Epic poetry originates from the oral tradition, since if you want to tell a really long story without writing it down the easiest way to memorize it so you tell it the exact same way every time is to add a sense of rhythm and lyrical qualities.

Now, on to our first Canto.

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The wonderful walnut comes in two main varieties. The English walnut originated in Persia while the black walnut is native to eastern North America. This illustration, from 1543, shows the English walnut.

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Vector's acquired taste for...older women, Vanilla in particular, originates from Sonic X.

This is not referenced in any other media until recently in the IDW comics, issue

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Since I don't know the threshold for "short" manga (I'd say 100-120 is still pretty short), I'll limit myself to 1-season anime series (not movies) that didn't originate from a different media. https://t.co/WepSELGPxJ

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Fern the Half angel Half demon
Maple the reanimated Harpy eagle
Tracker the mutated dog
and a WIP of who I'm working on
E47G62 "Stalker" who originated from a dream

I have a lot of spooky characters just these are the only ones drawn XD

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Did you know? Lovely★Monika originates from the same game Monika hails from, Rage of Bahamut! Fans of Rage of Bahamut and Shadowverse might recognise her adventuring alongside familiar faces such as Medusa or Morra, who has also starred in the previous Magical Girls event!

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Does something sound familiar?
Just like the Barian Emperors, Jaden also originated from a medieval kingdom in his past life, and even gained a companion (Yubel) to control his ‘darkness’ (possibly a fragment of Don Thousand’s power).

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I heard that the Japanese word "馬鹿" was originated from a Chinese idiom "指鹿为马". This idiom means "calling a deer "horse.""

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My OC for years, finally getting some development: Alexis, originates from the Orre region, raised in Hoenn and is its champion, still traveling all regions to challenge the Leagues and contests, becomes Raihan's girlfriend. No ff yet, but little summary: https://t.co/Vr2VtiJPBd

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It's 2am, time to post anime.

Warmup while I've been watching a ton of Inuyasha and getting ready to work on commissions.

Have I ever mentioned that Yume originated as an Inuyasha OC?

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Mordred originates in fate/apocrypha, she is one of the more developed characters from that and to sum up, she was in the fate Franchise King Arthur was a girl and Mordred was created from her DNA as a artificial human. Who was told to claim the throne from "his" "father"

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Some funky creatures I haven't found in mosaics yet, the Bearded Snakes originated in Greece where they are depicted as the Hydra fought by Herakles, and in relation with the Gorgon.
https://t.co/YijIAriF1M

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Oniko originated from this song: https://t.co/mc8181NcoE but I would also associate her with Smell of the Game from GG Strive

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💙Sonictober💙
Day 12: Disaster.

Given the context of how Dark Sonic originated, I think it fits the word "disaster" very well.

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it kinda bothers me how derivative age of calamity is of botw? like i kinda wish not every little thing originated 100 yrs ago. hyrule is supposed to be completely changed. hestuu doesn't need to be there. they don't all need to have their individual paragliders. i dunno

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you can REALLy tell where my kind of interests originate from

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Decided to make a Smash icon for Cinderace!

This was originated from a clip of the upcoming movie

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On the note of protogens, meet pripyat my protogen sona, my dad's side of the family originated in pripyat what used to be russia and well its history!

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One of the most long-held food superstitions is that garlic wards off vampires and evil. This originated because of its medicinal and healing properties. It was used during the Black Death, and it protected people from catching the disease
https://t.co/XWrLAGe3VG

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