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Nagas originate in Hindu mythology, in which they are magical beings that can take on various snake-like forms. Some appear as literal snake...

The sphinx is a creature of Greek myth, taking the form of a winged lion with a human face. In the original myths, she is, like the minotaur...

The lamia is another creature originating in Greek myth. However, the route from the myth to the RPG monster is rather more circuitous than ...

Manticores are creature not of Greek, but of Persian, myth. The name literally means "man-eater", and it's at least possible t...

Like centaurs , minotaurs , and harpies , satyrs have their origins in Greek myth. The original versions are wild nature spirits and, in p...

Minotaurs are another creature with their origin in Greek myth. In the original, there was, of course, only one Minotaur, trapped in a lab...

Harpies are one of a number of D&D monsters that owe their origins to Greek myth. However, the story is not quite as simple as that, s...

This series of posts doesn't exactly have a large audience, but I have nothing else to do this morning, so let's turn to a race that...