Gorgon
Gorgon
| Respawn: ?? | |||||
| Level: 17 | Attack: 1085 | ||||
| HP: 28441 | MP: 3295 | SP: 3295 | |||
Max Drop: 2817 gold, 0 silver, 0 copper
- Gorgons are rare beings in the lands of Lithrydel. A species of humanoid made up entirely of women, made famous (or infamous) for their visage of stone death and their writhing manes of living snakes. Accounts by survivors vary in the nature of the encounter, ranging from surprisingly friendly to harrowing near-death experiences. Indeed, the greatest difference may be due to the person and their intentions.
In general, Gorgons seem to reside away from civilization in dark places such as caves. Sisterhoods form on occasion, when these women gather in small communities to support themselves and protect each other. Some Gorgon lairs are populated by an altogether different type of denizen; unmoving, cold, and brittle. Stone statues of would be heroes or hapless victims who once drew breath, fossilized forever in horror or rage.
Where most humanoids have hair on their heads, Gorgons have writhing snakes that seem to be intrinsically or telepathically connected to each other and the Gorgon herself. Often content merely to lie dormant, they become excited as she does, and become dangerous as she does, awakening in a threatening mass to intimidate or strike. The gorgon's skin is occasionally mottled with sleek scales similar to a snake, especially around her crown but sometimes further, covering even up to their entire body from head to toe.
Finding one an enemy is dangerous, especially because of their magical ability to calcify organic material completely. Whether it is a blessing or a curse is often contentious, as it is no doubt their ability to turn people into stone that earned them their fearsome reputation. Some have encountered women in caves with hair of snakes who have provided them shelter and hospitality from storms or pursuers, and they've looked upon these women and remained bodily the same, implying not every one is evil and becoming a statue is not inevitable. Still more encounters claim that petrification is just a fact for all around them, marking them as a blight upon the world fit only for eradication. The process of becoming stone seems nearly impossible to reverse, and not without great magic. Often upon a successful transmutation, the result is an unliving and preserved corpse. The process is not recommended on those statues who have lost significant parts of themselves or who have broken into many pieces.
Written by Lanlan