Final Fantasy games

Group Description

This game group includes all games under the Final Fantasy license.

Trivia: Monsters

The name of the monsters of the Final Fantasy universe are often taken from different mythologies of the world. Here is a small list of some popular monsters, and what mythology they are taken from:

• Behemoth - Jewish mythology. A huge monster and a symbol of evil.
• Ahriman - Persian mythology. Personification of evil (In FF games, ahrimans are those one-eyed flying things, looking like bats).
• Asura - Hindu mythology. A class of deities, as opposed to the "deva" (gods).
• Grendel - English mythology. Beowulf, anyone?
• Tiamat - Babylonian mythology. Chaos, the mother of all things.
• Kali - Hindu mythology. A mighty and often dangerous goddess of time and destruction.

Monster a character can summon:

• Ifrit - Arab mythology. A wicked spirit, also known as Jinn.
• Shiva - Hindu mythology. One of the greatest gods, sometimes regarded as the God. Unfortunately for all fans of the Final Fantasy version of Shiva - he is a man.
• Ramuh - "Ramuh" is maybe a form of "Rama", the incarnation of Vishnu in Hindu mythology.
• Phoenix - Phoenician mythology, of course (Phoenicia was where now is Lebanon, populated by Phoenicians, a nation similar to the Jews). But the name "Phoenix" is Greek. A bird that resurrects itself after dying (the item "phoenix down" also comes from there).
• Titan - Greek mythology. Titans were a class of deities that fought against the Olympic gods.
• Siren - Greek mythology. A beautiful woman who charms sailors by singing to them.
• Leviathan - Jewish mythology. A huge water creature (Modern Hebrew: "livyatan" = "whale").
• Fafnir - German mythology. A wolf that was defeated by the hero Siegfried.
• Hades - Greek mythology. The world of the dead and also its ruler.
• Quetzalcoatl - American Indian (Central America) mythology. One of the greater gods of aztecs.
• Odin - Scandinavian mythology. The most powerful god, the ruler of gods.
• Gilgamesh - Babylonian mythology. A great hero. Not a god and not a monster, actually.
• Bahamut - Arab mythology. Is actually a translation of the Hebrew "behemoth". In Arab mythology, it is a big fish, and not a dragon.

Related Game Groups:

• Final Fantasy series
• Final Fantasy VII series
• Final Fantasy X series
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series
• Final Fantasy Online series
• Final Fantasy Tactics series

Information also contributed by Unicorn Lynx