Akinbiyi Babarinde Space and Environment Secret Lair

PROP RESEARCH

The Terracotta Warriors

The Terracotta Warrior is taken from the Terracotta Army made for the first Emperor of China; its a form of funerary artthe Emperor (Qin Shi Huang) was buried with them

Qin Shi Huang ordered for an army to be immortalized as Terracotta statues, this way hell have an army with him in the afterlife, the terracotta army where later discovered in the 1970s
The Death of Qin Shi Huang - He was obsessed with immortality and he thought Mercury would be able to make him immortal, so he regularly added Mercury to his teawhich eventually killed him.

Figure 1. Qin Shi Huang

Terracotta

Terracotta is clay based ceramic, used in Building construction and sculpting and this is what the statues of the warriors where made with.

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How it fits in with my Secret Lair

I had some ideas about my character props and I really liked the idea of the Terracotta Warriors, so I made it fit in with my character and his lair Tobias is a very challenging person and very difficult to understand due to his complex Character. No one knows what hes really thinking, but he has no malice in his heart, hes a thief but only by definitionhe steals things which are a challenge to obtain, he gained this habit shortly after he left the Temple at the age of 16. The Terracotta Warrior is a prized possession of China, and it still exists right now. It was buried with the first emperor of china in 210209 BC with this fact, I was able to fit it into the story of my character. Although the statues werent officially discovered until the 1970s I have it existing in the same world as my character because although its set during an event in Chinese history, its predominantly fiction. So Im having my character steal one of the warrior statues in a world were they exist and are chinas most prize possession. The Terracotta statues would be very hard to obtain but as my character is highly skilled and has never been caught, this wouldnt be an exception. I imagine him hording it away in his lair being displayed and presented as a centerpiece as its his most challenging steal yet.

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Illustrations Figure 1. http://jesiprms15.edublogs.org/2009/12/10/qin-shi-huangdi-the-cruelFigure 2. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/italian-terracotta-sculpture/ Figure 3. http://www.originalstyle.com/tile_stone_terracotta.htm Figure 4. http://www.beijingdiscoverytours.com/html/terracotta_army_tour.html Websites http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/24454/Amazing-History-behind-TerraCotta-5 http://www.imperialtours.net/terracotta_warriors.htm http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/d4dd4/