Just because your species is known for drowning people doesn’t mean that they all drown people! Except for the ones that DO drown people.
Just because your species is known for drowning people doesn’t mean that they all drown people! Except for the ones that DO drown people.
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At least in the case of old nokks, those drowning cases are just the magical creature equivalent of an angry old man with really bad dementia getting violent at kids playing too close to his yard. Also the old man’s a cannibal. I think this metaphor is breaking down.
In the event that we do get another week of Reader Questions, I am curious about what a Pantheon would look like in Skin Deep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(mythical_creature)#:~:text=The%20pantheon%20is%20a%20mythical,with%20stars%20along%20their%20back.
If we’re going to add heraldic creatures, I wouldn’t mind seeing an Enfield.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_(heraldry)
Enfields have appeared a couple times in older Reader Questions. Though I’d have to work my way through them all in order to find them.
I imagine that the non-jerk aquatic people are more likely to try and scare people away from the water because water is dangerous to primates. The notorvolent ones probably at least like their privacy and the lack of drowned primates that comes from the primates believing that the Ahuitzotl will attack them.
I think if his mum wants people to not mistake her for a kelpy, she needs to adjust her disposition