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angelito
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posted March 09, 2010 09:35 AM |
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Edited by angelito at 09:35, 09 Mar 2010.
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Yeah, the genie doesn't make much sense however. The Djinn are often evil, pranksters, or such (though some are good). Maybe they watched too many "I dream of Genie" episodes 
remember the movie "The Thief of Bagdad" from the 1940ies? Abu found a bottle on the beach, opened it, and a genie came out of it and gave him 3 free wishes for freeing him?
I guess this is the idea of the genie in H3.
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Mytical
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posted March 09, 2010 09:38 AM |
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Hehe, probably. They did get a lot wrong in a way, but hey..things change/grow/adapt.
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whitebeard
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posted March 09, 2010 02:29 PM |
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Heroes 3 Golem
 We all know about the stone golem in heroes 3. Well Heres how golem came into being:
1) geodude evolves into graveler 
2) Graveler evolves into golem (but only if you trade him with another gameboy via linkcable!) 
3)And presto heres golem! 
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Monsta15k
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posted March 10, 2010 05:14 AM |
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Griffin (forgot the origen).
Cerberus (three-headed dog, guarding the gates of Hades).
Sorry,totally forgot bout those.
The cerberus-guards the gate to the underworld,lets dead souls in,but lets nobody out of the underworld(except Hermes)
Dunno bout griffons.
Not Hermes, Haides. The griffin was in a Greek story of a philosopher that escaped prison on a griffin.
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Duke_Falcon
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posted March 11, 2010 08:47 PM |
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Hmmm... As I know things (not much):
Griffins or griffons have greek origin. Half eagle-half lion, they were some kind of pets and guardians. In the middle-age they become a good creature, a protector of the faithfulls or something like that.
Monks are warrior clerics or priests of various religions (shinto, for example). As protectors in style monks figth only with bare hands or staves, weapons that cannot kill someone.
Angels are kind of daemons, spirits of another plane. In christianity they become the good aligned, protector spirits, servants of the so called "God".
Centaurs are from greek mitology. Somewhere they described as experiments of the people of the lost city of Atlantis but later they become creations of the forests' goddess (Artemis, if I remembere it well) and protectors of the nature (along with fauns or satyrs).
Dwarves are scandinavian, mentioned to evolve from maggots inside an old giant. They live under the surface, like maggots do.
Elves are once some kind of humans. They earn beauty and long life from the gods because their deeds. They are protectors of the Life (even dark elves, cause they originally just have darker skin).
Pegasus or pegasi are child of Medusa, one of the 3 gorgon sisters.
Dendroids are kind of forest daemons, guardian spirits of the woods, like the ents or treeants on other miths.
Unicorn is the result of the meeting with a rinoceros. The ancient greeks thought that rinoceroses are one-horned horses, uni-corns...
Dragons are widespread in every myth on our planet. Great reptilian creatures with immense power and wisdom. May originate the remnants of pterosaur skeletons found by the ancient men.
Gremlins are irish. Little creatures whom tend to "sabotage" things just for fun. Gizmo and it's siblings are maug'vies, dwarves or gnomes in the chinese legends.
Gargoyles are protecting daemons bound for a place for eternity. They created in the middle-age and formed and named after a dragon what lived in the river Temse in Paris.
Golems are jewish creatures. They made from clay or stone to be tools of justice (there is the world "truth" on their forehead). Later they become revenging spirits and creatures of spellcasters in the middle-age.
Magis are spellcasters, alchiemists, some kind of wizards.
Genies or geenies are desert spirits in the arabian myth originating the time of wonders, a long lost time when supernatural creatures and spirits live on the world before the time of men.
Nagas are demigods of the vedan myth, children of the sea-gods. They are snake daemons, guardians of certain places and archenemies their siblings, the birdmen. Nagas are immortal because they choose immortality instead of the joys of life (like love, for example).
Titans are half-gods. In greek mythology they rule before the gods. After a lost war they cast in Tartaros, where they must keep the base of the world or something like that. Atlas, a titan, keep the world on his shoulders while another titan, Prometheus (who gave for men light and healing) punished for the eternity by a giant eagle eat his liver every day (he later rescued by Heracles or Hercules).
Imps are little devils of the lower planes. They aren't dangerous but very wise although not very helpful. Familiars are pets of spellcasters, in myths usually smaller daemons or other supernatural creatures.
Gog and Magog are historical persons, great and merciless conquerors. They designated evil by the conquered peoples.
Hellhounds are fictive creatures of the D&D universe. Cerberus however is a 3-headed dog from the greek myth. Cerbie guard the entrance of the Netherworld and defeated by Hercules in one story while in an other story Perseus defeat him before he met Medusa in her chapel.
Daemons are the evilised spirits of christianity. Originally they are neutral spirits in ancient myths. Pit fiends are a kind from them labelled evil by christian religion.
(to be continued)
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Dj
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posted March 11, 2010 09:15 PM |
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sorry to interrupt but...
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Not Hermes, Haides.
actually, it's Hermes.
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Duke_Falcon
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posted March 11, 2010 09:19 PM |
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Efreets or Afreets are evil fire spirits in the arabian and indian myth. Their origin is the same as for the genies. According some fables efreets and genies fight an eternal war with each other.
Devil... Guess all of you know about them more than enough...
Troglodyte are men whom live in caverns. Prehistoric men and not blind lizardkind.
Harpies are evil creatures of the greek myth. They were evil witches punished by their crimes. They are ugly and disgusting and tend to eat raw human flesh. The Argonauts almost killed them all.
Beholders are evil guadian spirits in some myth. They could be almost everything 'caues beholder is not a race much more a title.
Medusa was a priestess of Poseidon and become pregnant by the god. When Poseidons actual mate found that out cast a curse upon Medusa and her two other sisters. They become ugly, evil creatures and whoever look at their eyes turn to stone. Only medusa was mortal from the three sisters, later killed by Perseus. Pallas Athene wear Medusa's head on her shield since.
Minotaur is the son of king Minos who got a white bull from Poseidon but he didn't sacrifice it. Poseidon made Minos wife to fall in love with the bull and the end result was Minotaur who lived in a maze and eat human flesh. Theseus killed him with the help of Minotaurus' sister, Ariadne.
Manticore is an indian creature. An awesome beast what hunt for men and has the ability to jump over even the highest walls.
Skeletons, zombies and wights are revived spirits. They originate from the early middle-age when black magic was a common thing to frighten the people...
Vampires are the children of Cain and Lilith. Cain sacrificed his brother for God who grand him immortality but with everlasting bloodthirst. Lilith was a smaller evil goddess who later killed by her lover Cain.
Liches are spellcasters. It was thaught that necromancers can cheat death and after their death they become liches.
Undead riders and dragons are creation of D&D universe and haven't any mythical basis...
Goblins are little snows from nordish myth. They are the local gremlins not more. Hobgoblins are the result when a human and a goblin have sex... Imagine if you want...
Wolf riders are mere goblins. Like boar riders they are some kind of cavarly in some tales but Tolien made them widely known.
Orcs are evil humanoids in the nordic myths. They are brutal barbarians, not an offshot of the elves...
Ogres are half giants, children of a human-giant couple. They are nordic in origin.
Roc are a giant hawk in the arabian tales said to be able lift up even an elephant. Thunderbirds are great birds in the myths of the north-american indians.
Cyclopses are offsprings of the titans but 3 of the were son of Poseidon. The create the thunderbolts for Zeus.
Behemoths are interesting stuffs. There is one in the bible while another one, Grendell is part of the Beowulf-song (grendell was a water behemoth, son of a sea-troll witch).
Gnolls are the european versions of the anubites. Desert spirits with dog or jackal head, hunting for dieing people in the desert.
Lizardmen are created by the fantasy novells of the 20th. century.
Serpent fly is a creation of 3DO and NWC as like the dragon fly.
Basilisks are originate from the greek. A giant serpent with deadly gaze and poisonous breath. Later the conquistadors met the real basilisk lizards and after their fear from the greek beast they called them basilisk or cockatrice 'cause their appearence.
Gorgon was a mechanical fire breathing bull in the greek myth. One of the Argonauts defeat it.
Wyverns are little dragonkins of the european foklore from the middle-age.
Hydra was a terrible giand snake born under a magical tree. He has the ability to regrow his heads when they cut off. One of his head was immortal so when Hercules defeated him took his immortal head and buried under a giant rock for eternity.
(to be continued)
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Duke_Falcon
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posted March 11, 2010 09:26 PM |
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Trolls are half giants from the nordic tales have the ability to completely regenerate themselves. Only fire can kill them.
Halflings are irish. They were some crossbreeds of humans and faery-folk (even dwarves but this later known as gnomes).
Mummies are the bodies of a dead person preserved for him to be a shelter before the spirits start it's journey to the land of deads.
Pixies and sprites are faery-folks of the celtic myths. They born from the flowers under the full moon's light. Tend to be nasty sometimes...
Phoenixes are the avatars of the sun god Ra. They simbolise the rebirth of the sun in the form of Ra's signet creature, the eagle. The greeks adopt the phoenix but without it's story.
Sorry, I misspelled Medusa... She was a gorgo, not a gorgon, my bad
That's all... I don't know if I forget any creature...
If someone has any question just ask...
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Mytical
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posted March 13, 2010 07:18 AM |
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Hades ruled the underworld, Hermes was the messanger god...so technically BOTH. After all Hermes would have to be able to deliver the messages. But the three-headed wolf really was not to keep anybody out, but to keep them IN for the most part (though it did both). There were others that could get in also. Zeus for one..but normally they didn't want to because it was not a nice place to visit.
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