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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 2649901" data-attributes="member: 35678">HA, this is an awesome thread; one which I'll be responding to for a long time!!For my campaign, i am researching and eventually stating up a whole bunch of monsters. Surprizingly, i found quite a few from one of my main research areas > celtic mythology. Heres a few of them (with some others from different regions thrown in)Athach > large creature with one leg, hand and eye with rough, spiky ahir. AKA Direach, Fachan (Celtic)Angels > Middle-eastern religions (judaism, christianity, other cultures, etc)Golem > comes from a Jewish legend and made of clay. (Jewish)Banshee > female wraith that foretell but doesn't necessarily cause death. Terrible wail. AKA Bean Sidhe (Celtic)Cu Sith > the elven fairy dog from Races of the Wild - a large, shaggy, green furred fairy-dog with massive paws (Celtic)Elf > comtemporary version is Tolkiens invention, but its mainly from Nordic myths with a bit of celtic influence (nordic)Gnome > A treasue-guarding fairy. AKA Goric (celtic)Pixie > fairy who haunts rivers, hills and grovesNymphs > a race of beautiful fey women who symbolized the grace and beauty of nature (Greek)Satyrs > male counterparts to Nymphs. Sexual figures in general.Fomorian > demonic and giant pirates. Never settle; alwasy raid from the sea. (Celtic)Cyclopes > one-eyed Greek Monsters. Greater Cylclopes lived in Olympia, lesser ones on islands adn were very barbaric (Greek)Frost Giants > Called "Thursar" by nordic peoples (Nordic)Fire Giants > called "Muspelar" by nordic peopels (Nordic)Mountain Giants called "Bergbui" by nordic peoples (Nordic)Air Giants (AKA Storm Giants) > called "Hrim-Thursar" by Nordic peoples (Nordic)Water Giants > haven't found specific naem yet (Nordic)Goblin > grotesque, malevolent, diminutive sprite (Celtic)Behir > properly called "Beithir", these were long-tailed, spectral bears that shot lightning-bolts from their mouths and haunted cavesBarghest > a black dog with horns, fangs, firey eyes, drags a chain, inflicts never-healing woundsBasilisk > names emasn "Kings of Snakes" and was a large (Huge Size, at least) snake with a crown enblazoned on its forehead. Its gaze, bite and smell were all poisonous. (various origins, this description is Greek, i beleive)Cockatrice > head, neck, legs of a rooster, serpents tail, and a dragons tail and wings. Poisons like a Basilisk (middle-age corruption of the Basilisk legend)Annis Hag (Black Hag) > humanoid monster with claws of iron, and yellow fangs. Can claw through rock and is a terror-inspiring cannibal that skins her victims alive. (can't remeber the origin; i beleive its a Victorian Nursery-boogie)Mermaid > half-fish half-women (various origins)Treants > Tolkiens Ents.those are just a few of the ones on my list. probably have more to come <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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