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Image:Saltstraumen.jpg 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.<ref>Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1958 edition.</ref>

[edit] Maelström in Popular Culture

[edit] Games

• Naruto Uzumaki from the anime and manga Naruto's name can mean maelstrom.
• 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
• Sectors in space from the MMORPG Earth & Beyond, Mazzaroth Maelstrom and Mondara Maelstrom.
• 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 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
• The name of a water attribute spell in the CORPG Guild Wars.
• VOR: The Maelstrom a science-fiction tactical-table game
• The name of Lu Bu's level 11 weapon in the game Dynasty Warriors 4: Xtreme Legends
• The "Maelstrom Card" is an item in the computer game World Of Warcraft
• The presumable name of Ganondorf's dark-skinned horse, from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• A location in the ocean between The Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor in World Of Warcraft
• A Realm (server) in the game World of Warcraft
• A quest in the browser-based game AdventureQuest
• A battleship class ship of Minmatar design in the MMORPG EVE Online.
• A weapon in the MMOFPS Planetside
• A spell cast by the Neptune warrior class in Guardian War
• A tournament map in the Real-time strategy game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
• A sector in the space simulation game X3 Reunion

[edit] 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 Star Trek: Bridge Commander
• In the RTS game Starcraft: Broodwar, one of the special abilities of the Protoss Dark Archon is named "Maelstrom", which temporarily immobilizes any organic units.
• The name of the enemies' ship in the television series "The Pirates of Dark Water"
• The MaelStrom 'revolves' around the plot of the fictional novel "The Thirteen and a Half lifes of Captain Blue Bear"
• Also a Charybdis in the Odyssey
• Toa Mata were transformed into Toa Nuva in a maelstrom of protodermis in Bionicle.

[edit] 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
• A Black Metal band from Glasgow, Scotland
• Maelstrom Chaos is an 2001 album by the Swedish black metal band Mörk Gryning
• A hard rock band from Mercer County, New Jersey
• In the song 30/30-150 from Stone Sour
• In the song Fugue (A Revelation) from Trivium (band)
• Maelstrom Mephisto is a song by black metal band Dimmu Borgir

[edit] Rides

• At Walt Disney World, Maelstrom is a ride in Epcot's Norway Pavilion

At Drayton Manor Theme Park, Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK, Maelstrom is one of the more recent rides to be added to the park.

[edit] Software

• The Malström Graintable Synthesizer in the digital audio workstation application Reason

[edit] Film

• Maelström is a 2000 film by writer and director Denis Villeneuve

[edit] TV

• Maelstrom is a BBC TV Drama broadcast in 1985.
• The name of episode 17 Season 3 in Battlestar: Galactica (2003) (TV Series)
• The name of a test of manhood in The Red Green Show season 14 episode 265.

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