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| rdfs:comment | - Rocs originate from Arabic and Persian mythology, they were said to be raptors of enormous size, large enough to carry a full-grown elephant in their talons.
- Rocs are gargantuan birds which featured in Terran cryptozoology and myth. It is unknown if they ever existed in Sosaria. While an illustration of one features in the manual for the original Apple II release of Ultima I, these beings never actually appear in the course of the game.
- The Great Northern Hawks were extremely intelligent and truly massive. They were natural predators, and could devastate entire herds of livestock when their migrations brought them to the northernmost Dragon and Phoenix villages. The rocs sited their lairs on mountain crags and other such inaccessible places. The rocs attacked with their talons, and they supposedly were originals from an island south to the Ivory Kingdoms. The Khadi Indira owned a book which said the rocs dwelled in a mountains north of the Burning Sands. It was said that a roc could only be trained if it was begun shortly after they hatched, so attempts to steal eggs from the nests happened, whith badly results. <
- Rokh was the giant bird employed as Sindbad's minion in 1936's Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, where its master has it attack Popeye, only for the beast to end up as a roasted bird.
- Rocs were depicted as gigantic birds, not just large by bird standards but literally giant - some tales spoke of Rocs so large they could pick up and elephant in their talons much like a regular bird of prey may pick up a young lamb. Due to their immense size and predatory nature Rocs were a hazard to heroes of legend such as Sinbad - they are similiar in some ways to the Native American legend of the Thunderbird, however unlike the Thunderbird Rocs are neither supernatural nor wrathful, though as stated above they can pose a danger to humans due to their sheer size and predatory habits.
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| Caption | - The elusive, and perhaps mythical, Roc
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| abstract | - Rocs originate from Arabic and Persian mythology, they were said to be raptors of enormous size, large enough to carry a full-grown elephant in their talons.
- Rocs are gargantuan birds which featured in Terran cryptozoology and myth. It is unknown if they ever existed in Sosaria. While an illustration of one features in the manual for the original Apple II release of Ultima I, these beings never actually appear in the course of the game.
- The Great Northern Hawks were extremely intelligent and truly massive. They were natural predators, and could devastate entire herds of livestock when their migrations brought them to the northernmost Dragon and Phoenix villages. The rocs sited their lairs on mountain crags and other such inaccessible places. The rocs attacked with their talons, and they supposedly were originals from an island south to the Ivory Kingdoms. The Khadi Indira owned a book which said the rocs dwelled in a mountains north of the Burning Sands. It was said that a roc could only be trained if it was begun shortly after they hatched, so attempts to steal eggs from the nests happened, whith badly results. <
- Rocs were depicted as gigantic birds, not just large by bird standards but literally giant - some tales spoke of Rocs so large they could pick up and elephant in their talons much like a regular bird of prey may pick up a young lamb. Due to their immense size and predatory nature Rocs were a hazard to heroes of legend such as Sinbad - they are similiar in some ways to the Native American legend of the Thunderbird, however unlike the Thunderbird Rocs are neither supernatural nor wrathful, though as stated above they can pose a danger to humans due to their sheer size and predatory habits. Rocs are also classed as a cryptid alongside the Thunderbird of legend, though science would undoubtedly be looking for a creature far smaller than the elephant-snatching monster of legend.
- Rokh was the giant bird employed as Sindbad's minion in 1936's Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, where its master has it attack Popeye, only for the beast to end up as a roasted bird.
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