Barakah Statue in the Overrealm

[Renita_Serafim]

<div>Over on the Fan Art board, somebody from the KoS beta test posted <a href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=screen&message.id=18994" target="_blank">these</a> screens. The one I've copied and pasted down below shows a statue that looks remarkably like Barakah.</div><div> </div><div><img src="http://www.randomhost.org/tt/monkaviaktentangle6.jpg"></div><div> </div><div>And for comparison, here's a picture of Barakah I found, also on the Fan Art board.</div><div> </div><div><img src="http://home.comcast.net/%7Exzero87/barakah_01.jpg"></div><div> </div><div>Could this mean that the twin dragons, Barakah and Siyamak, were worshipped as something akin to demigods after Veeshan's departure from the Plane of Sky?</div>

[Arthais]

<div></div>think it might be an over reach to say that a statute made of gold, as statutes are want to be made of, in a very typical dragonlike pose, is indicative of a specific gold dragon.

[Cusashorn]

<div>Yeah the statue doesn't follow Barakah's *EXACT* details. I think it's just a generic dragon statue, and Barakah happens to be one of the more simple, generic dragon designs in the game.</div>

[Owlchick]

<div></div>She sure is pretty, though, huh?  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Barakah and Siyamak are my favorite dragons.

[Trepan]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>Owlchick wrote:<div></div>She sure is pretty, though, huh?  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Barakah and Siyamak are my favorite dragons.<hr></blockquote>See, these are the statements that make us change the subject when a woman asks "Do you think she's pretty?"Why yes, she looks just like a scaled gold colored dragon that tried to eat my head once.....</span></div>

[Cragger]

<div><blockquote><hr>Owlchick wrote:<div></div>She sure is pretty, though, huh?  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Barakah and Siyamak are my favorite dragons.<hr></blockquote>Until she walks, then it just looks awkward and resembles more the Eastern Dragon then the Western style common to EQ1.</div>

[Nainitsuj]

<div></div>The Wurm god was never in the PoS.  Maybe they were already there and had to leave when the PoS was destroyed..

[troodon311]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Owlchick wrote:<div></div>She sure is pretty, though, huh?  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Barakah and Siyamak are my favorite dragons.<hr></blockquote><p>So the art team did a crappy job on the KoS dragons, is that what you're saying? :smileytongue:</p>

[backya]

<div>PSHT vox is the best dragon, she can have me anytime =)~</div>

[Lornick]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Owlchick wrote:<div></div>She sure is pretty, though, huh?  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Barakah and Siyamak are my favorite dragons.<hr></blockquote>I dunno about that.. her eyes are kinda big and wierd and she has a big head for such a thin neck... and is it just me or has she been putting on a little 'junk in the trunk'?

[Owlchick]

<div></div><p>Heh... art did a great job on the KoS dragons.  I happen to like these two because I had a hand in naming them, so that makes them "my" dragons.</p><p>It saddens me whenever one of y'all goes out to kill them.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Renita_Serafim]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Owlchick wrote:<div></div><p>Heh... art did a great job on the KoS dragons.  I happen to like these two because I had a hand in naming them, so that makes them "my" dragons.</p><p>It saddens me whenever one of y'all goes out to kill them.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><hr></blockquote>Unless I'm roleplaying one of my "pure evil" characters like Raika or Cosette, I wouldn't have the heart to kill either Barakah or Siyamak now that I know the backstory behind them. And to think, I had them pegged as the villains of the DoF expansion when it first came out.

[Duhulk]

<div><hr>I happen to like these two because I had a hand in naming them, so that makes them "my" dragons.<hr></div><div> </div><div>Oh, then I guess these bits and pieces we had left over belong to you!  :smileyvery-happy:</div>

[Poids]

<div></div><div></div>That's just evil. <span>:smileywink:</span><p>Message Edited by Poids on <span class="date_text">02-09-2006</span><span class="time_text">04:17 AM</span></p>

[Owlchick]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Duhulk wrote:<div><hr>I happen to like these two because I had a hand in naming them, so that makes them "my" dragons.<hr></div><div> </div><div>Oh, then I guess these bits and pieces we had left over belong to you!  :smileyvery-happy:</div><hr></blockquote><p>Aieeeee!</p><p> </p>

[Dasein]

<div></div><hr>I happen to like these two because I had a hand in naming them, so that makes them "my" dragons.<hr>So was it intentional that one has an Arabic name and the other a Persian name?

[selch]

It is fantasy worlds so putting oriental names is a fashion <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Cusashorn]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Caswydian wrote:<div></div><hr>I happen to like these two because I had a hand in naming them, so that makes them "my" dragons.<hr>So was it intentional that one has an Arabic name and the other a Persian name?<hr></blockquote>I can't comment on Siyamak, but Ba Ra Kah is Egyptian in origin.

[Dasein]

<div>Interesting, Cusashorn, because Barakah is also an Arabic word meaning divine grace or divine blessing, or more specifically, Allah's blessing. It is also a female name and there's a character Barakah who was involved in the early life of Muhammed and the rise of Islam.</div><div> </div><div>Siyamak was a character in the Persian epic 'Shanameh' and is also a male Persian name, meaning dark-eyed man.  </div>