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** According to one interpretation (which happens to be shared by series creator Shigeru Miyamoto) each ''Zelda'' title is a differently corrupted version of the same core story rather than an entirely new chapter in Hyrule's history, a notion which the unusual in-universe use of this trope would appear to support.
* In Cornish folklore, a spriggan is a kind of goblin that can grow to giant size. In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'', it's basically a dryad.
* A few liberties were taken in the depiction of Greek myth's monsters in [[God of War]], mainly for the sake of
** [http://godofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Scylla Scylla] looks like a leviathan than the [http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Skylla.html 6-headed, dog-waisted cursed nymph from Homer's Odyssey and the Ovid], whereas Poseidon's Hippocampi half horse/half fish (or in this case, [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=god+of+war+hippocampi#/d510z7e crustacean]) mounts are often confused with leviathans.
** The [http://godofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Kraken kraken] looks suspiciously like the [http://jeradsmarantz.blogspot.com/2010/04/kraken-for-clash-of-titans.html Kraken] from the [[Clash of the Titans]] remake
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