Now, Terry Pratchett never shied away from basically taking everything he could from all sorts of fantasy sources to poke fun at, so I just had this weird revelation.
Is it me, or is the Luggage basically a domesticated form of a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons?
Mimics have appeared in a lot of fantasy games since. Final Fantasy games, for example, have a number of Mimics throughout its instalments, Borderlands 2's DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep brings in its own version of Mimics (along with other fantasy tropes, which will probably end up in the upcoming Tiny Tina's Wonderlands game), and, well, the less said about the horror of Mimics in the Dark Souls games, the better.
But when you think about it, the Luggage resembles a treasure chest, has a bad habit of nomming on people (aside from its owner), and is more intelligent than it really should be. And considering Terry Pratchett puts a lot of Dungeons and Dragons tropes and creatures into The Colour of Magic, especially with the tabletop RPG the gods are playing with the mortals of the Discworld, well, who's to say the Luggage wasn't inspired by a Mimic?
So, thoughts?
Is it me, or is the Luggage basically a domesticated form of a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons?
Mimics have appeared in a lot of fantasy games since. Final Fantasy games, for example, have a number of Mimics throughout its instalments, Borderlands 2's DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep brings in its own version of Mimics (along with other fantasy tropes, which will probably end up in the upcoming Tiny Tina's Wonderlands game), and, well, the less said about the horror of Mimics in the Dark Souls games, the better.
But when you think about it, the Luggage resembles a treasure chest, has a bad habit of nomming on people (aside from its owner), and is more intelligent than it really should be. And considering Terry Pratchett puts a lot of Dungeons and Dragons tropes and creatures into The Colour of Magic, especially with the tabletop RPG the gods are playing with the mortals of the Discworld, well, who's to say the Luggage wasn't inspired by a Mimic?
So, thoughts?