Artemis

Ranger-General **Artemis** (アルテミス, *Arutemisu*?), famously called **Artemis of the Huntress** (ハントレスのアルテミス, *Hantoresu no Arutemisu*?), revered highly as the **Goddess of the Hunt** (狩りの女神, *Kari no Megami*?) or known as **Diana** (ダイアナ, *Daiana*?) in the Main Continent is an legendary semi-immortal Olympian human female, one of the Twelve Olympians of Olympia. She's one of the oldest of the Olympian population, having lived since its founding soon after the deaths of the Evil Deities. She leads an band of hunters and huntresses are often called the Huntresses of Artemis that go to gather food and other resources for Olympia, as well help anyone on Olympus whenever they can against the rising undead force of the Vrykolakas.

## Biography

### Background

#### Birth

Artemis' heritage, like many of the Twelve Olympians is an speculative, conjectural mess of myths and bodily of traditions that has spread throughout Olympia and the entire Mount Olympus, where even she herself has no recollection of her first 100 years of life. According to the most famous myth, Artemis is an child to the Olympia deity Zeus and an giant named Leto.

In the myth, it was said Leto wasn't able to enter into labour thanks to Hera, condemning Leto to never enter labour or give birth to her children while on the tera firma. Leto travelled tirelessly in hopes to have her children, but none dared to helped her nor rid of the curse Hera laid on her. However upon wandering in Northern Peninsula, she was then greeted by Týr. Týr understood the predicament Leto was in and decided to help her enter labour and give birth to her children. Týr lead Leto to the North where with his magic created an island from his own mana, not connected to the earth and thus not considered part of the terra firma. With the help of the Nine Goddesses, however they had her hang from the two of the Goddesses in case if the created island did not work as planned and Leto gave birth first to Artemis and eventually Apollo. Týr as well the Goddesses congratulated Leto on the successful birth and would help her nurture and care for her offspring. Leto decided to stay on the island created by Týr to call her own, naming it Delos.

#### The Hunt of the Python

##### Leto's Death

At an young age sometime after her birth (roughly the physical age of 14), Artemis saw her brother Apollo leave the island in order to see the world, which soon after heard the cries of her mother Leto and quickly rushed back inside of the cave on Delos to see Leto being physically assault by an serpentine monster who had Leto wrapped around its body. Rushing, she bashed the Python's head continuously until it let go, but not before quickly biting down on Leto's neck and injecting venom inside before fleeing, which she began to chase after before realizing he's out of distance to attack. She'd then quickly gathered fibres and a sturdy stick to create and bow and used sharp sticks with leafs to fire at the Python only just barely struck its eye as it vanished into the water.

Artemis then hurried back inside and laid with Leto with her mother's head on her lap as she laying by the venom. Leto then went to gift her unique items for herself, which Leto had already given to Apollo; an bow and an magical quiver that will never run out of arrows. Leto asked her daughter to look after her brother before finally passing away on Artemis' lap. Soon after she buried Leto on Delos and declared an sanction holy site as an memorial of Leto where she began her hunt for the Python.

#### Iapetus

Iapetus was an uniquely sized member of the Earth Giants, being much smaller then Rephaite Aurgelmir who is 9.14 meters tall, more taller then **Artemis** two heads. According to one legend involving Artemis is Iapetus laid dying on the side of Mount Olympus where Artemis along with her entourage saved him from death, bringing the small giant back to the town of Dion in order to be healed by the local priest.

Artemis was there as she spoke to Iapetus, detailing his exile from the White Mountain though he wish to not delve into the exact details concerning his exile, but it seems to have something to do with his relative height. In her ideal to help others, she allowed Iapetus to stay on Olympia and Mount Olympus as an new Olympian citizen. Iapetus thanked her as her was escorted by one of the Huntresses to his cabin, built for his height which is taller then everyone on Olympia. Artemis helped Iapetus in the use of an bow and arrow, and to use his body to overcome obstacles. Impressed by Iapetus' training and progression became the first male to ever join the Huntresses of Artemis, joining them in gathering of resources and supplies for the mountain.

However due to her kindness and generosity, Iapetus began to fall for Artemis and wanting to be his. When Iapetus confessed to her, Artemis politely refused his love confession, explaining on her chastity and wish to never be romantically nor sexually involvement in any partners. As Artemis walked away to perform her duty, Iapetus true colour showed itself as he brings out the Blades of Chaos. Sensing imminent danger, Artemis quickly evaded as one of the two Blades struck by her head before being grabbed by the head. Iapetus explained that she will be his before being knocked out by the pommel of the Blades of Chaos. As this happens, one of the Huntress from her entourage witnessed Iapetus' assault on her and called out the other Huntresses. She was then taken by Iapetus as he made an escape from Mount Olympus but got cornered by one of the older members of the Huntresses of Artemis. Together, the Huntresses killed Iapetus and saved Artemis as they took her back to Olympia to be healed by the corruptive Blades of Chaos, which was supposedly destroyed along with the titan's body.

## Appearance

Artemis is an beautiful Olympian female who despite her advanced age, looks no more then a young adult girl at the age of eighteen due to her longevity as an semi-immortal human. She's born with wavy brown hair which is tried into two locks that goes in front of her chest, while the back is untied, hair swept back from her forehead with emerald coloured eyes. Her skin is of light tone standing at 1.8 m (5'9"ft) tall weighing at 60 kg.

As an huntress of Mount Olympus with the title of the Goddess of the Hunt and Ranger-General, Artemis would wear that is aligned to her profession, an brown-coloured attire consisting of a undersuit made from the linen fabric of the Olympian boarat with fur around her shoulder.

## Abilities & Powers

**Semi-Immortality**: Artemis is an semi-immortal human, as such she possess an unique body that does not age like normal humans or most creatures do, having been the physical age of 18 for over 200 years. Her body is able to combat almost all forms of infectious diseases and adapt to viruses, making her immune system very strong.

**Peak Human Conditioning**: Artemis as one of the Twelve Olympians, a semi-immortal humans through extensive physical training and fitness regime represents as the peak of human physical conditioning. While physically weaker one of the Twelve Olympians, she is still greatly superior to the average human in the New World, enabling her to smash through thin or semi-thick solid rock with her feet, fast enough to react and even capture a arrow in flight, agile to quickly evade incoming assaults from non-human threats and be able to withstand damage from great heights.

* **Peak Human Agility & Speed**: As Huntresses requires one to be swift and quick, Artemis is the fastest of the hunters in her group, being name the Ranger-General of the Olympian Rangers and the leader of the Huntresses of Artemis. She exceeds that of any Olympic-level athlete and demonstrated agile in evading strikes from ogres and trolls roughly at the same time. She again shown her speed against an witch, quickly coming in and swiftly stunning her to perform her physical attacks.
* **Peak Human Endurance & Stamina**:
* **Peak Human Athleticism**: Artemis is a highly athletic human female, possessing of greater acrobatic feats then anyone among the Huntresses of Artemis or the Olympian Rangers. She has a flexible body where she can contort in positions to get through obstacles with ease. She can perform summersaults while performing an attack on her enemies with her two legs, a backflip and strike head first with her heel.

**Master Marskmanship**

## Trivia & Notes

* Unlike the Artemis in Greek mythology, Artemis here does not condemn her huntresses to have sexual intercourse and even support those if they wished for her counsel in these topics, including marriage proposals, etc.
* Physically represented by Aloy.