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Written by Robert Kendzie
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012 |
While looking at the pages in the Gallery recently, I noticed an inordinately large number of hits for page 325. I was puzzled at first at why this page in particular should be attracting any particular attention. Then, I looked at the page's title.
I don't know how many of you have noticed, but every page of Dire Destiny has it's own title. They can be pretty random, but occasionally I find some kind of oblique cultural reference or quote which relates in some way to what's happening on the page. I've used song titles, famous (or not-so-famous) quotes, and even spell names from Dungeons & Dragons.
The title for Page 325 was supposed to be "Sanctum Sanctorum", which is a latin phrase meaning "Holy of Holies". I first encountered the term as the name of the secret lair of Doctor Stephen Strange . Due to a quirk of typgraphic clumsiness, however, the name entered for the page was "Sanctum Santorum". As you might know, Rick Santorum is one of the current candidates for the US Presidency. I can only imagine the head scratching this might lead to if someone researching the candidate wound up here by mistake. I am not a supporter of Mister Santorum, and so I'll just say that any implied connection between the fiction religious organization in this comic and any actual religiously minded political candidates is entirely unintentional.
Of course, there is that other definition which is sometimes associated with the word "santorum", which I will not utter here. I never originally meant to imply that the Yggdrassil church was full of shit, however there is a certain poetry to the phrase which I feel would be a shame to abandon. So I'm not going to correct the typo.
It's also worth noting for you Pathfinder fans out there that The Very Last Book About Mounted Combat is now on sale in PDF form! I also hope to see it on sale at the Paizo website sometime soon.
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