ATD the norse/nunatak/serpent/odialesque thing

[Ya Sam]

"They approached a memorial arch, gray and
>time-corroded, seeming to date from some ancient catastrophe, far older 
>than the city." This seems puzzling, ne? The catastrophe is caused by the 
>ancient force of the Figure, but the catastrophe itself is surely not 
>ancient. Or is it?
>


Note the 'seeming' here. That makes me think of that archetypal 
horror/mystery/supernatural film feature, some ancient gate, portal, vault, 
chapel etc. from which the Thing emerges. It wreaks a lot of havoc and is 
conquered in the end. Some years pass, and these tourists stumble upon this 
portal again. It looks even more ancient now, dust, cobwebs, cracks and 
stuff. Once they start meddling with it, the Thing comes to life. Also we 
don't know in which way the parallel universe in which the Figure destroyed 
the City developed. Maybe the civilisation degraded back to the Middle Ages 
in there?

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