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* The dragon Smaug in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.

* The Ordo Hydra, another conspiracy group, in the [[Inquistion War Trilogy]] by Ian Watson ( a series of Warhammer 40000 novels). They are a secret group in the already secret group of the Ordo Malleus who are already part of the "mostly ignored of by the general population" group, the Inquisition. They are really secretive.

* The Manticore (a weird cross between a lion and a scorpion) is the heraldric symbol of the Star Kingdom of Manticore in the [[Honor Harrington]] series.

== Real Life ==

* The closest thing to this would be actual heraldric symbols borrowed from mythological motifs.

**The Arrow-Cross was a symbol of Hungarian Fascism. Supposedly it was the emblem of the Magyar tribes (if they didn't make that up). One sometimes gets the impression that Fascists might have been [[Fridge Logic|pretty good fantasy writers]] if they hadn't decided to be murderous thugs.

** The Double-Headed Eagle goes as far back apparently as the Hittites and is a generic symbol of empire. Several rulers including the Byzantines, the Habsburgs, and the Romanovs used it.

** Scotland uses the Unicorn. Interestingly it was once chosen as a [[Take That]] to England as supposedly Unicorns have an [[Elves Versus Dwarves|eternal feud]] with lions and the Lion of course represents England.

**Venice is the "Lion of St. Mark" which is actually a Griffin (a winged lion).

== Tabletop Games ==

* The Dragonmarked Houses in [[Eberron]].