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Jinn and Tonic

I’ve written about jinn before, but something I don’t think I’ve touched on is the different varieties among them. As with a lot of attempts to categorize mythical beings, there’s no real consensus on this. I just finished G. Willow … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Cartoons, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Islam, Kirby, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged abu tha'labah al-khushani, aladdin, alawi, alif the unseen, angels, arabian nights, bahamut, druze, dungeons and dragons, efreeti, fairies, g. willow wilson, ghouls, gustave flaubert, hadith, hinn, iblis, ifrit, jinn, king solomon, king vikramaditya, kirby's dream land 2, marids, muhammad, nasnas, night of the living dead, queen of sheba, quran, shaitan, shiqq, sila, succubus, the fisherman and the jinni, the temptation of saint anthony, vampires, vetala, zombies |

Follow the Improbable Road

Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott – This is a retelling of the Baba Yaga legend specifically linking it to the pogroms against Russian Jews. In New Orleans in the present, the witch’s descendants, a shapeshifting street performer and a woodworker who can … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology, up-and-under, Video Games | Tagged a. deborah baker, airships, angels, baba yaga, bahamut, bible, bikke, dan frey, dawn of souls, demons, dr. unne, dreambound, dwarves, elves, esther j. hamori, flitz stewart, flying fortress, four fiends, gennarose nethercott, giants, god's monsters, green man, impossible city, improbable road, kaimeiji yuu, kraken, leviathan, lufenia, manga, marilith, matoya, nephilim, noah's ark, princess sara, puffy tolte, robots, satan, seraphim, thistlefoot, tiamat, under the smokestrewn sky, unicorns, witches |

You’ve Got a Fiend in Me

I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh |

The Ecosystem of Yggdrasil

A comment on my post about video game squirrels mentioned Ratatosk (or Ratatoskr, probably a more accurate transliteration, but not how I originally knew it), the squirrel from Norse mythology. He’s a red squirrel who runs up and down the … Continue reading →

Posted in algonquin, Animals, Comics, Final Fantasy, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Native American, Norse, Video Games | Tagged bahamut, dainn, deer, dragons, duneyrr, durathror, dvalinn, dwarves, eagles, final fantasy xiv, giants, glooscap, goats, god of war, hawks, heidrun, heroine's quest, jotun, marvel comics, mead of poetry, miko, nastrond, nidhogg, niflheim, odin, prose edda, ragnarok, ratatosk, rati, serpents, snorri sturluson, squirrel girl, squirrels, trees, valhalla, vedrfolnir, wabanaki, world tree, yggdrasil |

Dragon Divinity

I can think of a few different video games with dragon gods, or at least dragons with celestial powers. I suppose that fits in with the East Asian conception of dragons, where they tend to be heavenly beings rather than … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Babylonian, Breath of Fire, Cartoons, Chinese, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Games, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Japanese, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Shinto, Video Games | Tagged agni, akira toriyama, amaterasu, bahamut, breath of fire ii, breath of fire iii, chrono cross, chronopolis, czar dragon, demons, diabolos, dinopolis, divinegon, dragon ball, dragon god, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragonians, dragons, dungeons and dragons, fate, final fantasy vi, frozen flame, harle, hoderi, hoori, incest, infinity dragon, izanagi, izanami, kaiser dragon, ladon, lavos, magicite, otohime, pyrospheres, reptites, rudra, ryujin, shenlong, shinryu, st. eva, super mario rpg, tamayori-hime, tiamat, toyotama-hime, ugayafukeiazu no mikoto, urashima taro, watatsumi, xenlon, zenith, zenith dragon, zenithia |

Final Fakery

The TV Tropes page on Urban Legends of Zelda (good name, by the way) had a link to this post from the alt.games.final-fantasy newsgroup, which brought back some memories. I read that group pretty regularly back when I started college, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Humor, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Metroid, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged 7th saga, aerith gainsborough, alt.games.final-fantasy, bahamut, battletoads, dragon queen, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy dissidia, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy tactics, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, general leo christophe, kain highwind, king bowser koopa, lavos, lufenia, lunarians, lutz, neko, noah, psaro, ricard highwind, ridley, rumors, samus aran, schala, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, tom nook, torneko taloon, tortimer, tv tropes, wart, zemus, zenith dragon, zenus |

Familiar Final Fantasy Faces

Final Fantasy III is sort of a forgotten game in the popular series, due partially to coming out on the Famicom not long before the release of the Super Famicom. As such, the North American market didn’t get it for … Continue reading →