Pallas Athena
âWisdom must be tempered by experience, knowledge by understanding and your defence strengthened by common sense. â
âWisdom must be tempered by experience, knowledge by understanding and your defence strengthened by common sense. â
Role: I am Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, Noble Warfare, Divine intelligence, Architecture, Prudence and Skilled Craftwork.
God/Titan Symbol: A owl standing on a oval shield set against a blue background.
Appearance:
Athena is an attractive and athletically built woman, 6â1â with marble smooth skin, best described as a tall statuesque figure with fetching grey eyes however her eyes have been known to change colour between grey or dark green, sometimes even appearing as a pale blue depending on her mood. She also has long black-brown hair which cascades down, almost floating around her shoulders. She tends to wear light blue jeans with dress shirts when working in her shop.
Persona: Athena sometimes comes across as bookish when on her own or left to her own devices. She is possessed of a towering intellect, and while she may secretly believe herself beyond several of her kin she takes great pains not to let this show for the most part. She rarely gets close to other immortals, having preferred to meddle in the affairs of humans to set the pawns of her kin against one another, simply for her own amusement. While she appears cold it is more due to her having a tight grip on any emotion, as sheâs viewed them as weak over the years. Though sometimes she lets it slip and her stone mask crumbles, allowing her current moods to shine through. Because of this she has always let her reason rule her, and as such she is rarely sentimental or caring to those around her; however she does have some who are the exceptions to this such as Odysseus for example. As a patron of learning she was the first to teach mortals many of the arts of civilization and invented many of their craft, and becomes greatly annoyed when people disrespect or disregard any of her inventions. As New York has become her new home she has become as protective of it as she was of her patron city of Athens.
She has the following traits:
Wise â As the goddess of wisdom, Athena has collected knowledge and insight from every culture and belief since her birth.
Artistic â As the patron goddess of the crafts she has a great eye for detail and aesthetics, taking a great love in the act of creative works. She has always had an interest in the design of building plans, normally looking for weaknesses in their layout.
Tactical â She always plans steps ahead of whatever situation she is currently viewing, experiencing or has heard about. Believing that it is better to be prepared for all eventualities in order to survive them, and is almost without equal.
Calculating â Always able to evaluate and examine the world around her, she greatly enjoys finding how things work and what makes them tick.
Job:Has spent several years working in education, having attained various accolades from universities across the globe she has become respected and valued in her profession. However now she runs a second-hand bookstore âAthena Parthenosâ in-between teaching at a local craft and history academy, which was setup by and mostly ran by a charity âGarden of Edenâ and donations. She is also one of the major patrons of said charity and has supported their efforts to promote knowledge and arts.
Powers:As a Goddess Athena is an immensely powerful being, possessed of great strength and agility but primarily of immense mental capacity. Like her brethren She is able to change her appearance at will, allowing her to age or assume a completely different persona, and possessed of regenerative abilities that heal wounds rapidly should she be wounded.
She is able to alter the appearance of others into animals or objects, for example her punishment of the priestess Medusa. Also able to render herself invisible to all but other deities, and create illusions to fool simple minds.
She has mastered knowledge of all kinds including various non-technological sciences, including medical science and psychology.
As the goddess of battle she is quite adept at both armed and unarmed combat, though she still prefers the more antiquated forms of warfare than the more modern ones, and believes herself more adept than her half-brother Ares. Due to this she still keeps her spear and shield mounted on the wall of her home and her helmet stands on a plinth over the mantle, which she lightly caresses each night as a reminder of past glories; as well as having several trophies from defeat of Spartan forces in the past.
What do you hope to achieve by the end of this war?: She wishes to see progress made towards a scientific utopia, where there can truly be a golden age of enlightenment.
Theme Song: Journey of the Sorcerer
Relations: Always having been look at as being dangerous by her fellow gods, especially Zeus due to her birth at the hands of Hephaestus and Prometheus having split open her Fatherâs skull. She is normally kept at armâs length by the majority of the family but she makes certain to stay away from her lame older brother, a burning hatred will always be directed towards Hephaestus. Was once very close to Artemis and Persephone when they were young, having grown up with them both following the death of Pallas, but following the latter's kidnapping at the hands of Hades and her vow of chastity broken the three of them grew apart but despite this she still has a great deal of respect for Artemis, though feels that she can be too rash at times.
Shares very little common ground between many of the other gods and rarely sees them in any case; she finds Ares tiresome and an insult to the art of war, Hades she is distrustful of for his blatant disregard for others wishes, She is wary of Hera due to her displeasure of Athena's very existence, she tends to find very little to talk about with Apollo or Hermes as they favour Artemis and the divide between them makes it uneasy. While she is perceived as the favourite child of Zeus she does not enjoy such a position, since she is amicable with her father at the best of times. Even Poseidon was somewhat distant, though closer than most, as he had eventually forgiven the contest over Athens they had become closer. Besides her childhood friend Pallas, the only other people she was ever close too were the mortal heroes that she guided through history, and of course the great Heracles first and foremost.
Anything Else?: She carries a small Omphalos stone around her neck, shaped into a icosahedron the colour of amethyst wrapped in a silver spiral; which she fiddles with when she is thinking. Greatly enjoys weaving, reading and pottery, resulting in the décor of her home, office and classrooms being filled with elegant tapestries and delicate vases.