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| 8429131201 | The Hero | one ultimately who may fulfill a necessary task and who will restore fertility, harmony, and/or justice to a community | 0 | |
| 8429150774 | The Friendly Beast | animals assist the hero and reflect that nature is on the hero's side | 1 | |
| 8429168028 | Hunting Group of Companions | Loyal companions are willing to face any number of perils in order to be together (The gang from the Destroyer's) | 2 | |
| 8429173057 | Loyal Retainers | Individuals are like the nobel sidekicks to the hero. Their duty is to protect the hero. Often the retainer reflects the hero's nobility. (Horatio) | 3 | |
| 8429187501 | The Mentor | Individuals serve as teachers or counselors to the initiates. Sometimes they work as role models and often serve as father or mother figure. They teach by example the skills necessary to survive the journey and quest. | 4 | |
| 8429210498 | Young Person from the Provinces | Hero is taken away as an infant or youth and raised by strangers. He or she later returns home as a stranger and able to recognize new problems and new solutions. | 5 | |
| 8429236956 | The Creature of Nightmare | Monster, physical or abstract, is summoned from the deepest, darkest parts of the human psyche to threaten the lives of the hero/heroine. Often it is a perversion or desecration of the human body | 6 | |
| 8429266325 | The Damsel in Distress | Vulnerable woman must be rescued by the hero. She may be used as a trap, by an evil figure, to ensnare the hero | 7 | |
| 8429279920 | The Devil Figure | Represents evil incarnate. May offer worldly goods, fame, or knowledge, to the protagonist in exchange for possession of the soul or integrity. This figure's main aim is to oppose the hero in his or her quest | 8 | |
| 8429311067 | The Earth Mother | Symbolic of abundance and fertility; offers spiritual/emotional nourishment | 9 | |
| 8429421754 | Evil Figure with Ultimately Good Heart | Redeemable devil figure or servant to the devil figure figure is saved by the hero's nobility or good heart | 10 | |
| 8429432484 | The Initiates | Young heroes who, prior to the quest, must endure some training and ritual. Usually innocent at this stage. | 11 | |
| 8429448289 | The Outcast | Banished from a community for some crime (real or imagines). Usually destined to become a wanderer. | 12 | |
| 8429464833 | The Platonic Ideal | Source of inspiration often is a physical or spiritual ideal for whom the hero has an intellectual rather than physical attraction | 13 | |
| 8429491444 | The Scapegoat | Animal or more usually a human whose death, often in a public ceremony, expiates some taint or sin that has been visited upon the community. Make theme more powerful force for the hero | 14 | |
| 8429512761 | The Star Crossed Lovers | Two characters are engaged in a love affair that is fated to end in tragedy for one or both due to the disapproval of society, friends, family, or the gods | 15 | |
| 8429523960 | The Temptress | Characterized by sensuous beauty, she is one whose physical attraction may bring about the hero's downfall | 16 | |
| 8429535056 | The Unfaithful Wife | Woman, married to aman she sees as dull or distant, is attracted to a more virile or interesting man | 17 | |
| 8429544670 | The Curious Female | Woman who desires to know more. She delves into forbidden practices | 18 | |
| 8429552111 | The Trickster | May be cruel, cynical, and unfeeling; may assume the form of an animal, a shaman, and a magician who is the official at initiation rites | 19 | |
| 8429566615 | Fire vs. Ice | Fire represents knowledge, light, fire, and rebirth while ice like desert represents ignorance, darkness, sterility, and death | 20 | |
| 8429578688 | Haven vs. Wilderness | Places of safety contrasts sharply against the dangerous wilderness. Heroes are often sheltered for a time to regain health and resources | 21 | |
| 8429594907 | Heaven vs. Hell | Humanity has traditionally associated parts of the universe not accessible to it with the dwelling places of primordial forces that govern its world. The skies and mountaintops house its god; the bowels of the earth contain the diabolic forces that inhabit its universe | 22 | |
| 8429619228 | Light vs. Darkness | Light usually suggests hope, renewal, OR intellectual illumination; darkness implies the unknown, ignorance, or despair | 23 | |
| 8429630074 | Water vs. Desert | Because water is necessary to life and growth, it commonly appears as a birth or rebirth symbol. Water is used in baptism services, which solemnizes spiritual births. Similarly, the appearance of rain in a work of literature can suggest a character's spiritual birth | 24 |
