TallonMetroid

What’s the controversy? Romanwashing was the entire point.

Fairly well known, actually. It’s actually why Augustus commissioned the Aeneid; he wanted to tie himself to the existing myth as a way to justify his rule.

One of the Roman founding myths is that Romulus and Remus were descended from Aeneas of Troy, who fled the sacking of the city and eventually settled in Latium.

IIRC, the best part is that DC is where it is specifically because it was a bribe to get the slave states on board, since previously the federal government had been based in Philadelphia. So yeah, the US doesn’t even have the excuse of divine revelation for setting up the capital in a swamp, but because somehow that was enough to appease white slavers.

Henry VIII, maybe? The man did marry an obscene number of times, and was fat in his later years.

When I read the blurb for the game, I didn’t think they meant actual Lovecraft, so I was kinda surprised when Dagon and the Marshes of Innsmouth got explicitly referenced. There were a couple parts where I was expecting to get attacked by abominations, so I was quite relieved when nothing of the sort happened. All in all, I have to say that I quite enjoyed it. And it’s not a long game at all, really, so you can probably power through it in a day.