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The Manticore - Man Eating Beast from Persia

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Dungeon and Dragons, the first and most popular RPG game designed, isn’t lacking in the departments of monsters to throw at the players . Among them, the Manticore stands as one of its most utilized and popular one , serving as early challenges for low- level parties. But just like the vast majorities of dnd monsters, the Manticore take roots in real life mythology of the lands of the Achaemenid Empire, better known as Persia. Just like most ancient mythological monsters, the Manticore’s appearances varied from time to time but kept some core features. These being a man-faced lion with a scorpion tale delivering paralyzing poisons, while wings and throwing quills being added eve ry known and then. Behavior- wise, the Manticore was purely a feral predator, killing to eat rather than inflicting torment and its appetite was ravenous. Its three rows of teeth allowed them to chew anything between flesh and bone to metal and stone, leaving nothing of its victims behind. The creature wa...
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The Hittites - The Nemesis of Egypt

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The Bronze Age, time of the first great human civilizations starting with the people of Summer and ending with the fall of the Egyptians, Mycenaeans and Hittites. The later in particular will be the focuses of today, as they tend to be the lesser known of the big three, with Egypt being the best recorded Nation while Mycenaean at least enjoy its connection with the Greek City S tates. But the Hittites were here, and they were a major player in the Region at the time.    Ruling from their capital city of Hattusa, of which the ruins can still be seen in modern day Turkey , they emerged from a co ali tion of smaller cities known as Kussara before being united by a strong leader. This came in the form of the first Hittite king, Hattusili the first, who exploited a time of heavy unrest submitted the cities around the Halys River to his rule. His decedents would then continue to build their power base until forming the nation that covered most of Anatolia. Funnily enough, ...
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Rise of the Samourai

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Here are grammatical corrections without changing the structure or meaning. I kept your sentences and paragraph divisions but fixed grammar, punctuation, capitalization, word choice, agreement, and minor typos. Japan, prior to the ‘peaceful’ arrival of the western world in its market, was dominated by the Shogunates. While up until their establishment the emperor was the official head of state in Japan, he had been long reduced to a figurehead and heavily influenced by powerful clans in the court, like the Fujiwara and the Taira. The Imperial Family still maintained a great degree of control over politics up until the 12th century, where a succession of events would truly end their domination. The prelude of the Genpei War started with a dynastic struggle known as the Hōgen Rebellion, which dramatically altered the dynamics of the imperial court. To make it short, a brotherly rivalry within the Imperial House, various factions aiming for power and one careless Emperor Toba led to ...
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