| Much like the PC games, the idea is to control a virtual life form called Norns. |
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| In Norse mythology, the world ash tree Yggdrasil is tended by the three Norns while the dragon Nidhogg gnaws at its roots. |
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| Creatures is the Artificial Life simulation game that lets users create and breed artificial life forms called Norns. |
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| The animated critters, called Norns, hatch from eggs and depend on their owners to teach, care and play with them. |
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| Memories of Copenhagen poppies, elves, and the Norns ground the newcomer more deeply than the thin Canadian prairie soil. |
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| Creature Labs' unique CyberLife Technology ensures that the Norns think for themselves and learn from experience and lessons taught to them by children. |
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| According to a common Heathen belief based on references in Old Norse sources, three sisters known as the Norns sit at the end of the world tree's root. |
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| One thinks, for example, of the three fates, the Moirae of Greek and the Norns of Nordic mythology, who spin, measure, and cut the thread of each human life. |
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| They are best-known for the Norns, stars of their sim Creatures, and a computer-generated intelligence that has been hailed as a major breakthrough by serious scientists. |
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| In The Norns he shows a huge, dark, vaulted building with a central fire. |
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| They had been walking in the Flower Meadow east of Norntown, where most of the norns lived in a warren of interconnected rooms and gardens. |
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| Snorri describes them as a group of three, but he and other sources also allude to larger groups of norns who decide the fate of newborns. |
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| The norns are female figures who determine individuals' fate. |
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