A lover of history and specultative fiction

Aka, a new figure that has no lore other than being from an island that isn't mentioned anywhere else and is queen of Libya

I say this loudly please provide criticism and helpful sources especially with tattoos

I made her Amazigh while also looking into Berber history as a whole and places like Morocco (tho I probably should've done Algeria because it's closer to where I want to put the island she's from-). Most, if not all, of this is subject to change.

As we speak, I'm already relooking into designing her clothes to either simplify or detail certain parts (ignore my many attempts of tattoos i'm still trying to figure it out)

Uh- anyway- she is the wife of the Ichthyocentaur Aphros, king of Libya. The same one to find Aphrodite when first born in sea foam. Astynome is said to be from the island Laceria (mentioned no where else in sources as far as I can tell) and Aphros wife.

She's also Aphrodite's birth mother in that source, but just like Dione, she just takes her in.

One day ppl will understand that Greek heroes weren’t supervillains but complex human beings who are representations of the best and worst of humanity and that they aren’t remembered bc they were ‘heroic’ in a modern sense and that the Ancient Greeks rarely actually whitewashed their heroes actions but instead used them to tell fables and tragedies.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.