Heroes
Monsters
The Hero's Journey
Weapons of War
Misc.
100

This clever hero was able to escape certain death through deception -- who are you, Nobody?

Who is Odysseus?

100

This monster's heads multiplied each time one was severed. Cauterizer, stat!

What is the Hydra?

100

This stage of the Journey shows what the hero gains as a result of his primary task.

What is Treasure?

100

Odysseus used the following weapon to take out the Cyclops' single eye.

What is a burned stick/stake?

100

Hercules used his knowledge of hydraulics to divert two rivers to clean out whose stables?

Who is Augeas?

200

This powerful hero challenged he could defeat a terrible monster using only his bare hands.

Who is Beowulf?

200

This monster was capable of putting a person into a deep sleep just by looking at them.

What is the Salmon of Knowledge?

200

This stage depicts the Hero's ordinary world as it normally is.

What is Status Quo?

200

Hercules used the following item to tame the three-headed dog, Cerberus.

What are his bare hands?

200

Antigone directly disobeys the Theban law stating Polyneices could not be buried with honor. Who made this law?

Who is Creon?

300

This hero had to complete twelve difficult "Labors" to be freed from his penance for killing his own family.

Who is Hercules?

300

Hercules wore this beast's skin as a trophy after completing his first challenging task.

What is the Nemean Lion?

300

This stage shows us where the Hero leaves the Special World to come back to the Ordinary World.

What is Return?

300

Beowulf used this weapon to defeat Grendel, snapping his arm clean off.

What are his bare hands?

300

Oisin was sought after by the folk of Tir na n-Og for what skill that he possessed?

What is his poetry?
400

This hero stood up for what they believed was right, even in the face of the law.

Who is Antigone?

400

This monster had "hard, swift claws" and a gluttonous appetite for human flesh.

Who is Grendel?

400

This stage is where the Hero receives advice from an older, wiser figure.

What is Meeting the Mentor?

400

This is what Finneagas made Finn MacCool place on him when he battled the Salmon of Knowledge.

What is a blindfold?

400

This is the name of the palace that stood empty for the "twelve winters of grief" for Hrothgar in "Beowulf"

What is Herot?

500

This hero was whisked off to a magical land where he would be allowed to live eternally young.

Who is Oisin?

500

This "Monster" left Oisin a withered, graying old man when he was thrown from Niamh's magic steed in the Land of Erin. 

What is Time?

500

This stage shows all the loose plot ends being tied up.

What is Resolution?

500

The goddess Athena gifts Hercules this magical tool to drive off the bronze-winged Stymphalian Birds.

What is a magic rattle?

500

This is the name of Odysseus' father, whom he names when taunting Polyphemus after escaping the cyclops' lair.

Who is Laertes?