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* In Creator/SusanDexter's ''The True Knight'', Wren and her master are forcibly recruited to help retrieve the prince in swan form. After they escape the attack and realize that the queen will have Galvin killed for failure, Wren and Titch go to retrieve him.

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* In Creator/SusanDexter's ''The True Knight'', ''Literature/TheTrueKnight'', Wren and her master are forcibly recruited to help retrieve the prince in swan form. After they escape the attack and realize that the queen will have Galvin killed for failure, Wren and Titch go to retrieve him.
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* ''Film/RiddleOfFire'' injects MaybeMagicMaybeMundane fantasy themes into an otherwise conventional events. Our three heroes are kids who embark on a quest to fetch a speckled egg to complete the ingredients to a blueberry pie to bake for their mother so she'll give them the password to their television so they can play video games. Along the way, the run afoul of a witch and her Enchanted Blade Gang.
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* The main quest in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' revolves around the Avatar named Aang and his mission to master all four elements and defeat the Fire Nation, which has been waging a war of conquest against the other nations for a century. Aang's role as the Avatar is to maintain balance in the world by bringing peace and harmony among the nations. Aang and his friends - the waterbender Katara, her brother Sokka, blind earthbender Toph Beifong, and later on, firebending prince Zuko - travel across the world seeking out masters to teach Aang the different bending powers. Ultimately, Aang must confront Fire Lord Ozai, the leader of the Fire Nation and the Big Bad of the series, in a battle to save the world. With the support of his friends and the knowledge he has gained, Aang faces his fears and fulfills his destiny as the Avatar, bringing an end to the war and restoring balance to the world.
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* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': The protagonists go in search of [[MacGuffin the Spectrum Key]], an object split into six pieces which can reopen the [[HellGate Dark Gate]] and save the world before it's too late if reassembled.
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* ''Literature/EmpireOfTheVampire'': A large part of Gabriel' retelling revolves around his part in a quest seeking the Holy Grail, the ancient artifact thought to be mankind's last hope at defeating the Dead for good.

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* Innumerable fairy tales. In his analysis of Russian fairy tales, Vladimir Propp described the basic functions as revolving about a quest. Some of these include:
** "Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon": a quest for a lost husband.
** [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/stories/lang.html "The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples"]]: a quest for a lost wife.
** "Literature/KateCrackernuts": a quest for her fortune, and her stepsister's (although getting away from her mother, who was a WickedStepmother to her beloved stepsister was a major factor).
** "Literature/{{Catskin}}": an escape from an ArrangedMarriage.
** [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/greekprincess.html "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener"]]: a quest for a magical bird.
** ''Literature/TheFeatherOfFinistTheFalcon'': to find and cure her love.
** ''Literature/TheBuriedMoon'': to find the moon of the title.
** "Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges": To find a bride, in most variants, often the one he's cursed to have to find.
** "Literature/SoriaMoriaCastle", the search for the lost wife.
** "Literature/TheFireBirdTheHorseOfPowerAndThePrincessVasilissa": to get the princess, and then her wedding gown.
** "Literature/TsarevichPetrAndTheWizard": To find the MissingMom.
** "Literature/TheBrownBearOfTheGreenGlen": To find a cure for the king.
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[[folder:Folklore]]
* Innumerable fairy tales. In his analysis of Russian fairy tales, Vladimir Propp described the basic functions as revolving about a quest. Some of these include:
** "Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon": a quest for a lost husband.
** [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/stories/lang.html "The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples"]]: a quest for a lost wife.
** "Literature/KateCrackernuts": a quest for her fortune, and her stepsister's (although getting away from her mother, who was a WickedStepmother to her beloved stepsister was a major factor).
** "Literature/{{Catskin}}": an escape from an ArrangedMarriage.
** [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/greekprincess.html "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener"]]: a quest for a magical bird.
** ''Literature/TheFeatherOfFinistTheFalcon'': to find and cure her love.
** ''Literature/TheBuriedMoon'': to find the moon of the title.
** "Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges": To find a bride, in most variants, often the one he's cursed to have to find.
** "Literature/SoriaMoriaCastle", the search for the lost wife.
** "Literature/TheFireBirdTheHorseOfPowerAndThePrincessVasilissa": to get the princess, and then her wedding gown.
** "Literature/TsarevichPetrAndTheWizard": To find the MissingMom.
** "Literature/TheBrownBearOfTheGreenGlen": To find a cure for the king.
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* ''Anime/ChildOfKamiariMonth'': Kanna is tasked with gathering offerings of food from the ''kami'' at Shinto shrines and ''bodhisattva'' at Buddhist temples across Japan, and taking them to a feast of the gods at Izumo-taisha Shrine. Failure to do so will result in Japan suffering a year of calamity and misfortune.
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* ''Literature/DaughterOfTheSun'': Orsina has been on one for two years, searching for a great evil in Vesolda that she must fight. However, she's had no luck at the start of the story. Then she comes across a chaos goddess, and it seems she's finally found the great evil... but things are more complicated than they first seem.

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* ''Literature/DaughterOfTheSun'': Orsina has been on one for two years, searching for a great evil in Vesolda that she must fight. However, she's had no luck at the start of the story. Then she comes across a chaos goddess, and it seems she's finally found the great evil... but things are more complicated than they first seem. [[spoiler:It turns out her quest is not from Orsina's god Iolar. Instead, she was sent away with this excuse by her lover's father, who lied about having a vision Iolar sent which ordered it.]]

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