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Monster of the week

Tips: 1.25 INK Postby sifsand on Mon Feb 03, 2020 3:59 pm

Hello everyone, this little forum will be to highlight particular kinds of ghosts and ghoulies of interest per week.

Tonights monster: The Necromorph

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Necromorphs are a monster from the Video Game series Dead Space. They are corpses reshaped into horrible new forms with different purposes and are all highly agressive. A necromorph is made when a dead body or any dead biomass is infected by signals coming from what is known as a Marker. A Marker is a strange object that controls the necromorphs, and it affects living beings just as well as dead. A common phenomena is the Marker causing disturbing hallucinations or making sentients have suicidal tendencies so as to add to the growing mass of Necromorph. The ultimate goal of a marker is to collect enough dead mass to cause a convergence event. A convergence event gathers together all of the necromorphs and any available dead biomass into one gigantic entity known as a Brethren Moon. These moons are the source of Marker signals and presumably the creators of them.

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SO FRIKIN COOL ^^

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Tips: 1.00 INK Postby sifsand on Tue Feb 11, 2020 4:52 pm

Hi everyone and welcome back to another entry in Monster of the week. Tonight I have a very famous one from Irish Mythology: The Dullahan.

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The Dullahan is a headless horseman who carries his severed head under his arm. It has a horrid grin on its head and has eyes that still see across the vast horizon. It carries a whip made from a human spine and its wagon is adorned with funeral objects.

When a Dullahan stops riding it means someone is fated to die. They call out the victims name and they promptly drop dead where they stand as their soul is taken from their body. The only weakness of a Dullahan is gold, even objects the size of a nail made of gold are enough to keep one away.

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Tips: 1.00 INK Postby sifsand on Wed May 27, 2020 1:10 am

Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: The Erymanthian Boar.

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The Erymanthian Boar was a fearsome animal in Greek mythology. Capturing it alive was one of the tasks that King Eurystheus asked the demigod hero Heracles to complete during the story of the Labours of Heracles.

The boar was a giant creature living on Mount Erymanthos, a region sacred to the goddess of hunt Artemis. When the boar would reach the farmlands, it would lay waste and destroy everything in its passing. The capturing of such a fearsome animal was not an easy task, and this is why Eurystheus chose it as the fourth labour of Heracles.

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Tips: 1.00 INK Postby sifsand on Wed May 27, 2020 2:10 pm

Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: The Asura.

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Asuras are spirits found in Buddhist and Hindu cosmology. They are usually portrayed as power-hungry and lusty. Even the best of the Asura can be unpredictable and prone to mood swings, which makes them risky friends and dangerous enemies!

Asuras are sometimes classified as demons, and they have the appearance to match! Their skin is deep red or blue-green, and their hair is inky black. Four to six arms sprout from their bodies, as well as three heads, with faces pointing in opposite directions. They are fond of fine clothing: silk skirts with golden sashes and fringes, gold bands around their arms, bejeweled collars and elaborate helmets.

Although they are more powerful than humans, the Asura are the least powerful—and least noble—of the deities. Their low rank means that they are envious of the other gods and, at the same time, easily insulted if they are not praised for the powers that they do have.

Above all else, the Asura are moody and unpredictable. For example, when Sakra became ruler of the earth, the Asura celebrated his rise to power by drinking huge quantities of potent liquor. While they were drunk, Sakra ordered that they be removed from his presence, and when the Asura sobered up, they were so offended that they declared war against the new ruler.

Still, the Asura are not all bad. On one hand, they experience pleasure as deeply as negative emotions, which makes them highly romantic lovers and fun friends. Many Asura have poured their passionate emotions into religion as well, becoming loyal practitioners and even priests. They make sacrifices, perform cleansing rituals, build temples, and make holy pilgrimages with great enthusiasm.

Hindus have divided the Asura into two groups: the good adityas and the evil danavas. Hindu texts also explain that an Asura who practices good acts can reach the next level among the gods, transforming into a asura-deva.

Because of their volatile emotions, Buddhists consider the Asura to be one of the “four unhappy births,” meaning that being reincarnated as an Asura is as bad as being reincarnated as an animal.

As gods—and highly individualist gods at that—the Asura’s powers are almost as unpredictable as their emotions. They are known for performing wondrous miracles as well as waging nasty battles. They can fly, shapeshift, cast spells and charms, turn wild animals into slaves, and much more.

Female Asura, known as Asuri, are especially famous for the charms they can work with plants. One legend explains that the Asuri created a plant which could cure leprosy, another that they created powerful love potions with herbs.

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Tips: 1.00 INK Postby sifsand on Thu May 28, 2020 4:51 pm

Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: The Homunculus

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A Homunculus (meaning little man) is said to be a humanoid creature that is a fully formed microscopic human adult that is formed when sperm is injected into a chicken's egg. The creature comes from the concept of 16th century alchemy, it is historically referred to as creation of a miniature, fully formed human.

The idea of growing your own small human started when the theory of a small miniature human could be seen in the head of a sperm cell through a microscope. Obviously this theory turned out to be false but the idea of the Homunculus itself may be all too real.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: Ammit.

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Ammit was a demoness and goddess in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus, and crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians. A funerary deity, her titles included "Devourer of the Dead", "Eater of Hearts", and "Great of Death". Ammit lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was depicted as an ostrich feather (the feather was often pictured in Ma'at's headdress). If the heart was judged to be not pure, Ammit would devour it, and the person undergoing judgment was not allowed to continue their voyage towards Osiris and immortality. Once Ammit swallowed the heart, the soul was believed to become restless forever; this was called "to die a second time". Ammit was also sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire. In some traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed. Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction.

Ammit was not worshipped; instead, she embodied all that the Egyptians feared, threatening to bind them to eternal restlessness if they did not follow the principle of Ma'at.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: Devils

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A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in many and various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.

It is difficult to specify a particular definition of any complexity that will cover all of the traditions, beyond that it is a manifestation of evil. It is meaningful to consider the devil through the lens of each of the cultures and religions that have the devil as part of their mythos.

The history of this concept intertwines with theology, mythology, psychiatry, art and literature, maintaining a validity, and developing independently within each of the traditions. It occurs historically in many contexts and cultures, and is given many different names—Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles—and attributes: It is portrayed as blue, black, or red; It is portrayed as having horns on its head, and without horns, and so on. The idea of the devil has been taken seriously often, but not always, for example when devil figures are used in advertising and on candy wrappers.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: Gnomes

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A gnome is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characteristics have been reinterpreted to suit the needs of various story tellers, but it is typically said to be a small humanoid that lives underground.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: Centaurs

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A centaur, or occasionally hippocentaur, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse. Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses, and were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia. Centaurs are subsequently featured in Roman mythology, and were familiar figures in the medieval bestiary. They remain a staple of modern fantastic literature.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: The world turtle

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The World Turtle (also referred to as the Cosmic Turtle or the World-bearing Turtle) is a mytheme of a giant turtle (or tortoise) supporting or containing the world. The mytheme, which is similar to that of the World Elephant and World Serpent, occurs in Hindu mythology, Chinese mythology and the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The "World-Tortoise" mytheme was discussed comparatively by Edward Burnett Tylor.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Monster of the week.

Tonights monster: The Hamadryad

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A hamadryad is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees. They are a particular type of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a certain tree. Some believe that hamadryads are the actual tree, while normal dryads are simply the entities, or spirits, of the trees. If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For that reason, dryads and the gods punished any mortals who harmed trees.

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