Minerva

## [ CHEIMÓNAS DORM ]

* Bio

**House of Archimedes**:

* Thaddeus Archimedes (maternal grandfather)
* Ariadne Archimedes (née **Ahuja**) (maternal grandmother)

**Minerva Itzel-Archimedes**, better known by the people of the City of Flowers as **Her Excellency, the First High Empress**, is the current and only ruling deity of the Arete Empire, having been the founding deity of the Alcor Empire.

Only a few centuries before the beginning of the main storyline (in-game), the current members of the Draconia royal family (at the time) witnessed Minerva fighting in the great disaster that engulfed the entire world; Minerva having been deployed to fight in Briar Valley (as a sign of good-will from the Arete Empire), and as a result being awarded the Crown of Valor Badge, the highest award that a war veteran from a foreign nation could receive from the Briar Valley's govermental system. She was the "first" outsider to receive such a privalege and the grateful residents of Briar Valley erected a statue in her honor, with Malleus Draconia, a later descendant of the Thorn Fairy, admitting that due to Minerva's actions, she was considered a national hero to Briar Valley's people and to speak ill of Minerva, would grant you the unbridled wrath of the royal family.

Among the members of Diasomnia, she is typically addressed with great formality and is accorded a great deal of respect due to her accomplishments (during wartime). Silver and Sebek, in particular admire Minerva due to the sheer number of accomplishments that she has accorded during wartime.

## Appearance

Minerva dresses in an androgynous mannerism, having an height beyond some of her peers. She has silver, mid-length hair with angled, straight-cut bangs and warm peach-yellow highlights at the bottom of her hair's strands. Some of the hair on the top of her head curls upward like the suction cup appendages on octupuses, leading to a vague resemblance. Her eyes are a warm copper-yellow, having an almond-like shape to them along with them having far more rounded pupils than other people; they also glow with a slight glassy-like, and reflective iridescent-like quality to them. She is noted to have long eyelashes, which appear as if they have light-coloured warm golden glitter scattered onto them. She usually has a wide, mischevious smile on her face.

### Dorm Uniform

Having been given special permission by the Headmage, Minerva dons an outfit familiar to the nobles of Arete. This outfit consists of a long tunic, the **peplos**, which is fastened about the waist with a belt. Part of the peplos is folded down over the belt to make it appear as if it was two pieces of clothing. Due to her noble status, she also wears a smaller tunic called a chiton underneath her peplos, as well as a wrap known as a **himation** over her peplos. She completes her look with leather sandals of the finest qualities, along with adorning herself in jewelry made from precious metals like gold and silver.

## Personality

Minerva is a kind-hearted god with a pleasant temperament who treats others with politeness and courtesy. She holds the people of Arete dear to her heart and often goes out of her way to personally assist in all kinds of matters; despite having taken on a human form, she still feels obligated to help her nation's citizens and is often found (quite unusually for a noble) in the slums tending to the injured children or helping those with helpless situations. She is a perfectionist with an earnest personality. Her dedication often moves people, and those close to her gave her the exalted title of **Princess of the People** for her kindness and charity towards those who are deemed (in society's eyes) lower than herself. People in the neighborhood always talk about her with sincere admiration.

Having been a veteran of the "great disaster" — she is also riddled with great trauma and has experienced many turmoil in the world since descending to Artere as a "human" not a "god" — to her, there is nothing too hard or too extrodinary that she cannot accomplish. The warmth of the flames that flicker brightly, the passionate spirits of her people, Minerva records it all in her memories and it is the basis of her determination as a person who struggled through much adversity — she seeks a world as pure as the flames that her citizens make — the dream that glistens among the people, the purest form of a wish that there can be. To her citizens, having often seen the descent of their god — she is a passive observer in their tales and the cheery ballads — a paradox of divinity, never intervening in the slightest and yet having such a radient presence.

To her people, she is the epitome of a "guiding hand", having driven Arete from many a disaster or calamity with only a few words — her disguises and faces numerous a number — in her name, are victories dedicated and in her name are temples constructed, for she is the physical embodiment of turmoil and change, she is the future.

## Background

Minerva was a newborn god that fought in the various eras of the exalted Seven, that were the namesakes of the Dorms at Night Raven College, creating the first nation that would be adorned with the name of the Alcor Empire. After creating Alcor, Minerva began training a successor and at an unknown amount of time, handed the keys to the Empire over to them.

She next appeared in historical records, after having created the Arete Empire and became well-known as a "weak" god that persided over festivites and extravagant things, while having secretly accumulated a underground cult as a war god and harbinger of doom. During this time, she was considered the weakest of the original ruling deities, when she was in fact the strongest among them. After some time, centuries upon centuries after the creation of Arete, the cataclysm began.

Only a few centuries before the beginning of the story, she assumed the form of a "human" — becoming the most legendary noble Paramount Heir in the entire Arete Empire — her parents hailing from two of the most famous noble families.

## Trivia

* According to Lilia, she is the only original reigning deity left, the other members having been since replaced with new gods.
* Silver refers to her as Lord Rex while Sebek refers to her as The Exalted Lord Rex, Parmount Heir of Itizl and Archimedeas.
* Her people are considered to all be spiritual beings of some form, due to their unchanging appearances and referenced immortality of some unknown form.
	+ Adding onto this, her people seem to be all aware of Minerva's tendency to assume a humanlike form and have developed techniques to instantly recognize her, yet treat her in her humanlike forms as merely one of them.
		- Her humanlike forms are considered to be the "living incarnations" of their ruling deity (a disguised Minerva) and are accorded great respect and revere from her people as a result.
			* These forms are interchangably granted the title of **Damselette** by her people.
* Minerva is considered to be the most powerful and consequently the most dangerous among the current members of the Paramount Heirs:
	+ Yoru states that "her magical power is so great that it even trumps mine" and is noted to have said that her power is useless in the face of Minerva's overwhelming strength and power as a god.
	+ Quanxi, one of two adoptive sons of the Tsaritsa (also a currently reigning god) mentions that his power is a mere drop in the ocean as compared to "Minerva's boundless ambition and limitless magical potential" — hence implying that a god's power can further develop without limit or even within the normal limitations of reasoning.