Post by Serpentsia on Aug 6, 2009 2:23:58 GMT -5
First Name: Serpentsia
Last Name: None
Alias or Nick-name: None
Age: Eternal
Height/Weight: 5'7", 175 lbs
Eyes: Green & Gold. When green, it is safe to look her in the eyes. However, when they shine golden, beware, for if you meet her gaze, you'll turn to stone.
Hair: Deep brown, or venomous snakes
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: Gorgon, Shapeshifter. Her forms are limited to either humanesque, full on Gorgon (hehehe, I rhymed), or the form of any snake/serpent.
Powers/Weapons: Gorgons are sometimes depicted as having wings of gold, brazen claws, and the tusks of boars. According to the myths, seeing the face of a Gorgon turned the viewer to stone. They also possess sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. In Greek mythology, blood taken from the right side of a Gorgon could bring the dead back to life, yet blood taken from the left side was an instantly fatal poison.
If you happen to look into her eyes as they glow golden, you'll be turned to stone.
Serpentsia is able to communicate with all reptiles, favoring the snake, of course. She can not only befriend and command them, but she can heal them as well.
She is able to shapeshift, going from woman to gorgon, as well as to any snake in reality or myth, including the basilisk. She also has the use of many ancient magicks.
History: In Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a vicious female monster with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. Gorgons are sometimes depicted as having wings of gold, brazen claws, and the tusks of boars. According to the myths, seeing the face of a Gorgon turned the viewer to stone. The concept of the gorgon is at least as old in mythology as Perseus and Zeus. The name is Greek, being from gorgos, "terrible."
The large eyes, as well as Athena's flashing eyes, are a symbol termed "the divine eyes", appearing also in Athena's bird, the owl. They can be represented by spirals, wheels, concentric circles, and other ways. The fangs of the gorgoneion are snakes' fangs. Snakes are a symbol of appeasement and increase. Sometimes Gorgons are endowed with birds' feet or bee wings, more symbols of regeneration. The lolling tongue is a symbol of death.
The three gorgon sisters — Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale — were children of Phorcys and Ceto, or sometimes, Typhon and Echidna, in each case chthonic monsters from an archaic world. Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graiae, as in Aeschylus' Prometheus Unbound, who places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain":
"Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged
With snakes for hair— hated of mortal man—"
In all the versions, while Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded in her sleep by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus. With help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sword, and a mirrored shield, he accomplished his quest. The hero slew Medusa by looking at her reflection in the mirror instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone. When the hero severed Medusa's head, from her neck two offspring sprang forth: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor who later became the hero wielding the golden sword.
However, before her two most famous offspring ever came into being, Medusa had born another child, Serpentsia. Little more than her species is known about her, for she was lost in the pages of mythology. Serpentsia was different from Medusa's other children as she could chose more than one shape, more than one appearance. This labeled her as an outcast within her own family.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Original
Last Name: None
Alias or Nick-name: None
Age: Eternal
Height/Weight: 5'7", 175 lbs
Eyes: Green & Gold. When green, it is safe to look her in the eyes. However, when they shine golden, beware, for if you meet her gaze, you'll turn to stone.
Hair: Deep brown, or venomous snakes
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: Gorgon, Shapeshifter. Her forms are limited to either humanesque, full on Gorgon (hehehe, I rhymed), or the form of any snake/serpent.
Powers/Weapons: Gorgons are sometimes depicted as having wings of gold, brazen claws, and the tusks of boars. According to the myths, seeing the face of a Gorgon turned the viewer to stone. They also possess sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. In Greek mythology, blood taken from the right side of a Gorgon could bring the dead back to life, yet blood taken from the left side was an instantly fatal poison.
If you happen to look into her eyes as they glow golden, you'll be turned to stone.
Serpentsia is able to communicate with all reptiles, favoring the snake, of course. She can not only befriend and command them, but she can heal them as well.
She is able to shapeshift, going from woman to gorgon, as well as to any snake in reality or myth, including the basilisk. She also has the use of many ancient magicks.
History: In Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a vicious female monster with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. Gorgons are sometimes depicted as having wings of gold, brazen claws, and the tusks of boars. According to the myths, seeing the face of a Gorgon turned the viewer to stone. The concept of the gorgon is at least as old in mythology as Perseus and Zeus. The name is Greek, being from gorgos, "terrible."
The large eyes, as well as Athena's flashing eyes, are a symbol termed "the divine eyes", appearing also in Athena's bird, the owl. They can be represented by spirals, wheels, concentric circles, and other ways. The fangs of the gorgoneion are snakes' fangs. Snakes are a symbol of appeasement and increase. Sometimes Gorgons are endowed with birds' feet or bee wings, more symbols of regeneration. The lolling tongue is a symbol of death.
The three gorgon sisters — Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale — were children of Phorcys and Ceto, or sometimes, Typhon and Echidna, in each case chthonic monsters from an archaic world. Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graiae, as in Aeschylus' Prometheus Unbound, who places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain":
"Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged
With snakes for hair— hated of mortal man—"
In all the versions, while Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded in her sleep by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus. With help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sword, and a mirrored shield, he accomplished his quest. The hero slew Medusa by looking at her reflection in the mirror instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone. When the hero severed Medusa's head, from her neck two offspring sprang forth: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor who later became the hero wielding the golden sword.
However, before her two most famous offspring ever came into being, Medusa had born another child, Serpentsia. Little more than her species is known about her, for she was lost in the pages of mythology. Serpentsia was different from Medusa's other children as she could chose more than one shape, more than one appearance. This labeled her as an outcast within her own family.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Original
