demigod

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I read that the demigod is the son of Elune, who seems to be shaped like an elf in the pictures, and Malorne, who is, uhhhm, a deer.

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  1. noun Mythology A male being, often the offspring of a god and a mortal, who has some but not all of the powers of a god.
  2. noun Mythology An inferior deity; a minor god.
  3. noun Mythology A deified man.
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  • Somehow Loki sired him and Dredge has become a channel for the demigod, which is one of the reasons he's so damned powerful. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
  • The other player to do that was the Texas demigod, Vince Young. —  Georgia Sports Blog
  • He is not a good leader, but insists on being revered as a demigod, so his people and country suffer. —  California Literary Review
  • Second, Obama isn't a dictator, monarch, or demigod - and there is no requirement that any American to goose-step along with his agenda if they oppose any or all of it. —  Rhymes With Right
  • A scientist blasted into radioactive smithereens and then reconstituted into a naked blue demigod, he's barely tethered to his own humanity and increasingly disinterested in protecting the world. —  Toronto Sun
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  1. Formerly as demygod; from demi- + god; cf. French demi-dicu.
 

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/ˈdɛmɪgɑd/
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