6: The Lake Tana Monasteries
The Coptic Christian monasteries located on various small islands on Ethiopia’s Lake Tana are ancient themselves, and supposedly built on even older structures, predating Christianity by centuries. Lake Tana would be a great gaming location, it’s a beautiful environment, and having the player going back and forth between the various bigger and smaller islands and monasteries would make for some good exploration gameplay. The legends connected to the area are manifold. Some legends say that the Ark of the Covenant was located here, connecting the Lake Tana monasteries closely to Judeo-Christian mysticism and legend.