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*** Appear repeatedly in modules B2 ''The Keep on the Borderlands'', G3 ''Hall of the Fire Giant King'', D3 ''Vault of the Drow'', EX2 ''The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror'', S1 ''Tomb of Horrors'', T1-4 ''Temple of Elemental Evil'', WG4 ''The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun'', WG5 ''Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure'' and WG6 ''Isle of the Ape''. In some cases they appeared so many times it appeared that Gygax had suffered a "purplegasm".
*** Monsters with purple coloration: drow (violet eyes) mind flayer/illithid (mauve skin), ogres (purple eyes), purple worm, storm giant (could have violet skin and purple eyes), violet fungi.
** Gygax also made a number of Lovecraftian references in those same works, as evidenced by such creatures as the Kuo-Toa (inspired by Lovecraft's Deep Ones), the Aboleth (inspired by some sort of Great Old One), the Illithids (which are basically a race of Cthulhus without the bat wings), the Elder Elemental God (shown in G3 ''Hall of the Fire Giant King'' as being shaped like a
*** Gygax needed a lot of content to make the game work, so he drew from a very large number of sources. He didn't ''quite'' make D&D into an [[All Myths Are True]] setting, but he came pretty close.
** Also his fantastically large and baroque vocabulary, which might have had an element of showing off.
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