From Andor s02e06. They were explaining how the relics in the room are used, but they skipped that one.
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Why, that’s the Dodecaholedron.
Lol this guy doesn’t know what the dodecahedron is for. Get a load of this!
Bet he doesn’t know how to use the three seashells, either!
Oh its something with a use so obvious we need not even write down its name or mention it.
I mean, duh. Everybody knows what these are!
Oh yeah, now I remember! lol, can’t believe I forgot. 😂😆🤣
It is a Roman dodecahedron, several of which have been found in Europe. The purpose of it is unknown, though there are many theories.
Look, Romans had historians, sort of. They knew about ancient (to them) civilizations, and the mysterious artifacts they had left behind. They also had the equivalent of modern billionaires. And they even had a sense of humour (a bit rude, maybe, judging by the graffiti in Pompeii, but a sense of humour nonetheless).
What they did not have, however, was the vast variety of entertainment we have today, so they probably got bored.
Now, imagine an extremely wealthy, extremely bored Roman, who’s been reading about the mysterious hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, and been wondering about what the people of future millennia will say about Rome… and in his boredom he comes up with the perfect, most funny way to prank them.
So he seeks a good engineer and has him come up with something somewhat complex yet easy to mass produce, that will withstand the ravages of time, and which looks like it must have had a purpose, yet is actually completely useless. Then he takes the design to several metalsmiths and pays them to make a few thousand of the things, and pays a few dozen men to travel the empire dropping the things in inconspicuous places where no one will notice them for centuries, and spends the rest of his life amusing himself thinking about the theories future historians might come up with to explain the damn things.
That is what I believe Roman dodecahedrons must have been for.
I just learned the other day that “Roman dodecahedron” is a bit of a misnomer: They’re mostly from Britain and Gaul, and none have ever been found in Italy. So Celtic or Romano-Celtic would be more accurate descriptors.
The most compelling theory is a glove loom of sorts. Variations are found to this day.
The ancient version of three shells
It’s the Horadic Dodecahedron
That’s just SCP-184, in a galaxy far far away the people discovered how to neutralize its anomalous properties
Oh that’s some good ass lore right there. Love how it builds up this image of the danger of the object but never divulges what could actually happen if interacting with it in the wrong way.
Most of the SCP are this way. If you want to go deeper, some of my favorites include:
- body horror virus
- big eel
- anxious man
- cute and harmless slime
- big girl
- man stuck in your walls
- the machine
Going into SCP is a good way to spend an afternoon or two, there are really talented writers out there
God I love SCP so much. Probably why I loved Control so much, it was like playing SCP: The Game or something.
You put fossils in it to craft gear
Crocheting gloves for rancors.
My dog liked to roll his around and get treats out of it.
This?
p sure that’s one of the bigass thundercubes, it’s used for krangling.
See it as an easter egg. The dodecahedron is a find from multiple Celtic and Roman archaeological site. The knowledge about its purpose was lost in time.
Early holocron.
measuring the girth of your lightsaber
Who’s lightsaber has the largest girth?
