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Appearance. Tiefling fighter designed by William O'Connor for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.[ 1 ] The tiefling (/ ˈtiːflɪŋ / TEEF-ling) [ 2 ] is a fictional humanoid race in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game. Originally introduced in the Planescape campaign setting in the second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as ...
Etymology. The Greek word nýmphē has the primary meaning of "young woman; bride, young wife" but is not usually associated with deities in particular. Yet the etymology of the noun nýmphē remains uncertain. The Doric and Aeolic (Homeric) form is nýmphā (νύμφα).
The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. Tolkien adopted the term orc from these old attestations, which he professed was a choice made purely for "phonetic suitability ...
Gorgons. The Gorgons (/ ˈɡɔːrɡənz / GOR-gənz; Ancient Greek: Γοργώνες), [2] in Greek mythology, are three monstrous sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, said to be the daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They lived near their sisters the Graeae, and were able to turn anyone who looked at them to stone. Euryale and Stheno were ...
A Wiccan Dictionary defines a cantrip as "a magickal spell". In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, a cantrip is a type of minor spell that generally is the simplest and weakest kind available to learn. Their weakness is usually described as they can only produce the magical effect equal to the energy put into it; no giant breaks from ...
Greyhawk (1975) In-universe information. Type. Undead. Alignment. Any evil. The lich / lɪtʃ / [1] is an undead creature found in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. Liches are spellcasters [2] who seek to defy death by magical means. The term derives from lich, an archaic term for a corpse.
The origin of the word pixie is uncertain. It could have come from the Swedish dialectal pyske, meaning 'small fairy'. [6] Others have disputed this, given there is no plausible case for Nordic dialectal records in southwest Britain, claiming instead—in view of the Cornish origin of the piskie—that the term is more Celtic in origin, though no clear ancestor of the word is known.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1908) gives the meaning of Nephilim as "giants", and warns that proposed etymologies of the word are "all very precarious". [13] Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-p-l (נ־פ־ל) "fall".