ironically typing this up while watching Prince of Egypt, and resisting the urge to tear my hair out in frustration at historical inaccuracies
that aside, this lady here--whom I have badly butchered with my terrible anatomy--is Sekh, god of war (there are no goddesses, since gods are genderless) from my big story project, In Circuli. I spent a lot of time brooding over her design; I wanted to make it blatantly obvious she choose the physical guise of a female but still give her FEMINIST STRENGTH even though she's actually genderless. Visually, spirit-animal-wise, I based her off of a lion/fox mix to (cheesily) represent ~*strength*~ and ~*cunning*~ in war.
Sekh is a Great God, meaning that other warlike deities from other cultures must pay tribute to her. She oversees all wars, both mortal and spirit, regardless of the Empire of the Sun being involved or not.
She (obviously playing an important role in the story, otherwise she'd just be a minor character) is also unique among the great gods because she is the only one who feels emotion, though she hides it. Though she's happy most of the time, Sekh thinks of her role to be a heavy burden, especially when there is a major conflict breaking out--she despises her position as being an administrator of a relation directly related to apocalypse and death. Unlike other war deities, Sekh chooses to have her physical form be female, as mentioned above. Usually, only gods related to creation are portrayed as females, however she often refers to soldiers in war as being her 'sons and daughters' and thus appears as a feminine mother figure.
Her administrative functions over war are also slightly more interesting than the other's--Sekh oversees all battles, and though does not participate, observes and records the proceedings and outcomes (pretty nasty stuff even for a supposedly-emotionless god). In the case of invasion attempts over the mortal Empire of the Sun, Sekh is the only divine being allowed to intervene in World affairs--she defends and even leads troops into battle, usually through temporary ~*mind control*~ of essential individuals.
Also unlike other war deities, Sekh favors cunning and tactical planning in war over strength in numbers and superior weaponry/armor, and resultly, is renowned, respected, and feared across the divine world for not ever losing a single battle. Despite this, she still greatly wishes to be a god of something less 'destructive' like her sister Bast (though the only thing related about them is their appearance).
On a less serious note, she also enjoys drinking and shares a close actual brother-sister relationship with Anu who, despite being stuffy most of the time, does admit to disguising himself as a mortal with Sekh to go out for a night of questionable substances--her drinking 'problem' being an allusion to the Egyptian myth of a (fantastically-failed) apocalypse attempted by Sekhmet.
I shouldn't be allowed to make World Building Wednesday things past 1 AM.
