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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 |

Super Loops

SPOILERS for Final Fantasy (the first one) and The 7th Saga. The idea of a time loop is one that comes up occasionally in fiction, sometimes as simply a repeating part of history, and other times involving time travel that … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Final Fantasy, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged 7th saga, 8-bit theater, chaos, cid of the lufaine, cornelia, elemental fiends, final fantasy dissidia, garland, gorsia, kary, kraken, lemele, lich, light warriors, lufenia, marilith, sarda, saro, tiamat, time loops, time travel |