FEYWILD FIEND JOINS KRAKEN WEEK?????? I'M SO EXCITED!

With the thunder saga just coming out its looking less like shark week on more like Scylla week

Really cool that you actually read a passage from The Odyssey. That ancient poetry is so unlike anything written nowadays. I finally made it through the whole book a few years ago, and it was an incredible experience, something that really transported me to a different world.

I came looking for information on Scylla and looks like I did at the perfect time between hades two, the thunder saga and this

I was today days old when I realized that the Crossing Cape Horn sequence in Master of Commander is almost certainly a call-back to Scylla and Charybdis - Lucky Jack Aubrey has to choose "The Lesser of Two Weevils/Evils", sacrifice the life of a popular sailor who has fallen overboard or lose his whole ship...

Oh, between this and EPIC's Thunder Saga we greek mythology fans are elated today❤

I love the adventures of the Odyssey. I really enjoyed your suggestion of having the waters below Scylla still contain Circe's poison. The possibility of being turned into a monster by the water only adds a new level of danger. I could see characters fall off the ship and turn into giant eals or squids that attack their former crewmembers.

Really enjoying this video about this terrifying sea monstress! Also the seafaring makeup is on point! The pearls are a nice touch!

The story of Charybdis sticking all the world's water reminds me of the story of Thor doing the same

Great inspiration! Cheers and... happy Kraken Week!

I've heard a few songs recently about aquatic fey. Selkie by Ebony Buckle. A different take on the seal-wife motif. Ebony is a London-based singer-songwriter who performs with the new age prog band Solstice. The Kelpie by Jethro Tull. Gets into the Who is the Predator question, as the alluring Hag concept does, but differently this time. The song was apparently recorded for the Scottish-themed Stormwatch album, but didn't make it onto the vinyl release. And one I knew before, Seven Widows Weep by Sirenia. A tale of Nordic sirens in Symphonic Metal style. The video is outstanding.

Great video. I'd suggest to add the #krakenweek so that more people can watch this & future videos. :)

I'm happy to see Scylla! Though you now have me debating if the hydra is more dangerous than the hydra. Hercules and Iolaus defeated the hydra alone, but a crew of trained soldiers were too slow to prevent six of their own from being swallowed whole. I think Scylla is bigger and stronger than the hydra, which fits its role in the story. She is too fearsome to fight, sacrifice six men and flee. Of course you could run a high level campaign where the players are demi-gods, then fighting a creature like Scylla is more fair.

Charybdis as a giant sea anemone. The ones that suck water into their middle to feed.

Love monsters based on mythology. Great ideas!

I'd expect plenty of aquatic beasts in Japanese and Polynesian myth too

Scylla is best accomplished by a modified Roper statblock that's located up a cliff, though maybe give her a longer reach. I'd make it 120ft.

SCYLLA MENTIONED!!!! DOWN DOWN KING OF BONES WITH A CORAL CROWN LETS GOOOOO

Considering the origins, some of the rules from Mythic Odysseys of Theros might be a good option for making things more "interesting" for the players there

I love how half the people here are lovers of the The Thunder Saga in the majesty that is the Epic Musical by Jorge Herrans

I wouldn't be able to resist playing off the proverbial rock and hard place of the metaphor. Scylla being a feminine rage which will pursue obsessively seeking to do onto men, to add injury and poison, to scourge and harry. Charybdis being an enduring static effect... an absence that takes and draws into it. An allegory to wanting and needing. A negative force of drawing entropy. Chary being best kept less exotic but just as relentless, but Scylla being more of a person with complexities which inflicts its volatile psychology onto others. Tactically, of course, the rage of Scylla would be the escalation of scenarios and conflict, while Charybdis being the constant hazard, the bad times beyond simply Scylla's barking vagina mouths.

So excited for this video!!

The ancients ::loved:: a many-headed beast! The idea that we're only allowed one (1) should be suppressed with extreme prejudice! Thanks for another great video, happy Kraken Week!

Brutal! Loving it!

Thanks for the inspiration! I might use this in the campaign arc that our gm just asked me to run (not enough time for planning with young child and work) as Scylla is the spouse of a noble that was cursed, and the party is contracted to find out what happened to them.

Great Stuff!

For an old-timey depiction of Scylla: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oN1-m7Nq15iYaWw.html

It's really interesting to see how Greek mythology monsters permeate the DnD multiverse. At a minimum Centaur, Chimera, Dryad, Hydra, Lamia, Medusa, Minotaur, Nixie, Nymph, Pegasus, Satyr, Sirene, Sylph, Titan, Triton. At least some of this is thanks to Narnia.

Awesome

I hadn't planned on it, but now I'm considering creating a sentient black hole for my Spelljammer game named Charybdis.

We should all steal (even) more from greek mythology

*just looking through play list finds this near the top between stuff I had watched* huh

Love it! I feel charybdis always gets more attention, but i prefer the peculiar nature of scylla!

Alg