Post by krusader74 on Jan 15, 2016 8:20:31 GMT -6
Olgoi-Khorkhoi---The Legendary Mongolian Death Worm
The Legendary Mongolian Death Worm spits acid and electricity. It has been mentioned by JRR Tolkien, William Gibson, and has even had its own SyFy tv movie. There are stat blocks for C&C and D&D 4e. Here are some relevant quotes, videos, images and links...
Quoted from the article Mongolian death worm in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Here is a 3 minute 50 second video documentary on YouTube about the The Mongolian Death Worm from AnimalPlanet. And here is the 20 second Mongolian Death Worm (2010) trailer from SyFy.
Quoted from Castles & Crusades: Monstrous Menaces #5: Chupacabra, Felpha, and Olgoi-Khorkhoi by James Mishler. From Troll Lord Games. 9-page PDF. $0.30.
Here is a link to a D&D 4e stat block from the blog "A Butterfly Dreaming: Zen and the Art of Roleplaying" by Scott Schimmel.
Quoted from Finding the Legendary Mongolian Death Worm by Liz Leafloor.
Quoted from Know Before You Go: Ulaanbaatar by Mark Hay.
The Legendary Mongolian Death Worm spits acid and electricity. It has been mentioned by JRR Tolkien, William Gibson, and has even had its own SyFy tv movie. There are stat blocks for C&C and D&D 4e. Here are some relevant quotes, videos, images and links...
J. R. R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit (1937) provides an earlier but fleeting reference, namely the "wild were-worms in the Last Desert." In the early drafts of the book (1930–1932), Tolkien had specifically associated these were-worms with "the Great Desert of Gobi", as noted by John D. Rateliff in The History of The Hobbit.
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In William Gibson's 2007 novel, Spook Country, the character Hollis Henry refers to the Mongolian death worm as a "mascot for her anxiety," using it to represent whatever she is most afraid of.
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In William Gibson's 2007 novel, Spook Country, the character Hollis Henry refers to the Mongolian death worm as a "mascot for her anxiety," using it to represent whatever she is most afraid of.
Here is a 3 minute 50 second video documentary on YouTube about the The Mongolian Death Worm from AnimalPlanet. And here is the 20 second Mongolian Death Worm (2010) trailer from SyFy.
Olgoi-Khorkhoi Otherwise known as the Death Worm, this giant worm-like creature is actually distantly related to the caecilians, and thus an amphibian of sorts, though through magical mutation it possesses abilities more like that of a reptile. Death Worms range in length from six inches to 30 feet, being six inches long per hit point, and one-tenth their length in diameter. ... They are limbless, and they appear to be segmented, like a worm, as their serpentine body is divided by ring-shaped folds; thus the confusion as to its true nature, as it physically resembles a giant worm. Its head is covered with thick, bony plates that it uses to push through soil and even stone with greater ease; these open wide in a four-pointed star fashion, almost like razor-sharp mandibles, to reveal its fanged maw. Coloration is a brick to scarlet red, with the bony head and fangs pure white.
Here is a link to a D&D 4e stat block from the blog "A Butterfly Dreaming: Zen and the Art of Roleplaying" by Scott Schimmel.
Olgoi-Khorkhoi is Mongolian for 'large intestine worm', and the stories describe a 1 meter (3 feet) long, bulging worm. It is red, like an intestine filled with blood. Artistic illustrations depict the worm with a gaping round mouth filled with inward-pointing teeth. Some describe it as having a spiky, pointed end, and gift it with the ability to spray deadly burning acid at a target. There are also claims it can discharge electricity from its body. The death worms will reportedly shoot up from beneath the sand without warning to kill its food – camels and rodents – but unwary humans can be prey as well.
olgoi-kharkhoi---the Mongolian Death Worm ... first revealed to the West in a 1922 account by the paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, the Death Worm is by reputation a rare creature that lives deep in the sands of the Gobi. The few who claim to have seen it describe it as a three-foot-long fat worm, dark red, with spikes sticking out of both of its ends. Although sluggish, many fear it for its ability to spit corrosive acidic venom and to discharge a lethal electrical shock at humans and livestock from a great distance.