He Who Roams Always

Question: I have been digging through Inuit stuff and stumbled upon Kiviuq. Apparently, he has an epic. Where would he fit in Scion?

Oh, man, Kiviuq is the coolest! (Ahaha, jokes about cold, because Canadian/Greenland/Alaskan myths.)

Kiviuq is, in my opinion, very obviously the star Scion of the Inuit pantheon (although of whom is up for debate!). He's a legendary hero who wanders all over Inuit territory performing various great deeds, meeting various gods and magical creatures, and generally being badass. He's characterized as an eternally wandering hero, which has the neat effect of causing him to have a wide range of different stories among different Inuit groups and areas, all of which can be organized together into a giant chain of events that characterize his life.

Kiviuq's doing a lot of cool stuff that really exemplifies a lot of recurring themes in Inuit myth. He participates in seal hunts and other adventures on the sea, and often encounters magical creatures therein or is afflicted (or sometimes helped) by supernatural storms and phenomena caused by various gods and magical beings he befriends. He loses his family, repeatedly in the cases of some groups, and therefore wanders in the wilderness as a representative of mankind versus nature. Sometimes he wins, sometimes nature wins, sometimes he works together with nature to make sure other people don't win.

Later, Kiviuq gains ongoing mythological functions that suggest he may even have reached apotheosis; for example, several different traditions hold that Kiviuq is akin to the soul of mankind or even the world itself, and that as long as he is alive, so too can humanity survive. If he were ever to die - a process that various areas suggest he might be doing very slowly even now - the world will end with him.

Basically, he is cool bananas and everyone should check him out if you have any interest in playing anything Inue-related. The Epic of Qayaq is a great source to read about some of the Greenland versions of his myths, and Henry Isluanik's Kiviuq's Journey is a good one for faithfully-preserved oral retellings from Canadian Inuit groups.