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Author: Chabal2

Aug 25th 2014 at 1:41:59 PM

* GoldenSun has this in spades: The vast majority of summons involve deities from many religions (Greek, Norse, Mayan, Babylonian...), none of which are actually worshipped in-game and some of which have nothing to do with their RealLife counterparts.
** One of the summons is a mage in Japanese dress who summons a bunch of flying... trap things that paralyze enemies, and for whatever unfathomable reason, is named Ulysses.
** One of the Mercury summons is Neptune, a giant sperm whale that attacks via WaveMotionGun breath. In the second game, you fight Poseidon (who looks more like Triton, his son in Greek myth), and it is entirely possible to have what is basically the same god attack itself.
** The best Venus (earth-elemental) summon in the first game is Judgement, which is basically supposed to be the biblical Apocalypse unleashed on your enemies.
** Averted in DarkDawn when it turns out that the Cybele summon, a weird frog-like creature with trees growing out of its head, is in fact Cybele's pet, Cybele appearing like a much more classical Greek goddess.