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 Hydras are giant dragon-like serpents with multiple heads.

History

Emerging directly from Greek myths, hydras are powerful creatures difficult to defeat, not only for their large number of heads attacking simultaneously from all directions, but also for their ability to breathe fire through their enormous mouths, and their capacity for regeneration: if one head is cut, another will be born in its place.[1]

A hydra can be killed if all of its heads are cut off at the same time.[2]

The original Hydra was an offspring of Typhon and Echidna, and even after being killed it still preserves some of its power: if its fangs are sown, an army of undead skeleton warriors will be born from it, the Hellspawn of the Hydra.[3]

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Notes

  • This character or object is an adaptation of Lernaean Hydra, a character or object in traditional stories. These include, but may not be limited to religious texts, myth, and/or folk lore. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.

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