What Supernatural Creature Are You?

Supernatural creatures are a common aspect of cultures all across the world, with various legends and folk stories built around them, typically to teach a lesson or scare young children into behaving, but also to serve as important characters in religions, like angels and demons in Christianity.

Fantasy usually incorporates a lot of supernatural creatures into their worlds. We have dragons in Game of Thrones, orcs, elves and hobbits in Lord of the Rings, an assortment of Greek-inspired legends in the Percy Jackson series, and vampires in anime like Hellsing, Overlord and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

While human characters can usually interact with these beings, some oddities mark them as totally different from humans. Elves can be portrayed as noble, sophisticated, but snobbish immortals who care little for other species. Meanwhile, vampires can blend in with regular people, but are overwhelmed by their need to feast on human blood, and hide their beastly instincts behind a mask of civility. Some Orcs can talk like regular people, but their values might be ludicrously different from humans, such as the warmongering Orks of Warhammer 40k.

What’s valuable about supernatural creatures is that they actually help better define what it means to be human, and not to be a beast or a monster. They help exaggerate a lot of human characteristics, such as our aggressive and bestial urges, our desire for wealth, power or popularity, our desire to be immortal or incapable of aging, as well as our imaginative streak. It’s fun having supernatural powers, after all. Wouldn’t having psychic powers such as levitation or mind-reading, or flight be the absolute best?

You can get away with a lot of good morals based on your supernatural creature. Too tired to study for exams? Be like a vampire and don’t let sleep stop you from getting good grades. Do you have your eyes on a spot in the Dean’s list or a new promotion? If you’re a dragon, now’s the time to awe the competition with your raw brilliance.