God Complex

Kur-Dingir Words and Concepts

Anfal - "spoils of war".

gobar - sandstorm

"to the fourth degree" - Iraqi concept of avenging wrongs by wiping out the wrongdoer and his family out to his third cousins

Symbolic Representation

Make the gods' home cities have their symbols etched out with canals, buildings, trees, other structures to superimpose the respective god's symbol across the entire city?

More Names

Abu Haqid (father of fury)

Abu Turab (father of dust, the connotation of death)

Name

Reza Marmoulak (Reza the Lizard)

Turkish Titles

The Confusion by Neal Stephenson has a good description of Ottoman military titles in the very beginning.

Raïs - ship captain

Lucky 13

Would the Holy City of Marduk, or traveling there, be considered lucky or shunned as unlucky? Generally, insanity is not considered lucky.

Raising the Conflict Level

To generate more conflict than can be found in the Land of the Dead, Kur-Dingir will have to have an increased level of inter-city conflict/competition, as well as other countries or city-states which are outside of the Holy Cities. While cities nearby would be closely aligned with the closest Holy City, those outside each Holy City's sphere of influence may or may not be.

Koryn v Kur-Dingir

Koryn is fighting a low-grade ware with the Holy Cities for influence. Koryn is powerful due to trade only, not in land or men. The Koryni navigator guild is an inordinately powerful men-behind-the-thrones type of organization.

Gates of Madness

The Gates of Madness are the two great, natural pillars straddling the former road to the City of Marduk.

Kur-Dingir

Al Allahan is no more. The internal reference to "Allah" could easily be construed as offensive. In any case, I am not going for an Arabic feel so much as a Babylonian/Sumerian feel. In Sumerian, "Kur-Dingir" means "Land of the Gods." Works for me.