Persona Ideas
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This is the page for all those neat ideas for personas we find in research but cannot use. For now this page is organized by theme, but this may change or be expanded upon.
Death
Name | Origin | Description |
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Black Dog | British Isles | A large black dog, said to foretell a person's death. There are various names for the dogs, depending on the location. |
Macaria | Greek | Either the daughter of Hercules who sacrificed her life for her city, or the counterpart of Thanatos who brought good death. |
Maximón | Mayan/Catholic | BLURB |
Melinoe | Greek | Daughter of Persephone who wandered the earth with a retinue of ghosts every night. |
Meng Po | Chinese Folk Religion | Serves the Tea of Forgetfulness to souls before reincarnation, so that they may not remember their previous lives. |
Mors | Roman | The personification of death, similar to Thanatos. |
San La Muerte | South American/Catholic | A modernization and mix of Catholic and South American beliefs who is worshiped as a god of death. |
Santa Muerte | Mesoamerican/Catholic | A modernization of the death goddess Mictecacihuatl mixed with aspects of Catholic beliefs. She is worshiped as a goddess of death. |
Love
Name | Origin | Description |
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Odette | Swan Lake, 1875-76 | A princess cursed to be a swan during the day. Falls in love with the prince Siegfried. Depending on the ending, she is freed through the power of love, or sacrifices herself for it. |
Luck
Name | Origin | Description |
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Arkan Sonney | Manx | A long-haired fairy pig. It's said that anyone who catches one is blessed with good fortune, though they run from humans. |
Ocean and Sea
Name | Origin | Description |
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Sedna | Inuit | BLURB |
Partying/Drunkenness/Excess
Name | Origin | Description |
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Centzon Totochtin | Aztec | BLURB |
Prophecy
Name | Origin | Description |
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Elizabeth Barton | Great Britain, (1506?–20 April 1534) | An English Catholic nun, whose visions of the Virgin Mary made her a popular figure in English society. Executed for treason when her visions became too politically charged. |
Name | Origin | Description |
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Glashtyn | Manx | BLURB |