Editing Greek Mythology (section)

==Monsters and Nonhuman Races==
* '''[[Minotaur]]''' - Originally known as "King Minos' Beast", a towering giant man with a bull's head and a hunger for flesh. In the beginning, Minos ruled Crete with his wife, but when he refused to sacrifice a white bull in order to fulfill a bargain with Posiedon, the spiteful god forced his wife to fuck the bull and give birth to a monster that was promptly locked in a maze dungeon, where it was fed several young men and women every few years as sacrifices. Was eventually slain when Theseus entered the dungeon. The personal name of the minotaur was "Asterion", after Minos' father.
* '''[[Medusa]] and the [[Gorgon]]s''' - The Gorgons were a race of snake-like women with serpents for hair and petrifying gazes. Medusa was merely the most famous among them alongside her sisters Stheno and Euryale, but unlike them, she was originally a beautiful human woman. When Posiedon raped her in Athena's temple, Athena cursed her to become a gorgon for...some reason. Was slain by Perseus, with her head being turned into a shield-mounting and her body turning into a freaking [[Pegasus]] for some reason (since Posideon is associated with horses we can assume he's why).
* '''[[Harpy]]''' - Massive birds with the bodies of human women. Essentially considered spirits of the wind and often spirited away people to feed to the Erinyes.
* '''[[Centaur]]''' - Horses with men (or, more rarely, [[Monstergirls|women]]) for upper bodies. Largely representative of being untamed animals, though some like Chiron were actually incredibly intelligent.
* '''[[Nymph]]''' - An all female race of spirits embodying varying aspects of nature. There are a ''lot'' of specific nymph variants, but some of the most well known are the '''Dryad''' (spirits of forests - the "tree spirit" version is due to confusion with the '''[[Hamadryad]]''', essentially reversing their statuses), the '''[[Oread]]''' (spirits of mountains), the '''[[Naiad]]''' (spirits of rivers, and often conflated with the '''Oceanids''', who were sea nymphs that were rhe children of Oceanus).
* '''[[Satyr]]''' - Half man, half goat, drunken party animals heavily associated with Pan and Dionysius. A closely related creature with horse parts instead of goat parts was called the '''Ipotane'''.
* '''[[Faun]]''' - Younger, prettier, gentler versions of satyrs.
* '''[[Hydra]]''' - The multi-headed monstrosity who grew more heads when one gets cut off. Was slain as one of Heracles' Labors.
* '''Scylla & Charybdis''' - A pair of cursed [[nymph]]s warped into monstrous forms; Scylla was cursed into a many-headed dragon/wolf thing that was stranded on a rocky island cave, from which she would extend her many necks to grab sailors and devour them. Charybdis became a fish-thing that was chained up in the water a short way over from Scylla's lair; she would take enormous drinks of the ocean, and then spew up everything she had drunk, creating an enormous whirlpool. One of Odysseus' challenges was wending a course between the two.
* '''[[Siren]]''' - Sea-dwelling women with hypnotically beautiful singing voices that would lure sailors to their doom on the rocky shore, either for kicks or because they ate them. Originally portrayed as either nymphs or merfolk, they became conflated with harpies for some reason.
* '''[[Chimera]]''' - A tripartite beast with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a goat, the tail of a serpent or dragon, the heads of all three, and the ability to breathe fire. 
* '''[[Cyclops]]''' - One-eyed [[giant]]s. Some worked for Zeus or Hephaestus, forging thunderbolts and other miraculous works. Others, like Polyphemus the son of [[Poseidon]], lived on islands where they tended to giant sheep and ate sailors.
* '''Hecatonchires''' - Towering giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms. Were assigned to keep the Titans in Tartarus following the Titanomachy.
* '''[[Pegasus]]''' - Winged horse that emerged from Medusa's body when she was decapitated. Said to be her son by [[Poseidon]], who was trapped in her womb until Perseus killed her.
* '''[[Hippocampus]]''' - Half-fish, half-horse sea creature kept in great herds by [[Poseidon]].
* ''' Men of Gold''' - First race of humans, created by Kronos to be free of sin. Sadly, this meant they were celibate and they all died out within a generation. Their souls became the first Daemons, which in Greek Mythology are quite different from Daemons as we've come to know them. If the name sounds familiar, this is from where Geedubs ripped off their own Men of Gold for the [[Dark Age of Technology]].
* '''[[Daemon]]s''' - Spirits of Earth and Air, born of the souls of Just and Noble men, which is a lot more than can be said about their more modern iterations. Basically, every humanoid nature personification that was not a big-name god (which you could technically call greater Daemons as the line of separation is a modern attempt to draw hard lines in places that had none), Nymphs, River gods, god of the house, other gods of a very specific location can be considered Daemons. The first were the souls of the Men of Gold.
* '''Men of Silver''' - Second Generation of humans. Created to replace the Men of Gold. Unfortunately, too much sin was added into the batch this time, and whilst they could reproduce, they were apparently Always Chaotic Evil, and the gods were so horrified at what they had created they wiped them out. Other versions of the tale say that, whilst they were sinful, their worst offense was actually just refusing to worship or make sacrifices to the gods. If the second one was true, it wouldn't be a surprise, with how much of a bunch of dicks the Greek Gods were. These more sympathetic versions of the tale state that the souls of the Men of Silver also became Daemons after death.
* '''[[Cerberus]]''' - The massive three-headed hound that guards the gates of the underworld and prevents the dead from fleeing. Was captured as the last of Heracles' labors.
*'''[[Sphinx]]''' - The greek version, which was a lion with the head and breasts of a woman and the wings of an eagle. She gave out riddles, and would devour those who answered incorrectly.