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LOZ Redux: Gleeok

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Boss #4: Gleeok

"A huge dragon that has 2 to 4 heads and spits out beams at Link. Heads that Link cuts off from its body fly around in the air."

-The Legend of Zelda Manual

On the second of the two islands situated in Lake Hylia is an exceptionally elaborate, decoratively carved jade and gem encrusted palace, its focal point a sculpted shape of a snake’s face whose gaping fanged mouth serves as its entrance. Within its finely detailed walls lives the youngest, and consequently most intelligent and sentient of the 6 demons; a tri-cephalic dragon with the name Gleeok. Gleeok is the only demon capable of speech, speaking in a dead language that only Ganon has been able to decipher. Waking Gleeok from its slumber, Ganon was met with much arrogance and a desire for something to do, as sleeping for millennia had made the boastful god bored. Ganon made a deal that appealed to the dragon's vanity; a worthy challenge. In exchange for protecting a Triforce shard, the dragon would be given the challenge of defending it from the hero that could reclaim it and the boasting rights if the warrior was to be killed. Gleeok is a legendary beast, known for slaying many knights and having a legion of followers to construct his palace. Not only is the dragon powerful and resilient, if one of its heads were to be cut off, it'd still have the power to bite, eerily floating around in search of prey. 

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FrustratedInExcelsis's avatar
I really like this! It's always a treat to find a dragon resembling the more monstrous things from older art that were just big, ugly chimeras of every animal the medieval Europeans didn't like. This take on Gleeok, with that thick tail, birdlike talons, tattered wings and weird dog-monkey heads, would have been right at home fighting a wandering knight in a medieval painting or in an ancient bestiary.