Meet Lusitania, or as locals simply call her, Lucy. She rules a large part of the Louisiana swamps, and all people who enter her territory never come back out. Her current bounty is $2800.

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When King Staar II called on all the Lords of the Swamps to gather their men and fight in the War of the Vale the Swamps were left mostly undefended. Bandits thrived and the region became more and more Lawless.
https://t.co/VqYTGGoQoE

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Aspidochelone is a giganti sea creature usually described as a sea turtle with a shell so large it appeared to sailors as an island. The sailors would then land upon its back and the beast would overturn and gobble them up with its enormous beak.

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The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting.

—Sean Terrence Best
art by Hidayet Üstün

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Khoor is covered in gloom. It consists of chill swamps, tangled marshes & corroded wastes from acid rain. Its ruins are guarded by minions of the great dragon who weeps tears of acid over loss of its treasure... live on Kickstarter in May!

https://t.co/OQSNJbjhET

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in the forest swamp
by Luis Melo
on

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The Will o' Wisp is an atmospheric ghost light, often seen at night. In Shropshire, The Wisp is the spirit of Wicked Will the blacksmith, and you can read his story below!



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In Flanders it's said that a water devil who loved to pull people into a pit with a hook and drown them was responsible for many disappearances. It's also said that the water devil would sit on roofs to laugh at people.

🎨Aleksandra Waliszewska

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Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp

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In Scottish folklore, a kelpie is a dangerous shape-shifting water creature that can appear on land as a horse. The kelpie appears to their human victims as a grey, black or white horse, entices them to ride on their back, then carries them down to a watery grave.

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La Balize, Louisiana, Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg, 1828.

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Thumbelina drawn by V. Konashevich in 1968. 🐸

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Entering the river she was cleaned,
shining like a white stone in the rain,
and without looking back she swam again
swam towards emptiness, swam towards death.
–Pablo Neruda.
🎨Anne Stokes.

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Another auction for The Swamp!
0.7 SOL starting bid.
Bidding increments of 0.1 SOL
Auction starts at 11AM EST 4/21/2022
Ends 11AM EST 4/22/2022
All funds are donated to SwampSyndicate community wallet!
Winner can claim from Magic Eden once auction over.

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Murky swamp anyone? Swamps are cool and I need to make more maps in this theme tbh, lots of weird and nasty creatures lurking just below the service! Like yo mum, OOOHHHH Gottem.

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♫ Lately Ive been putting the cry in cryptid
Wishing I could melt into swamps
Beady red eyes cant see beauty standards
And stealing someone's skin would hide all my flaws

What if I wanna be a cryptid
Maybe my ideal body is Ý̵̪͈̈O̷̍̎̂U̸R̶̍̋S̸̛͛̆ ♫

Lyrics: "Cryptid by Ratwyfe"

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Swamps, swamps, where else would heroes go for introspection except a swamp? ATLA, Star Wars, Swamp Thing, Shrek...the list of swap creatures in media is endless!

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'A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.'
Guy de Maupassant
🖼️ Lily Seika Jones

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