CaptainPenguin's Hall of Honour Submissions - ( 69 )

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The Understar By: CaptainPenguin

The Understar is the ruler of a people who no longer exist, a sorceress schooled in magic that yearns to be forgotten, and a master of the 9 Monsters.

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275xp
8 replies
9911 views
5 HoHs
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Sshpah (Wordfishes Of Hloth) By: CaptainPenguin

The Wordfishes of Hloth, known also as the Sshpah, are strange composite-minds of the Hlothian jungles.

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285xp
8 replies
6353 views
4 HoHs
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The Fatal Sword By: CaptainPenguin

This blade is one of the fabled Fatal Swords of antiquity, the metal of the blade folded one-million times.

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205xp
9 replies
7906 views
1 HoH
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Torch Axe By: CaptainPenguin

This is it. The one that started them all. The very first flaming weapon.

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115xp
9 replies
9699 views
1 HoH
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The Urwhor- A New Look At Orcs By: CaptainPenguin

Since the New Look At Dwarves was such a success, I decided that I would try an overhaul of another fantasy standard which I find boring, the Orcs. I'm using the Orcs only as a very loose base.

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185xp
29 replies
12748 views
3 HoHs
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The Zombie By: CaptainPenguin

The spirit which dies with a murderous rage upon it’s conscience cannot rest, and re-inhabits the corpse it once dwelt in, stalking the earth in search of one thing: revenge.

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305xp
18 replies
11547 views
1 HoH
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The Torlakia By: CaptainPenguin

Hiding deep within catacombs of the ancients, in low, deep alcoves where they lie, spider-like, awaiting the taste of fresh blood, there are the hideous Torlakia, dark beings who once lived and are now, fearfully, undead.

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220xp
12 replies
9235 views
1 HoH
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Fiery-Feathered Phembu's Better Feathers By: CaptainPenguin

Fiery-Feathered Phembu, the First Among Pheasants, went to Moeqhu-Qaz, the Leader of the Seven Sand Dragons!

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90xp
10 replies
7339 views
1 HoH
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Buzurivambavas, the Scuttling Apothecaries By: CaptainPenguin

Buzurivambavas is Bastard Demonspeak, and comes from the true Demonspeak bzhuu'vhambv's, which means 'carrying and crawling one', or 'one that carries and crawls'. They are a subtle kind of demon, and do not exhibit the terrible rage and bloodthirst of some other demons.

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215xp
9 replies
6640 views
1 HoH
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The Bamboo Rats By: CaptainPenguin

Every 45 years, the bamboo forests which cover the tiny land of Ghanzu bloom, and very soon after come the rats...

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340xp
20 replies
9127 views
3 HoHs
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Glass Mountain By: CaptainPenguin

In the burning desert stands a symbol of hope, prosperity, and peace, the place known as Glass Mountain.

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200xp
10 replies
9743 views
2 HoHs
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The Eye of Riches By: CaptainPenguin

'Your eye, your eye!' crowed Imupokith, the Sea-Witch, and Vruthath, clutching his bleeding socket, held out his hand.
Upon the palm was a staring green eye.

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362xp
27 replies
22344 views
7 HoHs
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These Are Our Gods By: CaptainPenguin

Across the Thousand Thousand Worlds, there are many gods. We, the Knowers of All Worlds, shall now endeavor to list all of the gods of a few select worlds.

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230xp
28 replies
59421 views
1 HoH
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The Iothun: A New Look at Giants By: CaptainPenguin

Deep in the mountains, beyond where the trails end, one can find collossal stairways and long, cliffside roads, massive arched bridges and huge vaulted tunnels, spanning thousands of miles. These roads, though seemingly deserted, are closely watched by their creators, the reclusive and strange Iothun ('yoh-thoon').

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125xp
11 replies
9994 views
1 HoH
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Return To Me By: CaptainPenguin

“Return to me,” she said, and as he died, he said: “I shall return”.
And though the years flew like sparrows from disturbed nest, he did return, year after year…

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320xp
25 replies
35747 views
4 HoHs
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Dolmens Of Swaiar By: CaptainPenguin

The empty shrines of a god so old, all but his name is forgotten.

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245xp
10 replies
6415 views
2 HoHs
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Sarks: The Sark-Hound By: CaptainPenguin

The Sark-Hound is a basic form of Sark which is created for a very specific purpose, to wit, the hunting and killing of the necromancer's enemies (in Centas, the place of the banal zombie is taken by these creatures).

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160xp
8 replies
9635 views
1 HoH
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City Image- Sarkushen By: CaptainPenguin

Of old, this city was the home of a coven of the Sarkukai, foul devotees of Sarku, Lord of Worms, the God of Rising From The Grave. Though they were driven out, the city remains tainted by the memory of that ghastly cult.

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195xp
6 replies
6555 views
2 HoHs
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Boots Too Fine for the Earth By: CaptainPenguin

'Yes, these boots are very fine,' said Smoke's Empty Lens, 'But I do not care for them, nor for you.'
Firefly River wept a single tear and went away...

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905xp
40 replies
33540 views
11 HoHs
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Senthia Khlack, Duchess of Gears By: CaptainPenguin

Everyone knows that that Senthia Khlack died with her father, the Duke Eldward Khlack, after their failed Rebellion. But what they do not is that Senthia still lives, after a fashion.

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405xp
21 replies
12586 views
6 HoHs