#tiamet

Thank you!

Honestly hard to say, I’ve been goofing around with them for a little while to see what faces I can get her to make. Current favorite is this fucking GRIN though ghjkjhgvghj

Hello!

Thank you for the question. We’re thrilled to answer a question about our faves! If you want to know more about any of them please just send in another ask.

I am inordinately fond of the god Enki, he’s a cheeky bugger who spends the whole of Atraharsis obeying his boss, Enlil, to the letter but very much not to the spirit. My favourite part of that myth is when he is forbidden to tell any humans of the coming flood, so he tells the house that Atraharsis just happens to be inside. I also have a soft spot for therianthropes, I don’t really know why, I just do. And, as you could probably guess from the post I wrote a little while ago, I have a fondness for elder gods who are apathetic about humanity. I also feel sorry for the children of Loki, they never did anything to deserve what Odin did to them, and the whole eaten-by-Fenrir thing kind of became a self fulfilling prophecy. You trap someone under a mountain with a sword in their mouth for eons, you really shouldn’t be surprised that they’re pissed when they escape.

Silim,

Utuabzu

Athena has always been my favourite for obvious reasons (daddy’s girl, impenetrable fortress of feminist solitude, mad textile skills) but Dionysus is a close second for favourites. His mystery cult was, in my opinion, one of the most interesting, not least of which because we know very little about it. Add that to the fact that by all accounts, he was a foreign import to the notoriously xenophobic Greeks, and he’s got enough outlier appeal for me.

Bonne chance,

Renée

It’s so hard for me to choose but I really love Japanese yokai. Somehow they manage to be both ludicrous and terrifying at the same time. My absolute favorites are the Kasa-obake (one eyed hopping umbrella yokai with a huge long tongue) and the Shirime (looks like a human crawling around on all fours and has no face but its eye is in its anus).

~Tora

Ask me literally anything about the Hero Twins or the Aztec sun gods and I will be so happy. I love those stories so much and they are so interesting to me. The Hero Twins partially because of how many sets of twins are present and the amount of wild adventures they go on. The Aztec sun gods because…well that story is just amusing like no one’s business in my opinion.

Best wishes,

Ajk’in

I love all types of water sprites and over water creatures, with Slavic rusalka (mermaid) and Japanese kappas in the lead. The mythos and traditions around rusalka are beautiful and kinda horrifying, and also demonstrate to some extent how folklore and literary tradition exchanged ideas throughout the ages. Kappas are just plain weird, and so far as I remember the only way to defeat them is be courteous to them - since they’re courteous themselves, once you bow to them, they bow back, spilling the water out of their heads and dying, which is… kinda wild, but also very neat. Defeat your enemies with courtesy. I’d print this on a T-shirt.

I’m also fond of Tiamat, but mostly for personal reasons like the context where I got familiar with her story, and how it’s employed in Biblical narrative of creation.

- Blue

Pegasus. When I first learned about pegasus, it was from monster manuals and magic cards, which make it seem like there are herds of them stampeding across the skies. The image of a winged horse always awed me. When I learned more about greek mythology, and found out that pegasus wasn’t a race of creatures, but one specific creature, which was born when Perseus cut the head off Medusa, that only made me love the creature more.

Xiander

Bastet. She’s always captured my imagination, and the evolution of her myth reflects interesting aspects about the evolution of religion and cultural trends in ancient Egypt.

Cheers,

Tex

I’m kinda a fan of Cerberus from Greek mythology because of two reasons:

 DOG

his name sounds serious but when you look into it you realize that Hades named his frigging three-headed dog Spot

There was a suggestion when I brought up the idea of a Tiamet inspired Foil to the draconic child character, a balance as it was.That suggestion was that they might be a twin of the character, I thought it might be neat if he had been raised in a temple to Bahamut and his twin be kidnapped by a cult of Clergy.

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