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| | Ragnarok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mai-HiME - an anime and manga series with many links to valkyrie and the final battle(s) at the end highly resemble the mythology of ragnarok | | | The word Ragnarok is derived from the Old Norse word Ragnarök, which consists of two parts: ragna is the genitive plural of regin ("gods" or "ruling powers"), while rök means "fate", etymologically related to English "reach". | | | The Ragnarok Project, in the Hellboy comics and movie, was a Nazi occult project (1938-1944) which attempted to release the Ogdru Jahad, extremely powerful, demigodlike aliens, to defeat the Allies during World War II. |
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| | Cait Sith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "Cait Sith" is a spelling variation of Cat Sidhe, a cat-like demon appearing in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic mythology. | | | Cait Sith also appears as the cat of a woman owning a candy store in the game Kingdom Hearts II. | | | Cait Sith commonly resembles Puss-in-Boots in these games. |
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| | Final Fantasy VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The game was also noteworthy in that it was the first Final Fantasy game to be made for a Sony console, and, as such, avoided Nintendo of America's heavy censorship policy, allowing references to homosexuality, prostitution and cross-dressing to remain. | | | Final Fantasy VII incorporates references to a variety of religious and philosophical systems, reflected in character names such as "Sephiroth" (drawn from the Kabbalah of Jewish mysticism) and "Heidegger" (possibly a reference to German philosopher and Nazi Party member Martin Heidegger), and place names such as "Midgar" and Nibelheim (both from Norse mythology). | | | Final Fantasy VII (ファイナルファンタジーVII Fainaru Fantajī VII), or Final Fantasy 7, is a console and computer role-playing game released by Square Co., Ltd. (now Square-Enix) in 1997. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. | | | So Aeris is one letter extra from having the same name as the Greek goddess of strife." And Cloud's last name is Strife, isn't it? |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ : Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. | | | Anyone who's played Xenogears should also recognize these names. |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Cid Highwind's last name is a reference to Cain Highwind of Final Fantasy 4, who also used a Jump attack like Cid's limit break (thanks to Michael F.X. Durant). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. |
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| | Ragnarok 7 - Myung-Jin Lee |
| | Ragnarok-"the end of the world" in Norse Mythology-features a shifting ensemble of swordsmen and sorcerers in a setting reminiscent of role-playing games like Final Fantasy. | | | Ragnarok is the best selling fantasy graphic novel in America. | | | And a new master will soon rule over Midgard. |
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| | Fantasy Cosmogony 101 Gamegrene.com |
| | Norse mythology tells of the final battle between the Aesir and their allies from Asgard against the forces of the Rokkr, or "Jotuns." The Greco-Roman gods fought for dominance against an ancient, mysterious group of gods known to us as Titans, and later squared off against each other in their partisanship of the Trojan War. | | | A real weakness of the high fantasy gaming genre as popularized by D&D is that it integrates a bewildering mish-mash of mythic sources, some of which are quite jarring when included side-by-side in the same cosmos. | | | To be memorable and capture the imaginations of your players, your fantasy pantheon must utilize some of that resonance. |
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| | Ragnarok (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ragnarok, a common name of a powerful weapon in the Final Fantasy video game series | | | Ragnarok, the battle at the end of the world in Norse mythology | | | Ragnarok, a manga series (see Sword of the Dark Ones) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok_(disambiguation)
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| | The Lack of Cait Sith's Mog and my feelings towards it. - Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums |
| | Another thing, what exactly did Reeve make Cait do in the fight, as all it looked to me is he hung around Nanaki and was more of a liability than help. | | | Well, Cait Sidh is based on Gaelic mythology, so it does make sense. | | | Though it would be weird if Kitten Sith just busted out a slot machine during a battle with the SHM. |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. | | | However, not only does this have nothing to do with the character Red XIII, but the characters are different in Japanese (Na-na-ki and a-na-ki-n are the two words). |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. | | | However, not only does this have nothing to do with the character Red XIII, but the characters are different in Japanese (Na-na-ki and a-na-ki-n are the two words). |
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| | Ragnarok Manga |
| | Ragnarok - Into the Abyss takes ideas from Norse mythology and expands on genre twisting role-playing games like FINAL FANTASY and Dragon Quest. | | | They are both key players in the coming of Ragnarok, the time when fate and free-will shall come into conflict as the very nature of the universe is forever redefined. | | | With ornate character designs by series creator Myung-Jin Lee and an emphasis on kinetic story-telling, the series features a shifting ensemble of swordsmen and sorcerers in a quest to change the world. |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. | | | Gogo- In the play "Waiting for Godot," there is a character named Estragon, nicknamed Gogo. |
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| | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Detectives, Sherlock Holmes |
| | The authorised full-colour book of fantasy and SF. | | | Funny fantasy for the fans of Pratchett and Darren Shan. | | | A series of numbered and signed by all artist (including Bradbury) hardbacks with several SF and fantasy comics in each episode. |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | Cid Highwind's last name is a reference to Cain Highwind of Final Fantasy 4, who also used a Jump attack like Cid's limit break (thanks to Michael F.X. Durant). | | | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins |
| | Moogle Fan sez: Final Fantasy X-2's Flans each have Spanish names: | | | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat co-created the world with her husband, Apsu. | | | From tyrantswrath: Ozma is one of the names of the first SETI (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence) projects. |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins |
| | Moogle Fan sez: Final Fantasy X-2's Flans each have Spanish names: | | | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ : In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat co-created the world with her husband, Apsu. | | | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ : It is said in a legend that, when the moons are just right, a chicken somewhere will lay an egg. |
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| | But in the mythology, Shiva has many other powers besides the Ice attribute in Final Fantasy. | | | Finally, from CNash : "Quetzalcoatl was the Aztec god of the sun - he was assigned to keep the balance between light and dark by preventing his counterpart, the night god Tezcatlipoca, from taking over the world. | | | Mako Gen cites a book called The Encyclopedia Of Angels which lists Leviathan as: "One of the demonic angels who is associated with the primordial deep of the sea. |
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| | The Falls |
| | It is over three hours long and is divided into 92 end-to-end biographies of people who in some way have been apocalyptically associated with the VUE, the Violent Unknown Event, a phenomenon connected with birds - their flying or non-flying characteristics, their voice and song, their individual species habits, their man-manufactured mythology. | | | a determined attempt to bring fantasy into British filmmaking." - Chris Auty, Sight and Sound | | | was finally finished in 1980 and on 16mm with magnetic tape soundtrack. |
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| | Norse Gods and Goddesses and their influence in art. |
| | The picture on the left is Odin as shone in the game Final Fantasy Tactics. The one on the right is Odin from Final Fantasy IX. Both show a rather intimidating version of him decked out in full battle armor, carrying a large sword, and riding his horse Sleipnir. | | | Moving on further to the present time the likes of Odin, Thor, and Freya aren’t very well known outside of Scandinavia. In fact, if it hadn’t been for Final Fantasy, I most likely would have never heard of them before taking the mythology class for which I am writing this paper. | | | The first selections will come from my favorite series, Final Fantasy, a collection of masterful RPGs that are as much works of art as they are games. Odin in a mainstay in this series as a summon beast (a mythological figure summoned by the main characters to help them in battle). |
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| | Final Fantasy Name Origins: Characters |
| | From The Final Fantasy Usenet FAQ: Celes probably got her name from the Roman goddess of grain and harvests, Ceres ("Demeter" in Greek mythology). | | | Moogle Fan sez: "Final Fantasy X's Kimahri is spelt as Kimari, when translated from katakana to romanized Japanese. | | | However, not only does this have nothing to do with the character Red XIII, but the characters are different in Japanese (Na-na-ki and a-na-ki-n are the two words). |
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| | Final Fantasy Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.net |
| | Final Fantasy X was released on the PlayStation 2, and made use of the much more powerful hardware to render many cutscenes in real-time, rather than displayed in pre-rendered video. | | | Screenshot of Final Fantasy IX during a battle. | | | The motion picture Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within also featured a character named "Sid," presumably an alternate spelling of the more traditional "Cid." In a similar vein, characters named Biggs and Wedge (homages to the Star Wars characters Biggs Darklighter and Wedge Antilles) have appeared in Final Fantasy VI to Final Fantasy X-2. |
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| | Cloud Strife: Just the facts... |
| | Cloud Strife is the main character in Square Enix (additional info and facts about Square Enix) 's Final Fantasy VII (additional info and facts about Final Fantasy VII) video game. | | | He has reappeared in other Square Enix games, including Final Fantasy Tactics (additional info and facts about Final Fantasy Tactics), Ehrgeiz (additional info and facts about Ehrgeiz) and Kingdom Hearts (additional info and facts about Kingdom Hearts). | | | Cloud has been hired by Hades ((Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone) to kill Hercules ((classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality) but fights Sora as a prerequisite. |
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| | Fantasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is in contrast to many other forms of fantasy (with the usual exception of fairytale fantasy), such as the works of J. Tolkien, which generally invent their own mythologies and volunteer entirely new pantheons, or attempt to disguise traditional mythology with made-up names. | | | In literature, fantasy is a form of speculative fiction in which physical laws differ from our own through a reason for which no scientific explanation is offered, or which take place a world wholly different from our own. | | | Dungeons and Dragons is arguably the most successful and influential 'pencil-and-paper' role-playing games, while Final Fantasy has been an icon of the video- role-playing game genre. |
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| | Elemental - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Final Fantasy, the elements of Fire, Ice, Thunder, and Holy characterize magic spells. | | | While the four elements listed above appear in most Final Fantasy games, some games feature additional elements (Earth, Gravity, Darkness, Water, Poison, Aero(wind), etc.) In addition to the elements and spells, Final Fantasy games feature some sort of powerful summonable creatures. | | | They can often only be defeated by an element of a conflicting type (for example, fire elementals beaten by water), although in some games they are instead immune to that element and only that element. |
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| | Terra -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | (Click link for more info and facts about Roncevaux Terra) Roncevaux Terra is the name of a side on Saturn's moon ((Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology) Iapetus | | | (Click link for more info and facts about Terra) Terra is the Latin name for the (The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live) Earth, and, in futuristic (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction, is often used as the post-space colonization era name for Earth. | | | (Click link for more info and facts about Terra Branford) Terra Branford is a character in the (A game played against a computer) video game (Click link for more info and facts about Final Fantasy VI) Final Fantasy VI |
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| | First Impressions - XenoSaga Episode 1: Der Wille zur Macht // PlayStation 2 /// Eurogamer |
| | If the plot elements of games like Final Fantasy leave you cold, and you don't get excited just thinking about the prospect of a massive space opera storyline filled with religious symbolism and well-researched references to all manner of mythology, philosophy, science and psychology, then you will absolutely hate Xenosaga. | | | When Final Fantasy VII arrived on the RPG-starved shores of Europe to a fanfare of critical acclaim and commercial success, we dared to hope for a while that in future, all console RPGs would make their to this side of the globe. | | | On the other hand, if you're the kind of gamer who cried when you-know-who kicked the bucket in Final Fantasy VII, it's time for a trip to your friendly local import shop. |
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| | List of Final Fantasy characters: Encyclopedia topic |
| | Cloud Strife (Cloud Strife: cloud strife is the main character in square enixs final fantasy vii video game.... | | | Kain Highwind (Kain Highwind: kain highwind is a fictional character in the video game final fantasy iv.... | | | Cid Highwind (Cid Highwind: cid highwind is a playable character in final fantasy vii.... |
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| | Fire Emblem: Just the facts... |
| | Fire Emblem: Sōen no Kiseki will be the first game from Nintendo to use Full Motion Video (additional info and facts about Full Motion Video), and, like Final Fantasy X (additional info and facts about Final Fantasy X), the game makes good use of that. | | | Hector ((Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War) - From Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken, is the first in the Lord class to wield an axe. | | | Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu takes place in the continent of Jugdral (pronounced YOOG-druhl and based on the Norse mythological name Yggdrasil ((Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together)), located about southeast from Akaneia. |
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