Talk:Granfalloon

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there's a "real" (dictionary) word which has an almost exact meaning to granfalloon. anyone care to help me remember it?

Gregarious? Herd oriented?

[edit] Castlevania information

I've removed the lengthy description of the video game monster as it has very little relevance to the article itself (the boss' name was properly translated as "Legion" in all subsequent games) and replaced it with a simple note. I suggest that whoever wrote this find a more appropriate place to put it. Guermantes 23:27, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a boss in the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night named Granfalloon. In keeping with the rest of the game's heavy horror theme, including other bosses such as Dracula, Medusa, and the Grim Reaper, Granfalloon is a giant floating ball of naked, hairless human bodies (in other words, "a proud and meaningless association of human beings"). It attacks by shedding these bodies, which shamble toward your character in an attempt to obstruct and damage him. Defeating Granfalloon involves destroying the outer layer of bodies to reveal an inner core with tentacles that shoot lasers, then destroying the inner core. In the original Japanese version of the game, the monster was known as Legion, a reference to the New Testament demon who was "composed of many." When the monster reappeared in subsequent Castlevania games (Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow), this name was kept even in the English language localization.

In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Legion's description in the bestiary reads "He is many, he is one" in an obvious allusion to the biblical Legion.