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<blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 760371" data-attributes="member: 5137"><p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Monsters</strong></span></p><p></p><p><strong>The Hydra</strong></p><p></p><p><em>In Greek myth, the second labor of Herakles was to slay (or at least end the terrifying reign of) the Hydra of Lernaea. The hydra of that myth was a creature of the swamp who would go out onto the plains of Lernaea and ravage cattle and country both. It had nine heads, eight mortal and one (the middle one) immortal. It was not killed, but instead trapped - Herakles cut off its eight mortal heads (while Iolaus used a torch to burn the stumps), then cut off and pinned its immortal head under a rock.</em></p><p></p><p>Theralis: The original Hydras is a long dead demigod, the spawn of Ogalos and Ophalas, respectively the god of deep currents and an shoreside fawn (female satyr). Hydras was born a fat-bodied serpent with goat-like forelegs, three coral snake heads, and three tails. Ophalos was horrified by the monster birthed from her womb, but Ogalos was delighted with its appearance, so he fogged her mind to let her see the child as beautiful. After a year and a day, the serpentine child bit her nipple as it suckled, and Ophalos bled to death.</p><p></p><p>Hydras fled the sea, fearful of its fathers' wrath, and hid in mountain swamps for several decades, feeding on those who happened by and the random forage into a village or two. Hydras was eventually killed when it was driven by a group of heroes to the sea, where Ogalos raised a mighty wave and dragged Hydras into the sea to die.</p><p></p><p>Before Hydras was slain in this way, however, it bore a number of young in the swamps who, while not quite like their parent (they took on the traits of different serpents of the swamp that Hydras bred with), possessed many of the same qualities. Those eventually became the hydra known today.</p><p></p><p>Dwelling in swamps, lakes, deep rivers and other places of the wild, the hydra is a dangerous brute. Most of them retain enough divine blood in their veins to regenerate wounds almost as swiftly as they are taken, and when one head is slain, two heads grow in its place, germinating in the body's flesh before pushing forth from the wound. Some species are poisonous, while others grow from the northern winter cobra (with white mantles and frosty breath, they are easy to discern) or the burnserpent (also easy to discern by its brilliant red throat), while still others stem from more harmless varieties of snake. All are dangerous, however, as they are generally 20-30 feet in length and nearly ten tons in weight, and terribly vicious.</p><p></p><p>Most are dully colored other than their heads, with pale underbodies and torsos spotted much like a young deer for camouflage. Although ponderous, they are capable of very rapid charges for short distances, and, while practically unheard of in Theralis (where no sizable lakes exist, and no swamps at all), they are known.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seasong, post: 760371, member: 5137"] [color=orange][b]Monsters[/b][/color] [b]The Hydra[/b] [i]In Greek myth, the second labor of Herakles was to slay (or at least end the terrifying reign of) the Hydra of Lernaea. The hydra of that myth was a creature of the swamp who would go out onto the plains of Lernaea and ravage cattle and country both. It had nine heads, eight mortal and one (the middle one) immortal. It was not killed, but instead trapped - Herakles cut off its eight mortal heads (while Iolaus used a torch to burn the stumps), then cut off and pinned its immortal head under a rock.[/i] Theralis: The original Hydras is a long dead demigod, the spawn of Ogalos and Ophalas, respectively the god of deep currents and an shoreside fawn (female satyr). Hydras was born a fat-bodied serpent with goat-like forelegs, three coral snake heads, and three tails. Ophalos was horrified by the monster birthed from her womb, but Ogalos was delighted with its appearance, so he fogged her mind to let her see the child as beautiful. After a year and a day, the serpentine child bit her nipple as it suckled, and Ophalos bled to death. Hydras fled the sea, fearful of its fathers' wrath, and hid in mountain swamps for several decades, feeding on those who happened by and the random forage into a village or two. Hydras was eventually killed when it was driven by a group of heroes to the sea, where Ogalos raised a mighty wave and dragged Hydras into the sea to die. Before Hydras was slain in this way, however, it bore a number of young in the swamps who, while not quite like their parent (they took on the traits of different serpents of the swamp that Hydras bred with), possessed many of the same qualities. Those eventually became the hydra known today. Dwelling in swamps, lakes, deep rivers and other places of the wild, the hydra is a dangerous brute. Most of them retain enough divine blood in their veins to regenerate wounds almost as swiftly as they are taken, and when one head is slain, two heads grow in its place, germinating in the body's flesh before pushing forth from the wound. Some species are poisonous, while others grow from the northern winter cobra (with white mantles and frosty breath, they are easy to discern) or the burnserpent (also easy to discern by its brilliant red throat), while still others stem from more harmless varieties of snake. All are dangerous, however, as they are generally 20-30 feet in length and nearly ten tons in weight, and terribly vicious. Most are dully colored other than their heads, with pale underbodies and torsos spotted much like a young deer for camouflage. Although ponderous, they are capable of very rapid charges for short distances, and, while practically unheard of in Theralis (where no sizable lakes exist, and no swamps at all), they are known. [/QUOTE]
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