Anati Mythic Tradition

## Anati Pantheon

### Conceptual Deities

There are three named deities in Anatidad. None of them are worshipped like a true god, but thought more of as a personified concept. They are respected enough that people treat the name of the concept as a guideline to living. Archona, Victoria, and Gloria. History, war, and love.

The Anati people love to keep records of everything, to the point where they journal throughout the day and before bed. This all started hundreds of years ago, and it's not yet known when the Anati created the three goddesses as rules to live by, just that they did. Anatidians keep all the history they can because they hate to see the past be lost. It's widely thought this is how Archona was conceptualized, as a shared passion to preserve the world now given "life."

Contrary to life and ironic to history, is war. Contrary is the mass loss of life brought to the world as a product of war, and ironic is the history and culture made through the destruction of the past. The Anati hate to get pulled into war, in spite of the fact that they revere the fighting. In Anatidad, the fighting of war is just something that has to be done once it starts. War is revered in horror, and dreaded in the coming and going of the conflict. Anatidad weeps seeing loved ones go off to fight and come back stuck in the war, or worse, not come back at all. War only brings terror to the Anati, who culminated their pain into the goddess Victoria. Victoria is the loving protector of the Anati, traumatized by the sights and screams from the mud and blood. She is the goddess of war, and hears every soldier's prayer for peace.

Greatly preferred to war, is love. Gloria. The Anati are in love with the mere existence of love itself. Anatidians feel love for everything. Life, each other, the world, the sunrise and sunset, the endless lands and bottomless seas. The Anati know that even if they do not love something as an individual, there will be another person who does, and they love that person for it. One can walk down the street in Anatidad and see citizens leaning from their home's windows just to feel the breeze that they love. Nobody disturbs another person feeling love for their surroundings, they just glance at them and smile, because they love the love that other people feel. Gloria is the embodiment of love.

### Archona, Goddess of History

Anatidad worships history and knowledge due to the importance of remembering the past, and Archona is the personification of this worshipping. History, quite literally, deified.

She weaves the world transcript out of the shared memories of the world, such as our methods of archival. She lives through our recollection. She smiles upon those who struggle to remember, because she cannot remember very much by herself. All she can remember without us is how the world was formed. When our history is lost, a little part of her heart is lost. Even still, she loves us.

Archona does not fight, she does not rage, she does not feel anger. Archona more often that anything feels joy and despair. Archona delights at records, transcripts, books, archives, libraries, wealths of knowledge of any kind. If you preserve the present and by conseqeunce the past in a form of media, she will love you.

Archona weeps when knowledge is forgotten. Book burnings, transcripts destroyed, records lost, the past left behind. A loss of knowledge is a loss of life in Archona's eyes. All history is recorded by somebody, and if that little bit of history is all that remains of their memory, then the destruction of that history is the last and true death of that person.

History is life.

### Victoria

Victoria is the Anati Goddess of War. Victoria is the personification of the bloody struggle that engulfs parts of the world at a given moment. She is always awake, even when no war is being fought. She stays awake praying for peace.

Although Victoria is the Goddess of War, it frightens her to her wit's end. Everyone prays to win their own war, although she fights for the Anati. All the whispers and screams of a soldier pleading for their god, she hears every one. She hears the begging for mercy, the weeping for peace, the prayers for family. Victoria hears all of it.

The words send her to anxious spirals, to the point she takes wild swipes with her sword into perceived darkness, at shadows that aren't there. She is cursed with godhood over what she fears most.

An apt nickname for her would be the Nightmare Goddess, not because she is fearsome but because she may not feel a peaceful sleep.

War is worse than hell, even for a goddess.

### Gloria

Gloria, despite her name representing glory, is the Goddess of Love. Gloria, is not named for the glory of war. There isn't any. Gloria is named for the glory of love, and living. To be alive is glorious, to be in love is glorious, to have love in your heart, is to have Gloria in your heart.

Gloria is always yearning for and fawning over the loving joys of our world. The simple gifts to the elaborate proposals, all of it. Gloria loves love. Gloria lives to love. The Anati love, and Gloria lives.

Gloria is the joy of the world, the Goddess of Love.