From:	"Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject:	Fomori (was - Re: FASA Catalog...)
Date:	Sat, 28 Dec 1996 01:40:10 -0500

> Isn't that the third time that SR has done that? (by 'that' I mean
> doubling up on names for things.)
>
> 1 Banshee (HMVV infected Elf) - Bean Shide <sp?> (pronounced 'Ban-shee',
> and technically a more traditional version of the myth)
>
> 2 Minotaur (the awakened bull) - Minotaur (the troll sub-type)
>
> 3 Fomori - Fomorian

Yeah, they have.
I always looked at it as minor differences due to cultural "background
count."
As for the critters, remember that most of the names in the Paranimals
books are just "street names" not the actual critters taxonomy (though
that's in there too.

Basically these critters are called what they're called because tha name
happens to fit the myths mankind has created about them.

As for a Fomori, I can't see that anyone would think one anything other
than a rather intelligent troll, while the Fomorian is just a "mutaqua" or
mutated Dzoo-noo-qua.

Steven A. Tinner
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