Fauns and Satyrs: Difference between revisions

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Originally, Satyrs had the tail and ears of either horses or donkeys, though later they acquired goat legs, becoming almost identical with fauns. In earlier Greek art art they were portrayed as quite ugly, though later they became more youthful and graceful.

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* Caesar Clown's [[Gas Mask Mooks]] in ''[[One Piece]]'' are actually this. {{spoiler|They used to be fully human, but because they lost the use of their legs due to the poisonous gas on Punk Hazard, they were given new animal legs by Trafalgar Law}}.

== [[Film]] ==

* [[Percy Jackson]]'s [[Black Best Friend]] Grover, at least in the movie.

* What little we in see of {{spoiler|the [[Bad Santa|real Santa Claus]]}} in ''Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale'' implies him to be a creature like this.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Mr. Tumnus, a faun in the ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. Also, other fauns are mentioned thoughout the series, along with satyrs. The difference between them is that fauns have long tails, and satyrs have goat tails. The recent films expanded this difference, and made fauns human from the waist up with regular got tails, and satyrs looking more like human-sized goats that walk on their hind legs.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a novel called ''[[The Marble Faun]]'', though the faun there is the statue by Praxiteles, which is almost totally human in form. The faun has a human counterpart, however, in the novel's Donatello (no, not [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|that one]]), Count of Monti Beni.

* Martin Silenus from ''[[Hyperion]]'' undergoes [[Space Opera]] style body modifications to turn himself into a satyric figure.

* One story by Thomas Burnett Swann (who apparently wrote a lot of mythology themed stories), was about a human's friendship with a faun, and portrayed them as having [[Blue and Orange Morality]].

* In the [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|Camp Half-Blood]] [[The Heroes of Olympus|Universe]], Satyrs and Fauns are considered as the same things.

* In the book ''Through the Ice'' the character Rame is in self-exile from the community of satyrs because he considers himself a faun. While he is less obsessed with sex and thus somewhat more acceptable to humans, his fellow satyrs treat him like a pervert.

** Eshkol and her family represent more traditional version of this trope.

* The ''[[Firebringer Trilogy]]'' has "pans," which are basically blue-skinned fauns.

 

== [[Religion]] ==

 

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

* ''[[Shadowrun]]''. Both male and female satyrs have large curling horns like a bighorn sheep. They're implied to be the Awakened version of the wild goat. Their saliva can ferment sugary liquids into alcohol.

** Another type of Satyr exists, as a racial variant of the Ork Metatype.

** There are also actual satyrs. Mistaking the two for one another is ''not'' a good idea. The Broos are chaos creatures that breed by raping any creatures that are available (all Broos are male), and their offspring takes features of those creatures. Farm animals, especially goats are apparently most easily available for them.

* In ''[[GURPS]]'' Dungeon Fantasy, Saturs are a possible character race, which includes females as well.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]: Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer'' has both fauns ''and'' satyrs. In addition to primary character Elora, there are humanoid-looking fauns and satyrs in the Fracture Hills, and more monster-y looking fauns in the Magma Cone. Exactly what differentiates them is not entirely clear.

** It's also worth noting that the Fracture Hills fauns, and to a lesser extant Elora, aren't all that humanoid to begin with. The ones in Fracture Hills in particular look more like anthropomorphic wolves with goat legs.

** The fauns are all female in this game, and the satyrs are male.

* ''[[Diablo]]'' has Goatmen, which are actually demons and not related to either goats or humans.

* The satyrs in [[Will Rock]] are mooks armed with bows.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

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