Persona Ideas

This is the page for all those neat ideas for personas we find in research but cannot use. For now this page is organized by theme, but this may change or be expanded upon.

Death

Name	Origin	Description
Black Dog	British Isles	A large black dog, said to foretell a person's death. There are various names for the dogs, depending on the precise location.
Macaria	Greek	Either the daughter of Hercules who sacrificed her life for her city, or the counterpart of Thanatos who brought good death.
Maximón	Mayan/Catholic	A modernization and mix of the Mayan god Mam and Catholic beliefs who serves as a link between this world and the underworld. Unlike San La Muerte and Santa Muerte, he is not seen as benevolent.
Melinoe	Greek	Daughter of Persephone who wandered the earth with a retinue of ghosts every night.
Meng Po	Chinese Folk Religion	Serves the Tea of Forgetfulness to souls before reincarnation, so that they may not remember their previous lives.
Mors	Roman	The personification of death, similar to Thanatos.
San La Muerte	South American/Catholic	A modernization and mix of Catholic and South American beliefs who is worshiped as a god of death. A benevolent figure, he also answers prayers for good luck and protection against witchcraft.
Santa Muerte	Mesoamerican/Catholic	A modernization of the death goddess Mictecacihuatl mixed with aspects of Catholic beliefs. She is worshiped as a goddess of death. She receives prayers for healing and protection, specifically against violence.

Love (Happy, Tragic, and otherwise)

Name	Origin	Description
Beatrice	'"Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1844	Isolated to a garden of poisonous plants, Beatrice's body is poisonous due to her father's experiments. When Giovanni courts her, his own body becomes poisonous, and he blames her. Bringing an antidote so that they may both be cured, Giovanni is horrified when Beatrice drinks it and dies while stating, "Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?"
Name	Origin	Description
Odette	Swan Lake, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1875–76	A princess cursed to be a swan during the day, Odette falls in love with the prince Siegfried. When Siegfried is tricked into swearing his love to a doppelganger, depending on the ending, Odette is freed from her curse through the power of love, or sacrifices herself for it.

Luck

Name	Origin	Description
Arkan Sonney	Manx	A long-haired fairy pig. It's said that anyone who catches one is blessed with good fortune, though they run from humans.

Ocean and Sea

Name	Origin	Description
Sedna	Inuit	The Inuit goddess of the sea, she also governs Adlivun, the underworld. Hunters prayed to her to ensure that their hunts of sea mammals went well.

Drunkenness

Name	Origin	Description
Centzon Totochtin	Aztec	The 'Four Hundred Rabbits' in Nahuatl, they govern drunkenness. One of their number, Macuiltochtli, is a member of the Ahuiateteo, the gods of excess.

Prophecy

Name	Origin	Description
Elizabeth Barton	Great Britain, (1506?–20 April 1534)	An English Catholic nun, whose visions of the Virgin Mary made her a popular political figure. Executed for treason when she challenged Henry VIII.

Temptation

Name	Origin	Description
Glashtyn	Manx	A variant of the kelpie myth, the Glashtyn takes the form of a handsome young man. He attempts to tempt young women to come to the river with him where he will drown them.