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Pepper

**Pepper** (or **black pepper**) is a spice that is native to India (particularly the Malabar coast) and Southeast Asia. It is an extremely valuable trade good from ancient times; during the Middle Ages, the pepper supply is controlled by Arabs, and a desire to break this monopoly helps launch the Age of Exploration. Venice and Genoa are two cities that grow rich from the pepper supply.

**Wikipedia:** Black pepper
Mississippi River

The **Mississippi River** is a river in the United States, one of the longest rivers in North America, spanning approximately 2,320 miles (3,734 kilometers). It originates at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows through or along the borders of 10 U.S. states, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The river eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Cities along the Mississippi include Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota; Saint Louis, Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee; and Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Major tributaries of the Mississippi include the Missouri River, which joins at Saint Louis; the Illinois River; the Ohio River; the Arkansas River; and the Red River.

The nature spirit of the Mississippi is a river god known as Old Man River.

**Wikipedia:** Mississippi River
Olden Times

**Olden Times**--what historians refer to as the **Early Modern Era**--is a period in history following the Middle Ages and preceding Yesteryear, from 1300 until 1789.

During this period, rationality and science are on the rise, though religion and magic both have plenty of fight left in them. Fantastic beasts increasingly become things encountered in exotic lands. The introduction of gunpowder from China deemphasizes the lone champion in favor of mass warfare--and allows European expansion to dominate the globe.

* The Renaissance (1300-1492)
* Age of Exploration (1492-1600)
* Baroque Era (1600-1700)
* The Enlightenment (1700-1788)
Nero Wolfe

**Nero Wolfe** (b. 1893) is a private detective based in New York City (though born in Montenegro). An eccentric and brilliant aesthete, he prefers to solve mysteries from the comfort of his West 35th Street brownstone, in Hells Kitchen, which he does from the 1930s into the 1970s. He's noted for his love of orchids and his penchant for gourmet meals. He weighs 285 pounds. Wolfe's investigations are recorded by his assistant Archie Goodwin.
Monster

**Monsters** are creatures that inspire horror by their deviation from the natural order; they are often malevolent and usually dangerous.

Some monsters are fantastic beasts, unnatural members of the natural world. Others are undead, defying the boundary between this world and the next. The largest monsters are called kaiju.

## Types

### Fantastic Beasts

Dragons

Giants

Hydras

Gorgons

### Undead

Vampires

Ghouls

Zombies

Ghosts

Mummies

### Aliens

Blobs

Predators

Xenomorphs

## Individuals

### Humanoid monsters

The Creature From the Black Lagoon

Dracula

Frankenstein's Monster

Hawley Griffin (The Invisible Man)

Edward Hyde

Imhotep

Lawrence Talbot

### Kaiju

Ghidorah

Godzilla

Kong

Mothra

Rodan

**Cabin in the Woods Wiki:** Monsters
Mongoose

A **mongoose** is a weasel-like animal found in Africa, Persia, India, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. They are the enemy of the cobra, able to take on and kill snakes many times their size. They are sometimes domesticated.

The most famous mongoose is Rikki Tikki Tavi, who protects his humans in India from a family of cobras.

A **meerkat** is a kind of mongoose.

**Wikipedia:** Mongoose
Mountains of Madness

The **Mountains of Madness** are a fantastic mountain range in Antarctica, explored by the Pabodie Expedition in 1931. They lie in an arc roughly from Latitude 82°, E. Longitude 60° to Latitude 70°, E. Longitude 115°.

These mountains are the site of the last city on land of the Elder Things, an alien race that dominates the Earth for hundreds of millions of years. The region is now infested with shoggoths, the Elder Things' rebellious servitors.

**Wikipedia:** At the Mountains of Madness
North Woods

The **North Woods** is a forest in the Upper Midwest of the United States, comprising parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

These woods are where Paul Bunyan did much of his logging. They are home to numerous fantastic beasts, including the hodag, the squonk and the hidebehind.

**Wikipedia:** Laurentian Mixed Forest Province
Oklahoma

**Oklahoma** is one of the United States in North America, part of Dixie--though it has perhaps greater affinities to the Heartland and the American West. Northwest of Oklahoma are Colorado and New Mexico; to the west and south are Texas. Arkansas is to the east, Missouri to the northeast and Kansas to the north.

## Places

Claremore

Muskogee

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma Panhandle

101 Ranch

Tulsa

## Individuals

Ado Annie

Jud Fry

Merle Haggard

Curly McClain

Tim McVeigh

Tom Mix

Will Rogers

Laurey Williams
Penelope

**Penelope** is the wife of Odysseus and the queen of Ithaca. With her husband missing for 10 years after the Trojan War, she evades having to choose a new husband from among many suitors by claiming she has to finish weaving a burial shroud before she can remarry, and unweaving every night what she had woven during the day.

**Wikipedia:** Penelope
Monsters by Era

A list of monsters typically encountered in various historical eras:

## Prehistoric

Kaiju

Elder God

## Ancient

Basilisk

Centaur

Chimera

Cyclops

Dragon

Faun

Fury

Giant

Gorgon

Gryphon

Harpy

Hydra

Minotaur

Mummy

Pegasus

Satyr

Siren

Skeleton

Sphinx

## Medieval

Dragon

Basilisk

Cockatrice

Gargoyle

Ghost

Giant

Gryphon

Hippogriff

Manticore

Ogre

Unicorn

Wyvern

## Modern

Alien

Blob

Cyborg

Ghost

Gremlin

Robot

Vampire

Werewolf

Zombie
North Pole

The **North Pole** is the northernmost spot on Earth, located near the center of the Arctic Ocean. It is noteworthy both as a destination for explorers and as the home of Santa Claus.

While geographers maintain that the North Pole is far from land, its permanent structures and evergreen trees indicate that there is at least some land present. Everyone agrees that the North Pole is cold.

## Features

**Santa's Village:** A small town at the North Pole inhabited mainly by elves .

**Santa's Workshop:** Where elves make toys.

**Reindeer Barn:** Where the flying reindeer live between Christmases.

**The Polar Express:** A magical train that runs to the North Pole every Christmas Eve.

**The North Pole:** An actual pole, with red and white stripes.

## Inhabitants

Santa Claus

Mrs. Claus

Frosty the Snowman

Hermey the Elf

Buddy the Elf

### Flying Reindeer

Dasher

Dancer

Prancer

Vixen

Comet

Cupid

Donner

Blitzen

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

## Explorers

Richard Peary

Roald Amundsen
Ohio

**Ohio**, known as the **Buckeye State**, is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States in North America. Originally the homeland of the Shawnee people and other Native Americans, Ohio became a state in 1803. Its capital and largest city is Columbus.

To the west of Ohio is Indiana; to the southwest is Kentucky, and to the southeast is West Virginia. Pennsylvania is to Ohio's east. North is Lake Erie, with Michigan to the northwest.

## Places

Cleveland

Cincinnati

Columbus

Winesburg

Fernwood

## Individuals

Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845)

Tecumseh

Old McDonald

Wilbur Wright (1867-1912)

Orville Wright (1871-1948)

Annie Oakley (1860-1926)

Pretty Boy Floyd

Johnny Fever

Alex Keaton

Freddy Kreuger

Mary Hartman

Drew Carey

Harvey Pekar
Mount Etna

**Mount Aetna**, a mountain in Sicily, is the largest volcano in Italy, standing 11,014 feet above sea level. It is one of the most active in the world, erupting regularly.

Zeus traps the monster Typhon beneath its mass. It is subsequently used as a forge by Hephaestus, where he is aided by cyclopes.

**Coordinates:** 37.755, 14.995

**Wikipedia:** Mount Etna
Mithril

**Mithril**, also known as **truesilver**, is a fantastic metal, resembling silver but stronger than steel. The only place it can be obtained in Middle Earth is from the Mines of Moria; while the mines are actively being worked, the value of mithril is ten times that of gold. When the mines close, it becomes priceless. (Mithril can also be found in Numenor and Valinor.)

Bilbo Baggins gets the mithril-coat, a shirt of chain mail made from mithril, from Smaug's hoard. Frodo Baggins later wears it on his quest to destroy the One Ring.

The Ring of Galadriel is made of mithril.

**Wikipedia:** Mithril
Oracle of Delphi

The **Oracle of Delphi**, a priestess of Apollo, is the most famous prophet of Ancient Greece; pilgrims traveled to Delphi from great distances to hear her ecstatic visions of the future.

The Oracle is an office, not an individual; she is always female. She is referred to as **Pythia**.

**Wikipedia:** Pythia
Orcus

**Orcus** is a powerful demon prince found in the Abyss. He resembles a huge, fat satyr with a goat's legs, a goatish head (but the horns of a ram) and vast batlike wings. His tail is a long snake tipped with a poisonous head.

Orcus has a special connection to undead monsters, for which he is known as the Prince of the Undead.

The Wand of Orcus, a heavy mace topped with a human skull, is a powerful artifact.

He is worshiped by the Ancient Romans.

**Wikipedia:** Orcus; Orcus (Dungeons & Dragons)
Prester John

**Prester John** (12th Century) is the legendary emperor of Prester John's Kingdom, a vast realm in Africa centered on Aethiopia in the Gothic Era. He is a Christian cleric as well as a monarch, and offers his assistance to Europe in 1165. There is subsequently much searching for his kingdom, which is sometimes thought to be in India.

**Wikipedia:** Prester John
Overlook Hotel

The **Overlook Hotel** is a haunted hotel in Colorado. After opening in 1910, the hotel has been the site of numerous mysterious deaths and suicides. In 1975, the winter caretaker Jack Torrance is convinced by the hotel's ghosts to kill his wife Wendy and his son Danny. They escape with the help of the chef Dick Halloran, and the hotel burns down in the process.

## External Link

**Coordinates:** 40.47229, -105.63819

**Stephen King Wiki:** Overlook Hotel
Mount Rainier

**Mount Rainier**, called **Tacoma** by the Salish people, is a mountain in Washington State; at 14,411 feet, it is the highest mountain in the state. It is an active volcano and is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.

It becomes the center of a national park on March 2, 1899. On June 24, 1947, the first UFOs to be described as "flying saucers" were seen over Rainier, in a formation of nine.

**Coordinates:** 46° 51′ 10.39″ N, 121° 45′ 37.34″ W

**Wikipedia:** Mount Rainier
Ostrich

The **ostrich** is a flightless bird found in the grasslands and deserts of Africa. At up to 9 feet tall and 330 pounds, it is the largest natural bird in modern times.

When threatened, ostriches may hide their heads in the sand--an effective strategy for disguising itself in bushy territory. But they are also able to defend themselves with powerful kicks, capable of killing a lion. They are aggressive when provoked.

In yesteryear, ostriches live in the Middle East and Asia Minor.

**Wikipedia:** Common ostrich

**Open Gaming Network (5E SRD):** War Ostrich

*(Note: Here Be Dragons is a synthesis of fact and fiction.)*
Nursery Rhymes

**Nursery rhymes** are folk poems told to small children. They are attributed to Mother Goose.

They usually are set in no particular time, though sometimes they reference particular places.

## Characters

Aiken Drum

Black Sheep

Cock Robin

Doctor Fell

Frère Jacques

Humpty Dumpty

Jack

Jack Be Nimble

Jack Sprat

Jill

Little Bo Peep

Little Boy Blue

Little Jack Horner

Little Miss Muffet

Mary of the Little Lamb

Mary Quite Contrary

The Muffin Man

Old King Cole

Old Mother Hubbard

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Peter Piper

Peter Pumpkin Eater

Simple Simon

Tom the Piper's Son

Wee Willie Winkie

Wynken, Blynken and Nod

## Places

Babylon

Charing Cross

London Bridge

St. Ives
Ordovician

The **Ordovician Period** is a geologic time period lasting from 488 MYA - 438 MYA -- following the Cambrian and preceding the Silurian. The Ordovician is the **Age of Cephalopods**, though that slogan never really caught on.

Plants resembling liverworts and moss are the first to colonize the land. Fauna include trilobites, long pointy cephalopods, sea scorpions, jawless fish and brachiopods.

The period ends with a 40-million-year ice age.

## Fauna

Orthocones -- the long pointy kind of cephalopod

Jawless Fish

Sea Scorpions

## Timeline

**455 MYA** The star Vega is formed.

**450 MYA** First land plants.

**460 MYA** Beginning of a 40-million-year ice age.

**Next:** Silurian

**Wikipedia:** Ordovician
Pecos Bill

**Pecos Bill** (1835-1906) is a folk hero and cowboy from Texas.

As a youngster, Bill is a feral child, having fallen out of a covered wagon as an infant near the Pecos River and rescued by coyotes. He is later found by cowboys who explain to him that he is actually a human.

He has a horse named Widow-Maker, a rattlesnake named Shake that he uses as a lariat, and a wife named Slue-Foot Sue.

**Wikipedia:** Pecos Bill
Neighborhood

A **neighborhood** is an area of a city with a distinct character, representing differences in use, class and ethnicity.

## Common Neighborhoods

**Downtown:** The most densely populated part of a city, often with taller buildings. Usually the commercial and business center.

**Uptown:** An area with a higher elevation than Downtown, often an affluent residential district.

**Civic Center:** Sometimes a city will have an area where government buildings are concentrated, like City Hall and courthouses; in other cities, these are part of Downtown.

**Waterfront:** If a city is on a navigable body of water, part of the shoreline will often be dedicated to docks and warehouses.

**Slums:** The poorest residential district, with substandard housing.

**Ghetto:** A part of town where an ethnic minority is segregated. The term was originally applied to Jewish neighborhoods in Europe; in the United States, the word is associated with Black neighborhoods.

**Chinatown:** Often cities will have neighborhoods where immigrants from particular countries congregate. One of the most common types of ethnic enclave is one for people from China.

**Little Italy:** Immigrants from Italy form another common type of ethnic neighborhood.
Napoleon Bonaparte

**Napoleon Bonaparte** (1769-1821) is the emperor of France and for a brief time the ruler of most of Europe.

Napoleon, a native of Corsica, commands troops on behalf of the French Revolution. He wins victories in Italy against Italian and Austrian forces, and fights battles against Britain in Egypt. At this time he marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, the love of his life.

With the Coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799, Napoleon becomes the French Republic's First Consul. He tries to recapture former French colony of Haiti, and sells the Louisiana Purchase--France's claims to land in North America--to Thomas Jefferson's United States. He establishes the Napoleonic Code as the basis for Europe's legal system.

He is crowned emperor in 1804. The next year, he wins the Battle of Austerlitz against the Russian and Austrian armies. But his attempt to invade Britain is foiled by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.

The Peninsular Wars, an attempt to subdue Spain and Portugal that is opposed by Britain, begin in 1808 and stretch on into 1814.

Napoleon divorces Josephine in 1810, who has failed to produce an heir, and marries Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. She gives birth to Napoleon II in 1811.

Napoleon invades Russia in 1812, a decision that leads to a disastrous retreat from Moscow and marks the beginning of his downfall. In 1814 he is forced to abdicate and is exiled to the island of Elba.

In 1815, Napoleon escapes from Elba, returns to France, and reclaims power for a brief period known as the Hundred Days. He is defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo and re-exiled, this time to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he dies in 1821.
Pandora

**Pandora** is a woman created by Hephaestus at the direction of Zeus, given beauty by Aphrodite and craft skills by Athena. Given to the Titan Epimetheus to be his bride, she carried as her dowry Pandora's Box, which her brother-in-law Prometheus warned her never open. She opens it anyway, releasing a plague of Spites upon the world.

She lives in Greece in the Age of Bronze.

**Wikipedia:** Pandora

**Theoi:** Hesiod, Works and Days
Obi-Wan Kenobi

*"These aren't the droids you're looking for."*

**Obi-Wan Kenobi** is a Jedi Master in the Far Away Galaxy, one of the most powerful users of the Force ever. Trained by Qui-Gon Jinn, he goes on to serve as a mentor to Anakin Skywalker--before Anakin turns to the Dark Side and becomes Darth Vader. Obi-Wan later watches over and then serves as a mentor to and then to his son Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. He is killed by Vader on the Death Star, but returns as a Force ghost.

**Wookieepedia:** Obi-Wan Kenobi
Olympia

**Olympia** is a town in the Peloponnese of Greece. The Olympic Games are founded there in 776 BCE, and are held there until they are banned in 393 AD. The Temple of Zeus at Olympia holds a Statue of Zeus, made by Phidias in 432 BCE, that is held to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

**Coordinates:** 37° 38′ 16.8″ N, 21° 37′ 48″ E

**Wikipedia:** Olympia, Greece
Odin

**Odin**, also known as **Wotan**, is the leader of the Aesir, the principal gods of the Norse pantheon. A god of wisdom, he is fond of trickery. The day Wednesday is named for him.

His wife is Frigg; his children include Thor, Balder and Bragi. His bloodbrother is the half-giant Loki.

He is found in Asgard, in his hall Valhalla, where the chosen of the slain train ceaselessly for Ragnarok.

He has only one eye, having sacrificed the other in a quest for enlightenment.

He is accompanied by two huge wolves, Geri and Freki, and his ravens Huginn and Muninn.

**Wikipedia:** Odin
Octopus

An **octopus** is a marine animal, part of the cephalopod family, making it a relative of the squid and more distantly related to clams and snails. It is identifiable by its eight tentacles and boneless body. Octopi are remarkably intelligent -- perhaps the smartest of the invertebrates -- and often have incredible camouflage abilities.

Unlike their natural kin, giant octopi are aggressive and dangerous denizens of the deep.

## Links

**Wikipedia:** Octopus

**Open Gaming Network (5E SRD):** Animal, Octopus
Passenger Pigeon

The **passenger pigeon** is a wild pigeon of North America that travels in flocks that include billions of individuals. Voracious hunting by European-Americans reduced their numbers rapidly, until the last wild member is shot in 1901; the last passenger pigeon dies in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.

**Wikipedia:** Passenger pigeon
National Park

A **national park** is a natural area set aside for protection by a national government.

## US National Parks

A selective list of national parks in the United States:

Acadia (Maine)

Badlands (South Dakota)

Big Bend (Texas)

Black Canyon of the Gunnison (Colorado)

Bryce Canyon (Utah)

Canyonlands (Utah)

Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico)

Channel Islands (California)

Crater Lake (Oregon)

Death Valley (California, Nevada)

Denali (Alaska)

Dry Tortugas (Florida)

Everglades (Florida)

Gateway Arch (Missouri)

Glacier Bay (Alaska)

Glacier National Park (Montana)

Grand Canyon (Arizona)

Grand Teton (Wyoming)

Great Basin (Nevada)

Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee, North Carolina)

Hawai’i Volcanoes (Hawaii)

Hot Springs (Arkansas)

Indiana Dunes (Indiana)

Isle Royale (Michigan)

Joshua Tree National Park (California)

Kings Canyon (California)

Mammoth Cave (Kentucky)

Mesa Verde (Colorado)

Mount Rainier (Washington)

North Cascades (Washington)

Olympic (Washington)

Petrified Forest (Arizona)

Redwood National Park (California)

Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado)

Saguaro National Park (Arizona)

Sequoia National Park (California)

Shenandoah (Virginia)

Voyageurs National Park (Minnesota)

White Sands (New Mexico)

Wind Cave (South Dakota)

Yellowstone (Wyoming, Montana, Idaho)

Yosemite (California)

Zion National Park (Utah)

## Other National Parks

An even more selective list of national parks worldwide.

Dartmoor (Britain)

Iguazu (Argentina)

Lake District (Britain)

Loch Lomond (Britain)

Mount Kenya (Kenya)

New Forest (Britain)

Serengeti (Tanzania)

Snowdonia (Britain)

Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)

Tsavo (Kenya)

Uluru (Australia)

Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe)
Mountains of the Moon

The **Mountains of the Moon** are a mountain range in Africa, the source of the Nile River. They were long thought to be legendary, because they are often shrouded in mist and this likely to be overlooked by explorers. They are identified in modern times with the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda.

**Wikipedia:** Mountains of the Moon (Africa)
Nixie

A **nixie** is an aquatic faerie creature that lives in pools, streams and other freshwater environments. The marine equivalent is the sea elf. They are most often encountered in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia.

Though humans enchanted by their songs sometimes drown, they are not necessarily malevolent.

**Wikipedia:** Neck (water spirit)
Pennsylvania

**Pennsylvania** is one of the United States in North America, part of the Midatlantic region. To the west of Pennsylvania is Ohio; to the southwest is West Virginia. Maryland is to the south, and Delaware to the southeast. East is New Jersey, north is New York State. Lake Erie is northwest.

## Places

Allegheny Mountains

Gettysburg

Harrisburg

Johnstown

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Poconos

Punxsatawney

Three Mile Island

## Individuals

Rabbit Angstrom

Rocky Balboa

Mr. Lynn Belvedere

The Blob

Mike Fink

Benjamin Franklin

William Penn

Punxatawney Phil

Fred Rogers
Native American

**Native Americans** are the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America, or Turtle Island. The term is particularly used to refer to those who lived or live in the territory now known as the United States.

## Native Nations

There are over 500 Native American nations. Here are a few of the best known.

Apache

Arapaho

Cherokee

Cheyenne

Chippewa

Comanche

Hopi

Iroquois

Lakota

Miami (nation)

Mohawk

Pottawatomie

Navajo

Seminole

Shawnee

Sioux

Winnebago

## Individuals

### Legendary

Hiawatha

Minnehaha

### Historical

Squanto (1581-1622)

Pocahontas (1595-1617)

Pontiac 1720-1769

Black Hawk 1767-1838

Sequoiah 1767-1843

Tecumseh 1768-1813

Chief Seattle (1780-1866)

Sacajawea (1788-1812)

Cochise (1815-1874)

Red Cloud (1822-1909)

Geronimo (1829-1909)

Sitting Bull (1831-1890)

Crazy Horse (1840-1877)

Chief Joseph (1840-1904)

Will Rogers 1879-1935

Russell Means (1939-2012)

Leonard Peltier (1944- )

Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010)

Alexie Sherman

### Fictional

Chingachgook

Tonto (b. 1854)

Tiger Lily

Billy Jack

Chief Bromden

John Rambo

Jacob Black

## Religion

Native Americans have a rich spiritual culture, represented by a variety of Native American deities. Many also practice non-indigenous religions, such as Christianity.

*Note: Here Be Dragons is a synthesis of fact, legend and fiction.*
Otter

An **otter** is a carnivorous mammal, a relative of the weasel, adapted for life in water. The freshwater variety is often found in or near streams, while the larger **sea otter** spends almost all of its life in the ocean. They are notably intelligent and playful creatures.

Freshwater otters are found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. Sea otters live in the northern Pacific Ocean, off the coasts of Japan, Siberia, Alaska, Canada, the Western United States and Mexico.

## Links

**Wikipedia:** Otter

**Open Gaming Network (Pathfinder SRD):** Otter
Monarch

**Monarchs** are rulers of nations whose powers range from absolute to ceremonial. They are not chosen democratically, and usually assert a right to rule based on inheritance. Kings, queens and emperors are typical titles for monarchs.

Egyptian Pharaohs

Mesopotamian Kings

Israelite Kings

Greek Kings

Chinese Emperors

Roman Emperors

British Kings and Queens

French Kings

Russian Czars
Mystery Inc.

**Mystery Incorporated** is a group of teenagers and one Great Dane who travel the United States investigating supernatural threats--which inevitably turn out to be elaborate hoaxes, usually concealing some kind of money-making scheme. The psychedelic van they travel in is called the Mystery Machine.

## Members

Fred Jones (17 years old in 1969)

Daphne Blake (16 years old)

Velma Dinkley (15 years old)

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers (17 years old)

Scooby-Doo (7 years old)
Monster Hunter

**Monster hunters** are a class of adventurer who specialize in uncovering and defeating monsters. In ancient times , they may be rangers , warriors or barbarians; medieval monster hunters may be more clerical in training. In modern settings, they may overlap with detectives.

Often they specialize in tracking a particular kind or category of monster.

## Individuals

Hercules

Perseus

Bellerophon

Saint George

Beowulf

Abraham Van Helsing

Fred Jones

Daphne Blake

Velma Dinkley

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers

Scooby-Doo

Blade

Carl Kolchak

Dr. Peter Venkman

Dr. Raymond Stantz

Dr. Egon Spengler

Winston Zeddmore

Ash Williams

John Constantine

Fox Mulder

Dana Scully

Buffy Summers

Willow Rosenberg

Xander Harris

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

Rick Grimes
New Hampshire

**New Hampshire** is one of the United States in North America, part of the New England region. To the west of New Hampshire is Vermont; to the south is Massachusetts. The Atlantic Ocean is to the southeast, while Maine is east. North of New Hampshire is Quebec.

## Places

Manchester

Grover's Corners

Peyton Place

## Individuals

Josiah Bartlet

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

JD Salinger (1919-2010)
Mule

A **mule** is a hybrid domesticated animal, an infertile cross between a female horse and a male donkey. They are valued for their increased strength and endurance compared to a horse of similar size, and greater intelligence compared to a donkey. Though proverbially stubborn, they will enter environments (such as underground passages) that a horse would shy away from. They are famous for having a powerful kick.

## Links

**Wikipedia:** **Mule**

**Open Gaming Network (5E SRD):** Mule
Human Fly

**Human flies** are hybrid monsters formed from the fusion of human and fly--often via an accident involving teleportation. The size of a normal person, typically they have the head of a fly and at least one fly arm. Often a **fly human** is produced at the same time as the human fly--a tiny organism with fly wings and a human head.

The most famous human flies are André Delambre, a scientist working on a teleportation device in Montreal in 1958, and Seth Brundle, performing similar experiments in Toronto in 1986.

**Wikipedia:** The Fly (George Langelaan)
Prince (musician)

**Prince Rogers Nelson** (1958–2016), known simply as **Prince**, is an African-American musician, a legendary singer, songwriter and record producer, as well as a dancer, actor and filmmaker. A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, fluid sexuality, extravagant fashion sense and use of makeup, and wide vocal range.

Born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince is a pioneer of the Minneapolis sound, which blended funk, rock, pop, synth-pop and new wave. His music career spans four decades, marked by hit songs like "Purple Rain," "1999" and "Little Red Corvette." His death in April 2016 shocks the nation.
Pushmi-Pullyu

A **pushmi-pullyu** is a very rare fantastic beast found in West Africa, notable for having a head at either end of their body. Said to be related to the gazelle and the unicorn, they are able to walk with equal ease in either direction.

A pushmi-pullyu accompanies Dr. John Dolittle back to England and later appears in his circus .

**Wikipedia:** List of Doctor Dolittle characters: The Pushmi-Pullyu
Museum of Modern Art

**The Museum of Modern Art** (**MoMA**) is a museum in New York City, USA, dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1929, it houses some of the most recognizable works by art in the world, including Vincent Van Gogh's *Starry Night*, Pablo Picasso's *Les Demoiselles d’Avignon*, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, Salvador Dali's *The Persistence of Memory*, Henri Rousseau's *The Sleeping Gypsy* and Andrew Wyeth's *Christina's World*.

## External Links

**Coordinates:** 40.7614° N, 73.9776° W

**Wikipedia:** Museum of Modern Art

**Official Website:** MoMA
Nancy Drew

**Nancy Drew** is an amateur detective, a determined and resourceful young woman who fearlessly uncovers secrets and solves crimes in her hometown of River Heights, Illinois. She is the daughter of attorney Carson Drew; her mother dies when Nancy is young. Her friends include Bess Marvin, the tomboyish George Fayne, and Nancy's boyfriend Ned Nickerson.

Nancy's cases are chronicled by writer Carolyn Keene.

## External Link

**Wikipedia:** Nancy Drew

**Nancy Drew Wiki:** Nancy Drew
Rio Grande

The **Rio Grande**, also known as the **Rio Bravo del Norte**, is a prominent river in North America, measuring approximately 1,896 miles (3,051 kilometers) in length. It forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico, flowing through the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas and ultimately emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. Cities along the Rio Grand include Albuquerque, New Mexico; El Paso and Laredo in Texas; and Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico.

**Wikipedia:** Rio Grande
Robber

**Robbers** are a class of criminal who steal using force. They often are some time of fighter, such as a gunslinger .

## Individuals

Ma Barker (1873-1935)

Clyde Barrow (1910-1934)

Billy the Kid (1859-1881)

Butch Cassidy (1866-1908?)

John Dillinger (1903-1934)

Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934)

Robert Ford (1862–1892)

John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895)

Jesse James (1847-1882)

Machine Gun Kelly (1895-1954)

Joaquin Murietta (1829-1853)

Bonnie Parker (1910-1934)

Snake Plissken (b. 1967)

Belle Starr (1848-1889)

Sundance Kid (1867-1908?)

Willie Sutton (1901-1980)

Liberty Valance
Ringo Starr

**Ringo Starr** (1940– ), born **Richard Starkey** in Liverpool, England, is a British rock musician, best known as the drummer of the Beatles. He joins the Beatles in 1962, replacing their original drummer, Pete Best. Starr's drumming, characterized by its solid and unflashy style, is integral to the Beatles' sound. He also contributes vocals to several Beatles songs, including "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Help from My Friends." After the Beatles disband, Starr pursues a successful solo career and acts in various films.
Queen Isabella

**Queen** **Isabella** (1451–1504) is queen of Castile (from 1474) before her 1479 marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon makes her co-monarch of a united Spain. She authorizes Christopher Columbus' voyages to find a new route to the Indies, pawning her jewels to provide funding. She establishes the Spanish Inquisition, which drives Jews out of Spain under her reign.

**Wikipedia:** Isabella I of Castile
Plant

**Plants** are living things found on Earth that are generally immobile and live mainly on the energy of sunlight. Plants are mainly sorted by use rather than botanical relationships.

## Fungi

Technically not plants, fungi feed upon decaying organic material rather than sunshine.

## Primitive Plants

Primitive plants include algae, mosses, ferns and other plants without seeds.

## Herbs

Herbs are plants without woody stems that lack edible parts, though they may be used in cooking for flavor or for medicinal properties.

## Flowers

Flowers are plants grown for their decorative reproductive organs.

## Vegetables

Vegetables are plants with edible parts, other than fruit trees.

## Shrubs

Shrubs are low-lying plants with woody stems.

## Trees

Trees are tall plants with woody trunks. Basic types include palm trees, pine trees and deciduous trees, which include most nut and fruit trees.
Pirate

**Pirates** are a class of rogues with sailor skills who specialize in high-seas larceny.

## Individuals

Blackbeard (1680–1718) [1716–1718]

J. Flint (?- 1754)

Long John Silver

Captain William Kidd (1645–1701) [1695–1699]

Anne Bonney (1698–1782) (to 1725)

Mary Read (1690–1721) [to 1720]

Calico Jack Rackham (1682–1720)

Grace O’Malley (1530-1603)

Jean Lafitte (1780-1823)

Henry Morgan (1635–1688) [1663–1674]

Captain Hook

Black Bart Roberts (1682–1722) [1719–1722]

Dread Pirate Roberts

Captain Blood

Jack Sparrow (1700-?)

Madame Ching (1775-1844)

## Locations

Some places associated with pirates include:

Port Royal, Jamaica

Nassau, Bahamas

Tortuga

Treasure Island

Ocracoke Island

Barataria, Louisiana

Newport, Rhode Island

Algiers

Madagascar

## External Links:

**Wikipedia:** Piracy

**Pirates & Privateers:** The History of Maritime Piracy

**PotC Wiki:** Timeline of the Pirates of the Caribbean Series
Planet

**Planets** are massive spherical worlds circling the Sun or other stars.

## Solar

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Counter-Earth

Mongo

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Neptune

Uranus

Pluto

Eris

Acheron

Arrakis

Caprica

Cybertron

Ego

Eternia

Forbidden Planet

Gallifrey

Krypton

Magrathea

Pern

Romulus

Solaris

Thanagar

Tralfamadore

Trantor

Vulcan

Zenn-La

Coruscant

Dagobah

Hoth

Naboo

Tatooine

## Types

In the popular imagination, planets often fall into one of several types, based on dominant terrain/climate:

**Desert Planets:** Mars, Arrakis, Tatooine, Vulcan

**Ice Planets:** Hoth, Pluto

**Forest/Jungle Planets:** Endor

**Water Planets:** Solaris, Kamino

**Swamp Planets:** Venus, Dagobah

**City Planets:** Coruscant, Trantor
Robert the Bruce

**King Robert the Bruce** (1274–1329) is a renowned Scottish monarch of Renaissance times. He plays a pivotal role in the Scottish Wars of Independence against England. As the King of Scotland, Robert the Bruce leads his country in a spirited resistance against English rule. His military achievements include the decisive victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, which strengthens Scotland's position and secures its independence. Robert the Bruce is known for courageous leadership and unwavering determination.
Roman Civilization

The **Roman Civilization** is a civilization centered on the city of Rome in Italy. Taking the form of first a kingdom, then a republic and finally an empire, it conquered much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the Age of Empire.

The Romans were worshipers of the Olympian Pantheon before converting to Christianity.

The fall of the Roman Empire helped bring on the Dark Ages.

**Wikipedia:** Roman Empire
Queer

**Queer** characters break from the heterosexual or cisgender assumption--be they lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, pansexual....

## Characters

### Legend

Zeus

Ganymede

Apollo

Hyacinthos

Dionysus

Hercules

Achilles

Patroclus

Tiresias

### History

Sappho

Socrates

Plato

Aristophanes

Alexander the Great

Hephaestion

Catullus

Tiberius

Nero

Trajan

Hadrian

Antinous

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Caravaggio

William Shakespeare

James I

Oscar Wilde

Gertrude Stein

Alice B. Toklas

Alan Turing

James Baldwin

Truman Capote

Bayard Rustin

Liberace

Andy Warhol

Audre Lorde

David Bowie

Elton John

Freddie Mercury

Harvey Milk

Ru-Paul

Ellen Degeneres

===Fiction===

Bilitis

Orlando

Carmilla

Albus Dumbledore

Lestat de Lioncourt

Dorian Gray

Nick Carraway

Ennis del Mar

Jack Twist

Omar Little

Lisbeth Salander

Willow Rosenberg
Revolution

A **revolution** is an event that upends society in a way that fundamentally changes the established political order. It is often but is not necessarily accompanied by war.

Revolutions are generally chaotic in alignment.

## Examples

* **English Revolution** (1642 - 1651)
* **American Revolution** (1775 - 1783)
* **French Revolution** (1789 - 1799)
* **Haitian Revolution** (1791-1804)
* **Indian Rebellion** (1857)
* **Mexican Revolution** (1910-1920)
* **Russian Revolution** (1917)
* **Chinese Revolution** (1927 - 1950)
* **Cuban Revolution** (1953 - 1959)
* **Iranian Revolution** (1979)
* **Velvet Revolution** (1989)
Republican Party

The **Republican Party** is a conservative political party in the United States. Founded in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin, it dominates US politics from the Civil War until the Great Depression, and alternates in power with the Democratic Party in the post-World War II era. Prominent Republican leaders include Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

The party's symbol is the elephant.
River God

**River gods** are supernatural creatures who personify and control rivers, particularly in Greece and adjacent lands. They are giant-like creatures of generally human form, often with green, seaweed-like hair and beards. Sometimes they have the horns of a bull. They may have the ability to shapeshift.

They are generally male, and their offspring are typically female nymphs.

## Examples

Achelous

Inachus

Scamander

Nilus

Old Man River

### Other Rivers With Gods

Rhine

Tigris

Euphrates

Indus

Ganges

**Wikipedia:** Potamoi
Ruritania

**Ruritania** is a nation in Eastern Europe in between Bohemia and Polonia. Its capital is Streslau; it's notable as the location of the castle of Zenda.

The official language of Ruritania is German.

In the late 19th century, Ruritania's ruler is Rudolf V.

## Individuals

Rudolf V

Black Michael

Rupert of Hentzau

Rudolf Rassendyll

Flavia

## Outside Links

**Wikipedia:** The Prisoner of Zenda

**Awesome Worlds:** Where Is Ruritania?

**History Today:** A Traveler's Guide to Ruritania
Romulus

**Romulus**, along with his twin brother Remus, were the co-founders of Rome. The twins were abandoned at birth and raised by a wolf, making them wild children. Romulus later killed Remus in retaliation for the latter jumping over the former's wall. Romulus went on to became Rome's first king.

**Wikipedia:** Romulus
Revenant

**Revenants** are undead reanimated corpses compelled to seek revenge or complete some unfinished task. Unlike a zombie, they retain their identity, but their personality is subsumed by their one overwhelming focus. They commonly appear in Western Europe, including France, Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia.

The Man With the Golden Arm is a classic example of a revenant.

**Wikipedia:** Revenant
Saint Bernard

**Saint Bernard of Clairvaux** (1090-1153) is a powerful cleric in Gothic Era Christianity. Born in Burgundy, France, Bernard joins the Cistercian order. Noted for his theological prowess and eloquent preaching, he becomes involved in a bitter conflict with Peter Abelard, a renowned philosopher and theologian. Bernard fiercely opposes Abelard's unorthodox views and successfully campaigns for the condemnation of Abelard's teachings.

Additionally, Saint Bernard actively supports the Crusades, playing a crucial role in promoting and recruiting for these wars against Islam. He is closely associated with the Knights Templar, a military order established during the Crusades, serving as their advocate and spiritual advisor.

He is famed for his miraculous healing abilities.
Saint Petersburg

**Saint Petersburg**, also known as **Leningrad** and **Petrograd**, is a city in Russia, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great. It has a population of 5.6 million in 2020.

Saint Petersburg is the home of Anna Karenina.

During World War II it is under siege by the German army from September 8, 1941 until January 27, 1944.

## External Links

**Coordinates:** 59°56′15″N 30°18′31″E

**Wikipedia:** Saint Petersburg
Renaud de Montaubon

**Renaud de Montaubon** (called **Rinaldo** in Italy) is a French knight of the Dark Ages, one of the Twelve Peers of Charlemagne. He is one of the most formidable of the Peers. His sister is the knight Bradamante.

Renaud is associated with the fortress of Montauban in Occitanie.

Renaud rides the magical horse Bayard, which can carry four riders at once and understands human speech.
Peter Parker

*"Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man."*

**Peter Parker** is a youth from Queens, New York, who is bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes the superhero **Spider-Man**.

He lives in Queens with his Aunt May and his Uncle Ben, who dies shortly after Peter gains his powers.

His friends include Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson, his rival Flash Thompson and Harry Osborne.

His enemies include the Norman Osborne, the Green Goblin; Otto Octavius, Doctor Octopus; and Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin.

Parker works as a photographer for J. Jonah Jameson at the *Daily Bugle*.

**Marvel Database:** Peter Parker (Earth-616)
Richard the Lionheart

**Richard the Lionheart** (1157 – 1199) was king of England from 1189 until 1199. He left for the Crusades in 1190, where he battled Saladin; one of his companions in the Holy Land was Ivanhoe. Returning home in 1192, he was captured by the Duke of Austria and held prisoner until 1194. Upon his return to England, he regained his throne--which his brother Prince John, acting as regent, was reluctant to relinquish--with the aid of Ivanhoe and Robin Hood.
Philosopher

**Philosophers** are a class of experts who ponder deep questions about life, the universe and everything.

## Individuals

Confucius (551-479 BC)

Heraclitus (535-475 BC)

Zeno (490-430 BC)

Socrates (469-399 BC)

Plato (428-348 BC)

Diogenes (412-323 BC)

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Epicurus (341-270 BC)

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD)

Avicenna (c. 980-1037)

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

John Locke (1632-1704)

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)

George Berkeley (1685-1753)

Voltaire (1694-1778)

David Hume (1711-1776)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

William James (1842-1910)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)

## External Links

**The Best Schools:** 20 Major Philosophers and Their Big Ideas
Rupert Murdoch

**Rupert Murdoch** (1931- ) is a right-wing billionaire and media mogul, born March 11, 1931, in Melbourne, Australia. As the founder and chair of News Corporation (now known as 21st Century Fox), Murdoch has been a dominant force in the global media landscape. His media empire includes the Fox News, Sky News, the *Times* of London, the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Sun* and the *New York Post*. His outlets' support for conservative parties and politicians in Australia, Britain and the United States make him one of the world's most influential political figures.
Roc

The **roc** is a fantastic beast, a gargantuan bird found in the vicinity of the Indian Ocean, particularly on Madagascar, and in the seas near China. It is big enough to carry off an adult elephant.

Rocs are encountered by Sinbad and described by Marco Polo.

## Links

**Wikipedia:** Roc (mythology)

**Open Gaming Network (Pathfinder SRD):** Roc
Russia

**Russia** is a nation in Europe and Asia, the largest nation by area on Earth. Its major cities include Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

The terrain of Russia includes sweeping prairies known as the Steppes, a vast forest called the Taiga, and large areas of frozen tundra in the Arctic. The enormous, underpopulated land east of the Ural Mountains is called Siberia.

Russia's rivers include the Volga, the Don and the Dnieper.

## Individuals

### Historical

#### Rulers

Ivan the Terrible

Peter the Great

Catherine the Great

Vladimir Lenin

Joseph Stalin

Nikita Khrushchev

Leonid Brezhnev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Boris Yeltsin

Vladimir Putin

#### Other Political

Grigory Potemkin (1739-91)

Rasputin

Leon Trotsky

Anastasia Romanov

Mikhail Bakunin

Vyacheslav Molotov

#### Writers

Leo Tolstoy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anton Chekhov

Maxim Gorky

Ayn Rand

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

#### Other Artists

Andrei Rublev (1360-1430)

Sergei Eisenstein

Igor Stravinsky

Rudolph Nureyev

### Fictional

Alyosha, Dmitriy, Ivan & Fyodor Karamazov

Prince Myshkin

Raskolnikov

Anna Karenina

Vanya Voynitsky

Pierre Bezukhov

Rosa Klebb

Natasha Romanova

Natasha Rostova

Pavel Chekhov

**TV Tropes:** Glorious Mother Russia
Pollux

**Pollux**, also known as **Polydeuces**, is the twin brother of Castor, together known as the Dioscuri, or Gemini. Though they share Leda as their mother, they have two different fathers: Pollux's father is Zeus (who seduced Leda in the form of a swan), and Castor's is the Spartan king Tyndareus.

Castor and Pollux are actually quadruplets: Their sisters Helen (fathered by Zeus) and Clytemnestra (daughter of Tyndareus) are born at the same time, enclosed in two eggs.

The Dioscuri take part in the voyage of the Argonauts and the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. They have a rivalry with the twin sons of Poseidon, Idas and Lynceus.

Pollux is famed as the greatest boxer of Ancient Greece.

Pollux is born immortal, but upon the death of Castor, asks Zeus to let him share his immortality with his brother. Thereafter they spend half the year on Olympus and half in Hades.

They are memorialized by the constellation Gemini, whose two brightest stars are named Castor and Pollux.

## External Link

**Wikipedia:** Castor and Pollux

**Greek Mythology Wiki:** Polydeukes
Quasimodo

**Quasimodo** (b. 1462), known as the **Hunchback of Notre Dame**, is a bellringer at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. He was born with a crooked back and other disabilities, leading people to treat him as a monster. In 1482, he falls in love with the Gypsy dancer Esmeralda and kills his guardian, Archdeacon Claude Frollo.

**Wikipedia:** Quasimodo
Quivira

**Quivira** is a wealthy city in pre-Columbian North America, located in modern-day Kansas, populated by Wichita nation. It is one of the Seven Cities of Cibola. The conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado visits it in 1541; soon thereafter, the city is lost to history.

**Coordinates:** 37° 1′ 57.36″ N, 97° 2′ 27.96″ W

**Wikipedia:** Quivira
Rat

**Rats** are large rodents found in a wide variety of habitats, including urban environments. They can be aggressive and deliver a nasty bite.

In the Middle Ages , rats were often carriers of the black plague .

**Giant rats** are often found in underground fantasy environments.

## Links

**Wikipedia:** Rat

**Open Gaming Network (5E SRD):** Animal, Rat
Peter Pan

**Peter Pan** is a youth and a changeling who was lost in London's Kensington Gardens and became the leader of the Lost Boys in Neverland. He will never grow up.

Pan can fly (with the assistance of fairy dust), fight with a sword and play the flute. He is an excellent mimic and has the ability to sense danger.

In addition to the Lost Boys, his companions include Wendy Darling and her brothers John and Michael, the sprite Tinker Bell and the princess Tiger Lily. His archenemy is Captain Hook.

**Wikipedia:** Peter Pan
Pern

**Pern** is a planet in the Rukbat (Alpha Sagittarius) system, notable for the symbiotic bond between its human colonists and the indigenous species known as dragons--which resemble the flying, fire-breathing creatures of Earth legend. Perns' dragons, capable of telepathic communication and teleportation, are pivotal in protecting Pern's ecosytem from the deadly Thread, a life-threatening invasive spore that periodically rains down from a neighboring planet. The planet's society is structured around Weyrs, where and the dragonriders they bond with reside.
Pillbug

**Pillbugs** are tiny land-dwelling crustaceans that are often found in dark spaces, such as underneath rocks. They tend to curl into a ball when bothered.

#### **Giant**

**Giant pillbugs** are enormous versions of their smaller cousins, found deep in the underworld. They can reach the size of a large pig. They are harmless, but hard to kill because of their natural armor. They are sometimes raised as food animals by kobolds.

**Wikipedia:** Armadillidiidae