The roster

761 legends

Every name the arena remembers, from myth, folklore, history and books older than 1931. Each stands at one rank of the ladder.

Recruit50 legends

Agravain ArthurianThe accuser at court.
Beak Pit onlyA masked town physician who walks the plague streets with herbs in his beak and a cane to keep the sick away.
Crixus Pit onlyA Gaul sold to Capua's schools who broke out beside Spartacus and led his own army till Rome caught it.
Dinadan ArthurianThe jesting knight.
El Chonchon Latam folkloreThe flying head with ear-wings.
El Coco Latam folkloreThe shadow that takes.
Enide ArthurianThe companion who never breaks.
Forge Hand Pit onlyA soot-black apprentice who carries coal and swings the striker's hammer for his master.
Headsman Pit onlyA hooded servant of the block who does the work the law will not do with its own hands.
Hedge Witch Pit onlyA village wise woman who knows which root heals and which one kills.
Homunculus Faustian pactThe life in the glass.
Igraine ArthurianThe mother of the king.
Kaspar the Marksman Faustian pactThe cast bullets, the seventh not his.
Lucy Westenra Gothic litThe risen bride of Hampstead.
Mina Harker Gothic litThe hunters' steadfast memory.
Nie Xiaoqian East asian folkloreThe ghost bound to a tree demon.
Night Page Pit onlyA pale servant of some darker house, sent out after dusk on errands no one names.
Okiku East asian folkloreThe counter of plates in the well.
Pit Thrall Pit onlyA nameless brute bought for the pits and kept on scraps between bouts.
Poludnitsa European folkloreLady Midday, the noon reaper.
Renfield Gothic litThe madman who waits for his master.
Sewer Imp Pit onlyA gutter-born scrap of malice that lives on what the drains carry.
Shield Girl Pit onlyA farmer's daughter who took up her dead brother's shield and never gave it back.
Siavash PersianThe prince who rode through fire unburned.
Sinuhe EgyptianThe exile who comes home.
Sir Ironside ArthurianThe Red Knight of the Red Lands.
Squire Pit onlyA lord's boy who polishes the mail and holds the horse, hungry for his own spurs.
The Bavarian Illuminati Dead orderThe owl of Minerva, an Enlightenment society.
The Blue Men of the Minch ScottishThe storm-kin of the strait who answer in rhyme.
The Brownie FaeThe small helpful house spirit of Scotland who does chores by night in return for a bowl of cream and flees if thanked.
The Draugr NorseThe barrow dead.
The Hanseatic League Dead orderThe merchant cog-fleet.
The Kappa East asian folkloreThe river imps.
The Kikimora European folkloreThe night spinner of the house.
The Lady of Shalott ArthurianThe weaver who looks out.
The Mara European folkloreThe rider of sleepers.
The Medmenham Monks Dead orderThe cloaked company of an eighteenth-century English club that met in a ruined abbey on the Thames and kept its rites secret.
The Nachzehrer European folkloreThe shroud-chewing dead.
The Nekomata East asian folkloreThe fork-tailed cat of the mountains.
The Neuri Werewolf folkloreThe people who turn wolf a few days each year.
The Painted Skin East asian folkloreThe demon in a painted skin.
The Pixie FaeThe small, mischievous sprite of Cornwall and Devon who leads travellers astray and dances in rings on the moors.
The Rokurokubi East asian folkloreThe heads that wander loose.
The Saci Latam folkloreThe one-legged whirlwind prankster.
The Selkie ScottishThe seal-folk.
The Strix RomanBlood-drinking night birds.
The Tatzelwurm European folkloreThe Alpine cat-worm.
Tom Walker Faustian pactThe miser who took the deal.
Trevilian of Lyonesse Lost civilisationsThe rider who outran the sea on a white horse.
Wagner the Famulus Faustian pactThe apprentice who made life in a flask.

Legionary61 legends

Adapa MesopotamianThe sage who refused the bread of life.
Ankou Pit onlyThe last man to die each year, who drives a creaking cart to gather the souls of the next.
Anne Bonny HistoricalThe pirate who fought to the end.
Antigone GreekThe Theban princess of Greek tragedy who defied her uncle's order to bury her brother and paid for it.
Araqiel Fallen watchersThe teacher of the earth's signs.
Bedivere Pit onlyThe knight who stayed with Arthur to the end and returned the sword to the lake.
Black Agnes of Dunbar ScottishThe countess who held Dunbar for five months.
Black Annis European folkloreThe blue-faced hag of the Dane Hills.
Black Shuck CryptidsThe great black dog of the coast roads.
Cacus Pit onlyThe fire-breathing giant who stole Heracles' cattle, dragging them into his cave by their tails so the tracks led away.
Cassandra GreekSeers no one believes.
Danel Fallen watchersA chief of ten.
Dr Jekyll Gothic litThe divided doctor.
El Lobizon Latam folkloreThe seventh son of the pampas.
Gaheris ArthurianThe loyal brother.
Gareth ArthurianThe kitchen knight.
George Silver HistoricalThe English short-sword against the rapier.
Guinevere ArthurianThe queen's court.
Hervor Pit onlyThe shieldmaiden who woke her dead father in his barrow to claim the cursed sword Tyrfing.
Isolde ArthurianThe healer of Ireland.
Kara NorseThe swan-shaped valkyrie.
Kay ArthurianThe seneschal who goes nine nights without sleep.
Kobold Pit onlyA house and mine spirit who helps when fed and plays cruel tricks when slighted.
La Befana WitchesThe old woman of Italian Epiphany tradition who flies on a broom on the eve of Epiphany, leaving gifts for children.
Leprechaun CelticThe small cobbler of Irish folklore, said to guard a hidden crock of gold and to grant wishes only if caught.
Likho European folkloreOne-eyed misfortune.
Mary Read HistoricalThe soldier-turned-pirate.
Mother Shipton Pit onlyThe cave-born Yorkshire prophetess of the chapbooks, who foretold fires, wars and the fall of great men.
Narcissus GreekThe beautiful youth of Greek myth who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and wasted away beside it.
Oiwa East asian folkloreThe vengeful ghost.
Pandora GreekThe first woman in Hesiod's tale, who opened a jar and let loose the troubles of the world, leaving only hope inside.
Pannochka Gothic litThe witch in the coffin.
Paracelsus Pit onlyThe Swiss physician who burned the old medical books in Basel and healed with metals and poisons.
Penelope GreekThe queen of Ithaca who held off her suitors for years and set the contest of Odysseus' bow to decide among them.
Prince Lindworm European folkloreThe serpent prince.
Quincey Morris Gothic litThe Texan with the bowie knife.
Ragnar Lothbrok Pit onlyThe raider who sailed up the Seine, took Paris and died singing in a pit of snakes.
Sloth Faustian pactThe sin that will not rise.
Spring-heeled Jack European folkloreThe leaping terror.
Tam Lin ScottishThe captive who must be held fast.
The Almas CryptidsThe wild people of the Altai.
The Banshee CelticKeeners of the dying.
The Boggart FaeThe ill-tempered household spirit of northern England that sours milk, hides things and plagues families who name it.
The Changeling FaeThe fairy child left in a human cradle in place of a stolen baby, a figure from old folk belief across Europe.
The Curupira Latam folkloreThe forest guard whose feet point backwards.
The Dokkaebi East asian folkloreThe goblin with the club.
The Domovoy FaeThe house spirit of Slavic folk belief, an old man who lives by the hearth and guards the family if respected.
The Hyperboreans Lost civilisationsThe people beyond the north wind.
The Jiangshi East asian folkloreThe hopping dead.
The Kelpie ScottishThe water-horse.
The Lemures RomanThe restless household dead.
The Mongolian Death Worm CryptidsThe olgoi-khorkhoi of the Gobi sands.
The Myling GhostsA child ghost of Scandinavian folklore, an unbaptised infant left to die that waits on the roads begging to be carried to a grave.
The Nure-onna East asian folkloreThe serpent of the shore.
The Nymph FaeThe young female nature spirit of Greek tradition who haunts springs, groves and mountains and attends the gods.
The Puca CelticThe shape-changing goblin horse.
The Ronin East asian folkloreThe lone road.
The Rusalka European folkloreThe drowned river maidens.
The Vehmic Courts Dead orderThe secret tribunal of the red earth.
Will-o'-the-wisp European folkloreThe pale light that drifts over bogs and marshes in European folklore and leads night travellers off the safe path.
Yamauba East asian folkloreThe mountain hag.

Gladiator74 legends

Adonis GreekThe beautiful youth of Greek myth, loved by Aphrodite, who died hunting a boar and was mourned each year.
Arachne GreekThe Lydian weaver of Greek myth who challenged Athena to a contest of skill and was turned into a spider.
Armaros Fallen watchersThe undoer of enchantments.
Balin ArthurianThe knight with two swords.
Banquo's Ghost GhostsThe murdered general's ghost in Shakespeare's Macbeth, who takes a seat at the royal feast and is seen only by the guilty king.
Baraqel Fallen watchersThe teacher of lightning-signs.
Beowulf Pit onlyThe Geat who crossed the sea to tear Grendel's arm off bare-handed, then went into the mere after the mother.
Bisclavret Werewolf folkloreThe knight who becomes a wolf.
Calypso GreekThe sea-nymph of Homer's Odyssey who kept Odysseus on her island for years before the gods ordered his release.
Camilla Pit onlyThe swift warrior queen of the Volsci, raised in the wild, who led cavalry against the Trojans.
Charon Pit onlyThe ferryman of the dead, who poles the river Styx and wants his coin before he takes you over.
Culhwch ArthurianThe giant's impossible tasks.
Dantalion GoetiaA many-faced duke who reads thoughts.
Don Quixote LiteraryThe gaunt gentleman of La Mancha who, steeped in tales of chivalry, rode out as a knight-errant and charged at windmills.
Dorian Gray Gothic litThe face that never ages.
El Cadejo Latam folkloreThe black dog of the night road.
Erec ArthurianThe sparrowhawk champion.
Gawain Pit onlyThe courteous nephew of Arthur who grew stronger as the sun climbed toward noon.
Ghoul European folkloreThe grave-haunting creature of Arabian tales, a shape-changing desert dweller that lures travellers and feeds on the dead.
Glamr NorseThe draugr shepherd.
Griffin, the Invisible Man Gothic litThe unseen man.
Gudrun NorseThe widow's vengeance.
Hans Talhoffer HistoricalThe trial-by-combat master.
Harpy GreekThe winged storm-spirits of Greek myth who snatched away food and people, driven off by the Argonauts in their tale.
Icarus GreekThe boy who flew from Crete on wings of feathers and wax his father made, and fell into the sea when he climbed too near the sun.
Joachim Meyer HistoricalThe Strasbourg fencing book.
Khufu EgyptianThe Egyptian pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty who had the Great Pyramid built at Giza, tallest structure of its age.
Kintaro East asian folkloreThe mountain boy of great strength.
Kiyohime East asian folkloreThe jealous serpent.
La Llorona Latam folkloreThe Weeping, by the river.
Lady Arabella March Gothic litThe white worm in the well.
Lamorak ArthurianThe third-best knight.
Locusta Pit onlyThe poisoner of Nero's Rome, hired by an empress and an emperor to clear the way to the throne.
Malphas GoetiaA crow-shaped president who raises and razes walls.
Midas GreekThe king of the myths whose wish that all he touched turn to gold became a curse he had to wash away.
Morgause ArthurianThe queen of Orkney.
Mucius Scaevola RomanThe hand held in the fire.
Mummy EgyptianThe wrapped corpse of an ancient Egyptian, preserved in linen and resin, which Victorian storytellers imagined walking out of its tomb.
Nain Rouge Pit onlyThe red dwarf of the Detroit river, whose sighting warned of disaster and who cursed the man who struck him.
Nefertiti EgyptianThe queen of Egypt at Amarna, wife of Akhenaten, known from her painted limestone bust and a prominent place in the court's art.
Palamedes ArthurianThe hunter of the Questing Beast.
Paris GreekThe Trojan prince whose taking of Helen began the war, and who shot the arrow that brought down Achilles.
Pellinore ArthurianThe king who hunts the beast.
Priam GreekThe aged king of Troy in Homer's Iliad, who sees his city besieged and goes by night to beg Achilles for his son's body.
Redcap Pit onlyThe fiend of the old border tales who dyed his cap red in the blood of travellers caught in his ruin.
Regin Pit onlyThe smith who forged Sigurd's sword so the boy could slay his dragon brother.
Rob Roy MacGregor ScottishThe drover-outlaw of the Trossachs.
Satyr GreekA goat-legged, horse-eared follower of Dionysus in Greek tradition, shown on vases dancing, drinking and chasing nymphs.
Stingy Jack HorrorThe Irish trickster who bargained with the Devil and was refused by both heaven and hell, wandering on with a lantern.
Sweeney Todd Gothic litThe barber of Fleet Street.
Tamiel Fallen watchersA chief of ten.
Telemachus GreekThe son of Odysseus, who grew from a boy waiting in Ithaca to a spearman fighting beside his father in the hall.
The Amazons of the River Lost civilisationsThe warrior women who fought Orellana's boats.
The Baobhan Sith ScottishThe dancers of the shieling who drain hunters.
The Barghest European folkloreThe black hound of the north.
The Berserkers NorseBear-shirts.
The Cihuateteo Lost civilisationsThe women warriors of the west who haunt crossroads.
The Dryad FaeThe tree nymph of Greek tradition, whose life is bound to a single tree and who dies if it is cut down.
The Eagle and Jaguar Warriors Lost civilisationsThe dead warrior orders of the Mexica.
The Forty Thieves Arabian nightsThe band of robbers in the Arabian Nights tale who hide their treasure in a cave opened by a spoken command.
The Gilded Chief Lost civilisationsEl Dorado, the Muisca chief dusted in gold on Lake Guatavita.
The Jersey Devil CryptidsThe winged hoofed thing of the Pine Barrens.
The Leshy European folkloreThe forest lord who leads astray.
The Lorelei European folkloreThe siren of the Rhine rock.
The Oni East asian folkloreOni-kin, the iron clubs.
The Poltergeist GhostsThe noisy spirit of European folklore that throws objects, slams doors and unsettles households without ever being seen.
The Raiju East asian folkloreThe thunder beast.
The Shipwrecked Sailor's Serpent EgyptianThe serpent-king of the island.
The Three Brawlers Faustian pactThe three mighty men of Goethe's Faust, hired by the emperor's side to batter a rival army in the mountains.
The Vodyanoy European folkloreThe drowning grandfather.
Thomas the Rhymer ScottishThe man who cannot lie after Elfland.
Utnapishtim MesopotamianThe survivor of the flood.
Victor Frankenstein Gothic litThe maker who fled his work.
Vortigern ArthurianThe usurper over the dragons.

Veteran80 legends

Andromalius GoetiaAn earl with a serpent who punishes thieves.
Andvari Pit onlyA dwarf who lived as a pike in a waterfall and cursed the ring Loki stole from him.
Antiope Lost civilisationsThe Amazon who fought for Athens.
Asclepius GreekThe Greek hero-physician, taught the healing arts by the centaur Chiron, honoured later at temples where the sick came to be cured.
Bloody Mary GhostsThe mirror ghost of folklore, said to appear in the glass when her name is chanted in a dark room.
Bluebeard European folkloreThe forbidden room.
Bors ArthurianThe steadfast grail knight.
Brokkr Pit onlyThe dwarf who bet Loki's head his brother could outdo the sons of Ivaldi, and won the gods Thor's hammer.
Cato the Younger HistoricalThe Roman senator and Stoic who opposed Caesar to the end and took his own life at Utica rather than submit.
Ceridwen Pit onlyThe enchantress whose cauldron brewed a year for three drops of wisdom, then chased the thief through every shape.
Cincinnatus HistoricalThe farmer who took up and laid down power.
Covetousness Faustian pactThe hoarding sin.
Daedalus GreekThe master craftsman of Greek myth who built the labyrinth for King Minos and made wings to escape Crete.
Dido RomanThe queen of Carthage.
Doctor Moreau Gothic litThe island of made beasts.
Edward Teach HistoricalBlackbeard's crew.
Egil Skallagrimsson NorseThe skald with the axe.
El Caleuche Latam folkloreThe ghost ship of Chiloe.
Envy Faustian pactThe sin that wants others to fall.
Erik the Red NorseThe Norse chieftain outlawed from Iceland who sailed west around 982 and founded the first settlements in Greenland.
Erik, the Opera Ghost Gothic litThe ghost under the opera.
Forneus GoetiaA sea-monster marquis.
Gadreel Fallen watchersThe teacher of shield, mail and sword.
Gargoyle European folkloreThe carved stone monster perched on cathedral roofs to spout rain, and in Rouen's legend a dragon that once troubled the Seine.
Gluttony Faustian pactThe sin that eats the feast.
Grace O'Malley HistoricalThe pirate queen of Connacht.
Grettir NorseThe strong outlaw who fears the dark.
Halphas GoetiaA stork-shaped earl who builds towers and arms them.
Helen of Troy GreekThe Spartan queen whose departure with Paris to Troy set the Greeks sailing to war, as Homer's Iliad tells it.
Horatius Cocles RomanHolders of the bridge.
Jean Lafitte HistoricalThe French-born privateer of the Gulf coast who ran a smuggling base near New Orleans and aided the American defence in 1815.
John Hawkwood HistoricalThe White Company.
Julie d'Aubigny HistoricalThe duelling opera singer.
Kaveh the Blacksmith PersianThe smith whose apron became a banner.
Lagertha Pit onlyA warrior woman who fought beside Ragnar and turned a lost battle with her charge.
Leif Erikson NorseThe Norse sailor from Greenland who, according to the sagas, reached the shores of Vinland, in North America, around the year 1000.
Lohengrin ArthurianThe swan knight.
Long John Silver LiteraryThe one-legged sea cook of Stevenson's tale, a genial and cunning pirate who sails as ship's cook to search for treasure.
Marbas GoetiaA lion-shaped president of sickness and mechanics.
Medea Pit onlyThe Colchian sorceress who brewed potions for Jason and poisoned a princess with a gown.
Menelaus GreekThe Spartan king whose wife was taken to Troy, and who fought Paris in single combat before the walls in Homer's Iliad.
Mokele-mbembe CryptidsThe one who stops rivers.
Mwindo AfricanThe little one just born walking, with a conga sceptre.
Oedipus GreekThe Theban king of Greek tragedy who answered the Sphinx's riddle and then learned the truth about his own birth.
Oisin CelticThe poet back from the land of youth.
Orestes GreekThe son of Agamemnon in Greek tragedy, who returns to avenge his father and is then pursued by the Furies.
Pakal Lost civilisationsThe long-reigning king of Palenque.
Pegasus GreekThe winged horse.
Penemue Fallen watchersThe teacher of ink and the bitter and sweet.
Proteus GreekThe old sea god of Homer's Odyssey who guards Poseidon's seals and takes many shapes to avoid giving answers to those who seize him.
Quasimodo LiteraryThe deaf bell-ringer of Notre-Dame in Hugo's novel, outwardly feared but fiercely loyal to the girl he shelters.
Roland Pit onlyThe paladin who held the pass at Roncevaux and blew his horn only when all was lost.
Sariel Fallen watchersThe teacher of the course of the moon.
Sawney Bean HorrorThe Scottish cave-dweller of legend, said to have lived with a large family on the coast and preyed on travellers.
Shamsiel Fallen watchersThe teacher of the sun's signs.
Siren GreekA song-monster of Homer's Odyssey whose voice drew sailors toward the rocks until Odysseus sailed past with his ears stopped.
Sisyphus GreekThe cunning king of Corinth whom Homer places in the underworld, forever pushing a boulder up a hill that it rolls back down.
Spartacus Pit onlyThe Thracian who broke out of Capua with seventy men and beat Rome's armies for two years.
Stolas GoetiaAn owl-shaped prince of stars and herbs.
Tantalus GreekThe Lydian king punished in the underworld, standing in water and beneath fruit that drew back whenever he reached for it.
The Ahuizotl Lost civilisationsThe water-dog with a hand on its tail.
The Cu-sith ScottishThe fairy hound.
The Dullahan CelticThe headless rider.
The Hoe Giant Pit onlyA towering farm-bred brute of the Pit who swings a great field tool as a weapon and climbs the pitborn ladder.
The Huldra FaeThe forest spirit of Scandinavian folklore who appears as a beautiful woman with a cow's tail and lures lonely wanderers.
The Huli Jing East asian folkloreThe fox spirits.
The Jorogumo East asian folkloreThe spider woman.
The Lambton Worm European folkloreThe worm that rejoins itself.
The Maenads GreekThe frenzied women who followed Dionysus in Greek myth, roaming the mountains in wild dance and tearing apart whatever they met.
The Old Man of the Sea Arabian nightsThe frail-looking stranger of Sinbad's fifth voyage who climbs onto his shoulders and refuses to let go, until Sinbad tricks him.
The Order of the Dragon Dead orderThe dragon-badge order of Hungary.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin European folkloreThe piper who collects the debt.
The Sluagh ScottishThe host of the restless dead.
The Tengu East asian folkloreThe mountain swordsmen.
The Yurei GhostsA faint Japanese ghost in the white burial kimono, with trailing hair and no feet, tied to the place of its death.
Ugallu MesopotamianThe lion-demon of storms.
Urien ArthurianThe lord of Rheged.
William Kidd HistoricalThe Scottish-born captain hired to hunt pirates who was accused of turning pirate himself and was hanged in London in 1701.
Yuki-onna East asian folkloreThe snow woman.
Zal PersianThe white-haired champion raised by the Simurgh.

Champion86 legends

Abraham Van Helsing Gothic litThe vampire hunters.
Aethelflaed HistoricalThe Lady of the Mercians and her burhs.
Akhenaten EgyptianThe Egyptian pharaoh who moved his court to a new city at Amarna and set the sun disc above the other gods.
Alberich Pit onlyThe dwarf who guarded the Nibelung hoard and wore a cloak that made him unseen, till Siegfried took it.
Alecto GreekThe unceasing fury.
Boudica Pit onlyThe queen of the Iceni who rose against Rome and burned three of its cities.
Brian Boru CelticThe High King of Ireland who broke the power of the Vikings at Clontarf in 1014 and died in the fighting.
Brutus HistoricalThe Roman senator who joined the plot against Julius Caesar in 44 BC and later fought and died at Philippi.
Bune GoetiaA three-headed dragon duke of riches.
Caligula HistoricalA young Roman emperor whose short, erratic reign was famed for lavish spectacles and ended in his murder by his own guards.
Captain Nemo LiteraryThe mysterious commander of the submarine Nautilus in Verne's novel, who roams the deep and fights a giant squid.
Caracalla HistoricalThe Roman emperor who fought on the northern frontier, granted citizenship to nearly all free men of the empire and was killed on campaign.
Castor GreekHorse-tamers of the bright day.
Circe Pit onlyThe enchantress of Aeaea who turned Odysseus's crew into swine with a cup of wine.
Clarimonde Gothic litThe vampire courtesan.
Conall Cernach CelticThe avenger of Ulster.
Crassus HistoricalThe wealthiest man in Rome, who crushed Spartacus's revolt in 71 BC and later died leading a failed campaign against Parthia.
Cyrano de Bergerac LiteraryThe big-nosed swordsman-poet, drawn from a real seventeenth-century duellist, who fought with blade and wit and wooed by proxy.
Diarmuid Ua Duibhne CelticThe love-spot and the boar's doom.
Eitri Pit onlyThe master smith who forged Mjolnir, a golden boar and a ring that drips eight more.
El Cid Pit onlyThe exiled Castilian lord who took Valencia against every king and, it is told, rode out after death.
Eligos GoetiaA duke-knight with lance and banner who knows wars.
Erlking Pit onlyThe king of the elves who rides the night woods and takes children from their fathers' arms.
Fiore dei Liberi HistoricalThe four guards of the Flower of Battle.
Francis Drake HistoricalThe circumnavigator.
Gaius Marius HistoricalThe Roman general who opened the legions to landless men, beat the Germanic tribes and held the consulship seven times.
Glasya-Labolas GoetiaA winged dog, captain of slaughter.
Grendel Pit onlyThe fen-walker who raided a king's hall by night for twelve winters, hating its song.
Griffin European folkloreThe lion-bodied creature with an eagle's head and wings, said by ancient writers to guard gold in the far east.
Hammurabi MesopotamianThe king of Babylon who unified Mesopotamia in the eighteenth century BC and had a famous set of laws inscribed on a stone pillar.
Henry Morgan HistoricalThe Welsh buccaneer who led raids on Spanish towns in the Caribbean, sacked Panama in 1671 and later became governor of Jamaica.
Hrolf Kraki NorseThe king's champions.
Johannes Liechtenauer HistoricalThe long-sword masters.
Kitsune East asian folkloreThe fox spirit of Japanese folklore, which gains more tails with age and can take human shape to charm or trick people.
Kokabiel Fallen watchersThe teacher of the constellations.
Koroglu Central asianThe bard-outlaw on the horse Kirat.
Macbeth ScottishThe real king of Alba who ruled seventeen years.
Meleager GreekHunters of the Calydonian boar.
Minos GreekThe legendary king of Crete, who kept the Minotaur in the labyrinth and became a judge of the dead.
Miyamoto Musashi Pit onlyThe ronin who won sixty duels, one with an oar he carved on the boat to the island.
Momotaro East asian folkloreThe peach boy and his three companions.
Mushussu MesopotamianThe dragon of the gate.
Nimue Pit onlyThe Lady of the Lake who learned Merlin's secrets and sealed him away with them.
Omukade East asian folkloreThe giant centipede that coiled seven times around Mount Mikami.
Orobas GoetiaA horse-shaped prince who never deceives.
Patroclus GreekThe borrowed-armour band.
Perchta European folkloreThe winter lady who judges.
Pericles HistoricalThe Athenian statesman and general who led the city in its golden age, built the Parthenon and guided it into the Peloponnesian War.
Phenex GoetiaA phoenix marquis with a sweet voice.
Ramiel Fallen watchersA chief of ten.
Raum GoetiaA crow-shaped earl who steals from kings.
Robin Hood European folkloreThe honourable outlaws of the greenwood.
Romulus and Remus RomanThe twin brothers of Roman legend, raised by a she-wolf, who set about founding a city until their quarrel divided them.
Rubezahl European folkloreThe mountain lord of the Giant Mountains.
Semiramis MesopotamianThe legend-queen of Babylon.
Seti I EgyptianThe Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty who campaigned in Canaan and Syria, restoring the empire's reach and building at Abydos.
Seven Macaw Lost civilisationsThe false sun with jewelled teeth.
Sha Wujing East asian folkloreThe river ogre with the crescent spade.
Sinbad the Sailor Arabian nightsThe merchant of the Arabian Nights who tells of seven voyages, meeting giant birds, strange islands and monsters.
Sohrab PersianThe son who met his father in battle.
Starkad NorseThree lifetimes of war.
The Beast of Gevaudan CryptidsThe wolf of the Margeride.
The Brethren of the Rose Cross Dead orderThe secret brotherhood of learned alchemists announced in early seventeenth-century pamphlets, whose existence was much debated and never proved.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges HistoricalThe fencer-composer.
The Druids CelticThe priests and sages of the ancient Celts, known from Roman writers as teachers, judges and keepers of sacred groves.
The Empusa HorrorThe shape-shifting spirit sent by Hecate in Greek tradition, appearing in terrifying forms to frighten travellers.
The Fisher King ArthurianThe wounded keeper of the grail.
The Mwenemutapa Lost civilisationsThe gold kings of the stone-walled Zimbabwe lands.
The Nue East asian folkloreThe chimera in the storm cloud.
The Penanggalan HorrorThe flying-head spirit of Malay folklore, a woman whose head drifts free from her body at night and haunts childbirth.
The Praetorian Guard Dead orderThe guard that made emperors.
The Questing Beast ArthurianThe baying beast that is never caught.
The Revenant GhostsA corpse that rises from the grave to trouble the living, as told in medieval chronicles of the northern lands.
The Scorpion Men MesopotamianWardens of the sunset gate.
The Strigoi HorrorThe restless dead of Romanian folklore, said to rise from the grave at night and trouble their own families and villages.
The Yeti CryptidsThe snow-walker of the high passes.
Themistocles HistoricalThe wooden wall at Salamis.
Turnus RomanThe Rutulian challenger.
Tutankhamun EgyptianThe boy pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, whose tomb survived almost untouched and was found in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.
Unicorn European folkloreThe one-horned beast of old natural histories and bestiaries, swift and wild and said to be taken only by cunning.
Vassago GoetiaA prince who finds what is lost.
Walter Raleigh HistoricalThe Elizabethan courtier, soldier and explorer who sponsored colonies in Virginia and was finally beheaded under James I in 1618.
Wyvern European folkloreThe two-legged winged dragon with a barbed tail found in medieval heraldry, a common emblem on banners and shields.
Ysbaddaden CelticThe chief giant whose eyelids need forks.
Yvain ArthurianThe knight of the lion.
Zheng He East asian folkloreThe Ming admiral who led great treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean, reaching as far as East Africa between 1405 and 1433.

Praetorian97 legends

Afrasiab PersianThe king of Turan, the epic's great foe.
Alfred the Great HistoricalThe West Saxon king who held out against the Danes, won at Edington and rebuilt his realm's defences and learning.
Argus Panoptes GreekThe hundred-eyed giant of Greek myth set by Hera to watch Io, since only some of his eyes ever slept at once.
Arminius HistoricalThe forest ambush.
Ashurbanipal MesopotamianThe Assyrian king who gathered a vast library of clay tablets at Nineveh and was shown on reliefs hunting lions.
Atalanta GreekSwift huntresses.
Bai Suzhen East asian folkloreThe white snake who loved a mortal.
Barbatos GoetiaA duke of hunters who knows the speech of birds.
Basilisk European folkloreThe serpent-king of ancient and medieval natural histories, small but so deadly that its glance and breath were said to kill.
Bennu EgyptianThe heron of renewal.
Bertrand du Guesclin HistoricalThe ugly champion of France.
Bjorn Ironside NorseThe Viking leader of Norse tradition, a son of Ragnar Lothbrok, who raided widely and ruled in Sweden.
Bodvar Bjarki NorseThe bear who fights while the man sleeps.
Camazotz Lost civilisationsThe death-bat of the House of Bats.
Canute the Great HistoricalThe Danish prince who won the English throne in 1016 and ruled England, Denmark and Norway as a North Sea empire.
Cesare Borgia HistoricalThe Italian soldier-prince who carved out a state in the Romagna for his father, the pope, and was admired by Machiavelli.
Charles Martel HistoricalThe Frankish ruler who stopped the Umayyad army of al-Andalus at Tours in 732 and laid the ground for the Carolingian kings.
Ching Shih HistoricalThe widow who commanded a vast pirate fleet off southern China in the early 1800s, then bargained her way to a peaceful retirement.
Coriolanus RomanThe banished general.
Cyclopes GreekThe one-eyed giants of Greek myth, smiths who forged Zeus's thunderbolts in Hesiod's account of the early world.
Erichtho RomanThe Thessalian witch of the dead.
Francisco Pizarro HistoricalThe Spanish conquistador who captured the Inca ruler Atahualpa at Cajamarca in 1532 and went on to found Lima.
Furfur GoetiaA winged hart with a burning tail who raises storms.
Golem European folkloreA clay guardian of Prague folklore, shaped from river mud and woken to keep watch, then laid to rest.
Gorgons GreekThe three monstrous sisters of Greek myth with snakes for hair, whose gaze turned onlookers to stone, Medusa among them.
Gotz von Berlichingen HistoricalThe iron hand.
Gremory GoetiaA duke in the form of a crowned woman on a camel.
Gullveig NorseThe thrice-burned witch.
Gustavus Adolphus HistoricalThe Swedish king who reformed his army, led it through Germany in the Thirty Years' War and fell at Lutzen in 1632.
Hadrian HistoricalThe Roman emperor who toured the provinces, gave up lands beyond the frontier and built a great wall across northern Britain.
Hang Tuah Southeast asianThe laksamana of Melaka and his four brothers-in-arms.
Hannibal Pit onlyThe Carthaginian who marched elephants over the Alps and destroyed eight legions at Cannae.
Harold Godwinson HistoricalThe last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who beat the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge and then fell to the Normans at Hastings.
Hatshepsut HistoricalThe king who was a woman.
Hattori Hanzo HistoricalThe guard of the night roads.
Hayreddin Barbarossa HistoricalThe Ottoman corsair who rose to admiral of the fleet and made the Mediterranean an Ottoman sea, winning at Preveza in 1538.
Helen Vaughan Gothic litThe child of what lies behind the veil.
Herne the Hunter European folkloreThe antlered ghost of Windsor.
Ibaraki-doji East asian folkloreThe oni who comes back for the arm.
Ivar the Boneless HistoricalThe great army's leader.
Jan Zizka HistoricalThe one-eyed Bohemian commander who led the Hussites to victory with war wagons and gunfire against far larger armies in the 1420s.
Krampus European folkloreThe horned, chain-rattling figure of Alpine folk custom who walks beside Saint Nicholas in early December to scare unruly children.
Lamashtu MesopotamianThe fever-bringer.
Lamia GreekThe night queen who steals children.
Lancelot Pit onlyThe greatest knight of the Round Table, undone by a love his king could not forgive.
Liu Bei East asian folkloreThe Han relative who rose from poverty, swore brotherhood with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and founded the state of Shu.
Louhi Pit onlyThe mistress of the cold North who stole the sun and moon and fought for the magic mill.
Manticore European folkloreThe beast of Persian and Greek reports with a man's face, a lion's body and a scorpion's tail, said to devour its prey.
Marchosias GoetiaA winged wolf marquis, strong in battle.
Mark Antony HistoricalThe Roman general who stood by Caesar, shared power with Octavian and joined Cleopatra before losing at Actium.
Matthias Corvinus HistoricalThe Hungarian king, called the Raven King, who built the professional Black Army and fought the Ottomans and the Habsburgs in the fifteenth century.
Melmoth the Wanderer Faustian pactThe man who wants someone to take his bargain.
Melusine European folkloreThe serpent-tailed lady of Lusignan.
Mimir NorseThe counsel of the severed head.
Mordred Pit onlyThe traitor knight who seized Arthur's throne and met him in the last battle at Camlann.
Mr Hyde Gothic litThe self let loose.
Murmur GoetiaA warrior duke on a gryphon with trumpets.
Nero HistoricalThe last emperor of the Julio-Claudian line, remembered for his stage performances, his building projects and a rule that ended in revolt.
Nezahualcoyotl Lost civilisationsThe poet-king of Texcoco.
Oliver Cromwell HistoricalThe English commander who drilled the disciplined Ironsides, won the civil war against the king and later ruled as Lord Protector.
Orpheus GreekSingers who walked among the dead.
Owain Glyndwr CelticThe Welsh leader who rose against English rule in 1400, was proclaimed Prince of Wales and fought a long war for independence.
Pollux GreekBoxers of the shared night.
Polyphemus Pit onlyThe one-eyed shepherd giant who penned Odysseus in his cave and lost his eye to a sharpened stake.
Pompey HistoricalThe Roman general called the Great, who cleared the seas of pirates, won in the East and then fought Caesar for Rome.
Qilin East asian folkloreThe gentle chimeric beast of Chinese tradition, with the body of a deer and scales, whose coming marked a wise reign.
Queen Amina of Zazzau AfricanThe walled camps of the warrior queen.
Queen Mab FaeThe tiny fairy midwife of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet speech, who rides over sleepers in a nutshell chariot and brings dreams.
Red Boy East asian folkloreThe true fire.
Rollo NorseThe Viking chieftain who settled his followers on the lower Seine and became the first ruler of what grew into Normandy.
Rumpelstiltskin Pit onlyThe little man who spun straw into gold for a price and lost all when his name was spoken.
Sulla HistoricalThe Roman general who marched on Rome, won the civil war, held the dictatorship and then stepped down.
Sun Tzu East asian folkloreThe ancient Chinese general and strategist traditionally credited with The Art of War, a short book on winning with careful planning.
The Each-uisge ScottishThe loch water-horse.
The Headless Queen of the Tower GhostsThe ghost said to walk the Tower of London, a queen carrying her head beneath her arm.
The Horla Gothic litThe unseen drinker.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Gothic litThe hound on the moor.
The Jomsvikings Dead orderThe fortress brotherhood.
The Loch Ness Monster CryptidsThe beast in the dark water of the loch.
The Moorland Coven WitchesA band of witches who gather on the high western moors, an original creation with no source in any older tale.
The Onryo GhostsA vengeful ghost of Japanese folklore, a spirit wronged in life that returns with long black hair to haunt those who harmed it.
The Sacred Band of Thebes Dead orderThe hundred and fifty pairs.
The Three Sisters of Castle Dracula Gothic litThe three women of the castle.
The Varangian Guard Dead orderThe axe-bearing guard of the emperor.
The Weird Sisters WitchesThe three witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth, who meet the general on the heath and greet him with prophecies of kingship.
The White Bone Demon East asian folkloreThe three disguises.
Tomyris Pit onlyThe Massagetae queen who defeated Cyrus the Great and, the story goes, plunged his head into a skin of blood.
Trajan HistoricalThe Roman emperor who conquered Dacia and pushed the empire to its widest reach, his deeds carved on a great column in Rome.
Tristan ArthurianHarp and blade.
Tsukahara Bokuden HistoricalThe undefeated swordsman.
Twrch Trwyth CelticThe cursed boar-king.
Uther Pendragon ArthurianThe dragon-banner king.
Vercingetorix HistoricalThe chief who held Gergovia.
Watanabe no Tsuna East asian folkloreThe retainer who cut off an oni's arm.
Wayland Pit onlyThe smith lamed by a greedy king, who forged wings and took a terrible revenge.
Wu Zetian East asian folkloreThe Tang concubine who rose to rule China in her own name, founding a short dynasty and governing for some fifteen years.
Zhu Bajie East asian folkloreThe pig-snouted rake-wielder.

Master81 legends

Aeneas RomanExiles who carry their home on their backs.
Agamemnon GreekThe high king's host.
Agares GoetiaA duke who rides a crocodile and shakes the earth.
Akbar HistoricalThe Mughal emperor who widened his realm across northern India by war and alliance and governed it through a court of mixed faiths.
Anansi AfricanThe spider who wins by wit.
Angrboda NorseMother of wolves.
Anzu MesopotamianThe lion-headed thief-bird.
Baba Yaga Pit onlyThe witch of the deep forest who lives in a hut on hen's legs and flies in a mortar.
Bayard HistoricalThe knight without fear or reproach.
Belisarius HistoricalThe general who won with few.
Bellerophon GreekWinged riders.
Cao Cao East asian folkloreThe warlord of the late Han who rose to rule northern China and laid the base for the state of Wei.
Cleopatra VII HistoricalThe last queen of Egypt.
Commodus HistoricalThe Roman emperor who ruled after Marcus Aurelius and took to fighting in the arena before crowds, until his murder in 192.
Darius the Great PersianThe Persian king who organised the empire into provinces, carved his deeds at Behistun and sent the expedition beaten at Marathon.
Diomedes GreekThe man who wounded gods.
Doctor Faustus Faustian pactThe scholar who signed.
Edward I Longshanks HistoricalThe tall English king who campaigned in Wales, built great castles there and fought William Wallace and the Scots for years.
Edward the Black Prince HistoricalThe prince of Crecy and Poitiers.
Esfandiyar PersianThe bronze-bodied prince.
Ferdiad CelticThe horn-skinned foster-brother.
Fergus mac Roich CelticThe exiled king.
Frederick the Great HistoricalThe Prussian king who made his small state a major power through the Silesian wars and the hard fighting of the Seven Years' War.
Henry V of England HistoricalThe young English king who revived the claim to France and beat a much larger French army at Agincourt in 1415.
Hernan Cortes HistoricalThe Spanish conquistador who landed in Mexico in 1519, allied with the Aztecs' enemies and overthrew their capital Tenochtitlan.
Hippolyta GreekAmazon belt-bearers.
Horatio Nelson HistoricalThe British admiral who won at the Nile and Copenhagen and died in the hour of victory at Trafalgar in 1805.
Humbaba Pit onlyGuardian of the Cedar Forest, whose roar was a flood and whose breath was death, set there by the gods.
Jason GreekThe Argo's crew.
Jotnar NorseThe giants of Norse myth, older than the gods, who live beyond the walls of the world and often stand against Asgard.
Kothar-wa-Khasis Pit onlyThe skilled and wise god of craft who built Baal's palace and forged the clubs that beat the sea.
Leonidas Pit onlyThe Spartan king who held Thermopylae with a few hundred men till none were left.
Manas Central asianThe Kyrgyz hero and his forty companions.
Marcus Aurelius HistoricalThe Roman emperor and Stoic thinker who spent much of his reign on the Danube frontier fighting the Marcomanni.
Medb CelticThe queen who started the cattle raid.
Mehmed the Conqueror HistoricalThe Ottoman sultan who besieged Constantinople with great cannon and took it in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.
Moctezuma II Lost civilisationsThe emperor of the island city.
Pazuzu MesopotamianThe wind-demon who wards off Lamashtu.
Percival ArthurianThe innocent who must ask the question.
Philip II of Macedon HistoricalThe Macedonian king who built a new army around the long-spear phalanx, brought Greece under his rule and was killed in 336 BC.
Phoenix GreekThe legendary bird that burns on a pyre of spice and rises anew from its own ashes, as ancient writers told it.
Pride Faustian pactThe pageant's first sin.
Princess Iron Fan East asian folkloreThe palm-leaf fan of storms.
Puck Pit onlyThe hobgoblin who leads night travellers astray and laughs at their falls.
Pyrrhus of Epirus HistoricalVictories that cost too much.
Queen Tera Gothic litThe sleeping queen who waits to wake.
Richard III of England HistoricalThe last Plantagenet king, who fell fighting in the thick of the battle at Bosworth Field in 1485.
Sargon of Akkad MesopotamianThe Mesopotamian ruler who rose from humble origins, united the cities of Sumer and Akkad and built one of the first empires.
Sasaki Kojiro HistoricalThe swallow cut.
Scathach Pit onlyThe warrior woman of the Isle of Skye who trained Cu Chulainn in every feat of arms.
Scipio Africanus HistoricalThe man who beat Hannibal.
Siegfried Pit onlyThe dragon-slayer who bathed in the beast's blood and was left with one small bare spot.
Sleipnir NorseThe eight-legged steed.
Sumanguru Kante AfricanThe smith-king of Sosso.
Taliesin ArthurianThe bard reborn.
The Einherjar NorseThe dead who feast and fight.
The Flying Dutchman European folkloreThe crew who can never make port.
The Great Sea Serpent CryptidsThe serpent seen from the ship's rail.
The Headless Horseman Gothic litThe night-rider of the hollow.
The Immortals Dead orderThe ten thousand, always replaced.
The Nemean Lion GreekA hide no blade cuts.
The Nuckelavee ScottishThe skinless sea-rider.
The Roc Arabian nightsThe giant bird of the Sinbad voyages, so huge that it carried off elephants and sailors landed upon its egg.
The Snow Queen European folkloreThe palace of cold.
The Tzitzimimeh Lost civilisationsThe star-demons who wait for the sun to fail.
The Valkyries NorseChoosers of the slain.
Thjazi NorseThe eagle-shaped giant.
Thrym NorseThe giant who stole the hammer.
Titania FaeThe fairy queen of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, who falls under a spell during her quarrel with Oberon.
Tokugawa Ieyasu East asian folkloreThe warlord who won at Sekigahara in 1600 and founded the shogunate that ruled Japan in peace for over two hundred years.
Tomoe Gozen HistoricalThe rider who took a head in battle.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi East asian folkloreThe farmer's son who rose through Nobunaga's ranks, finished the unification of Japan and built the great castle at Osaka.
Viy Gothic litThe chief of the gnomes with iron eyelids.
Vlad Pit onlyWallachia's prince who held the Danube from the Sultan and met him with a forest of stakes.
Wellington HistoricalThe Duke of Wellington, the British commander who drove the French from Spain and beat Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.
William the Conqueror HistoricalThe Duke of Normandy who crossed the Channel in 1066, won at Hastings and was crowned King of England.
Wrath Faustian pactThe sin with two rapiers.
Wu Song East asian folkloreThe man who killed a tiger bare-handed.
Xing Tian East asian folkloreThe headless giant who fights on with shield and axe.
Zenobia HistoricalThe queen of Palmyra.
Zhuge Liang East asian folkloreThe brilliant adviser to Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms era, famed for clever strategy, careful government and the northern campaigns of Shu.

Primus81 legends

Ajax Pit onlyThe Greek with the tower shield who stood alone over the ships when the line broke, and fought Hector to a draw.
Ammit EgyptianDevourer of the unworthy heart.
Antaeus Pit onlyThe wrestler-giant who grew stronger each time he touched the earth, till Heracles held him aloft.
Arawn Pit onlyThe grey-clad king of Annwn, the otherworld, who hunts with white hounds and traded places with a mortal prince for a year.
Asag MesopotamianThe demon with an army of stones.
Ashmantle Fallen watchersA fallen Watcher from the Book of 1 Enoch, one of the named members of that company.
Atlas of Atlantis Lost civilisationsThe first king of Atlantis, son of Poseidon.
Attila the Hun HistoricalThe king of the Huns who led his horsemen against both Roman empires in the mid-fifth century and marched deep into Gaul and Italy.
Augustus HistoricalThe heir of Julius Caesar who outlasted his rivals, ended Rome's civil wars and became its first emperor.
Beleth GoetiaA king on a pale horse with trumpets.
Benkei East asian folkloreThe warrior at the bridge who died on his feet.
Briareus GreekThe hundred-handed guard.
Cerberus GreekThe hound at the gate.
Charlemagne HistoricalThe Frankish king who united much of western Europe by conquest and was crowned emperor in Rome on Christmas Day, 800.
Charybdis GreekThe whirlpool that swallows.
Cipactli Lost civilisationsThe first sea-crocodile, from whom the earth was made.
Cu Chulainn CelticThe hound of Ulster, battle-warp.
Cyrus the Great PersianThe Persian king who overthrew the Medes, Lydia and Babylon and built the largest empire the world had yet seen.
Echidna GreekMother of monsters.
Enkidu MesopotamianThe wild man of the steppe.
Fafnir NorseThe hoard-dragon.
Fionn mac Cumhaill CelticThe Fianna and the thumb of knowledge.
Galahad ArthurianGrail-seekers pure in purpose.
Gilgamesh MesopotamianKings who seek to outlive death.
Harald Hardrada HistoricalThe hard ruler's last charge.
Hati NorseThe wolf who chases the moon.
Hector Pit onlyThe prince of Troy, its best defender, who faced Achilles alone outside the walls.
Hou Yi East asian folkloreThe archer who shot down nine suns.
Julius Caesar HistoricalThe legion that crosses the river.
Kingu MesopotamianTiamat's general with the tablet of destinies.
Koschei the Deathless European folkloreThe death hidden in a needle.
Kublai Khan HistoricalThe grandson of Genghis who completed the Mongol conquest of China, founded the Yuan dynasty and ruled from Khanbaliq.
Lu Bu HistoricalThe matchless halberd.
Medusa GreekThe stone-gaze sisters.
Mephistopheles Faustian pactThe Pact (head as literary character, not worshipped).
Morgan le Fay Pit onlyThe enchantress, half-sister to Arthur, who schemed against his court and carried him to Avalon.
Nidhogg NorseThe root-gnawer.
Oberon FaeThe fairy king of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, who quarrels with his queen and sends Puck to bewitch the sleepers.
Oda Nobunaga East asian folkloreThe Japanese warlord of the Sengoku age who broke rival clans with massed guns and brought much of the country under one hand.
Odysseus GreekCunning wanderers who win late.
One Death Lost civilisationsA high lord of Xibalba.
Paimon GoetiaA crowned king on a dromedary, preceded by music.
Penthesilea Pit onlyThe Amazon queen who came to Troy's aid and fell to Achilles, who grieved to see her face.
Perseus GreekGorgon-slayers with borrowed gifts.
Qin Shi Huang East asian folkloreThe king of Qin who conquered the rival states in 221 BC, became China's first emperor and was buried with an army of clay soldiers.
Ramesses II HistoricalThe king at Kadesh.
Reynard the Fox Pit onlyThe red fox of the beast fables, who talks his way out of every noose the king's court ties.
Richard the Lionheart HistoricalThe king at the front of the charge.
Rostam PersianThe champion of the Book of Kings.
Saladin HistoricalThe Kurdish sultan who united Egypt and Syria, retook Jerusalem in 1187 and later faced Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade.
Scylla GreekThe six-headed strait guard.
Semjaza Fallen watchersThe leader of the oath on Hermon.
Shuten-doji East asian folkloreThe oni king who drinks.
Skoll NorseThe wolf who chases the sun.
Talos GreekThe bronze giant who patrolled Crete's coast three times a day, hurling rocks at ships until Medea ended him in the Argonautica.
Tamamo-no-Mae East asian folkloreThe nine-tailed fox courtesan.
The Bull Demon King East asian folkloreThe demon king of the Flaming Mountains.
The Bull of Heaven MesopotamianThe drought bull.
The Chimera GreekFire-breathing hybrids.
The Green Knight ArthurianThe beheading game.
The Knights Templar Dead orderThe medieval order of the red cross.
The Kraken CryptidsThe island-sized beast of the northern sea.
The Lernaean Hydra GreekHeads that grow back.
The Minotaur GreekBeasts of the labyrinth.
The Norns NorseWeavers of fate (Urd, Verdandi, Skuld).
The Simurgh PersianThe great bird who raised Zal and heals with a feather.
The Sphinx of Thebes GreekRiddle-guards.
The Tuatha De Danann FaeThe race of Irish myth who came to Ireland before the Gaels and brought treasures of power, including a cauldron, spear and sword.
The Wild Hunt European folkloreThe riders across the storm sky.
Theseus GreekRunners of the labyrinth.
Timur (Tamerlane) HistoricalThe lame Turco-Mongol conqueror who built a vast empire from Samarkand and campaigned from Delhi to Anatolia in the late fourteenth century.
Utgarda-Loki NorseThe illusion king.
Veles SlavicThe Slavic god of cattle, waters and the underworld, who in the old tales steals from Perun and is chased by his thunder.
William Marshal HistoricalThe landless knight who rose through the tournaments to serve five English kings and ruled as regent for the boy Henry III.
Xerxes I PersianThe Persian king who led a huge army and fleet into Greece in 480 BC, burned Athens and was beaten at Salamis.
Xiang Yu HistoricalThe hegemon-king.
Yamata no Orochi East asian folkloreThe eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent of Japanese myth, slain by the storm god Susanoo to save a family's last daughter.
Yggdrasil NorseThe great ash at the centre of Norse myth, whose roots and branches reach through all the worlds.
Zahhak PersianThe tyrant with serpents at his shoulders.
Zhao Yun HistoricalThe rider who carried the heir through.
Zmey Gorynych European folkloreThe three-headed dragon.

Invictus78 legends

Achilles Pit onlyThe greatest of the Greeks, who chose a short life of glory and was undone only at the heel.
Aegir Norse · patronBrewers of the sea-feast.
Aengus Celtic · patronSwan-dreamers.
Alexander Pit onlyThe Macedonian who never lost a battle, and wept that of endless worlds he ruled not one.
Aphrodite Greek · patronDesire's sworn champions.
Badb Celtic · patronThe battle crow.
Baldr Norse · patronThe one nothing could harm.
Bastet Egyptian · patronCat-guards of the home.
Bellona Roman · patronThe war-frenzy.
Bes Egyptian · patronThe guard against night terrors.
Bran the Blessed Celtic · patronThe giant king's speaking head.
Brynhildr Pit onlyThe valkyrie cast down for choosing her own victor, sleeping in a ring of fire until a hero rode through.
Carmilla Gothic lit · patronA countess dead for a century, who returned as a lonely girl to feed on the one she loved.
Cernunnos Celtic · patronThe antlered lord of beasts.
Chaac Lost civilisations · patronThe axe of the rain.
Chalchiuhtlicue Lost civilisations · patronThe jade-skirted lady of rivers.
Chernobog SlavicThe black god of old Slavic tradition, set against the white god in a pairing of dark and light.
Dionysus Greek · patronThe wild revel-band.
Dumuzi Mesopotamian · patronThe shepherd who spends half the year below.
Epona Celtic · patronThe horse-riders.
Erebus GreekThe primordial darkness of Greek myth, born of Chaos in Hesiod's Theogony and father of Aether and Day.
Eris Greek · patronSowers of strife.
Eros (Cupid) Greek · patronThe winged archer of Greek and Roman myth whose arrows kindled love in gods and mortals alike.
Fortuna Roman · patronTurners of the wheel.
Frankenstein's Creature Gothic lit · patronThe Stitched.
Freyr Norse · patronThe lord who gave his sword away.
Frigg Norse · patronThe queen who knows and does not tell.
Goibniu Pit onlyThe smith of the Tuatha De Danann who forged spearheads in three blows for the war on the Fomorians.
Gwydion Celtic · patronShape-changing enchanters.
Gwyn ap Nudd Celtic · patronThe wild hunt of Annwn.
Hathor Egyptian · patronThe cow-mother's revel.
Heracles GreekTwelve-labour strongmen.
Hermes Pit only · patronMessenger of the gods, who stole Apollo's cattle on the day he was born and talked his way free.
Hestia Greek · patronThe Greek goddess of the hearth and the household fire, honoured first at every sacrifice and rarely seen in the tales.
Hypnos Greek · patronBringers of sleep.
Imhotep Egyptian · patronThe deified sage of building and healing.
Ix Chel Lost civilisations · patronThe moon-lady of weaving and healing.
Janus Roman · patronKeepers of the first door.
Khonsu Egyptian · patronThe moon wanderer.
Leto Greek · patronThe Greek goddess who bore the twins Apollo and Artemis, wandering the world to find a place to give birth.
Lleu Llaw Gyffes Celtic · patronThe skilled hand.
Lord Ruthven Gothic lit · patronA cold nobleman who moved through society charming the young and leaving them drained.
Lycaon Werewolf folklore · patronThe Wolf-kin.
Macha Celtic · patronThe racing queen's curse.
Merlin Pit onlyThe wizard born of a mortal and a spirit, who raised a king and foresaw his fall.
Mictecacihuatl Lost civilisations · patronThe lady of the dead who keeps the bones.
Moby Dick LiteraryThe great white whale of Melville's novel, a vast and scarred sperm whale that drew Captain Ahab across the oceans.
Montu Egyptian · patronThe Theban war-falcon.
Nanna Mesopotamian · patronLords of the moon.
Napoleon Bonaparte HistoricalThe Corsican artillery officer who rose to rule France, won a run of campaigns across Europe and fell at Waterloo in 1815.
Neith Egyptian · patronArcher-weavers of Sais.
Nemesis Greek · patronRetribution for the proud.
Nephthys Egyptian · patronMourners at dusk.
Nergal Mesopotamian · patronThe lord of the underworld who brought plague, war and scorching noon.
Njord Norse · patronThe sea-wind.
Nuada Celtic · patronThe silver-handed kings.
Ogma Celtic · patronChampions of strength and letters.
Pan Greek · patronThe panic of the wild.
Persephone Greek · patronHalf the year below, queen of the dead.
Ptah Egyptian · patronThe creator god of Memphis, patron of builders, who shaped the world by thought and word.
Ran Norse · patronThe drowning net.
Rhea Greek · patronThe Titan mother of the first Olympians, who in Hesiod's tale hid her youngest son Zeus from his father.
Rhiannon Celtic · patronThe unhurried white mare.
Robert the Bruce Scottish · patronThe king who tried again.
Selene Greek · patronDrivers of the moon.
Serket Egyptian · patronScorpion-healers.
Sir Francis Varney Gothic lit · patronThe reluctant undead gentleman's house.
Skadi Norse · patronSki-hunters of the mountain.
Sobek Egyptian · patronCrocodiles of the Nile.
Surtr Pit onlyThe fire giant of Muspelheim, who waits at the edge of the world to set it alight at its end.
The Cailleach Scottish · patronThe winter queen of the mountains.
The Colossus of Rhodes GreekThe vast bronze statue of the sun god Helios that overlooked the harbour of Rhodes, said in the tale to have stood astride the harbour.
The Morrigan Celtic · patronThe war goddess who washes the armour of doomed men at the ford and flies over battle as a crow.
Vesta Roman · patronKeepers of the undying flame.
William Tell European folklore · patronThe marksmen of the forest cantons.
William Wallace Scottish · patronThe Scottish freedom-fighters.
Winged Victory Greek · patronThe winged goddess of victory in Greek tradition, shown alighting on warships and carrying the crown to the winner.
Xipe Totec Lost civilisations · patronThe lord of spring renewal and goldsmiths.

Origin73 legends

Amun Egyptian · patronThe hidden king.
Anu Mesopotamian · patronThe far sky-father.
Anubis Egyptian · patronThe jackal-headed guardian who weighs each heart against a feather.
Apep EgyptianThe chaos serpent.
Apollo Pit only · patronThe archer god whose arrows brought plague to the Greek camp at Troy for nine days.
Ares Greek · patronThe bloodied spear-band.
Artemis Greek · patronMoonlit huntresses.
Aset Egyptian · patronThe Egyptian goddess Isis, who in Plutarch's telling searched the land for her slain husband and gathered him back together.
Athena Pit only · patronGoddess of wisdom and war, born armoured from her father's head.
Atlas Greek · patronBearers of the sky.
Balor Celtic · patronThe evil eye of the Fomorians.
Coatlicue Lost civilisations · patronThe serpent-skirted mother of the war god.
Count Dracula Gothic lit · patronHouse of Dracula.
Cthulhu Gothic litThe dreamer under the sea.
Demeter Greek · patronHarvest-keepers who outlast famine.
Enki Mesopotamian · patronTricksters of the sweet waters.
Enlil Mesopotamian · patronThe wind-lord who sent the flood.
Ereshkigal Mesopotamian · patronThe queen of the land of no return, who stripped her own sister of every jewel at the seven gates.
Fenrir NorseThe chained wolf.
Freyja Norse · patronClaimers of half the slain.
Gaia Greek · patronEarth-mother of giants.
Hades Greek · patronKing of the dead, who rules beneath the earth and lets no soul go home.
Hecate Pit only · patronThe goddess of crossroads, herbs and witchcraft, who walks with torches and hounds.
Heimdall Norse · patronWatchers of the bridge.
Hel Norse · patronLoki's daughter, half living and half dead, who rules the dead who fall without glory.
Helios Greek · patronRiders of the sun chariot.
Hephaestus Pit only · patronThe lame smith of Olympus, cast out by his own mother, who forged the armour of heroes.
Hera Greek · patronThe queen's jealous court.
Horus Egyptian · patronFalcon avengers.
Huitzilopochtli Lost civilisations · patronThe sun's warriors of the hummingbird.
Inanna Mesopotamian · patronThe queen of heaven and war.
Itzamna Lost civilisations · patronThe lord of writing and the sky-house.
Jormungandr NorseThe world serpent.
King Arthur Arthurian · patronKnights of the Grail.
Kronos Greek · patronThe devouring Titan's old order.
Kukulkan Lost civilisations · patronThe feathered serpent of the Maya lords.
Loki Norse · patronThe shape-changing trickster of Asgard, both help and ruin to the gods, bound at last until the world ends.
Lugh Celtic · patronThe many-skilled.
Manannan mac Lir Celtic · patronThe mist-cloaked sea.
Marduk Mesopotamian · patronSlayers of the sea-dragon.
Mictlantecuhtli Lost civilisations · patronThe lord of the land of the dead.
Mithras Roman · patronThe bull-slayers' cave brotherhood.
Ninurta Mesopotamian · patronThe farmer-warrior.
Nyarlathotep Gothic litThe crawling herald.
Nyx Pit only · patronNight herself, older than the gods, whom even Zeus feared to anger.
Oceanus Greek · patronThe Titan who in Greek tradition was the great river encircling the whole world, source of all the waters.
Odin Norse · patronThe All-Father who gave an eye for wisdom and hung nine nights on the world tree to win the runes.
Osiris Egyptian · patronThe risen king of the dead.
Perun Slavic · patronThe Slavic god of thunder and lightning, chief of the pantheon, whose oak and axe stood for storm and justice.
Poseidon Greek · patronTide and earthquake sworn.
Prometheus Greek · patronFire-thieves, chained but unbowed.
Quetzalcoatl Lost civilisations · patronThe feathered serpent of wind and learning.
Ra Egyptian · patronCrew of the sun barque.
Resheph Pit onlyThe Canaanite lord of plague and war, whose arrows carried pestilence through the ranks of armies.
Sekhmet Egyptian · patronThe lioness goddess whose breath was the desert wind and who sent plague on the wicked.
Set Egyptian · patronLord of desert and storm, who slew his brother Osiris and fought Horus for the throne.
Shamash Mesopotamian · patronThe sun-judges.
Sun Wukong East asian folkloreMonkey King's Band.
Tartarus Greek · patronThe deep abyss below the underworld in Greek myth, where the Titans were bound and wrongdoers were punished.
Tezcatlipoca Lost civilisations · patronThe smoking mirror of night.
Thanatos Pit only · patronDeath himself, twin of Sleep, with a heart of iron: he lets go of no one he takes, not even kings.
The Dagda Celtic · patronClub and cauldron.
The Reaper Pit onlyThe skeleton with the scythe who leads pope, king and beggar in the Dance of Death on old church walls.
Thor Norse · patronThe thunder god with the hammer Mjolnir, guardian of gods and men against the giants.
Thoth Egyptian · patronScribes who reckon by the moon.
Tiamat Mesopotamian · patronBrood of Tiamat, the brine surge.
Titans Greek · patronThe elder race of Greek gods, children of Sky and Earth, who ruled before the Olympians overthrew them.
Tlaloc Lost civilisations · patronThe rain and storm lord of the mountain.
Typhon Pit onlyThe storm-serpent giant with a hundred heads, the deadliest foe Zeus ever faced.
Tyr Norse · patronOne-handed oath-keepers.
Uranus Greek · patronThe primordial sky of Greek myth, husband of Earth and father of the Titans, overthrown by his own son Kronos.
Ymir NorseThe first giant.
Zeus Greek · patronThe sky-king's storm host.

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