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| dragon's crown animate statues: Medieval Robots E. R. Truitt, 2015-06-11 Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Midgard Worldbook Wolfgang Baur, Richard Green, Jeff Grubb, 2018-10 Pathfinder roleplaying game compatible. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Seekers of the Ashen Crown Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Chris Sims, 2009 Will the adventurers be able to thwart the machinations of a mad dragon in the hopes of saving the city of Sharn from certain destruction? This is the first full adventure for Eberron with the fourth edition Dungeons & Dragons rules. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Spitz Master Gregory Clark, 2003 Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Book of the Damned Charles Fort, 2020-09-28 Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you--Taken from Good Reads website. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Sumerians Samuel Noah Kramer, 2010-09-17 “A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Why We Play Roberte Hamayon, 2016-08-15 Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the Olympics. Within these events Hamayon explores the performance of ethical values and local identity, and then she draws her analysis into larger ideas examinations of the spectrum of play activities as they can exist in any culture. She explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Popol Vuh Lewis Spence, 2019-11-13 Transcribed from Mayan hieroglyphs, the Popol Vuh relates the mythology and history of the Kiché people of Central America. There is no document of greater importance to the study of pre-Columbian mythology. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Legends of the Twins , 2005-08 One twin plots in a dark tower, mastering the arcane forces of magic and learning the secrets that will allow him to enter the Portal and challenge the gods themselves. The other twin hides from personal demons at the bottom of a bottle, not yet having found the courage and wisdom to become whole. Their legend will change both the history of Krynn and its future. The legends of other heroes stand waiting to be written. Personal journeys, great quests, and heroic sacrifices all lie ahead. Sometimes it is not the world that needs to be saved, but a soul. The River of Time not only provides the chance to find the forgotten history of Krynn, but a chance to visit the world as it might have been. Discover an Ansalon untouched by Cataclysm, where the Godpriest reigns supreme; visit a magocracy, a land in which the Orders of High Sorcery rule through the power of magic; roam the dragonlands, crushed under the terrible might of the Dark Queen and her dragon highlords. Legends of the Twins is a resource for games set in the world of DragonLance. Inside one will find information for players, including variant rules for character traits, new feats, prestige classes. New spells and magic items allow characters to journey across the River to Time. Dungeon Masters will discover an amazing wealth of campaign possibilities, including travel into Ansalon's distant past or many different alternate versions of the world-available to introduce into a current campaign or as a launching point of one that is entirely new. All information within this volume is fully compatible with the revised edition of the d20 System game. Book jacket. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Our Lady's Juggler Anatole 1844-1924 France, 2021-09-09 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram, 1997-02-25 Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as inanimate. How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Conduct of Life Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1884 |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture Edward Payson Evans, 1896 |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print Kathryn M. Rudy, 2019-07-14 In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy’s twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research. This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval and literary studies. Beautifully illustrated throughout, its use of original material and its striking interdisciplinary approach, combining book and art history, make it a significant academic achievement. Image, Knife, and Gluepot is a valuable text for any scholar in the fields of medieval studies, the history of early books and publishing, cultural history or material culture. Written in Rudy’s inimitable style, it will also be rewarding for any student enrolled in a course on manuscript production, as well as non-specialists interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and prints. The Royal Society of Edinburgh has generously contributed to this Open Access publication. Due to the number and quality of the images in this book, we have provided the option of a more expensive hardback edition, printed on the best quality paper available, in order to present the images as clearly and beautifully as possible. We hope this range of options — the freely available PDF, HTML and XML editions; the economically priced EPUB, MOBI and paperback editions; and the more expensively printed hardback — will satisfy everyone. Furthermore the HTML edition allows readers to magnify the images of the manuscripts displayed in the book. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Principles of Sociology Herbert Spencer, 1886 |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Drow of the Underdark Robert J. Schwalb, Ari Marmell, Anthony Pryor, Greg A. Vaughn, 2007 This supplement provides the definitive treatise on the drow, arguably the games most evocative evil race. Everything readers want to know about drow and their subterranean homeland can be found in this tome. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The History and Topography of Ireland Gerald of Wales, 2006-06-29 Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary account of his travels. Here he describes landscapes, fish, birds and animals; recounts the history of Ireland's rulers; and tells fantastical stories of magic wells and deadly whirlpools, strange creatures and evil spirits. Written from the point of view of an invader and reformer, this work has been rightly criticized for its portrait of a primitive land, yet it is also one of the most important sources for what is known of Ireland during the Middle Ages. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Open Grave Bruce R. Cordell, Eytan Bernstein, Brian R. James, 2009 Provides information on the origins, tactics, myths, and lairs of a variety of undead creatures and threats encountered in the game of Dungeons and Dragons. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Out of Control Kevin Kelly, 1994 This is a book about how our manufactured world has become so complex that the only way to create yet more complex things is by using the principles of biology. This means decentralized, bottom up control, evolutionary advances and error-honoring institutions. I also get into the new laws of wealth in a network-based economy, what the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona has or has not to teach us, and whether large systems can predict or be predicted. And more: restoration biology, encryption, a-life, and the lessons of hypertext. Yes, it's a romp, in 520 pages. But the best part, my friends tell me, is the 28-page annotated bibliography. If you have suspected that technology could be better, more life-like, then this book is for you. -- Product Description. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Penny Library of Famous Books , 1897 |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Slavery and Social Death Orlando Patterson, 2018-10-15 Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in 66 societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery, he argues, is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Trapsmith (Pathfinder RPG) Maurice De Mare, 2013-06 You hear a click! The great tradition of traps in roleplaying games continues - because traps create that freak-out moment when things really, really go wrong! Traps make your game better and they add a sting of surprise to any encounter. The Trapsmith sourcebook provides you with original, easy-to-run traps for many Challenge Ratings, and each trap has been maximized for in-game flavor and mechanics by master trap designer Maurice de Mare. All Trapsmith designs come complete with statistics for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. This volume includes: 120 traps spanning a wide range of Challenge Ratings, several locks, and many useful rogue items Guidance for creating fun, appropriate traps for your own adventures A complete trap-heavy adventure called Whispers of Wyrmhood Put a little fear into your next dungeon crawl with this collection of trigger-ready traps, and revel in the deathtraps of the old-school dungeon! |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Shadowfell Andy Clautice, Erik Scott de Bie, Matt Goetz, 2011-05-17 This boxed set is for Dungeon Masters interested in taking their heroes on excursions to the Shadowfell. The kit includes a 128-page book detailing the city of Gloomwrought, a 32-page book of encounters set in Gloomwrought and beyond, two card stock sheets of die-cut monster and villain tokens, a foldout battle map, and a deck of 30 cards. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Demonomicon Mike Mearls, Brian R. James, Steve Townshend, 2010-07-20 Demons and demon lords for your Dungeons & Dragons® campaign! Demonomicon(tm) presents the definitive treatise on demons and their masters, the demon lords. Whether you're looking to introduce demons into your D&D® campaign or plunge your heroes into the heart of the Abyss, this book has something for you! More than just a maelstrom of chaos and corruption, the Abyss is an exciting D&D adventure locale for paragon- and epic-level heroes to explore. Within its many layers lurk powerful demon lords and fiendish hordes eager to be unleashed upon unsuspecting worlds. This tome brings demons into the world of D&D, updates classic demons to 4th Edition, provides statistics for various demon lords, and introduces dozens of new horrors from the abyssal depths. It gives Dungeon Masters ready-to-use encounters and mechanics to make demons exciting elements in their home campaigns. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Art of Computer Game Design Linda L Crawford, Chris Crawford, 1984-01-01 Discusses the elements of games, surveys the various types of computer games, and describes the steps in the process of computer game development |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Paradox of Being Poul Andersen, 2019 Addresses the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual. Through wide-ranging research into Daoist ritual, both in history and as it survives in the present day, shows that the concept of true reality that informs this tradition posits being as a paradox anchored in the inexistent Way--Provided by publisher. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Holy Orders of the Stars Sovereign Press, 2005-05 The mortal races of Krynn can see the presence of the gods by simply turning their gaze to the night sky. There the constellations of the gods of good, evil, and balance wheel about in silent struggle to influence their children who live and die on the world below. The gods have blessed the world with miracles of healing and salvation, but so also have they inflicted war and terrible cataclysms. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Tales From the Yawning Portal Dungeons & Dragons, 2017-04-04 Within this tome are seven of the most compelling dungeons from the 40+ year history of Dungeons & Dragons. Some are classics that have hosted an untold number of adventurers, while others are some of the most popular adventures ever printed. The seeds of these stories now rest in your hands. D&D's most storied dungeons are now part of your modern repertoire of adventures. Enjoy, and remember to keep a few spare character sheets handy. DREAD TALES TOLD IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT When the shadows grow long in Waterdeep and the fireplace in the taproom of the Yawning Portal dims to a deep crimson glow, adventurers from across the Forgotten Realms, and even from other worlds, spin tales and spread rumors of dark dungeons and lost treasures. Some of the yarns overheard by Durnan, the barkeep of the Yawning Portal, are inspired by places and events in far-flung lands from across the D&D multiverse, and these tales have been collected into a single volume. For use with the fifth edition Player's Handbook®, Monster Manual®, and Dungeon Master's Guide®, this book provides fans with adventures, magic items and deadly monsters, all of which have been updated to the fifth edition rules. Explore seven deadly dungeons in this adventure supplement for the world's greatest roleplaying game. Tales from the Yawning Portal Includes the Following Adventures: Against the Giants Dead in Thay Forge of Fury Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan Sunless Citadel Tomb of Horrors White Plume Mountain |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Courts of the Shadow Fey (5th Edition) Wolfgang Baur, Dan Dillon, 2019-05-07 Friends or Foes? A Game of Shifting Dangers The Shadow Fey arrive and turn the city upside down--and their ambassador demands that the player characters explain themselves for interfering in a legitimate assassination! So begins the looking-glass adventure that takes 7th to 10th level adventurers to the Realm of Shadows. This inventive take on courtly combat and sandbox roleplaying includes: More than 60-location map of the Courts, fully detailed with 100+ NPCs More than 40 combat and roleplaying encounters Dozens of new monsters your players have never seen! Demon lovers and dangerous liaisons for those who seek them Jealous rivals, a quick-play dueling system, and the King and Queen of Shadows A Status system to track player character prestige--and new Status powers! Enter the world of shadows, and play the 5th Edition of the world's first roleplaying game on a whole new level! More than 140 pages of real action and adventure by designers Wolfgang Baur and Dan Dillon. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Ray Harryhausen Ray Harryhausen, Tony Dalton, 2010-04-01 From the age of thirteen Ray Harryhausen knew his future lay in special effects. Drawing inspiration from his mentor Willis O’Brien, creator of King Kong, Ray took the art and skill of stop-motion animation one step further, weaving his magic on dinosaurs, aliens and mythological creatures alike. From early experiments with animating fairy tales in his father’s garage to creating groundbreaking effects for blockbuster movies, Ray Harryhausen shares the fascinating story of his “animated life”. The last great animator before the introduction of CGI, he takes us through the pleasures and pitfalls of sixty years dedicated to making movie magic. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Fever Swamp Luke Gearing, 2017 |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Mountain of Mirrors Rose Estes, 1982 The reader, as Elf Landon, must find a way to free a group of elves held captive by ogres and goblins in the Mountain of Mirrors. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Kingship and the Gods Henri Frankfort, 1971 |
| dragon's crown animate statues: The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, 1971 Micrographic reproduction of the 13 volume Oxford English dictionary published in 1933. |
| dragon's crown animate statues: Dragon's Crown, Volume 1 yuztan, 2021 |
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Dragon - Wikipedia
A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in Western cultures since …
Dragon | Description, Mythical Dragons, Types, & Facts | Britannica
Jun 2, 2025 · Dragon, in the mythologies, legends, and folktales of various cultures, a large lizard- or serpent-like creature, conceived as evil in some traditions and as beneficent in others. In …
Types of Dragons - Dragonsinn.net
Dec 29, 2018 · This post showcases a range of different dragon types. 1. Wyvern. 1. This type of dragon originated in Europe. 2. Nearly always depicted as having two bird-like legs and two …
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Mar 21, 2017 · One of the most popular accounts in Europe of dragon mythology is the tale of Saint George and the dragon. This story begins with the plight of the city of Silene, Libya. The city of …
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