Blackmoor Reference in the Tomb of Horror Prime

[havard]

Stormcrow over at the Tombs of Horror Blog, made a pretty interesting discovery the other day. When the original Origins I Tomb of Horrors was sold on eBay, the neat sum of $1526.01 was more than the blogger could afford. The packaged included 1 cover page, 1 map page, 1 character list, 9 pages on the tomb contents and 24 pages of drawings. Fortunately, Stormcrow began to examine the pictures distributed for the auction. They were blurry, but he made out the following:

blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/2010/11/blackmoor-reference-in-tomb-of-horror.html

-Havard

[Falconer]

Well, that’s really interesting. I long thought that Iuz and Egg of Coot were the “same idea”—a sort of northwestern Mordor ruled by an insane Sauron. I have been pondering only this past week about how, although Iuz’s genesis as one of the imprisoned demi-gods of Greyhawk Castle is well-known, it is possible that when Gary was designing the WoG to be a published world, by putting Iuz in the northwest he was essentially (maybe unconsciously, but I propose that it was deliberate) making him a surrogate Egg of Coot. Maybe Rob has some insight into this possible connection.

[Falconer]

Egg of Coot, Eye of Ooze? Hmm.

[DungeonDevil]

Fascinating stuff!