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Beholder, a creature in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with one large eye and many smaller eyestalks; Cyclops in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons; Draken, a one-eyed sea monster in the animated series Jumanji; Imbra, an idol and the highest god of Kafiristan in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
Creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game that come from or are based on real-life folklore or mythology. Note that many of these although taking the name from the mythological version, have very little in common with them, instead being based on modern fantasy fiction.
It debuted in Dungeons & Dragons' Fiend Folio as one of the, according to TheGamer, more "silly monster designs". [25] Mantimera – Half-manticore, Half-chimera, whose lion's head is replaced by a manticore's. Owlbear – A creature that is half-bear half-owl. It debuted in Dungeons & Dragons. Thessalmera – Half-thessalhydra, Half-chimera.
The beholder is a fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is depicted as a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and many smaller eyestalks on top with powerful magical abilities. The beholder is among the Dungeons & Dragons monsters that have appeared in every edition of the game since ...
"Direach Ghlinn Eiti, or Fachan" as illustrated by J. F. Campbell. In Scottish folklore, the fachan (or fachin, [1] fachen, Direach Ghlinn Eitidh or Dithreach (dwarf of Glen Etive)) is a monster or giant described by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands as having a single eye in the middle of its face, a single hand protruding from its chest instead of arms, and a ...
First came the twelve Titans, next the three one-eyed Cyclopes, and finally the three monstrous brothers Cottus, Briareus and Gyges. As the Theogony describes it: Then from Earth and Sky came forth three more sons, great and strong, unspeakable, Cottus and Briareus and Gyges, presumptuous children.
The mythical Kraken is one of the scariest monsters ever imagined. One of the earliest mentions of the gigantic cephalopod came from Swedish King Sverre of Norway in 1180. Some said the creature ...
Yama-waro – Hairy, one-eyed spirit; Yanari – Spirit which causes strange noises; Yaoguai – Animalistic demon or fallen gods; Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) – Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire; Yatagarasu – Three-legged crow of Amaterasu; Yato-no-kami – Serpent spirits