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New mythological creature to get behind?
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And no one has mentioned the kelpie! Seriously, I'm with any horse creature thats not a omgmagicalz unicorn or mysticmajestic pegasus. Or a combination of the two. Kelpies are badass. They tempt people to ride them and then they fuse with the person and drag them to the depths of some nearby water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie
OR similarly an Each Usige
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie
OR similarly an Each Usige
Ah, the Wendigo, eat a person and end up turning into a horrible creature with fire where your legs used to be. Good stuff. At this point I've got to wonder if there's any mythological creature that people didn't think would eat them though, seems like that's all that's been mentioned is creatures that usually at humans or at least feasted on their blood or souls.PurpleRain said:
Ehm...no....demon. Lookitup.wizzerd229 said:
Holycarp, dude, yes. I haven't heard anyone mention brownies in YEARS, but YES.Rocksa said:
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No.. we don't
Win! It was my avatar back in the days when I had less then 100 posts.bipeo said:
Cathulu! Why choose the lesser evil?
If, however, we have to go for one with which we can on some level empathize, my vote is for liches. They are basically ghouls but for a few tweaks. They got there by their own merit. In fact they had to work hard to become liches. This makes them smart and determined. Secondly, vampires have a slew of weaknesses, so their replacement should have some, too. Liches trade in the many for one big one: their phylactery. Destroy it, and you destroy the lich. Lastly, their decomposed form keeps romance novelists away. Some chicks may want to make it with a thin, pale, goth boy with no body heat, but who would find coitus with a rotted, animated corpse the stuff teenage obsession? If any of those kind of youth are out there, we can at least lock them up and be done with it.
To clarify, I mean the D&D lich. If vampires can have Angel, Liches can have the Arthas, but just open-up your Monster Manual and be on the ground floor for the Advent of the Lich.
If, however, we have to go for one with which we can on some level empathize, my vote is for liches. They are basically ghouls but for a few tweaks. They got there by their own merit. In fact they had to work hard to become liches. This makes them smart and determined. Secondly, vampires have a slew of weaknesses, so their replacement should have some, too. Liches trade in the many for one big one: their phylactery. Destroy it, and you destroy the lich. Lastly, their decomposed form keeps romance novelists away. Some chicks may want to make it with a thin, pale, goth boy with no body heat, but who would find coitus with a rotted, animated corpse the stuff teenage obsession? If any of those kind of youth are out there, we can at least lock them up and be done with it.
To clarify, I mean the D&D lich. If vampires can have Angel, Liches can have the Arthas, but just open-up your Monster Manual and be on the ground floor for the Advent of the Lich.
Define "mythological", then. Seems to me that a myth is merely a particularly old fictional story. Somewhere, someone came up with the story for a particular creature, and that story was handed down the generations and tweaked where it would be tweaked, until considered a creature of myth. H.P. Lovecraft's rather disturbing creature is merely a youngling myth.Triffid said:
If you think Vampires are ruined, try watching, "True Blood". It will remind you that Twilight has ruined nothing but itself.
As for a new Mythological creature...How about Mages? Vampires and Werewolfs are still sorta human, so Mages should count. The main reason I say Mage is fond memories of Mage: The Ascension, simultaneously one of the coolest and most unplayable settings for a PnP RPG of all time. All I gotta say is that even Stephanie Meyers couldn't screw up the Virtual Adepts. Though Hollow Ones are an easy target...
As for a new Mythological creature...How about Mages? Vampires and Werewolfs are still sorta human, so Mages should count. The main reason I say Mage is fond memories of Mage: The Ascension, simultaneously one of the coolest and most unplayable settings for a PnP RPG of all time. All I gotta say is that even Stephanie Meyers couldn't screw up the Virtual Adepts. Though Hollow Ones are an easy target...
Thesis: Vampires were not ruined because of one series. Summary at the end.
Mythological refers to creatures from stories. Much like how Cryptological refers to mysteries, and biological refers to organic, cellular, proven life. Cthulhu counts, even if he's not scary. How bad can he be?
In regards to this entire thread; Stephanie Meyer and young girls do not have the power to ruin or destroy anything. Vampires have slowly changed from the mindless bloodthirsty animated corpses they began as to (often) bisexual chess players who spend large efforts seducing and drinking from one particular person. This is a gradual evolution, a large turning point of which would have been Elizabeth Bathory, a woman who took virgins from the nearby village and bathed in their blood along with her lesbian lovers. This was credited as inspiration for Camilla, one of the oldest well-known vampire stories where the creatures in question are not mindless.
Camilla was also counted as an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. And according to a version of the book I have, so was a dream in which the author dreamt the scene where the count pulls the young man away from the coven of female vampires and says "He is mine!"
Summary (aka TL;DR): Sentient vampires have bisexual tendencies, original vampires were solo zombie hordes.
Mythological refers to creatures from stories. Much like how Cryptological refers to mysteries, and biological refers to organic, cellular, proven life. Cthulhu counts, even if he's not scary. How bad can he be?
In regards to this entire thread; Stephanie Meyer and young girls do not have the power to ruin or destroy anything. Vampires have slowly changed from the mindless bloodthirsty animated corpses they began as to (often) bisexual chess players who spend large efforts seducing and drinking from one particular person. This is a gradual evolution, a large turning point of which would have been Elizabeth Bathory, a woman who took virgins from the nearby village and bathed in their blood along with her lesbian lovers. This was credited as inspiration for Camilla, one of the oldest well-known vampire stories where the creatures in question are not mindless.
Camilla was also counted as an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. And according to a version of the book I have, so was a dream in which the author dreamt the scene where the count pulls the young man away from the coven of female vampires and says "He is mine!"
Summary (aka TL;DR): Sentient vampires have bisexual tendencies, original vampires were solo zombie hordes.
