What are the giants

[spoke]

A lot of the things in these books are just odd descriptions of common world things and legends.

 

Example: Razor -- Zebra

Drakgar -- vampire

grey men - zombies

Elayne and Nynaeve conjour up a unicorn while in TAR (a horse with a single horn on it's head)

12 trolloc clans include Deamons, Devils, efreeti, Genies (djinni), etc...

 

 

Noal (aka Jain) Charin tells stories from Shara about giants with bellies on their faces.

 

I cannot seem to figure out what real world legend these are based on. Any Ideas?

[Luckers]

Rj stated that razors were not zebras. As for the giants, its been suggested that this is twistings of stories about nym.

[FarShainMael]

Well, this is a monster with its face on its belly..

 

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

 

Also, see this:

 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BellyMouth

 

I think something like that turned up in a 'Real Ghostbusters' episode.

[MasterAblar]

Rj stated that razors were not zebras. As for the giants, its been suggested that this is twistings of stories about nym.

 

So what are they then? The razors I mean. Some cross breed between zebras and horses? Or does Randland have a breed of horse not present in our world? Or was the answer never given and I'm just needlessly bothering you?

 

 

Also, see this:

 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BellyMouth

 

I think something like that turned up in a 'Real Ghostbusters' episode.

 

IT'S A GIANT BELLY MOUTHED SLUG!!!!!!

[LeeM.Erickson]

I think RJ said the razor was a paint horse?

[Hopefire]

A razor is just a horse breed, one that happens to be pinto/piebald/painted.

 

[Suttree]

A lot of the things in these books are just odd descriptions of common world things and legends.

 

Example: Razor -- Zebra

Drakgar -- vampire

grey men - zombies

Elayne and Nynaeve conjour up a unicorn while in TAR (a horse with a single horn on it's head)

12 trolloc clans include Deamons, Devils, efreeti, Genies (djinni), etc...

 

 

Noal (aka Jain) Charin tells stories from Shara about giants with bellies on their faces.

 

I cannot seem to figure out what real world legend these are based on. Any Ideas?

 

Grey Men--Zombies? Don't really see that one...

[Mandro]

Grey Men, = NINJA'S!

[yoniy0]

Yeah, the Zomaran remind me more of zombies, and the terms themselves are also more similar.

[Owayn The Traveller]

Was it Marco Polo, Magellan, Mungo Park or Pliny that mentioned a tale with people that had faces in their bellies? I think thats just it. A lot of real world stuff has been digested and regurgitated into The Wheel of Time books.