03-18-2013, 10:00 PM
DungeonDevil Wrote:On page 15 of the FFC, in the details on the Gin of Salik, the text refers to his search for the "famed Pygmalion" and thereafter the cryptic notes state "(see DB)". Does anyone have any information on this presumably female beauty, and secondly, to whom or to what does this abbreviation refer?
Artificial beings seem not uncommon in Blackmoor. Besides the Pygmalion, the Ran of Ah Fooh and Marfeldt the Barbarian both seem to have been created.
I'll note that the Wizard's Pit in Blackmoor's Catacombs is marked with the letter D. If "D8" isn't simply the eighth dungeon level, perhaps the Pygmalion is in Room 8 in the Wizard's Pit. Perhaps she was created by the wizard who was once imprisoned there 500 years ago (Dave Arneson's Blackmoor places the Wizard's Pit beneath the University, and dates him as at least 500 years older. Maybe there were two wizards, imprisoned there 500 years apart).
500 years ago was also the time of the Temple of Id's destruction, so perhaps the same wizard was connected with that. It'd be interesting if the Baron's own attendant wizard, the creator of the famed Pygmalion, was arrested and imprisoned after it was discovered that he was in league with/the mastermind of the Temple of Id.
Needing a name for an ancient evil wizard, it's tempting to use Raddan Goss, though he's probably too recent.
I also thought the Pygmalion might be the same as the Wife of Ilmarinen described in the Master DM's Book.