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This may be a little out there, but I've always had an idea in the back of my head that I would implement in a dio story if my time and funds were infinite. It seems like it might fall in the bounds of this concept, so I thought I would throw it out there.
Basically, it integrates an ageless character into the mythos. The character would be an Atlantean refugee who, thanks to the sophisticated magic/technology of Atlantis, had cured himself of aging, thus making him immortal, but not invincible or unable to be killed. The Atlantean deluge having been caused by his enemies, the society of serpents or CobraLa.
The character would have all sorts of adventures in the antedeluvian age, giving him the opportunity to team up with Kull and later Conan, with their opponents often being a serpent society and their worshippers.
The character, calling himself Utnapishtim, survives the great flood and emerges as an architect of a new world. Centuries later, he is sought out by Gilgamesh of Sumeria who is searching for a way to retrieve his lost friend, Enkidu, from "death" or the "underworld" (In reality, Enkidu had been abducted by survivors of the serpent society and taken to their lair.) The two of them quest to retrieve Enkidu, to no avail.
A millenia later, under the name of Agenor, the character comes to settle in the most affluent city of the day, Troy. He becomes a great hero of the Trojan people, and joins with Theseus, the hero of Athens, and Hercules, the hero of Sparta, to fight a "demonic" incursion of a serpent regime that has again infiltrated society to bring it the brink of collapse just as they did in Atlantis. Following these adventures, Agenor retires to Troy until the fateful Trojan War, in which he was forced to face Achilles, the most powerful hero of the day.
After the fall of Troy, Agenor joined the refugees led by Aeneas and sailed for Italy. There, they founded a city that would later take it's name from Aeneas' descendent, Romulus... Rome. Agenor took the name Virgil and once again tried to live a quiet life.
After he wrote an account of the Trojan exile, Virgil retreated to the frontiers of the Empire, to another province that had originally been founded by another group of Trojan exiles, Brittania. When the imperial power of Rome began to recede, Virgil, now calling himself Ambrosius, banded together a group of warriors: Arthur, Gawain, Lancelot, Percival, etc. and fended off invasions from the north by Scots and Picts, and from the east by Saxons and Jutes. In their most desperate hour, the group went on a search for the Holy Grail, which saved their kingdom for a generation.
Years after Britain had been overrun, Ambrosius returned to mainland Europe and lived quietly for centuries, until one day he met a knight, Dante, who was desperately searching for his beloved. Once again calling himself Virgil, he and the knight tracked her whereabouts to a deep cave, that Virgil recognized as the lair of CobraLa. The two embarked within, quickly realizing that the lair was a holding place for the human victims that the serpent men used as living material to enhance their own grotesque forms. The two never found Dante's lover, Beatrice, and Dante himself went mad.
From here I would inject the character into all sorts of historical/fictional adventures, ranging from swordfighting alongside the Three Musketeers to defeating Ming the Merciless with Flash Gordon. All the while coming back to that primary enemy, the serpent-men, who we could tie in with all sorts of literary and historical villains like Thulsa Doom and Thoth Amon from the Howard stories, mythological creatures, Dracula, and of course, Nazis, and most definitely, Cobra.
_________________ I don't care how badly I have been defeated. I declare victory nonetheless.
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