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Still working on ideas for Flight of Time.

The game's premise will be that Time (Chronos) is made to incarnate in a lesser form as "Kairos", and is sent on a mission to find Erikepaios.

The images here are:

-Kairos and Erikepaios.

-Kairos by himself.

Twisted Black Lines

Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957)

Only-Begotten, noble race of Jove, blessed and fierce, who joy'st in caves to rove: O, warlike Pallas, whose illustrious kind, ineffable and effable we find: Magnanimous and fam'd, the rocky height, and groves, and shady mountains thee delight: In arms rejoicing, who with Furies dire and wild, the souls of mortals dost inspire. Gymnastic virgin of terrific mind, dire Gorgons bane, unmarried, blessed, kind: Mother of arts, imperious; understood, rage to the wicked., wisdom to the good: Female and male, the arts of war are thine, fanatic, much-form'd dragoness [Drakaina], divine: O'er the Phlegrean giants rous'd to ire, thy coursers driving, with destruction dire. Sprung from the head of Jove [Tritogeneia], of splendid mien, purger of evils, all-victorious queen. Hear me, O Goddess, when to thee I pray, with supplicating voice both night and day, And in my latest hour, peace and health, propitious times, and necessary wealth, And, ever present, be thy vot'ries aid, O, much implor'd, art's parent, blue eyed maid.

Mother of arts, imperious; understood, rage to the wicked., wisdom to the good: Female and male, the arts of war are thine, fanatic, much-form'd dragoness [Drakaina], divine: O'er the Phlegrean giants rous'd to ire, thy coursers driving, with destruction dire.

This is the part that sticks out the most for me.

As shown with "rage to the wicked., wisdom to the good," Athena is perceived by those who see her. To the unjust, she's a terror whose strategic mind is turned against them; and to the just, she's guidance, intelligence, progress.

The line where she's called "Drakaina" conceives how dangerous she is, and that wisdom isn't soft nor harmless. She's a primal force, and it can connect to the Gorgon that's shown on her shield, Aegis.

And referencing the Phlegraean Fields, the battlefields of the Gigantomachy shows that even more.

But of course, she's a "Mother of arts." She's both a goddess of war and a goddess of the arts, both sides taking equal importance to her.