Gods
This god of wisdom sacrificed one of his eyes to Mímisbrunnr, a magical spring that contained knowledge. He is also accompanied by ravens who bring him information from all over the world.
Who is Odin?
This guy was a supernaturally tall and strong lumberjack who was accompanied by an enormous blue ox in American folklore.
Who is Paul Bunyan?
In Jewish folklore, this creature is made from clay or mud and brought to life with a special word to serve a specific task, usually as a protector.
What is a golem?
This place is home to a famous cryptid with a long neck which lives in the water.
Where is Loch Ness?
This legendary sword was used by the greatest king England has ever known, and was found in a lake or pulled out of a stone.
What is Exalibur?
This woman is the ruler of the Arctic and the cause of snow. She is most well known for stealing away a boy whose heart was made cold by the shattering of a mirror made by demons.
Who is the Snow Queen?
This saintly guy famously slew a dragon in a cave to rescue a princess, creating the modern knight archetype in fiction and lore. (Thank you Catholics. Sigma.)
Who is Saint George?
This creature in French Catholic folklore terrorized the countryside, but was tamed by a saintly woman and inspired the most famous D&D monster.
What is the Tarrasque?
This mythical city supposedly existed in South America, and was home to nothing but gold.
Where is El Dorado?
This thing is depicted above the Egyptian god of the Sun and is a symbol of his power as the king of the gods.
What is Ra's sun disk?
This brother to Amaterasu is best known for his slaying of Orochi, after getting the creature drunk on sake, and stole Grasscutter from his tail after killing the creature.
Who is Susanoo-no-Mikoto?
This guy was born out of a peach and was eventually sent to Oni Island, joined by his faithful companions The Dog, The Monkey, and The Pheasant (Bird).
Who is Momotarō?
Inspiring a famous D&D villainess, this creature represents the primordial sea who mated with the groundwater to produce the gods, and is depicted as a sea serpent or dragon.
Who is Tiamat?
This place is home to Surtr, and is one of the first two realms to exist, being composed of fire and populated by the fire giants.
Where is Muspelheim?
Atalanta refused to marry unless a suitor beat her in a footrace, but she was eventually secured as a wife by Hippomenes, who distracted her with this object.
What is the golden apple?
This goddess, known as the Eye of Ra, was sent to destroy mortals who conspired against Ra. Her bloodlust was so strong that the gods had to use a lake of beer dyed red like blood to trick her into falling asleep.
Who is Sekhmet?
This guy was one of the most important monks in Chinese history, the reincarnation of Golden Scarab, and once became pregnant and was forced to drink from the Spring of Abortion.
Who is Tripitaka (Tang Sanzang)?
This creature, resulting from a shepherd fighting a wight and dying, fought the hero Gretir, causing Gretir to become disastrously unlucky for the rest of his life.
What is a revenant?
The home of the Buddha, where he wrote his greatest scriptures, this place is the final destination of the Journey to the West.
Where is the Thunderclap Monastery?
This legendary shield of Norse mythology holds up the sun from burning the earth. If the shield were to fall, the seas would evaporate and everyone would die.
What is Svalinn?
This god warned Utnapishtim about an incoming Great Flood, allowing Utnapishtim to create the Preserver of Life, an enormous boat which allowed him along with others to survive.
Who is Enki?
This guy angered Arawn, the king of an otherworld realm, and was required to switch places with him for a year and a day and defeat the king's nemesis in mortal combat. He later earned the respect of the king when the king learned that this guy did not sleep with his wife.
Who is Pwyll Pen Annwn?
This creature in European folklore was born as the first son of a king, but was cast out into the wild. When the second son attempted to get married, the first prince evoked his right to be married first, eating all of his potential brides on their wedding night. It was only after a servant girl doused him with milk and hit him with a whip through the night that he was cured of his affliction.
What is Prince Lindworm?
A group of people from this place believed that they had the capability to exit their bodies as they slept. In their spiritual forms, they would take the shape of a wolf and do works of God.
Where is Italy?
Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman and cause of the Trojan War, did not have a normal birth. Rather, she and her twin sister, along with their brothers Castor and Pollux, were born from their mother from two of this object.
What is an egg?