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A mythical city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. Vyraj: A mythical place in Slavic mythology, where "birds fly for the winter and souls go after death". Westernesse: A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn. Xibalba: The underworld in Mayan mythology. Yomi: The land of the dead according to Shinto mythology, as related in ...
Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).
Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on ...
Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia. Brigadoon: Alan Jay Lerner: Brigadoon: Brigadoon is a fictional Scottish town and is the main subject of the Broadway musical of the same name. The town only appears in our world for one day every 100 years. Lake Wobegon: Garrison Keillor
Dungeons & Dragons: Bloodthirsty humanoid hyenas that devoutly worship a demon lord. Gnomes: Dungeons & Dragons: Gnomes are generally human in look, albeit roughly a foot shorter. They tend to have prominent noses. Gnomes tend towards tinkering and mining. Goblins: Dungeons & Dragons: Goblins are short, generally green to brown skinned humanoids.
Elves are a humanoid race in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, one of the primary races available for player characters, and play a central role in the narratives of many setting worlds of the game. [11] Elves are renowned for their grace and mastery of magic [11] [12]: 58 and weapons such as the bow [12]: 15, 58 and sword.
Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake. Chaac: the Maya civilization rain god, depicted in iconography with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose. Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids.
A race of very powerful, mysterious, and sadistic fish-people (something between eels and viperfish). Capable of survival in salt and fresh water, as well as in the air, they can communicate telepathically with a variety of aquatic species including whales and Cray. Their name comes from a creature of English nursery stories.