Xorn vs Morn - What's the difference?
xorn | morn |
(fantasy) A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
* 2002 , "David Damerell", Where are they come from?(SIC) ;)'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.development )
* 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
* 2010 , Roger Bourke White, Rostov Rising: The Tales of Baron Rostov (page 229)
As nouns the difference between xorn and morn
is that xorn is (fantasy) a fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth while morn is morning.xorn
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Various monsters can tunnel through rock - either humanoid monsters with picks or rock eaters like rock moles and umber hulks; and some monsters like xorns and ghosts can pass through it without digging.
- Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows at me and more pouring in through both doors a few nights ago didn't work the first two times, then when it did work it landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn !
- That afternoon, I summoned a Xorn —an earth elemental noted for its speed—and asked it to scout the caves of the Dragon's lair for me.
