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Pantamalion

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Why does the Grand Library of Menaphos have Amascut's symbol on it? Also why does the Sophanem Slayer Dungeon have Icthlarin's symbol (since slayer seems to be more associated with Amascut)?

10-Jun-2017 02:31:23 - Last edited on 18-Jun-2017 00:59:09 by Pantamalion

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At a guess, it'd be because Amascut took the wisest/most worthy to be reborn, and the Grand Library is full of wisdom and records of worth.

Bit of a stretch though.
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10-Jun-2017 07:41:05 - Last edited on 10-Jun-2017 07:41:44 by Questcaping

AesirWarrior
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The slayer dungeon is under Icthlarin's temple so it was probably some sort of crypt before Amascut infested it with monsters. It makes sense his symbol would be on the entrance.

I don't know about the entrance to the library though. It was probably built before Amascut went crazy, but why she'd be associated with Knowledge I have no idea. -
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10-Jun-2017 12:43:03

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Pantamalion said :
Why does the Grand Library of Menaphos have Amascut's symbol on it? Also why does the Sophanem Slayer Dungeon have Icthlarin's symbol (since slayer seems to be more associated with Amascut)?

Is that the same symbol you see on the tower to lead to the Imperial entrance to the shifting tombs?

If that's the case, that's really a symbol of Het. Not Amascut. "We call it being a hero"
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15-Jun-2017 05:44:40

Jack Bowe
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I just assumed it was because The Grand Library is connected to the Grand Pyramid within the Imperial District and the Pharaoh was corrupted by Amascut.

I can't see any other reason - Amascut isn't connected - in any way - to anything you'd find in a library. Except maybe the mad librarian. :P

17-Jun-2017 18:51:09

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AesirWarrior said :

I don't know about the entrance to the library though. It was probably built before Amascut went crazy, but why she'd be associated with Knowledge I have no idea.

Menaphos was built quite a while after Amascut became corrupted, so it must have been put there intentionally. It is odd.

18-Jun-2017 12:33:12

AesirWarrior
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MasterOfMind said :
AesirWarrior said :

I don't know about the entrance to the library though. It was probably built before Amascut went crazy, but why she'd be associated with Knowledge I have no idea.

Menaphos was built quite a while after Amascut became corrupted, so it must have been put there intentionally. It is odd.

Are you sure about that? It's a quite unclear when Amascut became mad. It's implied to have started with Mah, but also the Mahjarrat. Ka claims Tumeken's sacrifice was the final straw, yet Icthlarin's little helper claims she didn't actually start to devoure humans until a century or so ago (probably retconned, but still). She could very well still have been revered when Menaphos was built, after Tumeken's downfall. Even if that was "the final straw", that doesn't mean public opinion of her changed overnight. She seems to have been planning things for a long time, so I doubt she went around destroyings things right away. -
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18-Jun-2017 22:22:39 - Last edited on 18-Jun-2017 22:27:28 by AesirWarrior

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AesirWarrior said :
MasterOfMind said :
AesirWarrior said :

I don't know about the entrance to the library though. It was probably built before Amascut went crazy, but why she'd be associated with Knowledge I have no idea.

Menaphos was built quite a while after Amascut became corrupted, so it must have been put there intentionally. It is odd.

Are you sure about that? It's a quite unclear when Amascut became mad. It's implied to have started with Mah, but also the Mahjarrat. Ka claims Tumeken's sacrifice was the final straw, yet Icthlarin's little helper claims she didn't actually start to devoure humans until a century or so ago (probably retconned, but still). She could very well still have been revered when Menaphos was built, after Tumeken's downfall. Even if that was "the final straw", that doesn't mean public opinion of her changed overnight. She seems to have been planning things for a long time, so I doubt she went around destroyings things right away.

I'm going with pretty much everything before rs3 as being retconned, or at least unconfirmed. As you said Amascut was corrupted when her and Itchlarin found Freneskae, and Menaphos wasn't built until after the God Wars, so after Zamoracks ascension, after the fall of Zaros's empire, after pretty much everything. Amascut was giving Itchlarin and Elidinis grief just after Tumekens sacrifice, so she's been The Devourer for a very long time. Sure the people might not have know about it, but she was the God of rebirth anyway, nothing to do with libraries. Isolation and knowledge are Scabaras' domain, it should be his symbol on the door.

19-Jun-2017 02:19:51 - Last edited on 19-Jun-2017 02:22:32 by MasterOfMind

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