Warm the cockles of your heart with today's Ra-centric episode of The Letters Page.
I haven't listened yet, but I know I'm gonna skip the spoilers for the RPG.
Would you guy mind terribly not going into any of those spoilers here? I want to still be able to contribute to the conversation without accidentally stumbling along a mine. :)
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THIAGO (extra text so you can’t tell the name by the length of the spoiler) IS TACTICS RA CONFIRMED!!!
Edit: changed it so it was clear it’s not an RPG spoiler.
I thought we'd known for a while that that was the case for Tactics. Pretty sure it was confirmed in an art stream, at least.
Also, it was pretty awesome how Adam confirmed the theory that Christopher and Adam are Butt Mortals.
We knew who tactics Ra was, it was in the Wiki.
Also time Paradox. They said the ennead and a antagonist force only once (but for a while).
NightMist fights ennead after Vengance.
RA beats Ennead before vengance.
What has La Capitan done?
I think it's pretty cool how in the world of Sentinels comics Ra and the Ennead are pretty much some of the worlds first supers, and they had so much power that their 'essence' can be carried on throughout time itself.
I'm disappointed they didn't read my question, but they answered it in like the first few minutes anyway, so I'm good. I'd asked whether he's permanently Ra after taking up the staff, or if he reverts to Blake Washington at times.
I've been singing this tune since Tactics was first released. I'll take one internet cookie please. /endsmug
But yeah, this was confirmed a while ago in the art streams. It's not news, but it was certainly worth bringing up in the podcast in case people forgot.
So, if the only Egyptian gods walking around in the Multiverse timeline are Anubis, Ra, and the Ennead...
who is Ammit?
An Egyptian goddess
Ammit isn't consistently considered a god/goddess. In Sentinels she's more like a mythological monster. Not that the "gods" are really gods, but she doesn't have the same supernatural origin they do.
She appears on the card “Judgment of Anubis,” I believe.
She's also in one of the decks from Villains of the Multiverse.
Bugbear's, specifically.
Ammit, I thought, was usually a creature or servant of Anubis whos job was specifically to help the weighing of the heart/feather to determine status in the afterlife. I don't think it was considered a god/goddess, at least not in that common understanding of the term since there were no worshipers specific to Ammit, at least not to my knowledge.
Ammit is credited as being a goddess in various literature I've seen. Maybe not a heavily worshipped one but still referenced as one.
We need to all that Egyptologist who wrote in!
This episode, more than all the rest, made me interested in a legit comic version of the story. All that talk of how he actually became a bearded wonder was astonishingly in-depth. Like, wow! What an arc! Just make me a graphic novel of that, and I'll be fine. Ra is much more rich with story than I had ever thought he would be.