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 precise 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	A modernization and mix of the Mayan god Mam and Catholic beliefs who serves as a link between this world and the underworld. Unlike San La Muerte and Santa Muerte, he is not seen as benevolent.
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. A benevolent figure, he also answers prayers for good luck and protection against witchcraft.
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. She receives prayers for healing and protection, specifically against violence.

Female Warriors

Name	Origin	Description
La Maupin	France, 1670–1707	Also known as Julie d'Aubigny. She was an opera singer as well as a swordswoman, and many stories spread about her flamboyant lifestyle.
Empress Jingu	Japan, 169–269	A mysterious figure in Japanese history, Jingu was a consort to the Emperor Chūai. After his death, she ruled as Regent and led an invasion into Korea and returned victorious after three years. Modern historians have widely debunked this invasion as myth.

Love (Happy, Tragic, and otherwise)

Name	Origin	Description
Berenice, Egaeus	"Berenice", by Edgar Allan Poe, 1835	As Berenice succumbs to an unnamed illness, her cousin and fiance, Egaeus, a man prone to moody trances, grows obsessed with the only part to be spared by disease: her teeth. After Berenice is buried, Egaeus, in a trance, digs her casket up. Unaware of the fact she had been mistakenly buried alive, he forcefully extracts her teeth from her, and only realizes his horrid act later when he finds himself covered in blood and mud, with a lantern and a box of teeth on his desk.
Beatrice	"Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1844	Isolated to a garden of deadly plants, Beatrice's body is poisonous due to her father's experiments. When Giovanni courts her, his own body becomes poisonous, and he blames her. Bringing an antidote so that they may both be cured, Giovanni is horrified when Beatrice drinks it and dies while stating, "Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?"
Odette	Swan Lake, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1875–76	A princess cursed to be a swan during the day, Odette falls in love with the prince Siegfried. When Siegfried is tricked into swearing his love to a doppelganger, depending on the ending, Odette is freed from her curse 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	The Inuit goddess of the sea, she also governs Adlivun, the underworld. Hunters prayed to her to ensure that their hunts of sea mammals went well.

Drunkenness

Name	Origin	Description
Centzon Totochtin	Aztec	The 'Four Hundred Rabbits' in Nahuatl, they govern drunkenness. One of their number, Macuiltochtli, is a member of the Ahuiateteo, the gods of excess.

Prophecy

Name	Origin	Description
Elizabeth Barton	Great Britain, (1506?–1534)	A Catholic nun, Elizabeth began receiving visions of the future after an unknown illness, which made her popular at a time in Great Britain where Catholicism was being threatened by the English Reformation. As her visions grew to challenge Henry VIII, she remained untouched due to her popularity among sectors of the city. Agents of the king resorted to destroying her reputation with rumors about her mental health and sexual relationships with priests. When her reputation was ruined, the Crown arrested her and, after forcing her to say that her visions were false, executed her for treason without a public hearing.

Temptation

Name	Origin	Description
Glashtyn	Manx	A variant of the kelpie myth, the Glashtyn takes the form of a handsome young man. He attempts to tempt young women to come to the river with him where he will drown them.