Lady of the Mountain

Question: Rhea, mother of Zeus and the other Olympians - how do you treat her in your games? She is often represented as a kind figure, with a lot of lion imagery. Do you consider her a god or a Titan?

Rhea is very definitely a Titan - she's referred to repeatedly as a Titaness and is part of that most important generation of Titans, along with her siblings Cronus, Hyperion and Coeus, who led the Titanomachy against the gods before being bound in Tartarus. This doesn't mean she has to be antagonistic, of course; she's certainly benevolent toward her children at least a little bit, to the point that she wanted to save them from being eaten by Cronus, and she is never mentioned as being part of the war against the gods herself.

We've actually talked about Rhea in-depth before in this post, which was back in the dark ages of the archives. In a nutshell, while we have no "official" stance at the moment because Rhea has not been involved in our current game plotlines (or has she, players?), I prefer the later Greek mythology that claims that Rhea became Cybele after the shock of her husband and children warring against one another, and that she currently plays out the role of that insane but interesting divine figure. She's tolerated by the gods, partly because she's their mother and partly because they're probably pretty afraid of her, but she isn't really one of them. She might be benevolent sometimes, but at other times her madness might win out.