Literary and Fictional Supernatural Beings

717 documented Literary and Fictional supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 329 lesser and 185 greater in power tier.

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Gigan
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Gigan

Gigan is a fictional kaiju from Toho's Godzilla franchise: a constructed, weaponized, avian-appearing monster presented in Showa continuity as an extraterrestrial creature transformed into a cyborg by the Nebulans and in Millennium continuity as an ancient bioweapon created by the Xilliens. He serves as an alien-deployed combatant and recurring antagonist in films, television, and related media.

Gil-galad
Ancient

Gil-galad

Gil-galad is a fictional Elven king in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, described as the last High King of the Noldor who founded a realm in Lindon, co-led the Last Alliance with Elendil against Sauron at the end of the Second Age, and died in the final hand-to-hand confrontation with Sauron.

Glass Cat (Bungle)
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Glass Cat (Bungle)

An animate ornamental spun-glass cat from L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz, created by a magician's Powder of Life. Transparent except for jewel-like internal features, the Glass Cat is sentient, vain, and occasionally helpful to Ozian travelers.

Glenn Talbot
Minor Spirit

Glenn Talbot

Glenn Talbot is a fictional human military officer in Marvel Comics who serves as a recurring supporting character and occasional antagonist in Hulk-centered stories. Portrayed as a career military man and government agent, he is notable for discovering Bruce Banner's transformations and for representing institutional responses to superhuman phenomena across comics and adaptations.

Glinda
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Glinda

Glinda is a fictional benevolent sorceress created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz books, described as the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz and the ruler of the Quadling Country. She functions as a regional sovereign, protector and counselor to Princess Ozma, and an occasional intervening magical guardian whose actions have shaped the political and supernatural boundaries of Oz.

Glinda of Oz
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Glinda of Oz

Glinda is a fictional benevolent magic-user in L. Frank Baum's Oz series who, in the fourteenth book Glinda of Oz (1920), is summoned by Dorothy and Ozma to assist in raising a glass-covered island from the bottom of a lake and liberate its inhabitants.

Glinda the Good
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Glinda the Good

Glinda the Good is a fictional sorceress created by L. Frank Baum who first appears in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Sources describe her as the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country, and protector of Princess Ozma within the invented cosmology of Oz.

Glinda the Good Witch
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Glinda the Good Witch

Fictional benevolent sorceress created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz novels; depicted as the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country, and protector of Princess Ozma who aids protagonists such as Dorothy.

Global Guardians
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Global Guardians

A fictional international team of superheroes published by DC Comics, composed of individually costumed heroes recruited from various nations to operate under an international coordinating body known as the Dome. Originating in Super Friends stories and later integrated into DC Universe continuity, the group functions as a transnational enforcement/respondent team and has been depicted as cooperating with and opposing other superhero organizations in multiple storylines.

Glorfindel
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Glorfindel

Glorfindel is a fictional Elf‑lord of the Noldor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle‑earth legendarium, notable for a First‑Age deed (slaying a Balrog at the Fall of Gondolin and dying there) and for a Third‑Age role as a powerful protector who aided Frodo against the Nazgûl. Tolkien's later writings treat him as a case of an Elf re‑embodied in Valinor and (in Tolkien's proposed reconciliation) returned to Middle‑earth, with his spiritual power described in late notes as greatly enhanced, "almost an equal of the Maiar."

Glorian (Thomas Gideon)
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Glorian (Thomas Gideon)

Glorian is a modern fictional supernatural/cosmic character from American comic-book fiction: the transformed human Thomas Gideon who serves as the Shaper of Worlds' apprentice and functions as a craftsman/creator figure capable of reshaping matter and constructing dreamlike realities.

Gollum (Sméagol)
Minor Spirit

Gollum (Sméagol)

Gollum is a singular, sentient figure from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth: a Stoor Hobbit named Sméagol who was long corrupted and physically altered by possession of the One Ring, becoming an ambivalent, furtive, cave-dwelling creature whose divided personality and obsessive attachment to the Ring play a decisive role in the Ring’s fate.

Good Witch of the North (Baum)
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Good Witch of the North (Baum)

A benevolent, regional witch and ruler of the Gillikin Country in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz who appears briefly in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) to aid Dorothy with counsel and limited magic. Later stage and film adaptations renamed or conflated her (Locasta/Locusta/Tattypoo; film conflation with Glinda) altering popular memory of the character.

Gorilla-Man
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Gorilla-Man

Gorilla-Man is a recurring Marvel Comics construct: multiple distinct human individuals who become or inhabit gorilla-bodied humanoids (not a spirit). Incarnations range from heroic/ally (Kenneth Hale) to criminal/antagonist (Dr. Arthur Nagan, Franz Radzik), with origins described as mystical curse, surgical transplant, or technological mind-transfer.

Gorlois
Minor Spirit

Gorlois

Gorlois (Welsh: Gwrlais) is a historical-legendary ruler of Cornwall in the Arthurian tradition, husband of Igraine and defender of Tintagel whose death the night Uther Pendragon, by Merlin's enchantment, gains access to Igraine, leads to Arthur's conception. He is treated as a mortal regional lord in primary narratives though later dramatists sometimes depict him briefly as a condemning ghost.

Graf Toren
Minor Spirit

Graf Toren

Graf Toren is documented in the supplied source set only as a modern cataloged label (Wikidata: "fictional character") with no folkloric description in the provided materials. Available documents do not supply origin myths, appearance, powers, rituals, or a living cultural context for an entity by this name.

Granny Weatherwax
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Granny Weatherwax

Esmerelda "Esme" Weatherwax, commonly called Granny Weatherwax or Mistress Weatherwax, is a human witch and the leading figure among the Ramtops witches in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. She is a practicing herbalist and folk-psychologist ('headology') who serves as a pragmatic guardian of the Kingdom of Lancre and its people.

Grayven
Ancient

Grayven

Grayven is a DC Comics supervillain and New God, described as a son of Darkseid who functions as a warlike, planet‑destroying commander in multiple comic crossover storylines. He appears across DC continuity (comics and animated adaptations) as an antagonistic, near‑immortal combatant whose arcs include being banished, incapacitated, killed, and later resurrected in continuity relaunches.

Green Goblin
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Green Goblin

The Green Goblin is a fictional costumed supervillain persona in American comic-book fiction (Marvel Comics), a recurring archenemy of Spider-Man adopted by multiple human characters and characterized by Halloween-themed gadgetry, a flying Goblin Glider, and an association with chemically induced insanity in its original incarnation.

Green Lantern
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Green Lantern

Green Lantern is a title used by multiple superhero characters in DC Comics. The name denotes either the original mystical ring‑wielding hero (Alan Scott) of the Golden Age or members of the later Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar law‑enforcement body empowered by power rings linked to willpower and imagination.

Gremlin
Minor Spirit

Gremlin

A modern machine-age folkloric creature, first attested in Royal Air Force slang in the 1920s, invoked by airmen to personify and explain inexplicable mechanical malfunctions in aircraft and other machinery. Gremlins function socially as scapegoats that reduce interpersonal blame and bolster morale in high-stress technical settings; later popularized in fiction by authors such as Roald Dahl.

Grey Gargoyle (Paul Pierre Duval)
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Grey Gargoyle (Paul Pierre Duval)

A Marvel Comics supervillain whose right hand was permanently transformed into living stone by an industrial chemical accident; he can transmute touched matter to stone temporarily and can convert his whole body into living stone, acting as a recurring antagonist to superheroes such as Thor. He has at times been amplified by cosmic events (e.g., becoming Mokk during Fear Itself) and has been reverted or contained through a variety of tactical and magical interventions.

Groot
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Groot

Groot is a fictional extraterrestrial tree-like sentient being (a Flora colossus) originating from Planet X in Marvel Comics. Introduced in 1960 as an invader, later reinterpretations recast Groot as a heroic figure and long-time companion of Rocket Raccoon within Marvel continuity and its adaptations.

Guardian of the Gate
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Guardian of the Gate

A title used in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the civic sentry who controls access to the Emerald City; the phrase is also reused independently in modern fantasy and gaming to name protectors of liminal thresholds (underworld gates, planar portals) but these uses are distinct from Baum’s fictional office.

Guiron le Courtois
Minor Spirit

Guiron le Courtois

Guiron le Courtois is a literary knight-errant from the Old French Arthurian prose-romance tradition, central to the Palamedes/Guiron compilation of the 13th century and later manuscript and printed continuations. He functions in the narrative cosmos as an exemplar of courtly conduct whose adventures, loyalties, and lineage are narrated within the wider Round Table milieu.

Gyges (of Lydia; Ring of Gyges tradition)
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Gyges (of Lydia; Ring of Gyges tradition)

Gyges is a named human figure from Greek classical tradition: a founder/early king of Lydia (Gyges of Lydia) and the protagonist of the 'Ring of Gyges' moral thought-experiment. He is treated in historiography (notably Herodotus) as a political actor whose story is later used in philosophical discussion about invisibility, secrecy, and justice.

Haagenti
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Haagenti

Haagenti is a named spirit from the grimoire tradition (the Lesser Key of Solomon/Ars Goetia) described as a high-ranking infernal president who instructs humans and effects alchemical transmutations; modern fantasy and gaming sources adapt and reimagine him in varied ways.

Hagbard (Hagbarðr)
Minor Spirit

Hagbard (Hagbarðr)

Hagbard (Old Norse Hagbarðr) is a legendary Scandinavian sea-king and heroic figure in Old Norse saga and skaldic tradition, best known for the tragic love-and-feud narrative with Signy that ends in his hanging. He appears as a human martial leader associated with kin-groups, raiding, and the heroic age preserved in medieval Icelandic compilations.

Half-elf
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Half-elf

A being born of a union between an elf and a human; across sources the category functions as a genealogical/hybrid personage whose significance ranges from a locus of metaphysical choice (Tolkien) to narratively potent, sometimes dangerous figures in Norse sagas, and to a flexible playable race in modern fantasy gaming.

Hank Pym
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Hank Pym

Hank Pym is a fictional American comic-book character: a biochemist-inventor who discovered ‘Pym particles’ that allow dramatic size alteration, who has appeared under multiple costumed identities (Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, briefly Wasp), is a founding member of the Avengers, and is the creator of the robotic villain Ultron. He appears in serialized Marvel comics since 1962 and in Marvel Cinematic Universe films portrayed by Michael Douglas.

Hannikel (Jakob Reinhard)
Minor Spirit

Hannikel (Jakob Reinhard)

Hannikel was the nickname of Jakob Reinhard (c.1742–17 July 1787), an 18th‑century German outlaw who led a gang active in the Northern Black Forest and adjacent borderlands. Documented as a criminal leader whose career ended in arrest, imprisonment, escapes and a public hanging, his persona was later adopted into Swabian‑Alemannic carnival and literary/radio retellings.

Harpalyce (daughter of Clymenus)
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Harpalyce (daughter of Clymenus)

Harpalyce, identified in the supplied sources as 'Harpalyce (mythology),' is one of several women in Greek myth who bear the name Harpalyce. In the materials provided she is attested only as a named figure in reference works and disambiguation lists and is not described with any narrative, cultic role, or supernatural attributes.

Harpy
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Harpy

In Greek and Roman myth, a harpy is a hybrid bird-human creature and personification of storm-winds that acts as an agent of divine punishment — snatching food, fouling victuals, and carrying off or tormenting wrongdoers, sometimes delivering them to chthonic justice.

Hawkeye
Minor Spirit

Hawkeye

Hawkeye is a polyvalent English-language cultural label applied to multiple non-supernatural referents including literary and comic-book characters (notably Natty Bumppo and Marvel's Clint Barton and Kate Bishop), regional nicknames and place-names in the United States (e.g., Iowa, 'Hawkeye State'), and various commercial or artistic uses. The supplied sources treat Hawkeye as a modern/pop-cultural name rather than a spirit or mythic being.

Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders)
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Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders)

Kendra Saunders is a DC Comics character who assumes the mantle Hawkgirl within the Hawk legacy. Introduced in 1999 as a modern incarnation in a long cycle of Hawkman/Hawkgirl identities, she is portrayed as a winged, melee‑focused superheroine whose flight and gear are commonly associated with the fictional material Nth metal.

Hector
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Hector

Hector is a Trojan prince and the foremost warrior of Troy in the Homeric Iliad, celebrated as a devoted husband, father, son, and defender of his city. Portrayed as exemplary in duty and martial skill, his mortal fate is shaped by combat, family obligations, and the interventions of gods.

Hector de Maris
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Hector de Maris

Hector de Maris is a human knight of the Round Table in the medieval Arthurian prose cycles (Vulgate and Post-Vulgate) and in later retellings. Presented as an illegitimate son of King Ban of Benoic and the half-brother of Lancelot, he is a prominent martial figure: a tournament champion, leader of Lancelot's faction during the court scandal, and a participant in the Grail Quest and subsequent wars.

Helgi Hundingsbane
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Helgi Hundingsbane

Helgi Hundingsbane is a legendary Old Norse heroic figure attested in the Poetic Edda and related saga material. Presented as a mortal warrior famed for slaying Hunding, his story includes valkyrie love, death in vengeance, presence among the einherjar in Valhalla, and motifs of rebirth with his lover Sigrún.

Hellawes
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Hellawes

Hellawes is a sorceress in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur associated with the Castle Nigramous and the episode set at the 'Chapel Perilous'. She attempts to seduce Sir Launcelot and, in the narrative, obstructs the healing of a wounded knight until specified quest actions recover items from a corpse.

Helmut Zemo
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Helmut Zemo

Helmut Zemo is a fictional human antagonist in Marvel Comics, the thirteenth Baron Zemo, introduced in Captain America #168 (1973). A non-superpowered engineer-turned-villain, he leads organized teams (Masters of Evil, Thunderbolts) and pursues schemes rooted in family legacy, science, and political manipulation.

Hildebrand
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Hildebrand

Hildebrand is a named heroic human figure in the Germanic Dietrich/Theodoric cycle, presented in medieval Old High German, Middle High German, and Old Norse poems and sagas as a warrior, armourer, and fatherly companion to Dietrich von Bern. The traditions centre on martial skill, mentorship, loyalty, and tragic kin-conflicts (notably a duel with his son).

Hipermestra
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Hipermestra

Hipermestra is the operatic/theatrical adaptation of the classical heroine Hypermnestra as staged in 17th-century Italian and Spanish court festivals (festa teatrale, opera, zarzuela). The name denotes a dramatic protagonist used in courtly spectacle and allegory rather than an independently described supernatural being.

Hippolyte (Hippolyta)
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Hippolyte (Hippolyta)

Hippolyte (also rendered Hippolyta) is an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, described as a daughter of Ares and Otrera and sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She is best known as the holder of a notable martial girdle (zoster) that becomes the object of one of Heracles' labors and which figures in narratives involving Theseus.

Hippolytos (Hippolytus)
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Hippolytos (Hippolytus)

Hippolytos is a mythic human figure of Greek tragic tradition: the chaste prince and son of Theseus whose rejection of sexual passion and women provokes Phaedra's false accusation and divine retribution (notably Aphrodite's vengeance and Poseidon's punishment) as dramatized in Euripides' Hippolytus and represented in ancient art.

Hippolytus
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Hippolytus

Hippolytus is a mythic mortal figure of Greek tragedy and myth, best known as the chaste son of Theseus whose rejection of sexual advances and devotion to chastity bring about a family tragedy treated most famously in Euripides' play Hippolytus (produced 428 BC). He functions as a tragic exemplar exploring tensions between human piety, sexual honor, and divine intervention within the Athenian dramatic and mythic tradition.

Hiro-Kala
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Hiro-Kala

Hiro-Kala is a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain: the son of the Hulk and Caiera and twin brother of Skaar. In Marvel narratives he masters Sakaar's Old Power, combines it with the Power Cosmic into a 'New Power', and performs planetary-scale acts including attempting to seize K’ai’s Worldmind and move a planet toward Earth.

Hobbit
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Hobbit

A fictional, short-statured race of people created by J. R. R. Tolkien in his Middle-earth legendarium; rural, domestic, and culturally anachronistic within the imagined past, noted for homely underground dwellings and ordinary courage in extraordinary circumstances.

House of Yngling
Minor Spirit

House of Yngling

The House of Yngling is a dynastic lineage named in early medieval Scandinavian literary tradition and later genealogical documents. Primarily attested through the poem Ynglingatal and referenced in works like Beowulf (as the Scylfings), the Ynglings function in sources as an ancestral royal house providing genealogical legitimacy for rulers in Sweden and later Norway.

Hulkbusters
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Hulkbusters

Hulkbusters is the name applied to three distinct organized human groups in Marvel Comics whose purpose is to confront, capture, or neutralize the Hulk. The label is used for a U.S. military task force, a Bruce Banner–led scientific/operational team based at Gamma Base, and a S.H.I.E.L.D. unit; each iteration functions as an instrument of state or agency policy within the fictional Marvel Universe.

Humay-ē Chehrzad
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Humay-ē Chehrzad

Humay-ē Chehrzad is a legendary Kayanian queen of Iran who, according to the Kayanian cycle as summarized in the available sources, served as vice-regent and then ruled for about 32 years before handing the throne to her son Kai Darab. Her narrative emphasizes dynastic succession, the protection and concealment of a royal infant, and military response to foreign assault; later chroniclers at times equated her with the Near Eastern queen Semiramis.

Hungry Tiger
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Hungry Tiger

The Hungry Tiger is a fictional anthropomorphic tiger character created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz books, first appearing in Ozma of Oz. Presented within the enchanted Land of Oz as a speaking, feeling animal-person, he served as comic relief in Baum's work and was later expanded into a protagonist by subsequent Oz authors and continuators.

Hwin
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Hwin

Hwin is a fictional talking mare from C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, prominently featured in The Horse and His Boy (1954). She is a Narnian free-talking beast characterized by humility, clear thinking, and gentle temperament, who was captured in Calormen as a foal and later escapes back to Narnia.

Hylas
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Hylas

Hylas is a mortal youth in classical Greek myth, famed as the beloved companion and arms-bearer of Heracles and (in some accounts) an Argonaut. His myth centers on his disappearance at the freshwater spring of Pegae in Mysia, where naiads either abduct, entice, or transform him, a story remembered in local festivals and widely alluded to in later literature and art.

Hyllus
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Hyllus

Hyllus is a figure from ancient Greek legendary-historical tradition, presented as a son of Heracles and Deianira and an eponymous ancestor of the Heraclidae whose actions and descendants feature in accounts of Dorian claims on the Peloponnesus.

Hypermnestra of Aetolia
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Hypermnestra of Aetolia

Hypermnestra of Aetolia is a legendary mortal royal woman in Greek mytho‑genealogical tradition, attested as a daughter of King Thestius of Pleuron and sister of figures such as Leda and Althaea. She is remembered in local topography (a tomb cited by Pausanias) and appears in genealogical lists; the name Hypermnestra also occurs elsewhere in Greek myth (notably among the Danaids) and must be disambiguated from those other figures.

Hypseus
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Hypseus

Hypseus (Ancient Greek: Ὑψεύς, Hypsēús, lit. "one on high") is a name borne by several mortal or semi-divine figures in ancient Greek myth and epic. Most prominently he appears as a Thessalian/Lapith king, son of the river-god Peneus and father (in some traditions) of the heroine Cyrene; other bearers of the name occur as named combatants who are slain in heroic battles (against Perseus; in the Seven against Thebes; in Statius' Thebaid).

Húrin
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Húrin

Húrin is a mortal Man of the House of Hador in J. R. R. Tolkien’s First Age legendarium: a preeminent warrior famed for his endurance and tragic fate after capture by Morgoth, whose long captivity and the curse on his kin shape major events in Beleriand.

Icarius
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Icarius

Icarius (Ancient Greek: Ἰκάριος, Ikários) is a personal name borne by several legendary mortal figures in Greek myth rather than a recurring supernatural class. Principal traditions portray an Athenian Icarius who receives viticulture and winemaking knowledge from Dionysus, a Spartan Icarius involved in dynastic struggles (associated with Hippocoon and Tyndareus), and an Icarius who is tragically killed by villagers in the Erigone/Canis Minor cycle.

Idomeneus
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Idomeneus

Idomeneus is a mortal king of Crete and a martial leader in the Homeric epic tradition, commander of the Cretan contingent at Troy. He appears in the Iliad and is later adapted in subsequent literature and opera; some post-Homeric tales add a vow to Poseidon connected to his return from Troy.

Iggwilv
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Iggwilv

Iggwilv is a fictional human arch‑mage from the Greyhawk campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons, presented across editions as a powerful practitioner of arcane magic, author of in‑setting treatises on demons (the Demonomicon/Nethertome) and a manipulator of Abyssal/demonic politics. She is identified with other personas such as Tasha and Natasha in various sources and has a mutable biography across publications.