Drakensang online - free mmorpg concept art - The wild hunt

Drakensang online - free mmorpg concept art - The wild hunt

I always loved the "wild hunt concept", and started to play the free game after seeing this image. Drakensang online game looks cool, is browser based and with no download. I suggest you to check it. You should find a banner with it around here : )

About the wild hunt:

The Wild Hunt is an ancient folk myth prevalent across Northern, Western and Central Europe. The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal,specteral group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, horses, hounds, etc., in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground, or just above it.


The hunters may be the dead or the fairies (often in folklore connected with the dead).The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a deity or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or the Germanic Woden (or other reflections of the same god, such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer ("Wuodan's Host") of Central Switzerland, Swabia etc.)


Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, or at best the death of the one who witnessed it. Mortals getting in the path of or following the Hunt could be kidnapped and brought to the land of the dead. A girl who saw Wild Edric's Ride was warned by her father to put her apron over her head to avoid the sight. Others believed that people's spirits could be pulled away during their sleep to join the cavalcade.

more on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt