“They channeled the rainwater away from the walls of buildings.” Warding off evil was secondary to preventing water damage.
While classic gargoyles are a product of the middle ages, the practice of decorating drain spouts with animals, and creatures like gargoyles goes way back, even to Ancient Egypt and other pagan/non-christian places.Īdditionally, if you are playing as a Pyromancer, you will have very easy access to the Gargoyle’s Weakness – fire!Īre gargoyles supposed to protect you? Do gargoyles protect your home? The relation of gargoyles to paganism is quite fitting.
In this sense they served as almost an “evil eye”-they were evil-looking creatures that were designed to keep evil at bay. Gargoyles were also thought to ward off evil. Your gargoyle can be set simply amongst shrubbery, partly obscured from view, or made a more obvious feature and placed on columns, or pedestals at various points in the garden such as in grottoes, alcoves, staircases or at the end of a path.ġ3. They are often the things that put the finishing touches to a garden. Just as with bosses and chimeras, gargoyles are said to protect what they guard, such as a church, from any evil or harmful spirits. Some legends say that these stone creatures actually come to life to ward off evil, and that they can communicate with others when the wind or rain passes through their mouths. Most gargoyles are depicted as grotesque creatures, but it is said that – like snowflakes – you will never find two that are exactly alike.
Gargoyles have six powers and abilities: immortality (invulnerable to the passing of time and to diseases), human form (shapeshift to human-like beings), flight posses wings), camouflage (blend with the inanimate grotesques to surprise intruders), endurance (cannot be wounded at night), and petrification (turns other …
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