The Monstrous Broods
16 figures A family: figures with traits in common
Echidna's children and Tiamat's spawn are two answers to the same narrative need, a genealogy for monsters, so that heroes fight not incidents but a family with a mother and a grievance and a line of succession. Kinship holds this group twice over, once in the authored descents of the myths themselves and once in the shared vigilance of many heads and unsleeping eyes. The broods persist; the heroes rotate.
the monster genealogies — Echidna's children and Tiamat's spawn — plus eternal vigilant watchers; bound hard by authored kinship
What binds them
- Multi headed body · 32 of them
- Senses moral intent of intruders · 1 of them
- Devouring · 1 of them
- Fire breathing · 1 of them
Drawn from 7 groups of traditions: European 9 · African 2 · Middle eastern 1 · None 1 · Slavic 1 · South asian 1 · Oceanian 1
Members
- Amphisbaena
- Ash-hrau
- Baba Yaga ≈
- Cerberus
- Chimera
- Echidna
- Geryon
- Hydra
- Kaliya
- Ladon
- Nemean Lion
- Scylla
- Sphinx
- Tiamat
- Typhon
- Walutahanga
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.