User blog:Goddess of Despair/Manticore vs Dingonek Collaboration with Thundrtri

Mythology and cryptozoology collide as the Dingonek terrifying beast of Africa takes on the legenday sphinx like Manticore. Who is deadliest? To find out, Thund and Utter examine these warrior's most lethal weapons. No rules no saftey no mercy. It's a duel to the death to decide who is the deadliest warrior!

Backround
Origin-Persian mythology.

Activities-Fighting.

History-The manticore (Early Middle Persian Martyaxwar) is a Persian legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it may shoot poisonous spines to either paralyze or kill its victims. It devours its prey whole and leaves no clothes, bones, or possessions of the prey behind. The manticore myth was of Persian origin, where its name was "man-eater" (from early Middle Persian مارتیا martya "man" (as in human) and خوار xwar- "to eat"). The English term "manticore" was borrowed from Latin mantichora, itself derived from the Greek rendering of the Persian name, μαρτιχώρα, martichora. It passed into European folklore first through a remark by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court of King Artaxerxes II in the fourth century BC, in his notes on India ("Indika"), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history but have not survived. The Romanised Greek Pausanias, in his Description of Greece, recalled strange animals he had seen at Rome and commented,

Weapons
The Manticore has 3 rows of teeth and lion claws. It posses wings granting it flight and a powerful tail that can shoot poisionous spines a short distence.

Backround
Origin-Africa.

Activities-Defending its territory.

History-Said to dwell in the rivers and lakes of western Africa, the Dingonek has been described as being approximately 12-feet in length, with a squarish head, a long horn, saber-like canines—which has resulted in its nickname the "Jungle Walrus"—and a tail complete with a bony, dart-like appendage, which is reputed to be able to secrete a deadly poison. This creature is also said to be covered head-to-toe in a scaly, mottled epidermis, which has been likened to the prehistoric-looking Asian anteater known as the pangolin. The description by John Alfred Jordan, an explorer who said that he actually shot at this unidentified monster in the River Maggori in Kenya in 1907, claimed this scale-covered creature was as big as 18 feet long and had reptilian claws, a spotted back, long tail, and a big head out of which grew large, curved, walrus-like tusks. A shot with a .303 only served to anger it. The creature is known to kill crocodiles, hippopotamus, and even humans.

Weapons
The dingonek has various weapons on its body including powerful saber tooth cat-like teeth, a horn, claws, and a poisonous tail. It also posses scales powerful enough to withstand a .303 bullet.

Battle/voting information
The battle will be a one on one and take place in a forest with a river going through it. Voting is in the form of points , 2 point for descriptive edges or 2 paragraphs. 1 point for 2 paragraphs or edges that are not that descriptive, and 0 for one word or sentence. Voting ends April 20th 2013.