Tag: Gleeok

When it comes to stories set in a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, soon or later you’ll run into dragons. Either in the flesh or just referenced, there is something primordial, something alluring to large serpentine monsters. Many cultures who have had contact of some kind with scaled creatures from snakes to crocodiles have eventually developed a large and mighty variant of it: from the Chinese Dong Fang Qing Long (The Azure Dragon of the East), the Iranian Zahhak (known as…

This one was inevitable; I mean, what are dragons if not the single most well-known and popular mythical creature around? They show up all the time in modern fantasy stories and ancient myths alike, appearing in the beliefs and myths of many cultures worldwide. It seems everyone’s into large winged lizards with a little feline grace. Zelda, too, has an abundance of dragons, and more importantly their presence is rather obvious and not obscured like a lot of mythological elements…

Deimos-Remus has been constantly updating his deviantART gallery, adding several more bosses from the original Legend of Zelda. The artwork you see to the right is his rendition of Gleeok. If you click the image, you can see a much larger version and can really tell the massive amount of detail that has gone into the image. It really is done very well and it is one of my favorite pieces that he has made thus far. He has now…