I think I read a Lumley short story where the Mythos pops up in WWI. It was good.
And talking Lumley's Mythos stories -- there's something I just noticed.
The Golarion demon queen of vampires is named Zura, a fallen/cursed Azlanti queen. And in Lumley's version of the Dreamlands, he has the 'lost queen of a sunken land' who became a ruler of vampires, who happens to be near the horrid land of Zura. Just a coincidence or a bit of a shout-out?
In Pathfinder 1 we took the Jersey Devil and turned it into the Sandpoint Devil.I know I'm late to the thread, but I only just now saw it.
When I first saw a picture of the Sandpoint Devil, I knew what it really was. I was also glad to see an NPC with a surname connected to the Jersey Devil.
I can only saw that I hope Paizo continues to do cryptozoologists proud!!!
I hope we will!
Over the last month, we've worked up stats for death worms (not Mongolian death worms, for obvious reasons) and mokele-mbembe for upcoming products. And the chupacabras are never far from my heart (which is bad, because they drink blood). And my blog's called "Bigfoot Country." And I still plan on making my first trip out of the USA one to Canada to look for Ogopogo.
Cryptids will remain a part of Pathfinder as long as I do, in other words! :-)
Maybe you could do a Classic Cryptids Revisited someday? ;) Hmm, now there's a good question -- once you get past Nessie, Bigfoot, and the Abominable Snowman, what are the 'classic' cryptids?
And add in my vote with the guy who asked for cynocephalae/dog-heads in Golarion, though I imagine that Gnolls have that pretty well sewn up.
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And talking Lumley's Mythos stories -- there's something I just noticed.
The Golarion demon queen of vampires is named Zura, a fallen/cursed Azlanti queen. And in Lumley's version of the Dreamlands, he has the 'lost queen of a sunken land' who became a ruler of vampires, who happens to be near the horrid land of Zura. Just a coincidence or a bit of a shout-out?
It's a shout-out.
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Maybe you could do a Classic Cryptids Revisited someday? ;) Hmm, now there's a good question -- once you get past Nessie, Bigfoot, and the Abominable Snowman, what are the 'classic' cryptids?
And add in my vote with the guy who asked for cynocephalae/dog-heads in Golarion, though I imagine that Gnolls have that pretty well sewn up.
James has posted his 'classic cryptids' wishlist somewhere before I think ... maybe in the 'Class Fey Revisited' thread?
So... how many of ya can hardly wait for June's edition of the Pathfinder CARRION CROWN Adventure Path???!
:-D
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
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Better not let Mr. Lumley find out. He is extremely over protective of his stuff. A friend of mine wrote to him and described a nightmare he had from reading one of the Necroscope novels and he got threatened with a lawsuit in return. Lost all respect for him.It's a shout-out.And talking Lumley's Mythos stories -- there's something I just noticed.
The Golarion demon queen of vampires is named Zura, a fallen/cursed Azlanti queen. And in Lumley's version of the Dreamlands, he has the 'lost queen of a sunken land' who became a ruler of vampires, who happens to be near the horrid land of Zura. Just a coincidence or a bit of a shout-out?
Since the differences between Zura in Lumley's writing (itself heavilly based on Lovecraft's creations, so it's doubly amusing whenever I hear stories of Lumley getting litigious in this way) and Zura as a demon god of vampires are pretty vast, I'm not worried.
For the same reason, I'm not worried about Nissan coming after us for calling our game Pathfinder.
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Jeep went after Lucasfilm over something sillier.For the same reason, I'm not worried about Nissan coming after us for calling our game Pathfinder.
I can only hope Paizo will be as high-profile as Lucasfilm some day.