[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by kaijubot

Except, of course, that the Kraken is from Scandinavian mythology, not Greek (despite what certain films would have you believe). There's definitely a lot of borrowing from Western mythology, but I'd say it's more 'Popular' than intentionally Greek.

I would say that its more easy or common mythology than popular. A dragon? A little Unicorn? Magic rings? Greek based monsters? What they've done is used the most common and easiest to use pieces of western myth. Which is actually brilliant. I actually love the crazy mashup of ideas and customs and history.

[kaijubot]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

I would say that its more easy or common mythology than popular. A dragon? A little Unicorn? Magic rings? Greek based monsters? What they've done is used the most common and easiest to use pieces of western myth. Which is actually brilliant. I actually love the crazy mashup of ideas and customs and history.

That's pretty much what I meant by 'popular'; aside from Garuda it's all been elements that are widely known and easy to recognise. The question is, what happens when they run out of well known creatures? Hecatonchires?

[SpeedDemon]

Then they make up Chimeras