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Likho, liho, lykho (Belarusian: лі́ха, Polish: licho, Russian: Лихо, Ukrainian: Лихо) is an embodiment of evil fate and misfortune in Slavic mythology, a creature with one eye, often depicted as an old, skinny woman in black (Лихо одноглазое, One-eyed Likho) or as an evil male goblin of forests.
Nibenay: 6th Champion of Rajaat, "Bane of Gnomes"; Male; Sorcerer-king of Nibenay; Exterminated the gnome race in 1229 years. He was previously known as Gallard but took the name Nibenay after rebelling against Rajaat. He rules a city-state that shares his name.
Valkyrie – Female figure from Norse mythology, chooses who lives and who dies in battle. Vampire – Being from Slavic folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence of the living, generally in the form of blood. Vættir – Nature spirits in Scandinavian folklore. Vila – Slavic version of nymphs or fairies, with the power of the wind.
Gui Po – Ghost that manifests as an old woman; Gui Shu – Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving; Gulon – Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid; Gumiho (Korean mythology) – Demonic fox with thousands of tails believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails
The Oxford English Dictionary favoured a Scandinavian origin, while the scholarly study by Erin Sebo of Flinders University argues for an Irish origin, on the basis that the word is widely distributed in Irish place-names, whereas puck-place-names in English are rare and late in the areas showing Old Norse influence, and seem rather to radiate ...
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Chaos gnomes are the most flamboyant gnomes. Brightly colored and rare, they are strongly inclined towards chaos, as their name suggests. [27] Whisper gnomes lack the jovial outlook of other gnome races. Sly and suspicious, they are creatures of stealth. [27] Ice gnomes dwell in the region of Frostfell in the Eberron campaign setting
In 3.5, tieflings use human names until they seek to differentiate themselves from their parents, after which they usually take fiendish "names" of Infernal or Abyssal origin that sound menacing. In 4.0 onwards, tieflings usually take an ancestral Infernal name, although some young tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, choose a name ...