Twelve Step Names
First step in the Hero's Journey
What is the Status Quo?
Archetype that serves as the guide
What is a mentor?
Step that follows the "Call to Adventure"
What is the Refusal of the Call?
Odysseus' foil
What is Eurylochus (the coward)?
Name of the Sun God
Helios
Hero receiving a special gift or power
What is Treasure/Reward? (9th step)
Represents the hero's main antagonist
What is the Shadow?
Step comes before the "Departure/Crossing the First Threshold"
What is Meeting the Mentor?
A story within a story
What is a Frame Narrative?
Name of the Prophet in the Land of the Dead
Tiresias, Prince of Thebes
The hero face their greatest challenge or ordeal
What is New Life/Resurrection? (11th step)
Archetype that warns or challenges the hero in some way
What is the Herald?
Step that occurs after "Crossing the Threshold."
What is the Roads of Trials/Tests/Enemies?
Getting dropped in the middle of a story
What is in media res?
Island of the Cicones
What is Island of Ismarus?
Final step where the hero returns transformed
What is the Resolution/Return with the Elixir?
Archetype who disrupts the hero's progress, brings chaos to the narrative.
What is the Trickster?
Directly precedes the "Return with the Elixir"?
What is New Life/Resurrection?
Two SPECIFIC qualities that define an epic hero.
What is...
Royal Birth
Half Mortal/Half God
Ideal save for a fatal flaw (noble)
Death occurs in an unusual way
Extraordinary feats.
Plant given by Hermes to fight Circe.
What is moly/garlic?
Hero comes to the final, most forbidding threshold.
What is the approach to the Inmost Cave?
One archetype that first prevents a hero from entering a new world
What is the Threshold Guardian?
The numerical step does "Meeting with the Mentor" occurs.
What is step 4?
Before Circe turns the men into pigs, what does she give the men?
She gives the men a drink with the Lotus in it, making them forget.
Polyphemus is also known as:
The Cyclops