Persephone
Persephone is a goddess of springtime and resurrection, wife of Hades and queen of the realm of Hades in the Lower Planes. She is the patron goddess of the Cleric Charlotte Schutz and one of the prime deities of her holy order, the Order of the Righteous Death, alongside Nephthys of the Young Dynasty.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
- Pomegranates
- The colors gold, red, white, and black
- Robins and goldfinches
- Lily-of-the-valley
- Torches
Holidays
The Feast of Persephone's Return is a minor feast day celebrated on 7 March. Though Persephone has few dedicated followers, communities with widespread Hestian or Demeterian worship where the weather is usually pleasant by early March will usually hold small outdoor festivals. In Dancamort, this is instead celebrated as the Feast of Persephone's Farewell on 6 March, with raucous parties and a parade of decorated boats down the River Styx.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
Persephone is known as a champion of hope, even through difficult circumstances and trying times. In all seasons of the year, she has taken up the task of guiding souls to comfort and rest in whatever way she can.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Depictions of Persephone in traditional Olympian Dynasty mythos usually portray her as a tall Human woman in white and black robes, with long auburn hair adorned with a crown of lilies. Those who have met her in the afterlife describe her instead as a young Gnome woman with olive skin and thick, curly red hair, holding a bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley that turns into a guiding torch when she holds it aloft.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Persephone is the daughter of Hestia and Demeter, carefully grown by the two women in a sacred garden within the valleys of Bytopia. According to legend, she wandered all natural and beautiful places of the world with her mothers for the ages hence, bringing flower and fruit into the world whenever she pleased. Springtime always bloomed somewhere, and winter only came when a harsh god brought it.
After the Litigation of Flames brought the Age of Complexity, she traveled to where the Three Brothers Isles had been uplifted from the Aegirrán Sea and brought spring to Hadesia for the first time since it sank. Hades laid eyes on her for the first time there, fell in love on the spot, and carried her away to his realms in the Lower Planes. Demeter and Hestia, in their deep grief, let the lands grow barren and cold. Persephone wasted away in Hades, growing fainter and fainter and unable or unwilling to enjoy any of Hades' treasure or offerings. It was only when he brought her a pomegranate, found somewhere in the dwindling summerlands of the Feywild, that she was able to eat and retain her divinity. When Zeus and Poseidon found their wayward brother and forced him to return her, he argued that she belonged to him, since she had accepted his gifts. The gods finally struck a deal within the Celestial Courts that she would stay with him as his queen for six months of the year, and be free to roam the other realms for the other six months.
Today, in the spring and summer, Persephone primarily stays in the Liminal Plane, guiding the departed souls of those who led good lives through the misty forest and across the river to the Upper Planes.
Relationships
History
Hades took Persephone away from her mothers Hestia and Demeter shortly after the Litigation of Flames.
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