Board Thread:The Kane Chronicles/@comment-25044056-20150625045942

For the longest time I assumed this crossover would never happen, mostly because as far as I could tell the Vikings never raided or interacted with Egypt.

I recently stumbled across a story that conveniently provides the perfect backdrop for a crossover between the Kane Chronicles and RR's upcoming series about Norse mythology.

The war of vesosis and tanausis is recorded in the 6th century psuedo-historical text called the Getica. The war was between the egyptians led by their kind Tanausis and the goths led by their king Vesosis. The first battle was at the river Phasis.

"Tanausis, king of the Goths, met Vesosis, king of the Egyptians, and there inflicted a severe defeat upon him, pursuing him even to Egypt. Had he not been restrained by the waters of the impassable Nile and the fortifications which Vesosis had long ago ordered to be made against the raids of the Ethiopians, he would have slain him in his own land. But finding he had no power to injure him there, he returned"

The same source also claims that when Vesosis died the goths worshiped him as one of their gods. What if Vesosis returned as a god to attack the house of Life, hoping to suceed where he failed as a mortal. Alternatively what if Tanausis also became a god and the two of them decided to resumed the battle they never finished when they were human, causing lots of collatoral damage along the way. 