#ynpharia

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More game scribbles! Some npcs + god design explorations.

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My last game fell through, so I'm revamping Illytheros with a fresh coat of paint, some new NPCs, and this updated god/goddess list!

ANTHERIOS TRICKSTER GOD OF MEN AND MORTALS. The first and only mortal to ascend to godhood. Shapeshifter and interloper; disliked by the other "trueborn" gods. Stole the spark of divinity from the other gods and dispersed it among the people of the world.

YNPHARIA GODDESS OF JUSTICE AND LAW. Was once a minor goddess of hearth and home before she was slain by her traitorous human lover and reborn in the ashes of her burned-down home.

KATO GOD OF CONQUEST AND WAR. Honorable, but hot-blooded and proud. Known to stir the spirits of even the least of creatures. Twin brother to Agapea.

GAIANOS GOD OF THE SEA. Many-scaled and shining, capricious yet life-giving. Has thousands of children, some even unknown to mortal men.

KYNITHAEA GODDESS OF THE HUNT AND HARVEST. Fair and nurturing, but skilled with a bow. Often seen in art challenging Kato to friendly games.

PYRISMA, PASALLA, FALASSI GODDESS/ES OF THE ARTS. Fickle and fleeting, but beautiful before all other goddesses. Pyrisma is the aspect of visual art, Pasalla is the aspect of music, and Falassi is the aspect of the written word.

CTHERION GOD OF THE END AND DEATH. He who presides over the end of all things. Grim and dutiful and feared by all. Husband of Arkeia.

ARKEIA GODDESS OF THE BEGINNING AND LIFE. Loving mistress who grants a beginning to all things. Gentle and kind and adored by all. Wife of Ctherion.

AGAPEA GODDESS OF LOVE AND SEX. With beauty to rival that of the goddesses of the arts. Patron of love, sex, and marriage. Sister to Kato.

MITHRAKNIS GODDESS OF MONSTERS. Self-impregnating monster goddess of unknown origin who lies secreted away in the depths of the world, ever-birthing monstrous creatures.

THONOS GOD OF POISONS AND MEDICINE. Dual-faced god of healing and harm. Popular among doctors and assassins alike.

STRATONITES GOD OF THE SUN AND SKY. King of the gods and god of the sun and the sky. The allfather, as expansive as the sky is vast. Husband of Selenoa.

APHOSEMIA GOD/DESS OF FATE AND CHAOS. Multigendered god/dess. Decider of who will be controlled by the strings of fate and who will find the course of their lives simply up to chance.

SELENOA GODDESS OF MAGIC AND THE MOON. Queen of the gods and wife to Stratonites. Caster of spells and she who makes the moon rise.

NEMOS GOD OF FAIR WINDS AND TRAVEL. Fickle and ever-changeable as the winds. He who guards sailors and travelers.

DEMYS GODDESS OF CUNNING AND SECRETS. The goddess who favors those who use their minds to achieve their ends, and who keeps the secrets of those who confide in her.

MELOSIAS GOD OF WINE, CELEBRATION, AND GRIEF. He who makes the libations flow, who mourns and celebrates in equal measure.

NYCTHIA GODDESS OF DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES. Deliverer of dreams both sweet and hellish. Knows what lurks in every living being’s subconscious mind.

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Why did her husband lead the brigands to their house?

Was he just being an idiot, or did he expect to gain something/want to take something away for some reason?

That's the thing... I've only shared the official version of the myth >:3

In reality, Ariella/Ynpharia's husband never actually betrayed her. The brigands came of their own accord, and Ynpharia, vulnerable and grieving and emotional, was led astray by her mother Selenoa, who believed that Ynpharia's husband (who she'd never liked and always saw as unworthy) was the culprit and convinced her daughter of the same. To this day, everyone still blames him.

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@blackivyart

Yep! Here's one:

THE BIRTH OF YNPHARIA

Ynpharia, mistress of justice and law, was not always the goddess we know her to be. Once she was a young, fair thing, a goddess of the hearth named Ariella. She took a mortal man for a husband–no mere lover–and became pregnant by him, and the two lived in peace and joy. In the final month of her pregnancy, however, her husband betrayed her, leading brigands to their joint home, who savaged her and slew her and her baby, not only committing deicide, but violating the laws of hospitality.

She did not, however, stay dead. A new goddess rose, reborn from the ashes of the old, harsh and imperious where before she had been sweet and gentle: Ynpharia, goddess of justice and law. She gave birth to her daughter Helike, goddess of rebirth, shortly after, and now rules as a commanding queen over morality, ethics, and retribution for the violation of those ideals.