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Hydra!

Postby Gold Bearer » February 28th, 2016, 6:02 pm

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I needed this for a dark spell in my evil winds of magic supplement but I thought it was deserving of it's own topic. Hydras have always been my favourite monster (actual monster) anyway. It probably should be more dangerous than I've made it but then the spell would be overpowered and monsters wouldn't be suitable for standard HQ if I went that route. It's still really tough compared to standard monsters. I decided not to make it so two heads grow back when they don't use fire, too strong.

I plan to do all the main mythical monsters because that's one thing that the custom content hear is lacking. I'll change the topic to title to monster when I've done a few more.

Ignoring giant real animals:
Hell Hound
Cockatrice
Karrion
Hypogriff
Griffin
Chimera
Wyvern
Dragons
Dracoliche
Manticore
Lamassu
Great Taurus

Any obvious ones I've missed?
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Re: Hydra!

Postby Goblin-King » February 28th, 2016, 6:20 pm

Depending on your criteria and definition of "obvious", but here is a couple.
From your list it looks like you are specifically going for the more beast-like monsters, so no medusa, harpies, sirens etc.?

Sphinx
Cerberus
Basilisk
Kraken
Leviathan
Behemoth
Ziz
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Re: Hydra!

Postby Gold Bearer » February 28th, 2016, 7:09 pm

Cheers.

Goblin-King wrote:From your list it looks like you are specifically going for the more beast-like monsters, so no medusa, harpies, sirens etc.?
Correct. The humanoid ones and the bigger than real life animals are going with the relevant faction. 'True' monsters can have their own pseudo faction.

Sphinx: So is the monster named after the statue or the statue named after the monster?

Cerberus: Heard of it but don't know what it is, I'll google it.

Basilisk: Yea.

Kraken: Not sure if they can exist out of the water but maybe.

Leviathan: Yes. Limbless snake type dragon headed thing.

Behemoth: Not sure if that's an actual monster or a generic name for something big.

Ziz: Never heard of it.

Jabberwocky: Aren't they from star wars?

This is what I was going to call a behemoth. Don't know how close it is if behemoth is a specific monster.
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Re: Hydra!

Postby StratosVX » February 29th, 2016, 12:03 am

One that immediately comes to mind is the Roc.


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Re: Hydra!

Postby Goblin-King » February 29th, 2016, 2:56 am

Gold Bearer wrote:Sphinx: So is the monster named after the statue or the statue named after the monster?
I'm thinking more of the Greek sphinx that killed travelers if they couldn't answer the riddle.

Cerberus: Heard of it but don't know what it is, I'll google it.
Three headed dog

Leviathan: Yes. Limbless snake type dragon headed thing.
Behemoth: Not sure if that's an actual monster or a generic name for something big.
Ziz: Never heard of it.
Leviathan, Behemoth and Ziz are biblical monsters of the seas, lands and skies respectively. Neither have specific characteristics, but are often used loosely in fantasy regardless.

Jabberwocky: Aren't they from star wars?
:lol: - It's a poem by Lewis Carroll featured in Through the looking glass (Alice in Wonderland part 2 - Back with a vengeance). The Jabberwocky has since transcended into generic fantasy. It is killed by the Vorpal Blade.

This is what I was going to call a behemoth. Don't know how close it is if behemoth is a specific monster.
Chaos Behemoth.jpg

A huge land beast is basically a fitting description. It leaves room for imagination.


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Re: Hydra!

Postby Gold Bearer » February 29th, 2016, 4:18 am

Goblin-King wrote:Leviathan, Behemoth and Ziz are biblical monsters of the seas, lands and skies respectively. Neither have specific characteristics, but are often used loosely in fantasy regardless.
Hmm, and hell hounds have a link with fire. I might give them each an element spell set. Cerberus and hell hound might be the same thing then. I think I remember hell hounds having three heads, although in fantasy they're normally depicted with one so I could keep them separate.
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Re: Hydra!

Postby knightkrawler » February 29th, 2016, 4:21 am

In Greek mythology, Cerberus is the name given to the Hellhound who guards the entrance to Hades. He has three heads and is the only one of his kind.
Generic Fantasy makes it a point to just borrow names from anywhere without even trying to be cohesive in naming convention.
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Re: Hydra!

Postby Gold Bearer » February 29th, 2016, 4:24 am

Could that one breath fire?
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Re: Hydra!

Postby Goblin-King » February 29th, 2016, 5:05 am

knightkrawler wrote:In Greek mythology, Cerberus is the name given to the Hellhound who guards the entrance to Hades. He has three heads and is the only one of his kind.
Generic Fantasy makes it a point to just borrow names from anywhere without even trying to be cohesive in naming convention.

True. Same goes for a lot of them. Hydra, Minotaur, Behemoth, Leviathan, Ziz, Medusa (okay, there were 3, but still not a "race") :geek:

Doesn't mean they'd still wouldn't make good fantasy races ;)


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Re: Hydra!

Postby Gold Bearer » February 29th, 2016, 5:22 am

Goblin-King wrote:
knightkrawler wrote:In Greek mythology, Cerberus is the name given to the Hellhound who guards the entrance to Hades. He has three heads and is the only one of his kind.
Generic Fantasy makes it a point to just borrow names from anywhere without even trying to be cohesive in naming convention.

True. Same goes for a lot of them. Hydra, Minotaur, Behemoth, Leviathan, Ziz, Medusa (okay, there were 3, but still not a "race") :geek:
You mean gorgon. Medusa was the name of an individual gorgon. :ugeek:
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