Maelstrom

A maelstrom off Norway

A maelstrom is a powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. The word is a compound of the Dutch words malen (to grind) and stroom (stream). The original Maelstrom is the Moskstraumen, a powerful tidal current in the Lofoten Islands off the Norwegian coast.

Contents

1 Maelström in Popular Culture

1.1 Games
1.2 Fiction
1.3 Music
1.4 Rides
1.5 Software
1.6 Film

Maelström in Popular Culture

Games

Maelstrom is a role playing game by Alexander Scott (Maelstrom) published in 1984 by Puffin Books
Maelstrom is a LARP game organized by Profound Decisions
Maelstrom is an early nineties computer game by Ambrosia Software
Sir Maelstrom is a knight from 1996 "Pray for Death" game. In-game story says that he lived in Walachia between 1200 and 1400 AD, he rejected Christianity and converted to the cult of Necronomicon. Was killed by Turks.
Maelstrom (real-time strategy) is a 2006 Real-Time Strategy computer game by KD Labs and Codemasters
The name of a spell cast by a Dark Archon in the popular strategy game called StarCraft
The name of a spell in the RPG series Tales of which Grune (Tales of Legendia) and Anise (Tales of the Abyss) can cast
The name of a spell cast by sorceress Ultimecia in Final Fantasy VIII
a science-fiction tactical-table game
The name of Lu Bu's level 11 weapon in the game
The "Maelstrom Card" is an item in the computer game World Of Warcraft
The presumable name of Ganondorf's dark-skinned horse, from
A location in the ocean between The Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor in World Of Warcraft

Fiction

Maelstrom is a Marvel Comics fictional supervillain
A Descent into the Maelstrom is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Maelstrom II is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke featured in his book The Wind from the Sun
In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne concludes his novel at Poe's maelstrom
An area of Space in

Music

A musical project by former synth pop group Alphaville member Frank Mertens
A 1986 single by blues and rock and roll guitarist and performer Steve Miller
An album from a Scandinavian rock band named JR Ewing
An impressionist piece of music by Julian Cochran
Maelstrom Chaos is an 2001 album by the Swedish black metal band Mörk Gryning
A hard rock band from Mercer County, New Jersey

Rides

Maelstrom is a ride at Epcot's Norway Pavilion

Software

A synthesizer in the digital audio workstation application Reason

Film

Maelström is a 2000 film by writer and director Denis Villeneuve

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