Hey, everyone! Here's a special Valentine's Day-themed vlog, because we are, as always, totally in love with love.
Question: Have you ever had a virgin goddess break her chastity in your games? If so, how did it happen and were there any consequences for the goddess and/or her lover?
Question: Which gods and goddesses do you "ship" as in having a likely romantic relationship that was not particularly seen in their texts?
Question: In honor of Valentine's Day, can you tell us about some of your favorite romantic relationships in the games that you've played/run?
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Love Me Do
Question: How would you handle a God of Love character? I mean, there is no power in the book that would make one NPC fall in love with someone else that is not you, except for relics, is there?
Indeed, there is not. While you could certainly probably come up with a bunch of custom relic powers to facilitate matchmaking (and we suspect that this is probably what the writers of Scion were banking on, especially with the example of Eros' arrows to guide them), there is no direct set of powers associated with making people love one another in the books. Or at least, not in terms that black and white.
At the moment, gods who embody love do most of their mojo-ing with their Epic Social Attributes, which is not a perfect solution but which is also what we've got with the current setup. While there's no knack that says, "point at two people, they fall in love", making two people fall in love is not difficult for someone with tons of Manipulation; not only is a god with that stat a master at the arts of suggestion, innuendo and subtle encouragement, making it easy to convince both people of the other's great traits and trivial to weave an enticing air of alluring mystery around them, but he has access to many knacks that can be twisted to bump people toward one another as well. The powers most easily turned toward this sort of purpose include Implant False Memory (to add memories of the other person's past kindnesses or erase memories of their bad actions) and its close cousin Total Recall, Instant Hypnosis (to put people in the frame of mind to respond to romantic overtures even if they might normally have ignored them) and Advantageous Circumstances, which makes it child's play to see to it that a couple at least gets together and hangs out as long as you're monitoring the situation. Those aren't the only Manipulation knacks that facilitate matchmaking, though some of the others may take a little more creativity, and there are a few useful tricks in the Charisma and Appearance trees as well (a little Perfect Actor and suddenly everybody in the area is feeling in the mood for love!). Then you've got your standard emotion-massaging powers scattered around a few other purviews, with Chaos' Impassion being the most obvious for this kind of thing.
Past that point, a lot depends on what you want your god or goddess of love to be, exactly. Overseeing a concept like "love" can mean a lot of different things, as various different gods associated with it can attest - for example, Aphrodite's emphasis on sexual love is not the same as Isis' emphasis on motherly love is not the same as Wadd's emphasis on platonic love is not the same as Hera's emphasis on monogamous love, and so on and so forth. Different love-related god concepts will lend themselves to different auxiliary powers and specialties to flesh them out, and what works for one may be irrelevant for another. You sound like you're suggesting a god who wants to be instrumental in setting up romantic love affairs, and if that's the case, the power above plus some relic boosters (I would suggest a custom relic, possibly not accessible until late Demigod, that allows you to use your Engender Love knack on behalf of others) will be close to your best fit in the current rules.
A lot of Storytellers for Scion house-rule some kind of Love or Emotion purview in order to give love gods a more concrete set of powers; it's something that we've considered ourselves, although we haven't gone as far as to try writing one yet. On the one hand, it kind of sucks for love gods, which are a fairly widespread phenomenon, to not have a purview representing their major area of influence; on the other hand, there are fiddly questions of whether or not Love is the same kind of cosmic idea as the other purviews and belongs with them, whether or not love-related powers should just be some new custom knacks, and even whether there are enough possible powers for a Love purview to even be viable. If you're interested in a custom set of powers and your Storyteller's down with it, there are more than a few fan-created purviews floating around the interwebs that you might want to check out, or else you might want to explore writing your own. We're probably not going to be working on one any time soon, but it is in our Hazy Future Possibilities bin; someday we'll probably give it a good hard look, though I can't promise we'll end up deciding we want to go for it. (Plus, if we wrote a Love purview now, Geoff's player would just whine forever about how he had to spend all his XP on it.)
Love gods are one of the more interesting archetypes for new Scions to play, I think; there are a lot of weird questions of emotion and morality surrounding the role for children who have grown up in modern societies that have very different ideas of what love, relationships and free will mean than did their ancient forefathers. Questions of whether it's morally right to force people to fall in love or keep them apart, of what love means to different people and whether or not a god should dictate that for them, of what kinds of relationships are acceptable expressions of love and even of whether or not everyone needs or wants love in their lives are all issues that probably plague budding love gods substantially more than they did the deities of ancient times.
Indeed, there is not. While you could certainly probably come up with a bunch of custom relic powers to facilitate matchmaking (and we suspect that this is probably what the writers of Scion were banking on, especially with the example of Eros' arrows to guide them), there is no direct set of powers associated with making people love one another in the books. Or at least, not in terms that black and white.
At the moment, gods who embody love do most of their mojo-ing with their Epic Social Attributes, which is not a perfect solution but which is also what we've got with the current setup. While there's no knack that says, "point at two people, they fall in love", making two people fall in love is not difficult for someone with tons of Manipulation; not only is a god with that stat a master at the arts of suggestion, innuendo and subtle encouragement, making it easy to convince both people of the other's great traits and trivial to weave an enticing air of alluring mystery around them, but he has access to many knacks that can be twisted to bump people toward one another as well. The powers most easily turned toward this sort of purpose include Implant False Memory (to add memories of the other person's past kindnesses or erase memories of their bad actions) and its close cousin Total Recall, Instant Hypnosis (to put people in the frame of mind to respond to romantic overtures even if they might normally have ignored them) and Advantageous Circumstances, which makes it child's play to see to it that a couple at least gets together and hangs out as long as you're monitoring the situation. Those aren't the only Manipulation knacks that facilitate matchmaking, though some of the others may take a little more creativity, and there are a few useful tricks in the Charisma and Appearance trees as well (a little Perfect Actor and suddenly everybody in the area is feeling in the mood for love!). Then you've got your standard emotion-massaging powers scattered around a few other purviews, with Chaos' Impassion being the most obvious for this kind of thing.
Past that point, a lot depends on what you want your god or goddess of love to be, exactly. Overseeing a concept like "love" can mean a lot of different things, as various different gods associated with it can attest - for example, Aphrodite's emphasis on sexual love is not the same as Isis' emphasis on motherly love is not the same as Wadd's emphasis on platonic love is not the same as Hera's emphasis on monogamous love, and so on and so forth. Different love-related god concepts will lend themselves to different auxiliary powers and specialties to flesh them out, and what works for one may be irrelevant for another. You sound like you're suggesting a god who wants to be instrumental in setting up romantic love affairs, and if that's the case, the power above plus some relic boosters (I would suggest a custom relic, possibly not accessible until late Demigod, that allows you to use your Engender Love knack on behalf of others) will be close to your best fit in the current rules.
A lot of Storytellers for Scion house-rule some kind of Love or Emotion purview in order to give love gods a more concrete set of powers; it's something that we've considered ourselves, although we haven't gone as far as to try writing one yet. On the one hand, it kind of sucks for love gods, which are a fairly widespread phenomenon, to not have a purview representing their major area of influence; on the other hand, there are fiddly questions of whether or not Love is the same kind of cosmic idea as the other purviews and belongs with them, whether or not love-related powers should just be some new custom knacks, and even whether there are enough possible powers for a Love purview to even be viable. If you're interested in a custom set of powers and your Storyteller's down with it, there are more than a few fan-created purviews floating around the interwebs that you might want to check out, or else you might want to explore writing your own. We're probably not going to be working on one any time soon, but it is in our Hazy Future Possibilities bin; someday we'll probably give it a good hard look, though I can't promise we'll end up deciding we want to go for it. (Plus, if we wrote a Love purview now, Geoff's player would just whine forever about how he had to spend all his XP on it.)
Love gods are one of the more interesting archetypes for new Scions to play, I think; there are a lot of weird questions of emotion and morality surrounding the role for children who have grown up in modern societies that have very different ideas of what love, relationships and free will mean than did their ancient forefathers. Questions of whether it's morally right to force people to fall in love or keep them apart, of what love means to different people and whether or not a god should dictate that for them, of what kinds of relationships are acceptable expressions of love and even of whether or not everyone needs or wants love in their lives are all issues that probably plague budding love gods substantially more than they did the deities of ancient times.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Love, Love, Love
Question: Hey, myth scholars! What are the cultural meanings behind the love/sex gods/goddesses of each pantheon posted on the pantheon page plus Anne's, besides what's in their character write-ups and the general view of them as dangerous uncontrolled women?
I gotta level with you, anonymous: I'm afraid we talked this over for a while and had to eventually admit that we don't know what you're asking. "Cultural meaning" is such a broad and vague phrase that we couldn't figure out what you wanted to talk about, and were left staring at the question in befuddlement.
But love deities are certainly one of the mainstays of mythology, appearing in wide numbers of myths around the world. They are most often women, probably representing the idea of female sexuality as more alluring or powerfully intoxicating than male sexuality, but there are major male love deities who are just as important.
Scion (including our extra pantheons) currently includes Aengus, Anat, Aphrodite, Astarte, Erzulie, Freya, Hathor, Ishtar, Tlazolteotl, Xochiquetzal and Zhiva among the ranks of love deities that are available as divine parents, but many others around the world - including the Greek Eros (and his Erotes), the Hindu Kama and Rati, the Yoruba Oshun and the Aztec Xochipilli - are equally as important and should not be forgotten. Depending on your definition of "love god", you may also want to add others to that list; gods who represent masculine sexuality like Cernunnos or Tezcatlipoca might be included for some, or deities that represent non-sexual love like Isis or the Arab god Wadd.
Obviously, every culture views its love deities differently according to how they view love, sex and sexuality in that society, but it's pretty fascinating to ponder that almost all major mythologies do have gods dedicated to the idea. There are mythologies without love gods, but there are more that have them; and when they are present, they're almost invariably important in that culture's myths. The idea that love is a major force in the universe and is overseen by powerful gods is one that is clearly common to a lot of different cultures, and it's a place with endless potential for Scion games.
Sorry we couldn't answer your question, but if you're still around, feel free to comment and help us out!
I gotta level with you, anonymous: I'm afraid we talked this over for a while and had to eventually admit that we don't know what you're asking. "Cultural meaning" is such a broad and vague phrase that we couldn't figure out what you wanted to talk about, and were left staring at the question in befuddlement.
But love deities are certainly one of the mainstays of mythology, appearing in wide numbers of myths around the world. They are most often women, probably representing the idea of female sexuality as more alluring or powerfully intoxicating than male sexuality, but there are major male love deities who are just as important.
Scion (including our extra pantheons) currently includes Aengus, Anat, Aphrodite, Astarte, Erzulie, Freya, Hathor, Ishtar, Tlazolteotl, Xochiquetzal and Zhiva among the ranks of love deities that are available as divine parents, but many others around the world - including the Greek Eros (and his Erotes), the Hindu Kama and Rati, the Yoruba Oshun and the Aztec Xochipilli - are equally as important and should not be forgotten. Depending on your definition of "love god", you may also want to add others to that list; gods who represent masculine sexuality like Cernunnos or Tezcatlipoca might be included for some, or deities that represent non-sexual love like Isis or the Arab god Wadd.
Obviously, every culture views its love deities differently according to how they view love, sex and sexuality in that society, but it's pretty fascinating to ponder that almost all major mythologies do have gods dedicated to the idea. There are mythologies without love gods, but there are more that have them; and when they are present, they're almost invariably important in that culture's myths. The idea that love is a major force in the universe and is overseen by powerful gods is one that is clearly common to a lot of different cultures, and it's a place with endless potential for Scion games.
Sorry we couldn't answer your question, but if you're still around, feel free to comment and help us out!
Sunday, October 7, 2012
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.
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.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Love Triumphant
Question: I'm considering creating a Love purview. Do you think it's a good idea or have any ideas? It just seems to me that many gods, from Aphrodite to Ishtar to Aengus, could have that purview. It came after a friend wanted to be a Scion of Eros in our game, and we realized it really wasn't possible, since all he has going for him right now would be Epic Appearance.
Well, he could still be a Scion of Eros, he just wouldn't have as many XP discounts as Scions of less specialized gods; the usual Dodekatheon conundrum. Incidentally, I'd say Eros probably could have Epic Manipulation associated, as he's all about some shenanigans to get people into and out of love while giggling behind the shrubbery, plus there's all his behind-the-scenes string-pulling when it comes to the story with Psyche. But that still leaves you with only two, and most players usually end up not wanting to do that, so I feel your pain.
There aren't a lot of places in Scion that I think are really left for all-purpose purviews to cover, but Love might be one of them. Certainly there are many love-gods and -goddesses out there, from Aphrodite to Ishtar to Aengus to Freya to Anat to Xochiquetzal and on ad infinitum, and they often end up looking a bit pale next to their divine brethren because of the lack of a dedicated power that covers their strongest area of influence. You're far from the first person to look into building a Love purview; it's one of the few at the top of our list if we ever take a crack at new APPs again, and many more Scion-players across the interwebs have been involved in projects to build one as well.
The major problem that most versions of a Love purview run into is that there isn't enough for it to do that isn't being covered by other things already. Social knacks are the biggest culprit; Charisma and Manipulation (with occasional incursions by Appearance) tend to cover a lot of this ground already, but unfortunately just giving love gods those Attributes usually isn't a satisfactory solution (sure, Aengus can have them, but Aphrodite's Manipulation is generally abysmal and I don't think anyone's going to try to claim that Charisma is one of Anat's selling points). A Love purview has to come up with a lot of different powers that are unique and varied enough to make it competitive with other purviews, individual enough that they don't overlap too much with the social powers and interesting enough that the entire purview doesn't feel boringly one-note, and that's a tall order to achieve.
But I don't think it's a bad idea (call it one more of the millions of things I want to get a chance to work on someday), and lots of others don't, either. If you'd like to see what others have done or are just looking for some inspiration, there are plenty of fan-made Love purviews already out there: the Scion wiki features an Emotion purview, Heart purview and beginning of a Love purview, while Modern Mythos has a very popular Emotion purview as well. Give some of them a look and see if you like what you see; even if you don't, they'll give you a good idea of what this kind of project might be about.
Well, he could still be a Scion of Eros, he just wouldn't have as many XP discounts as Scions of less specialized gods; the usual Dodekatheon conundrum. Incidentally, I'd say Eros probably could have Epic Manipulation associated, as he's all about some shenanigans to get people into and out of love while giggling behind the shrubbery, plus there's all his behind-the-scenes string-pulling when it comes to the story with Psyche. But that still leaves you with only two, and most players usually end up not wanting to do that, so I feel your pain.
There aren't a lot of places in Scion that I think are really left for all-purpose purviews to cover, but Love might be one of them. Certainly there are many love-gods and -goddesses out there, from Aphrodite to Ishtar to Aengus to Freya to Anat to Xochiquetzal and on ad infinitum, and they often end up looking a bit pale next to their divine brethren because of the lack of a dedicated power that covers their strongest area of influence. You're far from the first person to look into building a Love purview; it's one of the few at the top of our list if we ever take a crack at new APPs again, and many more Scion-players across the interwebs have been involved in projects to build one as well.
The major problem that most versions of a Love purview run into is that there isn't enough for it to do that isn't being covered by other things already. Social knacks are the biggest culprit; Charisma and Manipulation (with occasional incursions by Appearance) tend to cover a lot of this ground already, but unfortunately just giving love gods those Attributes usually isn't a satisfactory solution (sure, Aengus can have them, but Aphrodite's Manipulation is generally abysmal and I don't think anyone's going to try to claim that Charisma is one of Anat's selling points). A Love purview has to come up with a lot of different powers that are unique and varied enough to make it competitive with other purviews, individual enough that they don't overlap too much with the social powers and interesting enough that the entire purview doesn't feel boringly one-note, and that's a tall order to achieve.
But I don't think it's a bad idea (call it one more of the millions of things I want to get a chance to work on someday), and lots of others don't, either. If you'd like to see what others have done or are just looking for some inspiration, there are plenty of fan-made Love purviews already out there: the Scion wiki features an Emotion purview, Heart purview and beginning of a Love purview, while Modern Mythos has a very popular Emotion purview as well. Give some of them a look and see if you like what you see; even if you don't, they'll give you a good idea of what this kind of project might be about.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Unclean
Question: Who do you think is the "sluttiest" god/goddess of the love gods? By that I mean who do you think is the love god of all the pantheons you have listed that stresses sex and lust most over love and companionship?
This question looked like so much fun that I shared it with the Better Next Time players, who were just arriving for game when it landed in my inbox. Responses ranged from "The Morrigan! She's always having sex with dudes!" to "Aphrodite! Come on, that's like her thing!" to (my personal favorite) "Ard! That goddess of virgins thing is clearly an enormous con." The wide range and the fact that almost nobody actually answered the question being asked (only one of those three is a love goddess, guys!) is a nice example of how wide a field there is when it comes to goddesses and their interpretations. (It's also an example of how loaded that word is - not one person chose a male god, only goddesses.)
My answer, hands down, would be Tlazolteotl, the Aztec goddess known as the Eater of Filth. While plenty of love gods are philanderers - Aphrodite's famous trysts, Aengus' career of heartbreaking, Freya's renowned nighttime activities - Tlazolteotl is the only one who is purely and solely about sex. There is no love component to her worship or associations whatsoever; she's a goddess of sex and sexual temptation, period, and there are no fuzzy feelings attached.
In fact, Tlazolteotl is in large part about how sex is bad and you should be punished for indulging in it. There are two phases to her behavior: mercilessly tempting men with the delights of the flesh, and mercilessly passing judgment on them if they give in. An entire system of repentance existed in Aztec culture centered around Tlazolteotl, to whom men were required to pray and beg for forgiveness for their sexual transgressions (of which there were likely to be a lot - the Aztecs were very big on rules about how many kinds of sex were Not Okay). She had the power to absolve them of their misdeeds (though, according to some scholars, she would only do so once in a man's life), literally consuming their sexual sins - "eating their filth" - in order to leave them pure again. She performed a very important function; she's a cultural expression of the idea that the power of sexuality cannot be resisted, only atoned for after the fact.
She's also in charge of inflicting sexually transmitted diseases on those whorish, whorish people that upset her. So you can see that there's not a lot of room in the Tlazolteotl worldview for cuddling and discussion of mutual hobbies (among the Aztecs, those belong to the realm of the goddess Xochiquetzal, a positive goddess of love and sexual pleasure). A lot of love and sex gods and goddesses are promiscuous (unsurprising - it's their nature!) and often immoral, but no other comparable god on Scion's rosters lacks at least some form of love imagery to go along with the sex.
On the other end of the spectrum, I'd peg Hathor as the most joyous and feelings-oriented of the love goddesses; she does have a strong sexual component, but it's the happy, celebratory kind of sex, and her associations with love and comfort are just as strong.
This question looked like so much fun that I shared it with the Better Next Time players, who were just arriving for game when it landed in my inbox. Responses ranged from "The Morrigan! She's always having sex with dudes!" to "Aphrodite! Come on, that's like her thing!" to (my personal favorite) "Ard! That goddess of virgins thing is clearly an enormous con." The wide range and the fact that almost nobody actually answered the question being asked (only one of those three is a love goddess, guys!) is a nice example of how wide a field there is when it comes to goddesses and their interpretations. (It's also an example of how loaded that word is - not one person chose a male god, only goddesses.)
My answer, hands down, would be Tlazolteotl, the Aztec goddess known as the Eater of Filth. While plenty of love gods are philanderers - Aphrodite's famous trysts, Aengus' career of heartbreaking, Freya's renowned nighttime activities - Tlazolteotl is the only one who is purely and solely about sex. There is no love component to her worship or associations whatsoever; she's a goddess of sex and sexual temptation, period, and there are no fuzzy feelings attached.
In fact, Tlazolteotl is in large part about how sex is bad and you should be punished for indulging in it. There are two phases to her behavior: mercilessly tempting men with the delights of the flesh, and mercilessly passing judgment on them if they give in. An entire system of repentance existed in Aztec culture centered around Tlazolteotl, to whom men were required to pray and beg for forgiveness for their sexual transgressions (of which there were likely to be a lot - the Aztecs were very big on rules about how many kinds of sex were Not Okay). She had the power to absolve them of their misdeeds (though, according to some scholars, she would only do so once in a man's life), literally consuming their sexual sins - "eating their filth" - in order to leave them pure again. She performed a very important function; she's a cultural expression of the idea that the power of sexuality cannot be resisted, only atoned for after the fact.
She's also in charge of inflicting sexually transmitted diseases on those whorish, whorish people that upset her. So you can see that there's not a lot of room in the Tlazolteotl worldview for cuddling and discussion of mutual hobbies (among the Aztecs, those belong to the realm of the goddess Xochiquetzal, a positive goddess of love and sexual pleasure). A lot of love and sex gods and goddesses are promiscuous (unsurprising - it's their nature!) and often immoral, but no other comparable god on Scion's rosters lacks at least some form of love imagery to go along with the sex.
On the other end of the spectrum, I'd peg Hathor as the most joyous and feelings-oriented of the love goddesses; she does have a strong sexual component, but it's the happy, celebratory kind of sex, and her associations with love and comfort are just as strong.
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