Monsters beginning with X

[mumwithdice]

Can anyone think of any that are not D&D related? That is, ones that are in general mythology?

Thank you!

[Serpentine]

You didn't want it D&D related, but I found it the easiest way to find real-world monsters starting with X. So...

This (http://www.elfwood.com/~obal/Xilob.3096256.html) claims the Xilob is a Mayan creature, but I couldn't find any other information on it at all.

Xtabay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtabay) is a Mesoamerican demon.

That's the best I've got :/ I feel like there would be some others in South American myth, though...

[The Succubus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xolotl

Some sources claim it is a god, others claim it is something like the Mayan equivalent of Cerebus.

[mumwithdice]

Thank you, that's a great help.

[Brother Oni]

If you're using pinyin transliteration, there's a whole bunch of critters called Xian in Chinese. Most of them are borderline religious or are actually religious, so I can't link to them on this board.

Under Wade-Giles, they're called Hsien, which may be more fruitful in google searches (the World of Darkness Far East sourcebooks refers to them as hsien).

[Gadora]

I've currently got an encyclopedia on the subject checked out from the library, but it, sadly, has only the one page.

Anyhow, there's the Xan, from Guatemala, that, according to other sources, seems to be some sort of fantastic mosquito. There's also the Xexeu, that hails from the Cashmawa of South America, and is a kind of gigantic bird that is responsible for a bit of weather.

Beyond that book, I can point you to the xanas (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/x/xanas.html) and the xindhi (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/x/xindhi.html)

I do also have a small handful of unique beings, but I don't know how helpful that would be.

[Eldan]

That's the great thing about some foreign languages in this case: a whole lot of stuff can be transliterated with an X.

[Brother Oni]

That's the great thing about some foreign languages in this case: a whole lot of stuff can be transliterated with an X.

Depends on the romanisation process - they normally make some sort of phonetic sense, but English has issues with tonal inflections (Wade Giles usually gives me a headache :smallsigh:).

[dgnslyr]

Romanized Chinese has plenty of X's to work with, though, sadly, I'm not as well versed in Chinese stories as I should, and the first two x-words I thought of were sausage (xiang chang) and mushrooms (xiang gu). I think this says more about me than it does about the Chinese language.

[The Succubus]

I can't believe we've gone this far without mentioning this well-known monster:

:xykon: