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The mummy genre has its origins in the 19th century when Ottoman-controlled Egypt was being colonized by France and, subsequently, by Victorian Britain.The first living mummies in fiction were mostly female, and they were presented in a romantic and sexual light, often as love interests for the protagonist; this metaphorically represented the sexualized Orientalism and the colonial ...
Lords of Darkness is a collection presenting ten short adventure scenarios that take place in the Forgotten Realms, each of them focusing on undead monsters such as skeletons, ghouls, wights, shadows, mummies, vampires, and ghosts; the book also contains suggestions on role-playing undead and a section called "A Mundane Guide to Wards vs. Undead, Spirits, and Other Entities". [1]
Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by Paolo Uccello, c. 1470. A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons.Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system. [1]
The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive. A common example of an undead being is a corpse reanimated by supernatural forces, by the application of either the deceased's own life force or that of a supernatural being (such as a demon , or other evil spirit).
The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century; Mummy (undead) The Mummy Case (Hardy Boys) Mummy on the Orient Express; The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned; The Mummy's Foot; The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [2] is a 2008 American action adventure fantasy film directed by Rob Cohen, written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and produced by Stephen Sommers (director of the first two films), Bob Ducsay, Sean Daniel, and James Jacks. [3] The film is set in China rather than Egypt and focuses on the Terracotta Army ...
Saint George and the Dragon (2 C, 40 P) Saint George (martyr) (5 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Dragonslayers" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is an action-adventure video game in which players take on the role of two characters; the demigod Sphinx, and the undead mummy Tutankhamun. [2] [3] Transitions between the two are story driven, with cutscenes marking the shift between Sphinx and Tutankhamun. [4] Both characters can interact with switches and pick up ...