I recall - there are quite a few temple cities that GW left for us to imagine fluff for ourselves.

I guess it's a prime opportunity to make some fluff up yourself

 

[pendrake]

does anyone know what the city of the masks story is?

Hair-splittingly close to non-GW IP if I can trust what harked up when I googled it. Author Mary Hoffman? City of Masks

City of the Masks sometimes refers to real world Venice.

So, Not highly original...

@Gemini do you have a page reference?

 

[Slanputin]

@Gemini do you have a page reference?

I believe it's marked on the map in the 8th Edition, but I don't remember it being mentioned anywhere else in the book or any previous editions.

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

City of the Masks sometimes refers to real world Venice.

I can vouch for that one, I've been there... definitely a city of masks!

I believe it's marked on the map in the 8th Edition

You're right, page 25. Hualotal (City of Masks)

 

[pendrake]

Know Your Lustrian Geography !

Some of these place names are official 8th edition canon as seen on a certain map on page 25 and some of them are from a fictional setting that has nothing to do with Warhammer (unless author Mary Hoffman plays Warhammer or is dating someone at GW Inc., ...you never know...MH is in the UK.) There is also a movie title lurking in the list...

City of Ash
City of Destiny
City of Dragons
City of Dreams
City of Echoes
City of Fire
City of Flowers
City of Ghosts
City of Gold
City of Lenses
City of Masks
City of Mermaids
City of Mists
City of Music
City of Scales
City of Secrets
City of Ships
City of Stars
City of Swords
The Valley of Gwangi
The Gwangee Valley

Which name is what is left as an exercise for aspiring Skink Scribes...

does anyone know what the city of the masks story is?

All this is presented not so much as a quiz, but as an answer to the initial inquiry (there is not a story; there is just a graphix guy sticking names on a map) and as an opportunity to contemplate and ruminate on the difficulties of originality.

 

[Gemini]

you forgot city of the lenses and others plus i havent heard some of those names or seen them in the maps...... did you make them up.... it's ok

 

[pendrake]

you forgot city of the lenses and others plus i havent heard some of those names or seen them in the maps...... did you make them up.... it's ok

The list contains one Movie Title,..

The list contains some novel titles written by M. Hoffman,..

The rest come from a map in a LM army book [8th p. 25]. I did not invent any [above; but see below]. Is City of Lenses a Hoffman title I missed?

 

[spawning of Bob]

Oooh! Is the movie one "The City of Slickers"?

I liked the old human (Jack Palance) in that one . He died





Spektazuma - warning horrible pun content from Bob, sensible discussion from everyone else (Slanputin had not yet begun to cheese)

 

[pendrake]

City of Lenses :: I found the reference @Gemini ::: here is a link for everybody else. (It goes to the first post in the same thread that Bob linked.)
I will add it to the master list once I have spotted it for myself on the map.

These I made up (for letters not yet used):
City of Colossi
City of Lava
City of Palms
City of Revelations
City of Terrors
City of Vines

 

[spawning of Bob]

Some other made up ones which might inspire the imagination:

City of Mirrors
City of Silence
City of Mines
City of Tombs

If somebody is taken with any of the names listed here or earlier (in English), the Lustria-Online translation service could use this thread to work out an appropriate Saurian transliteration.

 

[Avak786]

I like the idea of 'City of Mines', it fits in with the fluff for my army

 

[Slanputin]

Spektazuma - warning horrible pun content from Bob, sensible discussion from everyone else (Slanputin had not yet begun to cheese)

I object: my erudite discussions cannot be undermined by your discussions, edam it!

As for further inspiration look to the other non-city places - it's where I drew a lot of inspiration from for my fluff [/plug] and may also help e.g:

The Floating Pyramid
Ziggarut of the Sun
The Jade Pools
The Temple of Kara
The Silent Listeners

etc.