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October 21st, 2005, 05:47 PM
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Re: Orcs, Elves, and the One Cliché to Rule Them A
I'm not touching Wikipedia, Morkilus. Besides, I'd need to get that book from the library again, I didn't write much more than keywords and went from those. Most of the presentatin was about the phenomenon of why people believed in these creatures and what mechanisms were to blame for it. Hallucinations, imagination, illusion (as a psychological/physical phenomenon) and a couple of others come to mind.
As for names, maahinen would be gnome, the fire spirit I've mentioned above would be just haltia, which is literal for elf. Liekkiö is one fire spirit from western central Finland near the city of Vaasa and those surrounds. Liekki is the Finnish word for "flame", so it's pretty damned obvious. Ahti is a water spirit of the lake, or the sea. It can be used as a generic name, but almost always refers to the pagan god of lakes and the sea, a major power instead of a lesser spirit.
Sorry, can't remember anymore right now, and I need to go to bed. G'night...
Edi
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October 22nd, 2005, 03:07 AM
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Re: Orcs, Elves, and the One Cliché to Rule Them A
I'm all about more Cthulu. More, more, more.
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October 22nd, 2005, 03:22 PM
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Re: Orcs, Elves, and the One Cliché to Rule Them A
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I'm all about more Cthulu. More, more, more.
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Why? So you'll have an excuse to speak in gibberish even more often than usual?  |
October 22nd, 2005, 03:56 PM
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Re: Orcs, Elves, and the One Cliché to Rule Them A
Or maybe he has something spesific to look towards:
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Peter Ebbesen said:Of course, for something potentially really nasty, you could have an Aboleth pretender for R'lyeh.... *shudders* Or even worse, and Aboleth *theme* for R'lyeh. The Aboleths have taken over and the star children are reduced to slavery under their Aboleth overlords... Possibly the only theme that would add leaders to beat Jotunheim's in cost.
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What scrying bowl have you been looking into? 
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Of course, it looks much more promising with
" This gremlin is looking disturbingly like some dead german leader" left out...  (this was post Post#294834 , if you want to check the thread out yourself). |
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