Beholders, displacer beasts, githyanki. Who the hell comes up with this stuff?
, saying,"the Displacer beasts I ripped off from the novel, Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle". Van Vogt originally created the creature, which was called the Coeurl, for a short story where it's described as looking,"like a distorted etching of a black tiger resting on a black rock in a shadow world." In the folklore of the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the word drow or trow refers to a kind of fairy.
In the proto-D&D wargame Chainmail, ghouls were given the same stats as wights, which were an explicit lift of the barrow-wight who magically freezes the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings before they're rescued by Tom Bombadil. While wights lost this ability as part of D&D's shift away from blatantly borrowing from The Lord of the Rings after a stern letter from the Tolkien estate , ghouls kept the wight's paralyzing attack.
The fact elves are immune to ghoul paralysis seems to come from Tolkien as well, where Legolas is the only member of the Fellowship unaffected by the Paths of the Dead because elves, being borderline immortal, aren't quite as bothered by ravening spirits from beyond the grave.
Stross took the name githyanki from Dying of the Light, George R. R. Martin's first novel, though the details were either his own invention or borrowed from another sci-fi novelist. As he said in an, the idea of people with psionic powers who were at war with their former slavemasters probably came to him from Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs, adding,"I suspect whoever came up with the Illithids had been reading Larry Niven, too.
White Dwarf's Fiend Factory column was the source of two other D&D icons that appear in Baldur's Gate 3, the hook horrors and death knights, the latter of which were another Charles Stross contribution.Fantasy author Lord Dunsany's short story collection The Book of Wonders introduced the"gnoles", though like the githyanki D&D simply took the name and none of the admittedly sparse details.
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