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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6418328" data-attributes="member: 92511">Nothing about Hecate seems to indicate she would have the slightest interest in Hermes...other than him being on/at her crossroads all of the time in his travelling hither and yon. I could see a storyline where Hermes is in love with/has a severe crush on Hecate. But not one in which she would give him the time of day.Of course, it's your game, your world.Why's everyone have to be getting married to everyone else? Athena was a virgin goddess with a following of virginal priestesses. Apollo...well...we'll just mention Hyacinth and move on.Off the top of my head...what do you get by some combination of Wisdom and/or Battleskill with the Sun and/or the Arts and/or Knowledge and/or Archery and/or Medicine?I'm thinking one of them becomes a full god of Healing & Physicians said to be the wisest Olympian surpassed only by Athena herself (the Knowledge, Medicine and Wisdom being gifted from his/her parents) and one becomes the supreme Divine Archer/Hunter, able to fire arrows that circle the globe and pin a fly's wings together. Auntie Artemis tutors this one, and ultimately is not pleased to be surpassed as a patron of hunters, but it carries on the Greek mythological idea [and general truth] of the offspring becoming more powerful or advanced than the previous generation. To my thinking, and above scenario, yes you should have Persephone take over growth and renewal -the world of green growing things and thus a goddess of agriculture.No. To my thinking, Ares backstabbed Hades = Ares becomes lord of the Underworld...and frankly, the god of War being also the god of Death makes so much sense I'm surprised the greeks didn't come up with this on their own.Eileithyia: as goddess of childbirth, seems the nature choice to be expanded into the role as goddess of Women, on the whole, to replace the disgraced/fallen/turned evil/[maybe even slain?] Hera.Enyo: Enyo seems to be the same as Eris: a war/destruction goddess, daughter of Zeus & Hera, sister of Ares. Makes sense she would side with her brother and/or mother against the forces that slayed...slew?...no, slayed...her father. If you want them to be separate entities, no reason Ares could have 2 two full sisters, right? They can basically be the same. Destruction causing warrior-women, lackies of Ares and/or mama Hera. Hestia: dead.Hebe: as above, widowed and being elevated to Hestia's role as goddess of the Hearth, tending over the Olympian fires, covered in her mourning veils.Eris: See Enyo, above.Maia: as head of the Pleiades, companions of Artemis and a daughter of Atlas, you could say Artemis is slain in the war and Maia is of a power and position to be assigned as the new Huntress/Moon goddess.Leto: dead. at Hera's hand, as you mention, seems to make the most sense.Dionysos:  as per my post, whether by Artemis being slain or taking on some higher role as a goddess of Nature as a whole, he's already connected to: vegetation (vinyards and wine production), animals (leopards and dolphins), passionate "pursuits" (sex, I'm talking about sex. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> and thus a fertility figure) and the wild celebrations of the Bacchae. The wild party god seems the natural choice to take on a higher role as a God of Wild Animals and [Untamed] Nature.</blockquote>

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