[R&F] Sneak Peak 24/01

[bite]

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[Ondolindë]

Spider, a tree of sorts and a sea monster?

 

[Giskler]

Spidersilk and a dragon?

 

[Hakan-i Cihan]

Scotland?
The monster is monster of Loch Ness?

 

[blackcatatonic]

It's Scotland I think. There's a story about Robert the Bruce supposedly having learned perseverance by watching a spider spinning its web in a cave.

http://www.scotclans.com/scotland/scottish-myths/royal-legends/bruce-spider/

ETA: fixed link

 

[Republic of San Montuoso]

Is that a baobab? I cannot recognize the tree

 

[Cerilis]

A great leader perseveres time and time again? Sounds like shaka. He comes back every civ game, after all.

Edit: Okay, nevermind at the sea monster.

 

[bite]

ok so not William Wallace ... few we dodged a bullet there

 

[DeepKing]

This is the coyest yet.

 

[ombak]

Robert the Bruce and the Spider:
http://www.scotclans.com/scotland/scottish-myths/royal-legends/bruce-spider/

Hooray for google.

(Add that to Loch Ness and only the tree is missing).

Also, since the leak was about Civilopedia entries (the leaker translated those IIRC) it makes sense William Wallace would be mentioned in an entry about Robert the Bruce.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

the monster jumping out and waving his arms makes me laugh way more than it should.

 

[Turrdy]

scottland!
i searched for "loch ness monster medieval" on google image search and that popped up first:

 

[Uberfrog]

It's Robert the Bruce. Everything is falling into place .

 

[God of Kings]

Excellent timing for Robbie Burns Day!

 

[Blackwolf803]

http://www.scotclans.com/scotland/scottish-myths/royal-legends/bruce-spider/

One of the first hits when typing in spider and scotland

 

[Scaramanga]

I guessed Scotland. I'm SO clever.

 

[Giskler]

http://www.scotclans.com/scotland/scottish-myths/royal-legends/bruce-spider/

 

[mzmaster]

Well, The Loch Ness is obviously Scotland

 

[pgm123]

The wind howled louder; the fire had died down. Robert lay still and silent on his mean straw bed, oblivious of the cold and discomfort of his surroundings, troubled and disturbed by his thoughts. Suddenly his eye was caught by a spider – the creature was hanging by a long silvery thread from one of the wooden beams above his head, and trying to swing itself to another beam. The spider tried again and again, failing every time. Six times, counted Robert, the spider tried and failed. ‘Six times,’ thought Robert to himself, ‘have I fought against the English and failed.’

Robert looked at the spider more intently. ‘Now if this spider fails again on the seventh attempt, I too shall give up the fight for Scotland. But if it succeeds, I shall try again.’ The spider, as though aware of Robert’s thought, swung itself again with all its tiny strength – and finally, on the seventh attempt, it succeeded. It swung on to the beam it had been trying to reach, and fastened its thread, thus stretching the first line of the web it was trying to weave. Robert Bruce smiled, and sat up. He threw off his despair and grief, and determined to set out for Scotland again and continue his fight against the English. He fought against the English for the next eight years, defeating them and finally driving them out of Scotland in 1314, at the Battle of Bannockburn.

Robert the Bruce and the Spider

 

[sonicmyst]

Connected to Chile?

https://www.fodors.com/news/style/in-chile-spiders-have-been-making-wool-products-for-10000-years

Ugh, clue is so hard.