Freedom the wolf
I was talking to a friend about occult type things, the ubject was lost worlds.We didnt talk on it much but i thought of something when i got home from work.In steampunk, exploration is a thing you tend to look at.Though most of the world has been discovered.Well, I was thinking about rising of lost worlds.People claim the they see ruins of the lost city of Atlantis beneath the waves, well they are only ruins of another lost time.Atlantis has risen from beneath the waves, the contineant is in some ways different from the modern steampunk world.Its covered in lush plant life, old ruins, and some ruins still intact.Odd creatures are seen roaming in the ruins, they appear reptilian.
Im wondering about it all, and if you know of any lost worlds I could add speak up.If you can think of any other god/dess I could add, along with some demon lords who brought the lost worlds down.I'd prefer to use old gods from mythology but my resources re limited.
Speak up everyone, i need help!
You want lost worlds, nyao? How about:
Pellucidar--created by Edgar Rice Burroughs (of Tarzan fame), this is a "lost world" that exists inside the Earth. In fact, the "Hollow Earth" concept, often complete with 'primitive' cultures similar to the Aztecs, Mayans, etc. and (on more than a few occasions) even dinosaurs is a staple of a lot of adventure fiction, so much so as to be practically cliche'!
Ys--this is sort of a Celtic version of the Atlantis legends. The city of Ys is said to exist somewhere between Great Britain and northern France under the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, and while not as advanced as its more well-known cousin, the kindgom of Ys is an underwater land of Faerie whose inhabitants now dwell undersea after the kingdom itself sank for varying reasons during the Middle Ages. A possible Steampunk version might be a city that sank after some natural disaster (a la Pompeii), but the survivors figured out ways to create scuba gear much like in Jules Verne's
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and have modified the surviving buildings with airlocks and some manner of air-replenishing system (whether through plants, machinery, or a combination of the two) to keep breathable air inside their city, possibly even having constructed water-tight tunnels connecting the buildings that they salvaged over the years and reconstructed their city bit by bit until their 'rediscovery' by the outside world.
Shangri-La, Shamballah, Xanadu, etc.--another wonderful cliche from adventure fiction, the "fabled lost city" which explorers from Europe or America discover in an unexplored jungle or a lost valley or... H. Rider Haggard used this motif to good effect in
She and other novels, from what I'm told.
The Moon and Mars--long live John Carter! Since the discovery of "canals" on Mars, people have imagined ancient civilizations on The Red Planet capable of creating and sustaining life, however tenuous, there. A number of Victorian-era writers also imagined life on the Moon, whether on its surface or underground. I could give you a very long list of works about either, although I'll just mention a few for starters: Meliere's B&W silent movie "From the Earth to the Moon", Jules Verne's
The First Men on the Moon (if I'm remembering the right title), my own favorite E. R. Burrough's "John Carter of Mars" series, and S. M. Stirling's
In the Courts of the Crimson KingsVenus--As the late Carl Sagan pointed out, people believed that since Venus was covered in thick clouds, it had to be a swamp, possibly even complete with dinosaurs and primitive humans dressed in furs and using stone tools. Again, like Mars, there's more than a few stories set on "Jurassic Venus", the latest being S. M. Stirling's
The Sky People.
That enough for you, or would you like me to dredge up some more, nyao?
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