Create a Monster. Make a monster. How to Create Original Monsters in Fiction. The SCP Foundation. Monster Advancer 3.5 - Monster, NPC, and random encounter generator for D&D 3.5. Greek Mythology. Women in Greek Myths. Lyssa. Description[edit] She personifies mad rage and frenzy, as well as rabies in animals. In Herakles she is called upon by Hera to inflict the hero Heracles with insanity. In this scenario she is shown to take a temperate, measured approach to her role, professing "not to use [her powers] in anger against friends, nor [to] have any joy in visiting the homes of men. " She counsels Iris, who wishes to carry out Hera's command, against targeting Heracles but, after failing to persuade, bows to the orders of the superior goddess and sends him into a mad rage that causes him to murder his wife and children.[1] Greek vase-paintings of the period indicate her involvement in the myth of Aktaion, the hunter torn apart by his own, maddened dogs as a punishment for looking on the naked form of the goddess Artemis.
References[edit] External links[edit] Greek Mythology. Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion. Timeless Myths. THEOI GREEK MYTHOLOGY, Exploring Mythology & the Greek Gods in Classical Literature & Art. Monstropedia. 5 Terrifying Serial Killers Who Happened to Be Animals. The most dangerous animal on earth is man -- nothing you read in this article will change that.
Animals kill for food and territory, and out of fear, but it takes a man to kill repeatedly, just for the fun of it. Well ... usually. As we have previously shown, the animal kingdom has its fair share of diabolical serial killers. Like ... #5. Photos.com The Time: 1957 The Place: Mysore, Near Bangalore The sloth bear of India sounds like the most harmless animal to carry the "bear" name outside of the koala. Wilfried Berns"You'd be surprised how good thin-sliced face tastes on a toasted bagel. " That is precisely what the people of Nagvara Hills near Bangalore learned when a sloth bear decided to start murdering them. We're going to pause the article here so you can read that last sentence a couple more times. Possibly while picturing this. Over the course of several days, the enraged sloth bear mutilated about three dozen rural folk.
Getty"A moment on the lips means a lifetime on the hips. " #4. . #3. Demons and devils. Sarah's Archangels. The Grigori. The Watchers The Lord spoke: "Have no fear, Enoch, good man and scribe of goodness. Come hear my voice. Go speak to the Watchers of Heaven, who have sent you to intercede for them. Tell them, You should intercede for men, and not men for you. Why did you leave lofty, holy Heaven to sleep with women and, to defile yourselves with the daughters of men and take them as your wives, and like the children of the earth to beget sons, in your case giants? Though you were holy and spiritual, living the eternal life, you defile yourself with the blood of women, you begot children with the blood of flesh, and like the others you have lusted after flesh and blood as do those who perish.
. (1 Enoch) In the early days after the Fall, before the demons had escaped from Hell and before the War had begun in earnest, the Seraphim Council debated long and long about how best to safeguard humanity. Seemingly in answer, God created the Grigori, the Eight Choir. It made them very, very effective at their jobs. INC: The Grigori (unofficial version)
(unofficial version) by "Kirt A. Dankmyer -- aka Loki" (dankmyka@wfu.edu) Here is my version of the Grigori. I welcome any comments and critique.... It was raining. Fredrico didn't like the way the man had been standing there, watching him from across the street, waiting. Fredrico decided to ignore him while he locked up for the night. And nearly jumped out of his skin, when a voice behind him spoke: "If I could make a suggestion. " Fredrico whipped around. "No," said the man. Fredrico looked at the chain. Outcasts one and all, shunned and heavily Discordant, there are still some Grigori left on Earth. Grigori have a resonance for fine detail. Nothing, no tiny detail, is beneath a Watcher's notice. This fine eye for detail also gives the Grigori an intuitive insight into any activity a human or Celestial might be undertaking.
The fact that this part of their resonance can be applied to any activity is part of what tripped up the Grigori in the first place. Blandine. David. Dominic. Eli. In Nomine Characters. I've taken over the In Nomine Collection's Rogue's Gallery. Sorry to change the format so abruptly, but I'm trying to make it mesh with my GURPS Character Archive. Same rules as with the GURPS lot -- if you're not comfortable with a concept, don't read it. I'm not going to deal with the black background-white text trick, though. (Among other reasons, makes it hard to print the page.) The game already requires one to be mature about religion being depicted in a game; if there are sexual issues in these pages (and there are some), you'll have to be mature about them, too.
Some Words may be duplicated -- different people have different "takes" on what a Word-bound would be like, and whether they'd be an Archangel or not. Though these pages are located at the Steve Jackson Games web-site, the characters contained within are NOT canon! (Back to The In Nomine Collection)(Back to the Real McCoy page)(To the GURPS Characters page) (links are definitely broken over here, though not many...)