Q&A with Dennis Shirk

[poom3619]

That column looks weird... I suppose not many civ have column and costume like that?

It's probably between Turban and Hellenistic influence.

 

[cecilbturtle]

Italy - looks like renaissance headgear...

http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/icaimages/8/m801.113va.jpg

 

[Pouakai]

Whoa, hey Greg! Long time no see!

 

[Quinas]

D. Maunel I

 

[Fabiano79]

Could it be this Nepalese turban:

http://media-cache-is0.pinimg.com/550x/94/98/81/949881bbf5059a0c95ca64754ffe194b.jpg

 

[Dragonflow]

Here's a bigger image of the poster, which Dennis kept hinting at containing a clue (the buildings on the left side specifically)

Spoiler :

Also, hi everyone it's been a while

Thanks Greg.
Now we just need somebody with knowledge of Architecture.

 

[turingmachine]

Could it be this Nepalese turban:

http://media-cache-is0.pinimg.com/550x/94/98/81/949881bbf5059a0c95ca64754ffe194b.jpg

But again, that wouldn't be coastal.

 

[SnowKomodo]

That column looks weird... I suppose not many civ have column and costume like that?

It's probably between Turban and Hellenistic influence.

What I'm thinking. Not a column I've seen.

Also, I love this pace of info dripping. Really fast

 

[Inhalaattori]

He is holding a sceptre. Doesnt that hint rather to European leaded.

 

[Kimuyama]

So, the key to this leader is the hat, the staff and the architecture. Go civfanatics! Go! Find the answers!

But what was it with the poster that they wanted us to notice?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

The architecture should lend us a clue. I'm going through columns now to find out who used octagonal columns.

 

[poom3619]

With water behind him? Unlikely.

He built his lake. Maybe it is merely his swimming pool. (That's hat is matched IMO)

 

[Tinker]

The architecture looks definitely Mediterranean, but could surely also be Moors or any southern Mediterranean peoples.

 

[Hannibal XIII]

D. Maunel I

Yeah- interesting choice for Portugal. I was hoping for Joao II- anyone who can get Isabella of Spain to call them "The Man" is pretty freaking great.

 

[shaglio]

Up 'til now, I'd been pretty calm about BNW. But after watching this video, I'm starting to get psyched!

 

[gigantomachyusa]

What about that hint that it's "not President Garfield". Was it just a red herring or a veiled clue?

 

[Giskler]

Here's a bigger image of the poster, which Dennis kept hinting at containing a clue (the buildings on the left side specifically)

Spoiler :

Also, hi everyone it's been a while

I'm guessing new buildings since some of those dont match up with the wonders we already know about.

 

[SnowKomodo]

I'm ruling out any East Asian or Southeast Asian nations immediately. Column is nothing like it. Also ruling out any Southern and central African civs.

 

[blackcatatonic]

With water behind him? Unlikely.

The water could be a red herring - besides, it's not as though his empire was entirely land-locked.

Every image I can find of Timur/Tamerlane has him wearing a hat or crown with an upright plume in the middle. And the sceptre doesn't look European to me.

I'm pretty confident it's not Portugal since it doesn't in any way resemble Henry the Navigator's trademark chaperon, or indeed the profile of any Portuguese leader I can think of.

 

[Tinker]

What about that hint that it's "not President Garfield". Was it just a red herring or a veiled clue?

That was what we in jargon call "a joke".