The Stone-Gazers
Sight as a weapon is one of folklore's most durable inventions, and this family holds its purest practitioners: the gorgon whose face ends the viewer, the basilisk hatched wrong and lethal from the first glance. What binds them is an inversion. Looking, our chief instrument of safety, becomes the wound itself.
What binds them
- Petrifying gaze · 8 of them
- Deadly gaze · 7 of them
- Body of cosmic immeasurable size · 4 of them
- Petrifying gaze turns victims to stone · 4 of them
- Bears the world on its back · 3 of them
- Born from rooster egg incubated by toad · 3 of them
- Cursed into monstrous form · 3 of them
- Danger in mere glimpse · 3 of them
Drawn from 7 groups of traditions: European 5 · Middle Eastern 3 · African 2 · North American Indigenous 2 · South American 1 · None 1 · South Asian 1
15 members
- Aido Hwedo
- Akupara
- Bahamut
- Basilisco Chilote
- Basilisk
- Catoblepas
- Cockatrice
- Gorgon
- Kundrav
- Medusa
- Ninki Nanka
- Qiqion
- Stheno
- Uktena
- utukku
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.