Germanic mythic creatures and monsters?
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Germanic mythic creatures and monsters?
For our 7th Sea campaign, I'm playing a Germanic not-Witcher monster hunter. Can anyone point me to a decent source of European mythic creatures and monsters, particularly Germanic ones? I'm also looking for mountain-dwelling German monsters specifically.
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Krampus! Lol
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Re: Germanic mythic creatures and monsters?
Specifically Germanic stuff is a bit hard to come by. Viking stories will have some. You're going to see a lot of overlap with Nordic stuff because that's the best preserved pre-Christian mythology we have from Europe, English/French Celtic stuff aside. Most basic mythology books that manage to get around all the cliche Greco-Roman stuff is going to mention a few critters. There's always good ol Grimm, but the origins of those stories are largely medieval and post-Christian, so your mileage may vary; the Grimms' scholarship wasn't always the best either.
Wiki might be a place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... _creatures
As noted, Krampus is a thing. Kobolds are originally German and are more like pixies or elves than the little baby gator lizards they are in DnD. Drudes are a variety of malevolent spirit. Frau Holde seems to be some sort of forest or agricultural goddess. There's lots of corn-spirits, apparently.
Wiki might be a place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... _creatures
As noted, Krampus is a thing. Kobolds are originally German and are more like pixies or elves than the little baby gator lizards they are in DnD. Drudes are a variety of malevolent spirit. Frau Holde seems to be some sort of forest or agricultural goddess. There's lots of corn-spirits, apparently.
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One thing to remember, "CORN" in this case refers to wheat and barley, not the Native American Maize "Corn".Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2018-02-15 05:39pm As noted, Krampus is a thing. Kobolds are originally German and are more like pixies or elves than the little baby gator lizards they are in DnD. Drudes are a variety of malevolent spirit. Frau Holde seems to be some sort of forest or agricultural goddess. There's lots of corn-spirits, apparently.
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Re: Germanic mythic creatures and monsters?
Shroom Man 777 wrote: ↑2018-02-15 02:07pm For our 7th Sea campaign, I'm playing a Germanic not-Witcher monster hunter. Can anyone point me to a decent source of European mythic creatures and monsters, particularly Germanic ones? I'm also looking for mountain-dwelling German monsters specifically.
Go read the brother's grimm, the thidrekssaga and the Nibelungen.
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Rübezahl, of course.
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