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If I'm not mistaken #1 is an australian creature that has been mentioned in this thread before.Mel Gibson?
You are the first one to mention Mel Gibson, so no.
He wasn't even in Dot and the Kangaroo
Charybdis has much different art.
Wait . . . Charybdis has art?
Which would imply that scylla would have art too, eh?
I think I follow that logic . . . ;)
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I'll have to bow to your first hand knowledge of what a recently dismounted lard-smeared rhino would look like. Oh, if only I had the resources of a top-selling RPG manufacturer! :)
It still lacks a mane though.
Regardless, we can now logically deduce that the four are:
bunyip
wendigo
shantak
leviathanThose all sound like very cool monsters to put in a bestiary.
Gary
Maneless shantaks are hardly a new development in the venue of shantak art.
And no one's quite guessed what the last one is exactly yet... the key for that guy remains in the title—specifically the words "public domian."
It also helps if you know what one of my favorite nautical novels is, though.
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Obviously, that last one is a Livyatan melvillei
That great while killer (can we just call it a Dire Whale?), I swear revenge!
Maneless shantaks are hardly a new development in the venue of shantak art.
And no one's quite guessed what the last one is exactly yet... the key for that guy remains in the title—specifically the words "public domian."
It also helps if you know what one of my favorite nautical novels is, though.
I'd always assume it was the Great White Whale from Moby Dick. Then again, I half expect to see a skeletal Captain Ahab all tied up to it.
And no one's quite guessed what the last one is exactly yet... the key for that guy remains in the title—specifically the words "public domian."
It's a trick. The last monster isn't the perfectly ordinary whale. It's the ghost ship inhabited by ghost pirates, or "ghost pirate swarm".
"Public domain" is a hint because pirates assume that everything is in the public domain. Right?
I can't wait for the Trapdoor Were-Chihuahua.I think I detect an S*P reference there (and an opportunity to plug R.K.).
R.
I can't wait for the Trapdoor Were-Chihuahua.I think I detect an S*P reference there (and an opportunity to plug R.K.).
R.
That was a were-beagle. Were-beagles are not particularly threatening, but they have a really nice howl.
Bunyip
Wendigo
Abishai
Leviathan
That is probably the best guess.
I just realized something, They could be making the wendigo out to be a corrupted avatar of Erastil
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I just realized something, They could be making the wendigo out to be a corrupted avatar of Erastil
Heh... that's an interesting idea, but it's not what we're doing. We've actually already stated up the wendigo in Pathfinder #6; he's more akin to the wendigo from Algernon Blackwood's short story, "The Wendigo," with a heavy dose of August Derleth's Lovecraftian "Ithaqua" and the monster from the movie "The Last Winter," all of which were, themselves, inspired by real-world wengigo myths.
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I just realized something, They could be making the wendigo out to be a corrupted avatar of ErastilHeh... that's an interesting idea, but it's not what we're doing. We've actually already stated up the wendigo in Pathfinder #6; he's more akin to the wendigo from Algernon Blackwood's short story, "The Wendigo," with a heavy dose of August Derleth's Lovecraftian "Ithaqua" and the monster from the movie "The Last Winter," all of which were, themselves, inspired by real-world wengigo myths.
Oh, so WEN-DI-GO isn't good enough for Paizo then? ;)
Though I prefer keeping it close to the original mythic roots, there's still a lot of potential in FenrysStar's idea for a sort of advanced, unique wendigo(or strain of the curse): Erastil used to be a much bloodier god back in his more primitive, primal roots when he was more neutralish. He's shed a lot of that as time went on. Maybe some of that old bloodthirstiness went somewhere?
There are a lot of wendigo myths.
If you have access to a good university library, the journal of the proceedings of the American Anthropological Association did a call for papers on the Wendigo in the early sixties. You can get a pile of wendigo lore from that, far more I think than any other source.
I just realized something, They could be making the wendigo out to be a corrupted avatar of ErastilHeh... that's an interesting idea, but it's not what we're doing. We've actually already stated up the wendigo in Pathfinder #6; he's more akin to the wendigo from Algernon Blackwood's short story, "The Wendigo," with a heavy dose of August Derleth's Lovecraftian "Ithaqua" and the monster from the movie "The Last Winter," all of which were, themselves, inspired by real-world wengigo myths.
Real world combined with Lovecraft is good for me. It was a stray thought that came to me as I like Old Deadeye.