Persona Ideas

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
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
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
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
Sedna	Inuit	BLURB

Partying/Drunkenness/Excess

Name	Origin	Description
Centzon Totochtin	Aztec	BLURB

Prophecy

Temptation

Name	Origin	Description
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
Glashtyn	Manx	BLURB