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[[Image:Satyre_For_Not_Everything_With_Wings.PNG|thumb|360px|Satyre in 1138.]]
  
'''Grimalkin''' is a gigantic stone statue brought to a condition of semi-life by [[Blaise Reynard]] in [[Vyones]], in the year [[Timeline#995-1993|1138]]. Grimalkin was the embodiment of Reynard's wrath.
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'''Satyre''' is a gigantic stone statue brought to a condition of semi-life by [[Blaise Reynard]] in [[Vyones]], in the year [[Timeline#995-1993|1138]]. Satyre was the embodiment of Reynard's lust.
 
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==Real World Background==
 
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In [[Clark Ashton Smith|Clark Ashton Smith's]] short story "The Maker of Gargolyes", The first stone gargoyle carved for the cathedral of Vyones by embittered stonemason Blaise Reynard is a "snarling, murderous, cat-headed monster, with retracted lips revealing formidable fangs, and eyes that glared intolerable hatred from beneath ferine brows". As in the ''[[Gargoyles (Dynamite)|Gargoyles]]'' comic, the cat-headed gargoyle is supernaturally animated by Reynard's hatred for the people of Vyones, going on a grisly weeks-long killing spree throughout the medieval French town. The story ends with a repentant repentant Reynard attempting to shatter his creations with a heavy sledgehammer. Reynard succeeds only in breaking off the cat-headed gargoyles stone forepaw before falling to his death when attacked by the dismembered limb. Unlike the ''Gargoyles'' version of the story, the cat-headed golem survives the events of "Maker" otherwise unscathed, continuing to brood hatefully over the town of Vyones.
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[[File:Satyr_by_Clark_Ashton_Smith.jpg|200px|thumb|right|"The Satyr" scuplted by Clark Ashton Smith]]
 
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In [[Clark Ashton Smith|Clark Ashton Smith's]] short story "The Maker of Gargolyes", The second stone gargoyle carved for the cathedral of Vyones by embittered stonemason Blaise Reynard is a " horned satyr, with the vans of some great bat such as might roam the nether caverns, with sharp, clenching talons, and a look of Satanically brooding lust, as if it were gloating above the helpless object of its unclean desire". As in the ''[[Gargoyles (Dynamite)|Gargoyles]]'' comic, the stone satyr is supernaturally animated by Reynard's lust for the tavern maid Nicolette Villom. Similar to the ''Gargoyles'' version, the horned satyr subjects the defenseless Nicolette to an implied assault in her father's own tavern in the penultimate scene of the original story.
A "cat-headed griffin" makes a brief appearance among the gargoyles of Vyones cathedral in Smith's "The Colossus of Ylourgne", set over a hundred and forty years after the events of "Maker", presumably intended to be one and the same as the late Reynard's creation.
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Latest revision as of 11:12, 28 September 2025

Satyre in 1138.

Satyre is a gigantic stone statue brought to a condition of semi-life by Blaise Reynard in Vyones, in the year 1138. Satyre was the embodiment of Reynard's lust.


History


Characteristics


Real World Background

"The Satyr" scuplted by Clark Ashton Smith

In Clark Ashton Smith's short story "The Maker of Gargolyes", The second stone gargoyle carved for the cathedral of Vyones by embittered stonemason Blaise Reynard is a " horned satyr, with the vans of some great bat such as might roam the nether caverns, with sharp, clenching talons, and a look of Satanically brooding lust, as if it were gloating above the helpless object of its unclean desire". As in the Gargoyles comic, the stone satyr is supernaturally animated by Reynard's lust for the tavern maid Nicolette Villom. Similar to the Gargoyles version, the horned satyr subjects the defenseless Nicolette to an implied assault in her father's own tavern in the penultimate scene of the original story.

See Also