2012 Armageddon & Masque of the Red Death?

[Twin Agate Dragons]

2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist

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I knew most of that. But the idea of the conspiracy theories behind it makes for good roleplaying opportunities.

[William Blackmoor]

for those interested, the source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091011/ap_ ... alypse2012

One of them is Monument Six.
Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost didn't survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.
It's unique in that the remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.
However — shades of Indiana Jones — erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.
Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico's National Autonomous University interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, "He will descend from the sky."
Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 — including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

I think this could be interesting. Gothic Earth has no connection to the Realms of the Gods, or at least they were severed. So what happens, if the Gods find a way back in 2012? Maybe the solar alignment of sun and centre of the Milky Way will have no consequences for the physical realm, but it might have a significant impact on the spritual world?
As the mayan calender is a few hundred years older then the coming of the Red Death, there might be other stone tablets dating to 2700 B.C. on the calender warning about the Red Death and the consequences.

Best wishes
William