legendary quests

Fabled heroic missions

Legendary quests are epic undertakings of mythic proportion—the kind heroes pursue in stories and games.

The phrase combines the grandeur of legend with the purposeful journey of a quest: The search for the Holy Grail is the ultimate legendary quest.

In gaming, legendary quests typically offer the most challenging objectives and valuable rewards.

The term extends to any ambitious, story-worthy pursuit: His decade-long search for his birth parents became a legendary quest among his friends.

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moral dilemmas · trickster figure · mythical creatures · dark lord · forbidden knowledge · odyssey · self-discovery · divine intervention · perilous journeys · ancient map · eternal wisdom · epic · sacred artifacts · journey's end · loyal companion · adventure · trials and tribulations · dragon

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significance/grandeur

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Routine domestic maintenance tasks

busywork · grocery runs · paperwork · drudgery · administrative tasks

purposefulness/meaning

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Hopeless, pointless pursuits

meandering · make-work · time-wasting · wheel-spinning

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