Requiem: Avenging Angel within the game manual with a Biblical quote. For example, one of Malachi's attacking powers turns an enemy into a statue of salt. This power is explained via the following quote: "But Lot's wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt. - Genesis 19:26." Certain locations have followed this theme too, with humanity's starship named Leviathan after a sea monster from the Old Testament. The game's concept and premise were heavily inspired by John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost". In contrast to the interconnected world seen in the final game, early in development the plan was
The Mouse Turned into a Maid clouds about but is resisted by the mountain; the mountain, however, is penetrated by mice. Since the girl feels the call of like to like in this case, she is changed back to her original form and goes to live with her husband in his hole. The fable was eventually translated into Pahlavi and then into Arabic, but before a version of any of these works had reached Europe the fable appeared in Marie de France's "Ysopet" as a cautionary tale against social climbing through marrying above one's station. The creature involved is an ambitious field mouse who applies to