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K E R : G O D D E S S OF V I O L E N T D E A T H


M Y T H B A S I C S Myth Basics Deity Name: Ker Other Names: Letum, Tenebrae Role/Function: The personification of Violent Death, the chooser of death on the battle field Powers: To fly over the battle field and bring death to both the righteous and the fallen. The bringer of the judgements of the Fates. Parents: Nyx Siblings: Moros (Doom), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), the tribe of Oneiroi (Dreams), Momos (Blame), Oizys (Misery), the Hesperides, the Moirai (Fates), Nemesis (Envy), Apate (Deceit), Philotes (Friendship), Geras (Old Age) [according to Hesiod, Theogony 211 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.)]	A E S T H E T I C S Height: 5'8" Weight/Build: Slim, but with a woman's curves. Hair: Long and black, slightly curly. Usually tied back with bloody ribbons Eyes: blue to grey to green to black like bruises Skin/Other: very pale	M O R T A L B A S I C S Name: Leila Idris Date of Birth: February 1, 1990 Nationality: Palestinian Social Class: Poor, like most everyone else living in occupied Palestine Parents: Dhoula Idris. She was the product of rape and has never had contact with her father or even know his name. Siblings: none Past Relationships: none Significant Other/Spouse: none Children: none Overall Health: Excellent. Education: stopped in sixth grade Career: Professional Hit-woman

P S Y C H O L O G Y Psychological Personality: Cold and heartless, she cares for no one but her companions. Circumstances mean nothing to Ker. Her greatest pleasure is to bring violent death, to end a life young with as much pain and suffering as possible. There are times when this looks like happiness, but it is instead glee, for she enjoys her work. She considers herself an artist, and is always looking for new ways to bring death and misery to those around her. As a mortal, she is a bit less cold, though not much. A true sociopath, she is capable of great love, but for those she doesn't love, she has no feelings at all, and has no trouble disposing of them. Her view of the world is that it is over crowded already. A few fewer people only benefits the planet. Killing them is community service. Extravert/Introvert: I Sensing/Intuition: S Thinking/Feeling: F Judging/Perceiving: J Hobbies and Interests: Destroying the status quo. Killing efficiently, especially those who have wronged her, her family, or her people. Strengths: Sticks to her beliefs (even in the face of extreme hardship). Planning. Ability to see things through. Willingness to sacrifice. Weaknesses: Blind rages. Lack of emotion. Relations Friends: Ares. Hades. Phobos. Deimos. Eris. Enemies: As a goddess, she has no true enemies, though she isn't much liked. As a mortal, she has many enemies, although she's doing her best to take a direct hand in whittling down their numbers. Romantic Status: single Significant Other: none Sexual Preference: Sex is a tool. She'll use it accordingly. Present Interests: see above Past Relationships: none worth mentioning. Likes: Guns. Knives. Swords. Poisons. Arrows. Plague. Graveyards (especially full ones.) Dislikes: Weakness. Tenderness. Crying. Seeing her people hurt. Occupation Forces.

B I O G R A P H Y From Theoi: According to Hesiod, with whom the Kêres assume a more definite form, they are the daughters of Nyx and sisters of the Moerae, and punish men for their crimes. Their fearful appearance in battle is described by Hesiod. They are mentioned by later writers together with the Erinnyes as the goddesses who avenge the crimes of men. Hesiod, Theogony 211 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : "And Nyx (Night) bare hateful Moros (Doom) and black Ker (Violent Death) and Thanatos (Death), and she bare Hypnos (Sleep) and the tribe of Oneiroi (Dreams). Seneca, Oedipus 1052 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) : "[After Oidipous had blinded himself and departs for exile, he calls for the daimones of pestilence to depart from Thebes :] `All ye who are weary in body and burdened with disease, whose hearts are faint within you, see, I fly, I leave you; lift your heads. Milder skies come when I am gone. He who, though near to death, still keeps some feeble life, may freely now draw deep, life-giving draughts of air. Go, bear ye aid to those given up to death; all pestilential humours of the land I take with me. Ye blasting Fatae [Keres, fates], thou quaking terror of Morbus [Nosos, disease], Macies [Ischnasia, wasting], and black Pestis [Ker or Nosos, pestilence], and mad Dolor [Algos, despair], come ye with me, with me. ‘Tis sweet to have such guides.'" Homer, Iliad 2. 830 ff : "Adrestos and Amphios armoured in linen, sons both of Merops of Perkote, who beyond all men knew the art of propecy, and tried tried to prevent his two sons from going into the battle where men die. Yet these would not listen, for the dark Keres Thanatoio (Spirits of Death) were driving them onwards." Homer, Iliad 2. 859 ff : "Ennomos the augur, was lord of the Mysians; yet his reading of birds could not keep off dark Ker (Death) but he went down under the hands of swift-running Aiakides [Akhilleus] in the river, as he slew other Trojans beside him." Homer, Iliad 3. 32 ff : "Alexandros [Paris] the godlike when he saw Menelaos showing among the champions, he heart was shaken within him; to avoid Ker (Death) he shrank into the host of his own companions." Homer, Iliad 3. 355 ff : "[Menelaos] blanaced the spear far-shadowed and threw it and struck the shield of [Paris] Priamos's son on its perfect circle. All the way through the glittering shield went the heavy spearhead and smashed its way through the intricately worked corselet; straight ahead by the flank the spearhead shore through his tunic, yet he bent away to one side and avoided dark Ker (Death)." Homer, Iliad 3. 454 ff : "They [the Trojans] would not have hidden him [Paris from the Greeks] for love, if any had seen him, since he was hated among them all as dark Ker (Death) is hated." Homer, Iliad 4. 11 ff : "[Zeus goads Hera:] `Aphrodite forever stands by her man [Paris] and drives the Keres (Deaths) away from him. Even now she has rescued him when he thought he would perish.'" Homer, Iliad 5. 22 ff : "Idaios leaping left the fair-wrought chariot nor had he the courage to stand over his stricken brother [slain by Diomedes]. Even so he could not have escaped the black Ker (Death) but Hephaistos caught him away and rescued him, shrouded in darkness, that the aged man [the boy's father, a priest of Hephaistos] might not be left altogether desolate." Homer, Iliad 16. 687 ff : "Had he [Patroklos] only kept the command of Peleiades [Akhilleus] he might have got clear away from the evil spirit of black Ker (Death). But always the mind of Zeus [the god of fate] is a stronger thing than a man's mind. He terrifies even the warlike man, he takes away victory lightly, when he himself has driven a man into battle as now he drove on the fury in the heart of Patroklos." Homer, Iliad 18. 535 ff : "[From a description of the war-scene depicted on the shield of Akhilleus :] The other army, as soon as they heard the uproar arising . . . suddenly mounted behind their light-foot horses, and went after, and soon overtook them. These stood their ground and fought a battle by the banks of the river, and they were making casts at each other with their spears bronze-headed; and Eris (Hate) was there with Kydoimos (Confusion) among them, and Ker (Death) the destructive; she was holding a live man with a new wound, and another one unhurt, and dragged a dead man by the feet through the carnage. The clothing upon her shoulders showed strong red with the men's blood as she glared horribly and gnashed her teeth till they echoed." Aeschylus, Fragment 41 Threissae (from Scholiast on Sophocles, Ajax 833) (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) : "Back he [Aias or Ajax] bent his sword, as when a man bends a bow, for that his body offered no place to murderous death, until at last some daimona [probably a Ker] appeared and showed him [the vital spot]." Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 9. 190 ff : "His bowels gushed out, and deadly Ker (Doom) laid hold on him." Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 10. 260 ff : "[The mortally wounded Paris begs Oinone to heal him :] `My queen, I sinned, in folly sinned; yet from the Keres (Deaths) save me--oh, make haste to save!'" Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 10. 411 ff : "[Oinone cries in grief at the death of Paris :] `Oh had the black Keres (Deaths) snatched me from the earth ere I from Paris turned away in hate!' . . . Down the long tracks flew Oinone's feet; seeking the awful pyre, to leap thereon [in suicide]. No weariness she knew: as upon wings her feet flew faster ever, onward spurred by fell Ker (Fate), and Kypris [Aphrodite]." Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1659 ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) : "Medea went up on the deck. She covered both her cheeks with a fold of her purple mantle, and Iason (Jason) led her by the hand as she passed across the benches. Then, with incantations, she invoked the Keres (Spirits of Death), the swift hounds of Hades who feed on souls and haunt the lower air to pounce on living men. She sank to her knees and called upon them, three times in song, three times with spoken prayers. She steeled herself of their malignity and bewitched the eyes of Talos with the evil in her own. She flung at him the full force of her malevolence, and in an ecstasy of rage she plied him with images of death. Is it true then, Father Zeus, that people are not killed only by disease or wounds, but can be struck down by a distant enemy? The thought appals me. Yet it was thus that Talos, for all his brazen frame, was brought down by the force of Medea’s magic. He was hoisting up some heavy stones with which tow keep them from anchorage, when he grazed his ankle on a sharp rock and the ichor ran out of him like molten lead. He stood there for a short time, high on the jutting cliff. But even his strong legs could not support him long; he began to sway, all power went out of him, and he came down with a resounding crash." Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1060 ff (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) : "[After the death of the brothers Polynikes and Eteokles, the Argive women lament :] Ah, misery! O Erinyes, far-famed destroyers of families, Keres (goddesses of death) who have thus laid ruin to the family of Oidipous, digging it up from the roots!" Euripides, Electra 1250 ff (trans. Vellacott) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) : "[The Dioskouroi gods instruct Orestes after the killing of his mother Klytemnaistra :] `But you leave Argos; for it is not for you, who killed your mother, to set foot in this city. And the dread Keres, the one who glare like hounds, will drive you up and down, a maddened wanderer. Go to Athens and embrace the holy image of Pallas; for she will prevent them, flickering with dreadful serpents, from touching you, as she stretches over your head her Gorgon-faced shield.'" Euripides, Heracles 870 ff : "[Lyssa the Daimon of madness stalks Herakles :] `The thunderbolt with blast of agony shall be like the headlong rush I will make into the breast of Herakles; through his roof will I burst my way and swoop upon his house,after first slaying his children; nor shall their murderer know that he is killing the children he begot, till he is released from my madness. Behold him! see how even now he is wildly tossing his head at the outset, and rolling his eyes fiercely from side to side without a word; nor can he control his panting breath, like a fearful bull in act to charge; he bellows, calling on the Keres of Tartaros.'" Before the Coup of Cronus: Very little changed for Ker. She continued through the world bringing death. As she was never worshipped, the changed beliefs of mortals had little impact on her, though she did enjoy punishing them. During the Coup: Seeing as she is a battle companion of Ares, it would make sense for her to side with him. They are the closest thing to friends she has. Now as a Mortal -- (fill out below) Name: Leila Idris Date of Birth: Feb 1, 1990 Birthplace: Ramallah, Palestine Biography: Leila was born during one of the periods of heightened conflict between Arabs and Jews over the land known as Palestine. Her mother, Dhoula was one of eleven children, who lived with her own mother Nur. Dhoula's sister, Wafa, worked for the Red Cross. Though the family appeared to be moderates and flew under the radar of the Israeli forces, in fact they harbored a streak of militancy based on the pain they felt over the loss of their father (Nur's husband) a brother, Ahmed. Leila's father was absent. Dhoula had been one of the lucky Palestinian women who had managed to find employment in Israel, working as a housekeeper for a wealthy jewish family. About three months after she'd begun working for the family, she came home tight-lipped and pale-faced. A few weeks later it became clear to the rest of the family why. She was pregnant and unmarried and the clan's hatred of the Occupation exploded. A hatred that grew into a sense of profound betrayal of their losses when their leaders signed the Oslo Accord in 1993. Though Leila was 'unplanned' she was loved by her family, and yet she never got over the feelings of betrayal and abandonment her irregular birth left her with. On Feb 9, 2002, their world changed forever. Wafa, Leila's aunt, strapped a bomb to her chest and became the first female suicide bomber of the conflict. Her reasons were never clear to anyone, including her family, but Leila understood. She understood the powerlessness of her people, the hopelessness. And she understood that sometimes the only answer to that was a violent death. She understood, and learned. The family came under suspicion after Wafa's sacrifice, and Leila was denied a chance to attend school by the authorities. The whole family suffered as the men had been taken in by security forces and there were few places willing to hire the women. With no education, no chances for employment, and a high probability of starving to death, Leila made a decision. She ran away from home at the age of thirteen and apprenticed herself to one of the local Hamas leaders. She learned all she could from him, though he was not a kind man and demanded sexual relations with her as payment. Though it went against her beliefs, she learned quickly to turn off her emotions when she was in bed with him. It was, she reflected later, a good lesson. He was her first kill when she'd learned all he could teach her. She strangled him. In bed. She was fifteen then. She signed on with Hamas for a time, although they were too middle of the road for her politics. They were also trying to get into main stream politics and were becoming more and more moderate. In her opinion, they should have sent assassins to take out the Israeli Prime Minsiter and as much of their parliament as they could. Instead, they were toeing the American's line of political reckoning. It sickened her, and she decided to move on. Unfortunately for her, the other organizations were even less willing to employ women, and so at seventeen, she struck out on her own. Now at nineteen, she is one of the best assassins in the world, and commands high fees for her services. She's attractive enough to blend into any crowd, but not so stunning that men stop and stare. She has a face shaped face. All but her eyes. Bright sliver-grey, they stand out. Cold, they mark her as a born killer. Why are they in Athens now? On a contract. Present location where they are staying Athens: Exarcheia All characters should have dreams or feelings that there is something about their past. What has your character dreamed or felt and thought of it? Her dreams are bloody, of standing on a battlefield and deciding who lives or dies. It is surreal, but enough like her life that she puts it into a box and ignores it. There are, however, dreams of others on that battle field that fill her with intense longing. Not sexual, but for company who, for lack of a better term, gets her. Name as it appears on her journal: Κήρ
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