Witchy Woman

Question: So, there's been some talk about romancing goddesses, but the best one is missing (for shame, internet people!); what'd it take to successfully romance The Morrigan? How would she react to some brave (perhaps foolishly so!) Scion seeking to court her?

Mostly my immediate response to this is similar to the last time someone asked this question about Nemesis, and runs along the lines of "why would you want to?", "what a terrible idea" and "are you suicidal, is that your problem?" But the Morrigan is technically less of an insane choice for romance than someone like Nemesis, and other gods have theoretically had (short, violent) affairs with her before without dying, so the possibility is there!

How the Morrigan would react to attempts to court her... would depend largely on the Charisma of the would-be courtier, I imagine, but certain approaches are likely to help, at least. She's an Irish goddess with Irish virtues; you could try to play those up by demonstrating your Courage by killing something large in her honor or demonstrating your Expression with paeans to her best qualities. I'm not saying these will necessarily work, because the Morrigan is insane and even the rest of her pantheon has difficulty trying to predict what she's going to do or why, but it probably won't hurt unless you really botch your attempts. The Morrigan is kind of a terrorfest who usually threatens people into having sex with her, so she might be either flattered or suspicious if a Scion were interested without her initiating it (but then again, maybe terrorizing dudes into sex is her thing, considering that it's the only kind of relationship we ever see her have).

If you succeeded in getting her attention, it's unlikely that you're headed for loving and wedded bliss, though; the Morrigan's trysts are historically always short and often violent, usually with kind of disastrous results. She's probably not about to become faithful unto death to anybody (unless you could get her with a Handfast geas, perhaps, but do you really want to go there?), and it's hard to believe that all of the spillover of sleeping with someone who represents inevitable doom is going to mysteriously miss the Scion who goes for it. There would probably be bonuses, too - that "cannot be defeated in battle today" thing is pretty sweet, just ask the Dagda! - but the "success" of a Scion's courting really depends on what their goal is. If they're looking for the prestige and benefits of taking a roll in the hay with the Morrigan and living to tell the tale, that's definitely doable; if they're looking for her to become their lawful wife and bake them cookies every Saturday, they're going to have to be rocking some Ultimate Charisma and really impressive good luck.

We've actually had a PC have what could very loosely be termed a romantic encounter with the Morrigan; as part of an alliance with the Tuatha, Sverrir brokered a deal with her and Manannan mac Lir that he would sire some children on her in exchange for their support. She reacted to his brief, ill-fated attempt at courtship with violent rape that he eventually passed out during, but she did then keep him in one piece in the melee that happened shortly after and is carrying his children now, so theoretically it mostly ended well for everybody. Except the mental health of those present, anyway.