Eris

> *"Let's air some dirty laundry, shall we?"*
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* Dysnomia, Thrúd, Ponos, Atë, Lethe, The Algea (Lupe, Achos, Ania), The Hysminai, The Makhai, The Phonoi, The Androktasiai, The Neikea, The Amphilogiai, Horkos, The Pseudologoi, Magni, Modi (Children, via Thor)
* Limos (Estranged daughter)
* Numerous other family members

## Professional Status

### Crimes

* Inciting wars
* Conspiracy
* Identity theft
* Murder
* Incrimination
* Malefic
* Grand theft

**Eris** is a daemon, the Goddess of Strife and Discord, and one of the children of the Primordial Goddess Nyx.

## Personality

Eris represents true malevolence and deviance. She is seen as devious, spiteful, vindictive, blasphemous and passionate when it comes to the prospect of the world potentially crumbling into chaos; which she refers to as being a glorious event. Eris represents the discord and disharmony that exists in humankind, However, she also represents the unexpected and unwanted element that is a part of life.

Nyx describes Eris as destructive, unpredictable, and impossible to control. While she is not particularly violent, Eris can use anyone's darkest secrets against them. Eris loves watching the arguments of others and whenever people feud, argue or bicker, she's in the middle of it all. She creates discord in marriages, causing distrust and disagreement between couples so that over time the love would be lost. She can make people resent someone else’s good skills or fortune and is always the first to instigate any argument.

Eris is viewed as a harsh goddess who enjoys unhappiness and turmoil and although she never takes sides in any argument, she happily witnesses the suffering of every person involved in it. Furthermore, in spite of her antagonistic role, including her amoral malevolence and sadism, it can be argued that Eris is simply fulfilling her divine role as the goddess of discord. As a divine being, she is not bound to the morals and/or ethics of mortals, though she is bound by divine law to keep her word as a goddess.

Eris is often described as a force of nature that no one could control. During times of war, Eris would appear to show that God was on neither side and that He did not condone such violence.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Dark Secret Sensing**: It would seem that Eris has the ability to sense a person's darkest secret and use it against them.
* **Discord Inducement**: Eris can cause conflict/disagreement/incompatibility between others to disorganize individuals/groups or cause internal strife. The effects of her ability can range from minor disagreements to violence that could instigate global altercations (e.g. wars, genocide, etc.).
* **Chaos Inducement**: Eris can cause chaos in any scale, from minor disorder, confusion and/or disobedience, up to causing massive storms, destruction, loss of laws and order to cause mass panic, etc.
* **Chaos Power Link**: Eris has her chaotic nature connected to her powers and uses it to control them. The discord fuels the powers and allows them to be strengthened and utilized on various levels.

## History

All of Ascim and many gods and goddesses were invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Eris, however, was not invited. Angered, she arrived at the wedding in secret, and tossed a golden apple with the inscription "To The Fairest" on it. Most of the gods recoiled from this, and most goddesses as well. However, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite did not recoil, believing they were the fairest, and argued over it. Hilariously, when Artemis saw this situation, she got up and went to Dionysus and took five bottles of his alcohol and left.

Eventually, they consulted Zeus, but the king of the gods did not want to get on any of their bad sides, so he chose a mortal named Paris to judge them. Hera offered him jurisdiction over a large piece of land, Athena offered him wisdom, and Aphrodite offered him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris chose Aphrodite and this caused a war between the gods known as the Trojan War. Later, he married Helen of Troy, which caused war between Troy and Greece.

After that, Paris proclaimed that Aphrodite is the most beautiful goddess (because of Helen), she gave him the love in his heart for Helen and stole her from the Greeks. He took her to troy and because of the feud between the Greeks and Trojans, this was the final straw. The trojan war started. Eris rode a chariot with Ares with Enyo beside of her chariot. After the war ended, Athena and Hera hated Aphrodite.

Two mortals named Polykethos and Aedon claimed to be more in love with each other than Zeus and Hera. This angered Hera so much, she sent Eris to wreak havoc on them. She went and saw the two. Polykethos was making a chariot, and Aedon was weaving. Eris offered a challenge, the last to finish would have to present the other with a female slave. Aedon won, and Polykethos was angry. Polykethos grabbed Aedon's sister and disguised her as a slave. Aedon was furious, because she tormented the slave. She chopped her son up, whom Polykethos loved dearly, and fed him to him in a stew. The two then quarelled and kerfuffled, until the gods turned them into birds.

## Relationships

### Extended Family:

#### Persephone

Persephone was unknowingly blessed by Eris as an infant. Over the years, Persephone would be haunted by "a feeling" that became harder to ignore as she grew up and even dreamt of eyes spying on her. Much to Persephone's horror, she recognizes her eyes from her nightmares. As Eris demands that Demeter tell the story of Persephone's birth and blessings, Eris reveals that she had also blessed Persephone.

#### Demeter

Demeter is shown to be just as afraid of Eris as the rest of Ascim. Demeter was deemed to be Eris' "favorite" during the trial. Eris encouraged her to keep talking about how Zeus had wronged her over the years. When she begged Zeus to only punish her and spare Persephone, Eris mockingly states she wished for a mother who loved her as much as Demeter loved Persephone. Eris then demands Demeter tell the story of Persephone's birth and the blessings she received from the Goddesses. Unknown to Demeter or anyone else, Eris was one of the Goddesses that blessed Persephone as an infant.

## Trivia

* Eris is of uncertain etymology; connections with the verb ὀρίνειν orinein, "to raise, stir, excite," and the proper name Ἐρινύες Erinyes have been suggested. R. S. P. Beekes rejects these derivations and suggested a Pre-Greek origin.
* Eris's kids all are personifications of wrong doings or negative situations, such as pain, fights, murder, lies and forgetfulness.

## Quotes

* *“Civil cases are the ones I dread the most. Divorces, custody disputes... It's a thankless task trying to unpack these kinds of cases with logic and reason. You have to be kind, courteous, and patient with your clients, even though half the time they are completely incapable of participating in a constructive discussion. \*sigh\* I know I advertise myself as being fully versed in every area of the law, but honestly, if it were up to me, I'd rather everyone could just get along, so we wouldn't have so many of these cases.”*
* *”Aww, come on now. What's so wrong with a little bit of troubles?”*
* *”Since you went through so much trouble just to get here, I'll let you in on a little secret. You know the dude with the stupid mustache that died in his bunker? That guy was kind of my fault, but it got out of hand when he started having his men round up and kill people by the dozens. My specialties are in mischief and strife, not murder. Would I do it again? Hard maybe. But if he does anything stupid, I'll drag him to Tartarus by his ear. Not having that fiasco happen again. I'm already in enough trouble with Zeus for that as is.”*
* *"I'm a trickster through and through."*
* *"I was trying to make the tea party different and special like me. But all I did was make it chaotic and weird... like me."*
* *"But I **do** like tea! Every tea! All the teas! Chamomile, Earl Grey, green, white, yellow, mate, lemon, ginger, chai, spearmint, peppermint, hibiscus... [inhale] ...cinnamon, pumpkin spice."*
* *"I'm not evil, little princess. I'm chaotic. Not the same thing. I oppose order, not good."*
* *"I'm not playing fair? Perhaps we haven't met. I'm Eris, goddess of discord and strife. Hello?"*

### About Eris

* *"She's the goddess of discord. Wherever she goes, she takes trouble with her."*