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Name: Dionysus (also: Ivy, The Mad God, The God of the Hunt, Bakhos, Polyeidos, The Raver, The Lord of the Dance, King of the Holy Raging, He of the Trees) Door: Door Pass for Dominant Canon: A Hymn to Dionysus Canon Point: End of Chapter 34 Age: 27 in body, thousands of years in actuality Appearance: Long curly black hair that goes down past his shoulders, blue eyes, tall. He has reddish-black tattoos down his arms and up his neck. PB is Conan Gray. History: A long time ago, before humans worked fields and stayed in one place, a young boy was born into a tribe that worshiped The Hunt, and the Mother of the earth. The women of his tribe read the bones when he was young and he was destined to be one of the Mother's grooms, a sacrifice to her, which meant he wasn't killed as a baby for being another mouth to feed (and a male one, at that). He was trained by the witches to read the forest and follow animals, and he hated it. He hated having to kill other things to survive, he hated having to do nothing but Hunt, he hated having to drown children he'd just delivered because there wasn't enough food. So when the Mother came for him, he told her as much, though he knew it was heresy. He thought that people could live off of honey and milk and corn, and then they wouldn't have to kill to survive. She told him that humans would forget too quickly, the Hunt and the earth, the power of mothers and witches. He thought that they would just need reminding sometimes. And so, she made him the watchman to remind them: “You are the forest and the earth. Yours are the hives, and the honey, and the great bulls; the things that mean living without killing. You will die and rise, and die and rise, as evergreen as the ivy. Yours will be the border between the new world, and mine. Down the ages they will try to stray too far, and forget their nature, and their limits. Wherever they transgress, there you will be. You are the watchman, and the memory, and the madness. In the times that are to come, humans will need a god to make them remember what human is.” Much later, and in a way that is not really explained, he is born/reborn as a child to the princess of Thebes. The princess claims the child is a son of Zeus, which is the only way she was permitted to keep it being out of wedlock, but for Political Reasons the childless queen and her twin brother, Helios, had some concerns about this child. In the night during a thunderstorm, the queen and Helios take the child and tie a kite to him, hoping lightning will strike it and kill the child. Unfortunately, no one included Helios's four year old ward, Phaidros, in the plan- and on seeing the baby sad and wet on a rug with no grown-ups around, he picks up the baby and tries to return him to his mother. Of course, then lightning hits the kite and sets the palace on fire, and chaos ensues. Phaidros flees with the baby to a temple until Helios finds them both again. Helios takes the baby to the Temple of Hermes to be raised into a witch. And so Dionysus was once again raised as a witch, and when he is around 15 or so, he decides he would like to see what it's like to live on a pirate ship for a bit. He got himself taken in by a Theban ship- specifically, the one Phaidros happened to be on and recently disgraced. The attempted to tie him to the mast, which he easily escaped, and the crew (except for Phaidros) more or less seemed to forget he was even there. He didn't speak at all on the boat, but Phaidros talked to him and tried to look after him, which endeared the knight greatly to Dionysus. When the crew started getting suspicious of Dionysus due to strange things happening on board and planned to through him overboard, the other captives storm the deck, fighting like feral animals against their captors. The ship crashed, and he transformed all the remaining crew and captives, except Phaidros, into dolphins. Phaidros (who was, understandably, a little terrified at this point) asked him to he was, who he should make a sacrifice to for sparing him. Dionysus told him that he'd come back for him one day and he'd tell him then. Dionysus meant this as a promise to come when Phaidros needed him; Phaidros took it as a promise to kill him at some point for the failure to protect him like he'd promised. As a result, Phaidros did not call on him for a long time, and by this time he did it was because he was kind of ready to die. The time between their meetings it unclear, though Dionysus almost certainly went to Pylos in the time before going to Thebes, as the 'mad god' appeared there shortly before and caused its people to tear the palace to the ground. He met Phaidros again at a bull sacrifice in Thebes, saving the knight from being gored by one bull after a meteor quite literally crash the ceremony; here, he also met the young prince of Thebes, Pentheus, who wanted to forget everything. Dionysus, bound to help him by Witch vows, gave the boy a bull mask, which would allow him to take on the characteristics of a bull and forget his life as prince. Naturally, the prince going missing is a bit of a problem for most royal families, and since Phaidros was a.) there, b.) someone who had talked to Pentheus, and c.) technically kind of an in-law of the royal family with how Theban wardships went was put on the case. Dionysus lied to him, saying he had not aided Pentheus nor knew where he was. Phaidros thanked Dionysus for saving him and told him he owed him his life- after trying to impress upon the knight what owing your life to a witch meant, Dionysus accepted, giving him a charm to identify him as 'his' and telling the man that he'd better look after his life because it belonged to him now. It is roughly at this point where Dionysus realizes he isn't sure what Phaidros wants from him- he called him, but isn't acknowledging who Dionysus is, and he doesn't know if he changed his mind about wanting him around. (In reality, it's a lot of Phaidros trying to come up with explanations for why Dionysus is here and he's not dead yet.) So he sort of just.... sticks around, trying to be helpful here and there, including with the people he is driving mad, and making it extremely obvious who he was at times just in case, but Phaidros still would not talk about it. Eventually, things escalate too far. During a (fake) funeral for the prince, the one of Phaidros's young knights attacks him, and then he and many of the other knights within the crowd grow wild and feral, attacking each other with weapons and teeth. The Queen, who had been denying the existence of the mad god, mostly dug her heels in deeper to try to protect her throne and to further complicate things, Phaidros finds Pentheus in the labyrinth beneath his and Dionysus's homes, having not only the bull mask he had been given but attached other animals to it, including a cuckoo and a lion. Phaidros, despite Dionysus insisting that it is the last thing he should do, takes the prince back to the palace and manage to bring him back to himself. Because of Political Bullshit the Queen decides the best thing to do is marry Phaidros, which he agrees to because 'duty is honor.' Dionysus is less than pleased, at least partially because he is well aware that the duty weighing on him is what's causing him to be so suicidal, and also the two of them have kissed at this point. Things go even more sideways when Pentheus accuses Phaidros of being the mastermind behind his disappearance and so he gets thrown in jail. Dionysus breaks him out by driving the royal guard mad and making everyone else go to sleep, and then they finally, actually talk about things. This is where I'll be taking him from. Personality: Positive Trait: Helpful Everything Dionysus does is with the intent to be helpful. As a witch, he heals and breaks curses and delivers children. As the Mad God, his function is to make sure no one breaks their soul by becoming a thinking machine and that they always retain some of what really makes them human. He may not always be the most gentle about it (more on that later), but his goal is what is best for people- if not the individual, then the human race as a whole. Negative Trait: Secretive The Witches' Vow: "I swear no living soul shall know me true. I swear to leave behind my family and my home, never to return. I swear never to tell why I swore this vow." Being a witch means never letting anyone know you. Part of this is the Witching- which is a fancy way of saying that a lot of their power comes from people believing they are powerful, so the more like a person someone seems the less their magic works. Also, he doesn't particularly want most people around in the day-to-day knowing he's a god, at least not until he's on his way out. He does not give out information freely, and he is very good at directing conversations back to other people so that there is less focus on him. Negative Trait: Liar What's the easiest way to make sure no one knows you, while still being gregarious and likeable? Lie your ass off- or better yet, convince everyone that you're lying even when you're not. Dionysus particularly enjoys double layered lies, where it's obvious he's lying, and the first layer is the one people catch and feel clever and stop looking for the truth that lies underneath that. He also has a habit of telling fantastical stories in a manner that imply he's making it all up but are actually completely true. He makes sure he looks like a liar, so that no one knows what the truth is. (There is also the Witches's code, which is like the witch version of HIPPA but with less 'that's confidential patient information' and more 'I'm going to lie to your face'.) Negative Trait: Cruel Dionysus is kind, but he isn't always nice. Driving entire cities mad just because they're a bit too structured for their own good is not nice. There is a point in the book, slightly later than his canonpoint, where he literally plucks all the logic from the queen's mind while she begs for him not to do it, and he just says that this will be a good reminder for the next thousand years for no one to become like her, and then he just quietly watches as she murders her own son that she sees as a lion. Powers and Abilities: His witch abilities are pretty straightforward; he has a knowledge of medicinal herbs, ways to break curses or inflict them, and general healing knowledge including midwifery. Essentially, an Ancient Greek doctor with some magic thrown in. Now for the bullshit god abilities: -His human body is only a small part of his awareness- he is in the trees and the animals and can feel/see/hear things through them. I will be limiting this to a fairly small scale here to an area directly around, which potentially an opt-in if people want him to know Random Shit about their character because a bird saw them or something. -Because he's around within nature and animals, animals are all chill with him. If people have pets/animals assigned to their characters, I will let them decide if that applies to those animals or not as well. -He can make plants, even ones that were dying, full of life and growth. This includes things that have previously been plants at some point in time, if he feels like kind of being a dick about it. (See: the mast of a ship growing branches.) In a related vein, he can also grow ivy literally anywhere. -He can sort of make it so people can't see/notice him, or only allow certain people to. I will get permission if he uses this in a situation where he might be somewhere or overhear something he normally wouldn't be able to. -He can use the life energy from things around him to heal or bring back to life himself or someone else. This life energy comes from plants and such, and usually if he's bringing back someone else they'd have to agree to never be able to cross the River Styx but that's not a problem here sooooo we'll just go with player permission. -Being around him for too long tends to drive people mad. This will be purely opt in, and only kick in when people specifically want it; I may bring it up as a potential player plot at some point. (For reference: in this context, being mad is... more or less taking people back to a more primitive state, where they live for the Hunt and for revelry and song and dance and don't worry about stupid things like Proper Etiquette and Documentation and Politics. Basically, pure 'id', no 'ego.') -He can also choose to drive specific people mad by taking out all the not-feral bits of their brain. He wouldn't do this anyway unless he was super pissed or they really, really needed it, but it's still opt in. Inventory: His friend snake (an asp), his silver mask, and Phaidros's 'kalos' cup to make him sad. Samples: TDM thread

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Dionysus
"Dee-oh-nu-sos"

The god of ecstasy, revelry, and ruin- and if you ask very nicely, perhaps he'll ruin you! He's settling into the city quite nicely for a nomad, apart from that little incident a few months ago, and since you weirdos seem to have been fine with it no harm done eh? Currently contracted but up for renewal soon, though good luck getting him away from his current partner. He's been here long enough that he should be able to take a second Submissive, if you want to try your luck living with the embodiment of madness. Must love the outdoors.

(Seriously, this guy has had sex outside more often than in, can someone tell him how fucking cold it's going to get?)

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