Hey folks, sorry for the long absence, it has been one hell of a bad summer. Anyway, I’ve been doing some thinking and reading and decided that my next project will be to work on the Greco-Roman mythos! I got a copy of Hesoid’s Theogony and Works & Days (from Penguin Classics) as well as some other scholarly books (especially Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide by Jennifer Larson, which is really good).
I will be dividing the mythos into three pantheons: The Titans, the Olympians, and the Imperial Pantheon; this latter one will be specifically unique Roman deities who would complement the Roman-aliased versions of the Olympians and include a “divine emperor” deity who basically has innumerable names and represents all the different deified emperors across the many crystal spheres.
However, I will be starting with the Titans, since almost none of them were actually worshiped in any sort of cult by the Greeks, other than Ge/Gaea and a number of the Titanesses. The Titans will consist primarily of the 12 Titans (Kronos and his siblings), Ouranos/Uranus, Ge/Gaia (Ge being the standard name for the earth-goddess, and Gaea being the more “literary” name), the children of Iapetos (Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and the dead Menoitios), and the Olympian Arke who sided with them in the Titanomachy. There are some other primordial beings who I might add in as well, but I haven’t decided yet. There are many other children of the Titans, but most of them serve as genealogical links to other important figures, so I would treat them as unique immortal but non-divine figures (Lesser Titans as described by the 2e material would work well for many of them). Other figures like Helios and Selene I would incorporate into the Olympian pantheon. I also plan to incorporate the generational strife with the existing history of Arborea by having the Greek Gigantes be the offspring of Annam and Ge (with some perhaps being rumored to be the offspring of Karontor or Grolantor) rather than springing from the blood of Ouranos, and having all the giants join in with the Gigantomachy in hopes of regaining their land from the elves.
Currently, the Titans I plan to include in the project, with their preliminary portfolios, are:
—Ouranos: The sky, the heavens, the dome of heaven (Crystal Spheres)
—Ge: Earth, bringing forth of life
—Kronos: Harvest, grains, sinister ambition
—Rhea: Fertility, life, motherhood
—Oceanus: Oceans, world or encircling oceans
—Tethys: Fresh water, clouds, rain
—Hyperion: Light, cycles of day and night
—Theia: Sight, vision, shining brilliance
—Koios: Thought, philosophy, research, wizard magic
—Phoibe: Intellect, prophecy
—Kreios: Constellations, the measure of years
—Iapetos: Mortality, the measure of lives, violent death
—Mnemosyne: Memory, memorization, language
—Themis: Divine law, order, assemblies
—Atlas: Strength, astronomy
—Epimetheus: Afterthought, foolishness
—Prometheus: Forethought, creation of mankind, slyness
—Menoitios (Dead, slain by Zeus during the Titanomachy): Hubris, insolence
—Arke (messenger): Swiftness, messages
I haven’t decided on alignments for them all yet, but I don’t want the whole of the Titans to be evil, as I feel the Titanomachy works better as something other than a war of good vs. evil. I will try to stick as closely to the existing 2e material as I can, but some points need to be diverged from, namely, not all of the Titans are imprisoned in Carceri/Tarterus. Vortex of Madness has Mnemosyne and Themis there, but both were early wives of Zeus and mothers of important Olympians. Just as only five of the male Titans attacked Ouranos (Okeanos stayed neutral), most of the Titanesses also didn’t participate in the Titanomachy. They shouldn’t be imprisoned there, although perhaps the Titans who are bound there managed to “manifest” versions of those who are not held there. Anyway, that’s where I’m at right now with the Greco-Roman Mythos.