If You Were a Deity, What Would Be Your Domain?
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You are the divine patron of battle, conflict, and the weapons forged to fight them. You are quick to temper and obstinate in disposition, and you also govern heroic attributes such as strength, courage, and honor. Due to your domain’s ability to bring widespread death and suffering, much of the mortal realm often looks upon you with fear and disdain. However, you also give life to transformative and regenerative forces such as revolution and rebellion, and your innovative forge has birthed vital technologies of science, beauty and prosperity alongside its spears and armor. Mortals look to you for bravery and prowess in battle as well as skilled craftsmanship, and your mythological equivalents are Greece’s Ares and Hephaestus, Scandinavia’s Odin, Egypt’s Sobek, and Mesoamerica’s Huītzilōpōchtli.
Unlike other deities who govern the mutable aspects of the mortal realm, you are a divine permanence, the personification of death and the inevitable finality for all life. You are the blackened gate through which all things must pass, as well as the caretaker of souls in their eternal resting place. However, far from being a harbinger of chaos, you may feel a strong sense of duty and devotion to your uniquely reverent role in the cosmos. Much like deities of Wisdom, mortals understand you least of all divine beings, yet they give offerings to you to both safeguard their ancestors and to be merciful to them during their infinite rest. Your mythological equivalents are Greece’s Hades, Egypt’s Osiris, Scandinavia’s Hel, and India's Yama.
You are the divine guardian of truths both knowable and unknowable, of all words and languages spoken and unspoken. Much like Death itself, you are perhaps one of the least understood of all deities, and yet the secrets you hold are highly sought after by scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. The origin of all innovation, your realm is the source of crucial advances in architecture, agriculture, political governance, and military strategy which have allowed many civilizations to become a dominant force in the mortal realm. Your domain may also include the forces of magic and mysticism, and many cautionary tales exist among mortals of those who have unwittingly destroyed themselves or lost their minds in the reckless pursuit of mysteries and technology far beyond their comprehension. Your mythological equivalents are Greece’s Athena, Egypt’s Thoth, Mesopotamia’s Enki, and India’s Ganesha.
You are the divine spirit of love, beauty and artistic expression, as well as the intoxication and revelry which often accompany both. Due to your association with pleasures of the flesh, you of all deities are perhaps the most closely enmeshed with the affairs of mortals, and you may even have a bit of mortal blood yourself. Your realm also encompasses the many elements which arouse intoxication, ecstasy, and spiritual transcendence for both mortals and divines—be they substances, music, or other sensory phenomena. Although you are certainly the life of the party, you also embody the spirit of healing, relaxation, and respite from the toils of the harsh mortal realm. Your mythological equivalents are Greece’s Apollo and Dionysus, Scandinavia’s Bragi, Mesoamerica’s Xōchipilli, and Mesopotamia’s Ishtar.
