Talk:Medusa/@comment-28856683-20160410191212/@comment-27069434-20160412215442

The problem is that most mythological creatures that were used as prototypes for RPG in general and MGE specifically were 'single issue', so to speak - Sphinx, Anubis, Beelzebub, Apep, Scylla and Charibdis, Tytania and so on, so getting the whole species named after the only specimen to ever exist in the original myth is a general practice. As for the Gorgon sisters, well, yeah, not many people know there were three of them, the only mortal one being Medusa by (first?) name. And she's basically the famous one, what with being killed by that arsehole with burrowed sandals and a shield gifted by the belligrent bitch who caused Medusa to turn into monster in the first place - so what if the poor girl got raped by another god in your temple - go deal with the old coot, not the victim!.(Sorry, hate these mythological non sequitur)

And then there's the fantasy clishe having all the RPG lorebooks name the creatures inspired by Gorgons Medusae. Frickin' pop-culture.