Medea

**Pantheon**: Greek

**Origin:** Georgia by the Black Sea

**Title**: Witch of Perfidies

**Alignment**: Neutral - Evil

## Information

In the epic myth of Jason and the Argonauts, Jason is presented as the hero who stole the Golden Fleece. Really Medea accomplished the task. She orchestrates their escape from Colchis with the fleece, too. If anyone is a hero in that story, it’s Medea and yet she’s more famous as a notorious villain, a mother accused of killing her sons, possibly to protect them but possibly to spite their father.

Greek mythology presents Medea as an enchantress, witch, priestess, and shaman. She is Circe’s niece and Hekate’s chief priestess. Medea is not Greek. She was a Georgian princess from Colchis, a place the Greeks then associated with the ends of the Earth. Her associations with witchcraft and herbalism were perceived as threatening, frightening and foreign.

Eventually, according to myth, Jason rejected Medea in favour of a proper Greek princess, Glauce of Corinth. This action is allegedly what stimulated Medea to murder her sons. Depending on the version of the myth, Medea either killed herself too, or she escaped in a chariot pulled by dragons, sent by Hekate or Hera.

Medea may be a villain elsewhere, but she is a goddess in Georgia, where people scoff at the notion that she would kill her children. One legend suggests that the boys escaped with Medea. Another says that she didn’t kill them—they were killed by Corinthians who perceived them as a threat to Jason’s future Greek children.

* Medea and her sons were venerated in Georgia.
* Her two young boys were venerated in Corinth but possibly as propitiation so that they wouldn’t harm their murderers.

Medea is a goddess of magic, witchcraft, and fertility. She is a healing goddess. In the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, Medea presides over the huge healing garden attached to the temple of Hekate. She may be a deified priestess. Medea comes from a family of deities including Circe, Helios, Pasiphae, and Hekate. Why shouldn’t she be a goddess, too?

* Italian myth suggests that when Medea fled Greece, she traveled to Italy where she became Angitia.
* Because Medea was the only mortal to effectively refuse Zeus’ advances, Hera honored her with immortality.
* Medea may be married to Achilles in the afterlife.
* Medea’s myth is preserved in Euripides’ play Medea, first produced in 431 BCE. Opera diva Maria Callas plays Medea in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1969 film, Medea. She is also the subject of several operas.
* Medea is a maligned heroine in German author Christa Wolf’s 1998 novel, Medea.

**Animals:** Snake, dragon

**Planetary object:** Medea is the name of a large asteroid.

**Offerings:** Georgian wine, flowers, herbs, perfume, incense, images of snakes

**See Also:** Achilles; Angitia; Circe; Helios; Hekate; Hera; Pasiphae; Zeus

## Fate Lore

The daughter of King Aeetes, possessor of the Golden Fleece, she was taught magecraft by the moon goddess Hecate. Separated from her homeland by the hero Jason, at the end of a long wandering, she was burdened with the stigma of the witch of betrayal and left this world.

**Height/Weight:** 163cm ・ 51kg

**Source:** Greek Mythology

**Region:** Greece, Corinth

Based on experience, she does not trust good-looking men.

A female magus that hides her face with a robe. Cruel and cold-hearted, she is a genuine wicked woman who does not choose the means to achieve her objectives and makes evil designs her forte. However, such personality was established as a reaction to the fate imposed on her. A tragic woman who, as a result of constantly facing betrayal, ended up falling on the standpoint of betraying people herself.

**All Tokens that Ought to Be Broken**

**Rank:** C **Type:** Anti-Magecraft

Rule Breaker. A conceptual Noble Phantasm that has given shape to the Witch Medea's lifetime. A dagger that breaks all sorts of magecraft. An Anti-Magecraft Noble Phantasm that restores objects strengthened by magical energy, relationships tied together by means of contracts, and
lifeforms created by means of magical energy.

**Territory Creation: A**

**Item Construction: A**

**High-Speed Divine Words: A**

All Skills deemed necessary for a magus are A Rank. Her evaluation is low because she did not accomplish any sort of exploits in legends, but as a magus her competency can be described as top-ranking. Anybody can tell by associating with her for a while, but since she was a sheltered princess, her basis is that of a daughter of nobility possessing good sense and morals.

This is proven by the fact how, even while putting on airs as a villain by saying things like "the humans in this town are all my property", she does not go as far as taking their lives.

Originally an innocent, talented woman who thoroughly devotes herself to the person she falls in love with. Be that as it may, due to having a trauma regarding her loved one taking advantage and running away from her, she sticks to having a one-step-behind attitude. She is weak to sincere people.

## Appearance in Modern Media

From Fate Grand OrderFrom Kamihime ProjectFrom Blood BrothersFrom Shin Megami TenseiFrom DislyteFrom Age of IshtariaFrom destiny ChildFrom Rage of BahamutFrom Tower of Saviors
## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes