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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Kale on July 17, 2011, 11:36:06 PM
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Is there any wiki or whatnot that tells you the origins of the monsters? I know castlevania wikia has one or two... but I'd like to find some other origins of the monsters if there are ones that aren't only from castlevania.
Like Alura Une/Veuns Weed... anyone know it's origins? Doesn't say in CV, but somehow it doesn't seem to be a castlevania original.
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If there's a certain monster or monsters that you wish to look up then do a basic search and you should get the results you're looking for. If you are inquiring about a specific site then I'll have to do some digging around.
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As far as I can tell, there isn't really a detailled wiki documenting Castlevania monsters for good, but you can find most references pretty easily. Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alraune), this explains where Al
uraune comes from. Next!
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just google their names.
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I think that Mr P Castlevania Realms has what you are looking for
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just google their names.
I tried... didn't work so well with alura une...
As far as I can tell, there isn't really a detailled wiki documenting Castlevania monsters for good, but you can find most references pretty easily. Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alraune), this explains where Aluraune comes from. Next!
and this would explain why... I forget that ru/lu can be construed as r/l or vice versa.
I think that Mr P Castlevania Realms has what you are looking for
It does have origins, but it sounds like they're origins that CV more or less came up. Thanks anyway.
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I tried... didn't work so well with alura une...
and this would explain why... I forget that ru/lu can be construed as r/l or vice versa.
It does have origins, but it sounds like they're origins that CV more or less came up. Thanks anyway.
No, somewhere it that site there is a encyclopedia of sprts that lists the myths and legends of the monsters, maybe it is in the Library section
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Haha, silly Dungeonite newbies. - http://castlevaniadungeon.net/history/monstermyth.html (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/history/monstermyth.html)
Goes to show this site really hasn't updated enough when even people who've been here a little while forget how much stuff and info this site actually has and that it's not just the forums.
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I remember that section of the dungeon. I didn't say anything , honestly, out of sheer laziness. =P
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LOL you guyz crack me up.
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Alraune is off though, wiki mentions it being a germanic legend.
And man, i haven't visited the normal site in like... ever....... but I remember why, it hasn't been updated since EVAR!
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You gotta admit there hasn't been much reason to update LoS.
Now Mr.P's monster encyclopedia, that needs some updates badly. Half the stuff in there is just plain made up.
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True enough, but none of the newer contents seems to be added either. So meh...
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Alraune is off though, wiki mentions it being a germanic legend.
The Dungeon's info isn't "off," it just doesn't note the legend that inspired the story of Alraune.
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Never read the story myself but that story does not even seem to remotely resemble alraune from the legend or this game.
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Well, a mandragora is a plant/root, as is Alura Une/Venus Weed. The Wikipedia "Legend" says a mandrake's fruit would be used to facilitate pregnancy, since the humanoid-shaped mandrake root is said to be the result of a hanged man ejaculating into the ground (a fun bit of info I first learned from the exceptional movie Flesh+Blood); also mentions witches "making love" to the root, producing offspring which have no feelings of real love. The Alraune story is similar, a girl born of artificial insemination. Suffers from "obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships." Alura Une is nude, and always had a very saucy "sex" appearance and allure (hence "Alura," I've always thought), but doesn't seem to harbor actual love. I don't think it's all that difficult to draw the comparisons, really.
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but doesn't seem to harbor actual love.
In other words 'base instinct' rather then 'deep emotion'.
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Alura Une origins (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3844.0.html)
Succubus origins (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3894.0.html)
I possess an encyclopedic knowledge of Castlevania monsters.