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Lith-Maethor
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posted September 29, 2001 10:40 AM |
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Creature Origins...
Many of the creatures appearing in HoMM come from Greek Mythology...
Hydra, Centaur, Harpy, Medusa, Minotaur, Phoenix, Titan, Giant, Cerberus...
Do you know where the other creatures come from?
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posted September 29, 2001 12:36 PM |
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the othere creatures...
hey Lith...
well i guess it's safe to say that the angels and the devils are creatures from the bible...so some of these creatures are form the bible...
oh...btw u left out the cerebus...they are greek as well...^_^
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Gravdragon
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posted September 29, 2001 02:02 PM |
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he didnt left out cerberus..they are last on his list.
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Wyvern
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posted September 29, 2001 04:39 PM |
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I think that the Genie, the Efreet and the Roc are from the Arabic mythology and the Naga - from the Indian mythology. According to Incubus, the Wyvern is from the English mythology. And about the Cyclopes... They exist in the Greek mythology, too.
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posted September 29, 2001 04:54 PM |
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...I think the humans represent people...
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posted September 29, 2001 07:27 PM |
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I think humans appear in every mythology plus the bible. And you can find them in the real world! I won't tell you to look into the mirror to find one because some of use aren't people. Some of us are dwaves (me!), dragons, titans, devils, demons(the incubus is a demon. But Inky already left!)... So look out the window.
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posted September 29, 2001 08:07 PM |
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Dwarves are from Norse mythology, and Giants are from almost everywhere, Serbian mythology, Norse mythology, you name it. Every culture had their own giant. Same with dragons, dragons are found all over the world. Elves of course are European, and so are pixies and sprites. Pegasi are greek, and there are also chinese phoenix's and unicorns.
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Preserver
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posted September 29, 2001 08:35 PM |
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Trolls are Norse
Unicorns Eurasian
Leprechauns European
Satyr Greek
Mummies Egyptian
Griffins European
Gorgons Greek
Demons Christian
Vampires Transylvanian
Nightmare MtG (Mares is european and used to give people nightmares)
Behemoth Hebreian (Means beast. Probably the hippopotamus described in the Old Testament)
Gremlins European
Gargoyles European
Magi European
Druid Celtic
Venom Spawn American 
Berserk Norse
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
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RMS
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posted September 29, 2001 09:02 PM |
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...actually I think Unicorns are a bit more Eurasian...
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Preserver
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posted September 29, 2001 09:26 PM |
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I knew that, but I forgot... 
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posted September 29, 2001 11:17 PM |
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Manticores
I heard manticores are from a pacific island but I also heard they kill good dragons so one of this is wrong.
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Preserver
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posted September 30, 2001 12:23 AM |
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Incubus told me manticores was specially created (magically?) to kill non-evil dragons. That's why I gave manticores that speciallity in one of my towns... But I don't know where they are from...
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posted September 30, 2001 03:19 AM |
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Here's a good link to a manticore site, as well as any other creatures of legend at that...
http://www.monstrous.com/Monsters/Orient/Manticore/manticore.html
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Lith-Maethor
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posted September 30, 2001 03:59 AM |
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thank you all...
seems I did leave out a few... Satyr, Cyclops, Pegasus... maybe Dryad (if she is a summonable Preserve creture)...
the Gorgons are greek?
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ThE_HyDrA
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posted September 30, 2001 08:02 AM |
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Quote:
the Gorgons are greek?
Yes, but i don't think they were bulls. It seems as though they were ladies who turned you to stone or something.
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Lith-Maethor
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posted September 30, 2001 09:57 AM |
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...actually Medusa's name was Gorgo... when I saw Preserver's post I thought of the mighty moo's...
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posted September 30, 2001 11:54 AM |
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Hmm... I think that Medusas and Gorgons should be one and the same thing. I don't know how it's spelled in English, but let's assume that the name of the Medusa was Gorgo. So the designers of HoMM3 didn't know what to do - what to be the 5th level creature from the Fortress town. Maybe they had ideas about an evil cow but the name Evil Cow didn't sound well... So they decided to pick the name of one of the Medusas and claim the Gorgons to be a different creature. But both the Medusa and the Gorgon have a specialty with their stare. In order to differenciate the two the Medusa petrifies and the Gorgon kills...
So now we know what do the designers do when they have a creative problem...
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Preserver
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posted September 30, 2001 11:56 AM |
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Gorgons are witches turned into bulls. They have to look down all the time, cause when they look up, they will kill what they look at (10% death stare)... And I'm pretty sure they are greek.
I looked in the American Heritage Dictionary:
Gor·gon
1. Gk. Myth. Any of the three sisters Stheno, Euryale, and the mortal Medusa who had snakes for hair and eyes if looked into turned the beholder into stone.
2. gorgon A repulsively ugly or terrifying woman.
[ME < Lat. Gorgo < Gk. Gorgo < gorgos, terrible.]
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titan
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posted September 30, 2001 11:58 AM |
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Edited By: titan on 30 Sep 2001
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check this out
http://www.loggia.com/myth/gorgons.html
somewhere else i found this
The Medusa was one of the three Gorgon sisters. They were monsters who lived on an island, who were known far and wide because of their deadly power. They had tusks like boars, protruding tongue, thick dragon scales, hands of brass, wings of gold, and a face so ugly that all who looked at it were turned to stone. Medusa was distinguishable from the others because she had snakes for hair. Medusa had been beautiful in her youth, especially her hair, but had lain with Poseidon in the temple of Athene. For punishment, Athene had cursed Medusa to look as she does. She was the daughter of Phorcys who had offended Athene by leading the Libyans of Lake Tritonis in battle.
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Lith-Maethor
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posted September 30, 2001 12:32 PM |
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glad to see someone really knows mythology...
so... actually Medusas should be called Gorgons... Gorgons should be called, uh...dunno... I guess it doesn't matter... they are not in HoMM4....
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