| Rumours (tag: Harmonia) |
[30 Oct 2008|02:09am] |
One problem that a lot immortals encountered was that it got difficult to find ways to spend an afternoon that were entertaining. After all, how many books can your read or plays can you see before they all start looks the same? But the one thing the gods could count on to be amusing was gossip. Be it from their own pantheon or, better yet, another, hearing dirt about another deity was entertaining.
Nemesis wasn’t overly fond of gossip, she was always afraid someone was talking about her. But she would admit to both listening to it and adding her own stories to the rumor mills. Somehow over the years, it had become customary for her when she traveled to Asgard to exchange stories with some of the Norse women. Usually, it was just a small bit of gossip shared over a mug of mead. So when she went to Asgard to ask Tyr for his opinion on a matter of justice, she was expecting to hear the most recent rumors.
( She had not, however, expected to hear about one of her fellow Greeks. )
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| Blood for Water (tag: Enyo) |
[30 Oct 2008|04:09am] |
Despite what mortals think, war was run by a select few. And not by their petty dictators, kings or presidents, but the gods and goddesses from the different lands. There were also not as many true war gods as people liked to think. Plenty of minor minions tried to claim the title, but they were not worthy of it. And the mortals actually took less manipulation to start a war then, say to fall in love. The fewer the war gods, the fewer people to share the glory and the bloodshed.
That was one reason Sekhmet liked being Egypt’s goddess of war. It was an easy area to keep track of her counterparts from the other pantheons. Easier to judge who was a worthy opponent and who should be avoided at all costs. She had actually met very few of the other, and even fewer of those were encountered on the battlefield. That was probably lucky, not only for the gods, but also for the mortals fighting around them. When gods fought, the body counts seemed to rise.
( There was one other war god Sekhmet had always wanted to meet. )
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