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Lokarin
06/03/20 12:43:14 PM
#1:


You have the power of darkness to open rifts between realms to summon creatures to do your bidding or otherwise go wild and destroy!

So who do you summon? Idk, some beefy giants and some goblins :L

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I understand in the context of the original game they were riffing on the Queen song of the same name(s) - and it's an allegory for the Faustian deal of evil for power...

But you couldn't summon some greater demons or something with a little more pomp to them? Ogres and Goblins, really... this is your method?

Well, I guess it worked for Tolkein.

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papercup
06/03/20 12:44:18 PM
#2:


Onions have layers.
Ogres have layers.

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darcandkharg31
06/03/20 12:47:34 PM
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I guess it's easier to control some semi-giants and rabid humanoids than like say a super being, idk.

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Zeus
06/07/20 7:29:51 PM
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Because ogres beat orcs beat goblins beat skaven... except in Goblin Slayer where ogres beat goblins beat orcs beat skaven.

I guess what I'm trying to say is skaven suck regardless.

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Raw_Egg
06/07/20 7:53:36 PM
#5:


ogre battle
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Sahuagin
06/07/20 8:15:46 PM
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I would say maybe they softened "demon" in translation or something, but I guess there are already demons, devils, and imps or something IIRC.

"ogre" just means something different in the ogre battle world. reading about it, they are more like demon princes than standard ogres.

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Lokarin
06/07/20 8:21:17 PM
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Sahuagin posted...
I would say maybe they softened "demon" in translation or something, but I guess there are already demons, devils, and imps or something IIRC.

"ogre" just means something different in the ogre battle world. reading about it, they are more like demon princes than standard ogres.

Ogre tends to mean Monstrously Fearful creature... sometimes monstrously ugly, but fearful tends to match the most. So they'd be among the chieftans of the mundane demons - the equivalent of Halo Hunters

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Sahuagin
06/08/20 4:12:13 AM
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it reminds me of Blizzard, who kind of takes existing mythology and then mixes it up. the one that always annoyed me was that WoW wyverns are manticores, not wyverns.

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Lokarin
06/08/20 4:16:25 AM
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Also, it's kidna funny that Ogres in Ogre Battle are such a big deal when there's legitimately griffons, wyrms, dragons and golems running amok

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