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Heroes Community > Library of Enlightenment > Thread: Inspiration for HOMM - Mythic, Literary, and Otherwise?
Thread: Inspiration for HOMM - Mythic, Literary, and Otherwise?
zombiewhacker
zombiewhacker


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posted December 28, 2015 08:47 PM
Edited by zombiewhacker at 20:47, 28 Dec 2015.

Inspiration for HOMM - Mythic, Literary, and Otherwise?

J.R.R. Tolkien's influences on HOMM are pretty obvious here, I'm sure: grand elves, battle dwarves, dendroids (ents), and so on.

Then there's the mythological references: griffins, centaurs, the inevitable dragons, and what have you.

Can anyone cite other examples from the games, either creatures or heroes or even storylines, that appear to have drawn their inspiration from works of fantasy, literary and otherwise?

(For the moment, I'm talking about the original HOMM games and not the various mods and fan-made maps.)

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Buji
Buji


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posted December 29, 2015 12:36 AM

I'm pretty sure there is not a single creature NOT inspired by Warhammer, mythology or other literature

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Galaad
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posted December 29, 2015 01:52 AM

Yes at the time Tolkien's work was still an inspiring read not yet excessively streamlined and turned into a gigantic market overused to the point it became ailing.

Don't forget D&D.
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eutow
eutow


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posted December 29, 2015 01:57 PM

Many HoMM creatures are inspired by Greek mythology. Cerberus, medusa, titan, harpy, cyclops, minotaur, pegasus, hydra etc. Gorgons should be Greek too, but they kind of confuse me. Gorgons were originally three immortal sisters who had snakes instead of hair and whose faces were so ugly they turned people to stone. Only one of the three sisters was mortal - Medusa, and Perseus killed her. Now, I don't really see why gorgons in H3 were presented as lizard-like cows with poisonous breath... The elemental creatures might be treated as Greek, too. (See [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element#Greece]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element#Greece[/url])

Other mythologies were used as sources, too. Nagas are, iirc, Indian, efreet and genie are Arabian, thunderbird comes from North American Indians, manticore is Persian and (arch)angel and devil are, of course, Christian.

And most of those "Tolkien creatures" actually come from European folk tales and particularly Scandinavian mythology.

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Avonu
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posted December 29, 2015 02:23 PM
Edited by Avonu at 14:32, 29 Dec 2015.

eutow said:
Gorgons should be Greek too, but they kind of confuse me. Gorgons were originally three immortal sisters who had snakes instead of hair and whose faces were so ugly they turned people to stone. Only one of the three sisters was mortal - Medusa, and Perseus killed her. Now, I don't really see why gorgons in H3 were presented as lizard-like cows with poisonous breath...

Blame D&D
Althrough there are bronze bulls which breath fire/poison like H3's Gorgons in Greek mythology - in myth about Jason and Golden Fleece.

Also a little more information.
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