Mythos Index

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A list of different types of Mythos. This is not an exhaustive list so if you have an idea for a Mythos creature and it's not on the list, just give one of the admins a PM and we'll check it out. The list is updated whenever I can. I try to avoid ones that are spirit based but if you can work your way around that, go ahead!

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Ahool – cat sized bat (Indonesia)
Akhlut – orca wolf shapeshifter (Inuit)
Alkonost – bird woman with a beautiful voice (russia)
Amphisbaenae – ant eating serpents with two heads at both ends (greece)
Angel – humans with wings (Hebrew, Christian, Zoroastrian)
Anubi – humans with jackal heads (egypt)
Asian dragons – dragons of the east (asia)
Axex – griffin-like creatures (egypt)

B
Banshee – fairy woman that wails when someone is about to die (celtic)
Basilisk – many limbed giant serpent (greece, roman)
Beserkers – humans who can transform into wolves (old norse)
Bugbear – child eating hobgoblin (celtic)
Buraq – a winged horse (islam)

C
Ceffyl Dwr – water horse (wales)
Centaur – human horse hybrid (greece)
Cerberus – many headed giant dog (greece)
Chimera – hybrid of many different animals (greece)
Cyclops – one eyed giants (greek)

D
Demon – otherworldly non-human creatures (worldwide)
Djinn – creatures that live on a parallel plane to the earth's (arab, islam)
Draconian – humanoid dragons (worldwide)
Dragon – dragons of the west (europe)
Dwarf – small human-like creatures (scandinavia)


E
Elf (dark and light) – race of youthful and beautiful beings (germanic)
Encantado – shape shifter dolphins (brazil)
Erinyes/Furies – vengeful bird women (greece)

F
Fomorians – giants with a goat head (ireland)
Fylgja - animal familiars (scandinavia)

G
Gargoyle – grotesque, stone-like beings (europe)
Giants – extremely large humans (worldwide)
Gnome – earth elementals (alchemy)
Goblins – ugly, mischievous creatures (hindu) – note: see kobolds
Gorgon – women with snake for hair (greece)
Griffin – a lion eagle hybrid (greece)

H
Harpy – beautiful winged women (greece)
Hellhound – demon dogs from hell (europe)
Hippocamp – sea horse (greece, phoenicia, etrusca)
Hydra – many headed dragon snake (greece)

I
Incubus/Succubus – seductive and sexual creatures (worldwide)
Inugami – spirit dog/canine familiar (japan)

J
Jian - one eyed one winged bird who can't survive without it's mate (china)
Jotunn – race of beings with superhuman strength (old norse)

K
Kappa – child-sized humanoid water creatures (japan)
Kelpie – water horse (scotland, celtic)
Kinnara – beautiful half bird/horse half human hybrids (hindu, buddhism, southeast asia)
Kirin/qilin – east asian chimerical good luck charm (china, japan)
Kitsune – fox-like shapeshifters (japan)
Kobold – diminutive beings (germanic)

L
Lilitu - winged demonesses (assyria)
Llamhigyn Y Dwr – frog bat lizard hybrid (wales)


M
Manticore – half human half lion hybrid (persia)
Mermaid/men – half human half fish hybrid people who live in water (worldwide)
Merrow – similar to the merfolk; kinder temperament (scotland, ireland)
Minotaur – bull headed man (greece)
Myrmidons – ant people (greece)

N
Nue – a hybrid creature that can turn into a black cloud (japan)
Nymphs (seas, earth, sky etc) – beautiful, young women who animate their particular nature (greece)

O
Obia - monstrous animal that serves witches (west africa)
Oni – demons (japan)

P
Pegasus – winged horses (greece)
Phoenix – firebird that is reborn after several hundred years (mediterranean,middle eastern, eastern)

Q
Quetzalcoatl - a feathered serpent (aztec)
Quinotaur - five horned bull (france)

R
Rakshasa – flesh eating demon (hindu, buddhism)
Roc – a giant white bird of prey (persia, arabia)

S
Salamander – fire elemental (alchemy)
Satyrs/Fauns – half human half goat hybrids (greece, roman)
Selkie – shape shifting seal people (scotland, iceland, faroe islands, ireland)
Shapeshifters (tigers, lions etc) – humans who can shift into an animal form and vice versa (worldwide)
Siren – bird women with seductive voices (greece)
Skin walker – shapeshifters who use animal pelts to shift (native americans)
Sphinx – half human half lion hybrid (egypt)
Sylphs – air elemental (alchemy)

T
Tanuki – shape shifting raccoon dogs (japan)
Tengu – demons with avian features (japan)
Thunderbird – sacred bird that creates lightning, thunder and storm clouds (native american)
Tikbalang – creature with disproportionately long limbs and feet and head of a horse (phillipines)
Tritons – mermaid-like creatures (greece)
Tsiatko – wild and abnormally tall beings (native american)
Tsuchigumo – spider limbed dwarf (japan)

U
Undines – water elemental (alchemy)
Unicorn – horned horse (greece)

V
Valkyrie – winged warrior maidens (norse)
Vampires – shape shifting humans who eat other humans (worldwide)

W
Warlock/witcher – male equivalent of witches (christian, scotland)
Werewolf (lycanthrope) – shape shifting wolf people (europe)
Witch/Sorceress – women with supernatural powers (worldwide)
Wyvern – creature similar to a european dragon with a few distinguishing features (europe)

X
Xana - extraordinarily beautiful water nymphs (asturias)

Y
Yeti – ape-like creature (himalayas)
Yuki-onna – tall beautiful women with a terrifying gaze (japan)

Z
Zhar-ptitsa - a firebird (slavic)
Ziz - giant birds that protected the smaller ones (hebrew)[/ul]
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