Look Closely, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Question: Which figures are probable candidates for Maya (the Titanrealm, not the culture)? I don't quite see how the concept of Illusion is so relevant too the other cultures (excluding what you said about the Yazata in your previous post). Or would it also include more far-fetched forms of illusions - for example, dreams (Hypnos/Morpheus)?

Well, to tell you the truth we haven't done a full finished roster for the Avatars of Maya that we're prepared to share yet (especially since our players are going there soon and have no idea what's in story). But the idea of illusions is one that certainly isn't confined to India and Persia, so here's a list of some of the possible candidates you might use in your own games:

• Ahriman/Angra Mainyu, Persian Titan of lies, deception and confusion. Lies are after all merely a specialized form of illusion, and they perform the same function - the obfuscation of the truth and the creation of something that is unreal but still believed in.
• Apate, Greek Titan of deception and concealment, who is said to be so wily Hermes himself could not compete with her, and who gave Hera the ability to trick Zeus into killing Semele.
• Mayasura, Hindu Titan of optical illusion, most often seen in his architectural wonders, which were so dizzying to look at that one could not distinguish floor from ceiling, glass from water and so on.
• Morpheus, Greek Titan of dreams. He's most definitely a Titan, the grandson of Erebus himself, and illusions are after all basically just dreams that one sees while awake. His brothers, Icelus and Phantasus, are also Titanic dream-weavers.
• Proteus, Greek Titan of transformation. Although also aligned with the sea and therefore a candidate for a watery Titanrealm, he's the archetypal shape-changer and form-obscurer, so much so that his name was repurposed for the adjective protean.
• Utgarde-Loki, Norse Titan, giant and master of illusiory shenanigans. He was so powerful that he easily punked Loki and Thor and they still made no move against him, and his illusions - the cat that was really the Midgard serpent, the drinking horn that was really the ocean, and the man who was really fire itself - are some of the most famous in Norse mythology.

I wouldn't suggest Hypnos, who doesn't seem to have anything to do with illusions or even dreams and merely governs unconsciousness; sleep doesn't necessarily translate to dreaming, and anyway that's what his sons are there for. You might also explore this with Pasithea, though - she isn't explicitly said to be a goddess of hallucination, but her strong ties to Hypnos and Dionysus, the uncertain etymology of her name and so on have led to her being suggested as such by more than one scholar. There are also tons of other illusionists, tricksters, shape-shifters and deceivers throughout mythology that you could put into this Titanrealm - many of them are favorites for god-parents, but if you're not using them as playable gods, figures like Anansi, Coyote or Xochipilli could easily fit in here, all of them embodying some form of lies, trickery or clouding of the senses.

In the end, it's important to remember that Titanrealms, like the rest of Scion, have to cover the concepts and ideas of all the cultures of the world, not just the ones we're most familiar with. The word "illusion" conjures up images for most of us of projected visual images like the armada of phantom ships Manannan mac Lir caused to appear around Ireland, but that's only one interpretation of the idea, and a strongly northern European one at that. Illusion is at its basis the idea of deception and confusion, of one thing masquerading as or hiding another, so across other cultures it might also include figures attached to things like lying, hallucinations, dreams, disguises or other forms of trickery. Don't feel like you have to interpret the idea narrowly - Titanrealms are anything but narrow!