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  2. A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors - Wikipedia

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    Young male rogues. Harman allows them no prospect of reform, saying, "when he groweth unto years, he is better to hang than draw forth". Kinchin Morts Young female rogues carried on their mother's back in sheets. Palliards Also known as clapperdudgeons. They travel in patched cloaks, with their "wives", seeking alms, but selling what they are ...

  3. List of women warriors in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Athena (Latin: Minerva) is the goddess of wisdom, war strategy, and arts and crafts. Often shown bearing a shield depicting the gorgon Medusa (Aegis) given to her by her father Zeus. Athena is an armed warrior goddess, and appears in Greek mythology as a helper of many heroes, including Heracles, Jason, and Odysseus.

  4. Rogues (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Rogues (comics) The Rogues are a group of supervillains of the comic book superhero the Flash. Known members throughout its incarnation are Captain Cold, Abra Kadabra, Mirror Master, Heat Wave, the Golden Glider, the Weather Wizard, the Trickster, the Pied Piper, the Top, and Captain Boomerang. This loose criminal association refers to ...

  5. List of The Belgariad and The Malloreon characters - Wikipedia

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    Only one left in existence, a female, the two males created by the gods having killed each other during the first mating season. Killed at the end of The Mallorean. Dryads: an anthropoid living in the Wood of the Dryads, north of Nyissa and south of Tolnedra. Dryads are always female and require contact with males of various species to reproduce.

  6. Valkyrie - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (/ ˈvælkɪri / VAL-kirr-ee or / vælˈkɪəri / val-KEER-ee; [1][2] from Old Norse: valkyrja, lit. 'chooser of the slain') is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin 's hall Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar ('single fighters' or 'once fighters'). [3]

  7. Drow - Wikipedia

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    The word "drow" originates from the Orcadian and Shetland dialects of Scots, [7] an alternative form of "trow", [8] which is a cognate with "troll".The Oxford English Dictionary gives no entry for "drow", but two of the citations under "trow" name it as an alternative form of the word.

  8. Rogue (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    In 2nd edition the term "Rogue" first appeared, used to describe the group of classes made up of those individuals "living by their wits day to day-often at the expense of others." In the core rules, these "rogue" classes were the thief and the bard. Thieves could be of any alignment other than lawful good while bards had to be at least ...

  9. Noldor - Wikipedia

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    Noldor. In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Noldor (also spelled Ñoldor, meaning those with knowledge in his constructed language Quenya) are a kindred of Elves who migrate west to the blessed realm of Valinor from the continent of Middle-earth, splitting from other groups of Elves as they went. They then settle in the coastal region of Eldamar.