Vampyyrit
"They are not dead yet.. they are hiding.. they are hiding in every mind of every unborn child.. hiding until the Master whispers a wordles message that echoes in every misty pond and lake that is left unfound and has that darg shine in its waves.. then.. the messengers of dead will wake and bring new era.. the era of undead darkness.. darkness that falls down in every corner of this world and brings down the hatered of the Master.. the horde will not stop in this world.. it will claim back the burning ashes of undead realm and then it will grow even stronger! Roaming trough this land to realm of GODS! There will the Master come down from higher places and challenge the gods them selfs! The battel is so huge that it will ravage this world! And in the end all that is left of humanity is endless fields of standing skeletons that were once a human beings.. the Realm of undead is born.."
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whoa... mistäs se tuli.. 8O
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whoa... mistäs se tuli.. 8O
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
VAMPIRES FROM BEYOND THE EMPIRE
Many cultures of the Known World have legends in some way connected to the vampire myth and many of them have come from faraway lands of the south and east, Araby and Ind respectively. For the Empire the myth took route in Sylvania where Vampires were commonly referred to as Vampir or Vampyre, and today these words have usurped the more Imperial-sounding blutsaeuger (Bloodsucker). In Bretonnia the Vampire is known as Nosferatu, which is believed to derive from an eastern Sylvanian term for 'unclean one' called necuratul; in Estalia they are known as Wamphyrio; in Tilea they are known as Stregoni; in Kislev, which shares much in common with Sylvanian Vampire myth, at least on its southern fringes, they are known as Upyr and Upior; lastly, in Albany, and other remote parts of the Albion Isles, there is rumoured to be a vampiric race known as the Buhvan-Sith, in the guise of beautiful women they entrance male travellers and dance with them until they drop and then feed on their blood.
Further away from the Old World the Vampire myth is even more intriguing. In Cathay there have been tales told of the Kiang Shi who are Vampires with red eyes and green or pink hair; in Nippon there is the Kyuketsuki, which can take the form of a cat; and in the Southlands there is the Obayifo. The myth of the Obayifo has been brought back from Old World sailors, loving as they do the quaint stories of the feral Southlander tribesfolk, and it was a Vampiric creature who could become like fire and haunt the night searching for blood, only when it had fed enough does it resume human form. Apparently the Obayifo had to collect enough blood to please a demon. Another Southlander Vampire, of which there are many, is the Popobawa. Apparently it looked human but could take the form of a one-eye, bat-winged baboon.
But the most interesting Vampires come out of the folklore of Araby and Ind. Incredibly ancient hieroglyphics of Nehekharan origin depict creatures with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a winged serpent and I have managed to translate the word Vorkudlak as something close to Vampire; they could possibly be the mythical Vampire women of the Lahmian sisterhood. In Araby, west of the ruin that was Nehekhara, a Vampire is known as an Algul but there are also the Ekimmu. The Ekimmu was supposed to be a Vampire which rose from the dead when hungry and would feed on human blood if sacrifices weren't left near its grave.
In Ind there are many Vampire legends and they are far from the romantic ideal as depicted by some of the Old Worlder playwrights. First, there is the Rakshasas, found in ancient paintings on the walls of caves, holding a blood-filled goblet in the form of a human skull standing in a pool of blood. The Rakshasas has long been portrayed as a Vampire, although this myth is more prevalent in northern Ind. Then there is the Baital, a curious vampiric monster who hangs upside down like a bat. This creature is supposedly devoid of blood and must feed on humans to survive. Another was called the Penangalen, a Vampire whose head was encircled in intestines and drank blood from a skull goblet whose particular prey were infants. One of the most famous Vampires to come west was the one called Kali. She wore a garland of corpses and skulls, had fangs and four arms and was worshipped as a goddess.
Pahoittelen pitkää copypastea mutta ihan mielenkiintoista luettavaa mielestäni.
Many cultures of the Known World have legends in some way connected to the vampire myth and many of them have come from faraway lands of the south and east, Araby and Ind respectively. For the Empire the myth took route in Sylvania where Vampires were commonly referred to as Vampir or Vampyre, and today these words have usurped the more Imperial-sounding blutsaeuger (Bloodsucker). In Bretonnia the Vampire is known as Nosferatu, which is believed to derive from an eastern Sylvanian term for 'unclean one' called necuratul; in Estalia they are known as Wamphyrio; in Tilea they are known as Stregoni; in Kislev, which shares much in common with Sylvanian Vampire myth, at least on its southern fringes, they are known as Upyr and Upior; lastly, in Albany, and other remote parts of the Albion Isles, there is rumoured to be a vampiric race known as the Buhvan-Sith, in the guise of beautiful women they entrance male travellers and dance with them until they drop and then feed on their blood.
Further away from the Old World the Vampire myth is even more intriguing. In Cathay there have been tales told of the Kiang Shi who are Vampires with red eyes and green or pink hair; in Nippon there is the Kyuketsuki, which can take the form of a cat; and in the Southlands there is the Obayifo. The myth of the Obayifo has been brought back from Old World sailors, loving as they do the quaint stories of the feral Southlander tribesfolk, and it was a Vampiric creature who could become like fire and haunt the night searching for blood, only when it had fed enough does it resume human form. Apparently the Obayifo had to collect enough blood to please a demon. Another Southlander Vampire, of which there are many, is the Popobawa. Apparently it looked human but could take the form of a one-eye, bat-winged baboon.
But the most interesting Vampires come out of the folklore of Araby and Ind. Incredibly ancient hieroglyphics of Nehekharan origin depict creatures with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a winged serpent and I have managed to translate the word Vorkudlak as something close to Vampire; they could possibly be the mythical Vampire women of the Lahmian sisterhood. In Araby, west of the ruin that was Nehekhara, a Vampire is known as an Algul but there are also the Ekimmu. The Ekimmu was supposed to be a Vampire which rose from the dead when hungry and would feed on human blood if sacrifices weren't left near its grave.
In Ind there are many Vampire legends and they are far from the romantic ideal as depicted by some of the Old Worlder playwrights. First, there is the Rakshasas, found in ancient paintings on the walls of caves, holding a blood-filled goblet in the form of a human skull standing in a pool of blood. The Rakshasas has long been portrayed as a Vampire, although this myth is more prevalent in northern Ind. Then there is the Baital, a curious vampiric monster who hangs upside down like a bat. This creature is supposedly devoid of blood and must feed on humans to survive. Another was called the Penangalen, a Vampire whose head was encircled in intestines and drank blood from a skull goblet whose particular prey were infants. One of the most famous Vampires to come west was the one called Kali. She wore a garland of corpses and skulls, had fangs and four arms and was worshipped as a goddess.
Pahoittelen pitkää copypastea mutta ihan mielenkiintoista luettavaa mielestäni.
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laamaelain
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Heh, kyllä tuo ihan Old worldin 'pyyreistä kertoi. Tässä muuten vielä sivu miltä tuon otin: http://www.criticalhit.co.uk/wfrp/ vaikka mitä nippelitietoutta täynnänsä.
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laamaelain
- Viestit: 75
- Liittynyt: Ti 09.07.2002 16:37
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laamaelain
- Viestit: 75
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manmangler
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hahaa kyllä pohjan pojat näyttää maailmalle mistä ne on tehty kun kerran bretagnen parhaat ritarit olivat melkein viikinkejä sitä paitsi ainoo kansa joka on koskaan vallottanu englannin oli viikingit ja muuten ketä pelättiin eniten koko maailmassa viikinkejä. Jee me ollaan hyvii.
"Ah sitä suloista tuskaa ja kipua viiltävää"
Paitsi ettemme me ole viikinkejä, vaan Ruotsin, Tanskan, Norjan, Islannin asukkaat ovat...
hahaa kyllä pohjan pojat näyttää maailmalle mistä ne on tehty kun kerran bretagnen parhaat ritarit olivat melkein viikinkejä sitä paitsi ainoo kansa joka on koskaan vallottanu englannin oli viikingit ja muuten ketä pelättiin eniten koko maailmassa viikinkejä. Jee me ollaan hyvii.
