What the fook is a Quylthulg?
JQ
But I was just wondering what the inspiration behind the monster was.
I googled it and the only hits were "a creature in Moria/Angband" and
some obscure references to HP Lovecraft. That, and someone who thought
the word was cool enough to adopt as their Myspace handle.
Seriously, this has been gnawing at me for 20 years. Does the
"Quylthulg" have any kind of history, or did the Moria creators simply
pull it out of their... imaginations?
Cheers!
JQ (aka C8841288)
DiamondGeezer
Bit of a pointless reply, but oddly enough I was playing the other
day, and I came across one and did precisely the same! Has also been
bugging me for 20 years...
David Grabiner
As far as I know, quylthulgs and yeeks are both unique to Moria (and
Angband, which inherited them from Moria). There was a discussion
long ago about what a yeek was, and the designers said they didn't
know either.
George W Harris
I believe quylthugs appear in the 1st edition D&D monster
manual, although mine isn't readily available to check.
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Seebs
> I believe quylthugs appear in the 1st edition D&D monster
> manual, although mine isn't readily available to check.
Nope. The closest is the otyugh.
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Nick McConnell
IIRC it was invented late at night when they were searching for a
monster to label Q. Don't know why that particular name or the properties.
Nick.
Kenneth 'Bessarion' Boyd
wrote:
The yeek has been tracked down, if fortuitously, on the forums: they
can be read as an H. Beam Piper reference to an alien species whose
vocal range is ultrasonic, so all that can be heard of their words by
unaided hearing is "yeek!" http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=998&highlight=yeek
.
Seebs
> The yeek has been tracked down, if fortuitously, on the forums: they
> can be read as an H. Beam Piper reference to an alien species whose
> vocal range is ultrasonic, so all that can be heard of their words by
> unaided hearing is "yeek!"
Is that actually the origin, or just a guess? It doesn't make any sense
to me, as moria/angband yeeks are nothing like fuzzies.
Kenneth 'Bessarion' Boyd
> On 2010-04-15, Kenneth 'Bessarion' Boyd <zaim...@zaimoni.com> wrote:
>
> > The yeek has been tracked down, if fortuitously, on the forums: they
> > can be read as an H. Beam Piper reference to an alien species whose
> > vocal range is ultrasonic, so all that can be heard of their words by
> > unaided hearing is "yeek!"
>
> Is that actually the origin, or just a guess? It doesn't make any sense
> to me, as moria/angband yeeks are nothing like fuzzies.
I would assume that it is not "the origin" per the original
developers, but ZAngband ret-conned Piper's physical description into
the racial description for yeeks so it is the origin of the ZAngband
yeeks (and ZAngband forks' yeeks), at least.
Jonathan Ellis
> On 2010-04-15, Kenneth 'Bessarion' Boyd <zaim...@zaimoni.com> wrote:
>
> > The yeek has been tracked down, if fortuitously, on the forums: they
> > can be read as an H. Beam Piper reference to an alien species whose
> > vocal range is ultrasonic, so all that can be heard of their words by
> > unaided hearing is "yeek!"
>
> Is that actually the origin, or just a guess? It doesn't make any sense
> to me, as moria/angband yeeks are nothing like fuzzies.
I assumed it was onomatopoeic - after the noise they make when you tread on
them. :-)
-- Jonathan.
Zyxt
most I could find about it.
"Geoff Hill, the person who added Qlzqqlzuup to Angband, has said that
'Qlzqqlzuup is the result of too much alcohol combined with late night
coding. The spelling was both drunken and somewhat unintentional'."