Lunar Landing

Question: How would moon gods and goddesses feel about mankind colonizing the moon?

Well, humans aren't quite there yet... but with Scions in the mix, super-sciencing and super-magicing all over the place, anything could happen. We've had PCs jaunt off to the moon on a lark, and while no one's tried to move in yet, it's totally possible for settlement to happen in almost any Scion game.

I think this is a question with no clear-cut answer; a lot would depend on which god you're looking at and how exactly this moon-colonizing happened, as well as what its effects were. Moon gods have their Lunar Estates in what basically amounts to pocket Terrae Incognita, so they're not going to be feeling too crowded by mortals on the surface of the moon that orbits the Earth, but there are plenty of other considerations to take into account.

Some moon deities would probably actually really enjoy human colonization and inhabitation of the moon. For a set of gods who often wane (ha!) in importance when compared to the more perennially popular sun and storm gods, having a large portion of humanity literally move into their area of influence would probably give them a nice boost of importance and divine political badassness, giving them the opportunity to directly affect people much more closely than distantly directing the tides or causing full-moon madness. Depending on the god's temperament, some might see this as an opportunity to create brand-new, influential cults dedicated in their honor, because after all, aren't they the ones whose hands humanity is solely putting themselves into? Others, less benevolent or more afflicted by the lunacy that is their bailiwick, might savor the ability to directly meddle with and drive mad brand new sets of mortals, reshaping a population the way they never could with other competing gods on Earth. And just think about the awesome scope of the powers of the Moon purview when people are actually on the moon; sure, using Moonrise to cause a lunar eclipse on earth is intimidating, but how much more crazy badass is it when you can turn the entire planetoid that mortals are inhabiting and plunge them into darkness on your whim?

On the other hand, some moon gods probably wouldn't be huge fans of the idea of a lot of mortals cluttering up their space. Some might view it as a prideful intrusion of mankind into an arena they were never meant for, or even extend the blame to other gods who aren't providing them enough to do on Earth or preventing these sorts of shenanigans. Because mortals would be living day-to-day on the moon's surface, building and shaping its environment to suit them, it also might lose many of the qualities that moon deities would say make it the moon; for example, if too much terraforming and building happens and the surface of the moon becomes habitable and earthlike, what will happen to its famously shining silver light, now dimmed forever thanks to the new topography and buildings blotting it out? If mortals are actually living on the moon and treating it as generally subconsciously thoughtlessly as they tend to treat the Earth, moon gods might be mortally offended by upstarts littering, mining or otherwise defacing their heavenly body, not to mention the fact that much of the mystique and awe of the moon, which those gods depend upon, would undoubtedly be lost on mortals who were living on it all the time. Gods are slow to change, and the moon has been its coldly, symbolically beautiful self for a long time. Many of them are probably going to twig out if major changes occur without their approval.

An interesting side effect of moon colonization would be the probable rise of a new kind of moon god, thanks to the violently shifting symoblism and effects of having people living on the moon instead of looking up at it from the Earth. Most moon deities in ancient mythology are concerned with the moon's effects on distant earth, from its pull on the tides to its softly-glowing light in the darkness to its effects on a humanity who can't touch or experience it except as a subtle push toward madness or the relentless metronome that keeps the rhythm of the months. If the moon is instead colonized, Scions who become new moon gods will most likely need to take on new roles, finding ways to express themselves as gods of something that is tangible, solid and inhabited, a place instead of a faraway heavenly light. What that will mean exactly depends on those Scions, and whether or not the older moon gods adapt or become relics of a time before space travel will seriously impact the divine landscape.