Monster

Monsters are creatures that appear in the different mythologies.

Mythology
Monsters are considered offshoots of gods or cursed beings that terrorize, fight, and often kill demigods and heroes. Monsters are "archetypes," born from the Chaos and Barbarism that always exist in the Western Civilization. This means that they are purely abstract entities and will merely reform in Tartarus and come back whenever they're physical form are destroyed. One example is when Percy kills the Minotaur on his first day realizing he is a half-blood. Four years later, he sees the Minotaur again in Kronos' army. This proves to be an ordeal for heroes, for after a monster is killed it can reappear and attack again, in any time period between weeks and hundreds of years. However, not every monster when killed goes to Tartarus. In the case of satyrs, when killed they will be reincarnated as something else in nature, like a plant of some kind, though it should be noted that satyrs are nature spirits, which might be different from monsters. Monsters often serve as minions of evil and cause trouble for Olympus. Normally, since they can't hurt the gods directly, they go after their demigod children instead. However, some monsters such as some Cerberus, Pegasus, and the Furies serve Olympus. There are other monsters like the Cyclopes, dragons, harpies, Hellhounds that work for Olympus or run wild on their own. When some monsters are killed, they leave a trophy behind (called a Spoil of War) in the form of parts of its body, it's clothing, or some kind of armament.

List of monsters
Some monsters mentioned or seen include:
 * Agrius and Oreius
 * Argus
 * Basilisk
 * Carnivorous Sheep
 * Centaur
 * Cerberus
 * Charybdis
 * Chimera
 * Clazmonian Sow
 * Colchis Bull
 * Cyclops
 * Elder
 * Northern
 * Southern
 * Dragon
 * Drakon
 * Echidna
 * Empousa
 * Ephialtes
 * Erymanthian Boar
 * Feather-Shooting Bird
 * Flesh-Eating Horses
 * The Furies
 * Alecto
 * Tisiphone
 * Megaera
 * Geryon
 * Gigantes
 * Gorgon
 * Medusa
 * Euryale
 * Stheno
 * Gryphon
 * Harpies
 * Hekatonkheires
 * Briares
 * Cottus
 * Gyges
 * Hellhound
 * Hippalektryon
 * Hippocampus
 * Hydra
 * Hyperborean Giant
 * Kampê
 * Karpoi
 * Katobleps
 * Ladon
 * Laistrygonian Giant
 * Lamia
 * Lycanthrope
 * Lycaon
 * Manticore
 * Minotaur
 * Nemean Lion
 * Ophiotaurus
 * Orthrus
 * Otis
 * Pegasi
 * Peleus
 * Pit Scorpion
 * Scylla
 * Scythian Dracanae
 * Sea Serpent
 * Siren
 * Skolopendra
 * Sphinx
 * Stymphalian Bird
 * Telekhines
 * Ventus

Gallery
Monstruos