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Post by WannabeDemonLord on Jul 2, 2018 16:52:56 GMT
By now I think many of you have probably heard of this awesome but underrated book. Japanese Yokai are awesome, but they shouldn't have all the fun when it comes to Asian monsters. This book is filled with wonderfully strange chimeras and other creatures. What are your favorite monsters from it?
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Post by The Creature Codex on Jul 9, 2018 17:27:16 GMT
Dijiang is probably my favorite, as it's weirdly cute. I'm also partial to the various "monstrous races": lots of parallels with the Plinian peoples of Western tradition.
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Post by chaoticmythboy on Jul 9, 2018 21:30:58 GMT
hmm seems my notes on chinese creatures are a little lacking but Dijiang - 6 legs, 4 wings, no face cant lose. I also really like the Tao-Tieh and the Fei
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Post by WannabeDemonLord on Jul 12, 2018 15:09:37 GMT
The monstrous humanoids here and in Pliny's work are kind of an odd case in terms of how I interpret them in my settings. Normally, I have a steadfast rule of "different cultural origin = different creature," but some of the Guideways races and the Plinean races are so uncannily similar that I actually intend to interpret them as western and eastern ethnicities of the same species. Normally I hate conflation and I'm a huge "splitter" but in this case, it seems to be oddly appropriate.
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Post by chaoticmythboy on Jul 28, 2018 21:07:34 GMT
the Quinyan- the bird/bee that poisons trees with its stinger is another fave from the guideways
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Post by Sindran on Dec 18, 2018 22:42:08 GMT
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Post by WannabeDemonLord on Dec 18, 2018 23:45:53 GMT
Cool! I have that book in paperback form. It's very nice.
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