So, I'm over at wikipedia, doing some research on Cleopatra's Needles for tonight's Scion game. And it says that the damage to the base of the Needle in England is from the first German air-raid on London in WWI, from September 4th, 1917. How can that be?
I'm guessing it's gotta be another case of wikipedia just gettin' it wrong*. If any history buffs out there read this, and can explain to me some bit of WWI history I've been ignorant about previously, please chime in via comments.
In the meantime, however, I'm thinking I may just use it. Scion is already Syncretic and Bisociative. Things have multiple conflicting meanings, and thus events can occur in more than one way. So, I could probably just say the damage was done in 1917, 1941, 12AD, and 1338BC too while I'm at it. Gin up 4 back-stories and present each from a different NPCs perspective. That's assuming I can come up with a couple of cool stories and some way to make it matter in the Narrative.
More important is the Touchstone the Needle needs to be. Spend a Legend to travel to some spot in the Egyptian Underworld, from there spend a Legend to move to London, Paris, New York (locations of the 3 needles) or Alexandria (Location of the Caesarium, the temple that used to house the needles).
*: In 1917, military airplanes were biplanes, with very restricted ranges. When a plane made a bombing run, it was by the pilot dropping a hand-held bomb off the side of the plane. How could a 1917 wooden biplane possibly carry enough bombs across the English channel to make such a raid worthwhile? The Blitz was in WWII, nearly 30 years later. It was a big shock when the Germans accidentally hit civilian targets. European papers made a huge deal of it. Hitler saw this as a chance to demoralize the British, and so ordered later intentional civilian strikes. This foolish change in tactics, hitting civilians instead of airstrips and radar towers, is what allowed the RAF to pull out a win against incredible odds.
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