Apollo

**Apollo** (*Ἀπόλλων*) is the god of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, father of Asclepius. Apollo, the golden. Drawn to the cradle of art and beauty and music. Wherever notes drift through the air, wherever poets and artists gather, wherever the pulse of life and light runs brightest- you will find him. He has meant many things to many people, but so does the sun- life. Health. Things that are good. The dispelling of evil. But he is also a proud creature, proud at his most inherent core. Thrice defied Zeus his father, twice defended his mother, sought revenge on those who dared wrong him and his own. Bringer of prophecy and plague, medicine, and the thrill of the chase. He has so many epithets: Phoebus (the shining, pure, or bright), Agraeus (the hunter), Musagetes (leader of the Muses), Paean (the healer), Daphnaeus (sacred of the laurel), Alexiacus (averter of evil and harm), Chrysaor (the god with the golden arms), Smitheus (of the mice, locusts, of plague), Propousius (the foreseeing), Pythius (the patron of the Oracle at Delphi), to start.

He strikes like the sun on shifting waves.

Apollo has no wife.

**Daphne** the nymph was his first love, when he was shot through the heart by **Eros**' bolt, though Daphne had sworn herself to **Artemis**, the chase. She spurned him and when she thought he might over take her, she prayed to her father to protect her, who transformed into the laurel tree, sacred to Apollo for all time.

Apollo loved the princess Coronis and laid with her in her father's home. But she still took another lover - when Apollo learned of this, he struck her dead. With her dying breath she bade him spare their child who he cut from her on her funeral pyre. Their son would become **Asclepius**, god of medicine and healing.

He took Hyacinthus, a beautiful youth, as his lover and companion. The **North Wind** grew jealous, and drove the discus with which they played into Hyacinthus' skull. Where he bled out, Apollo created the hyacinth flower to memorialize him.

Bold and fearless Kyrene the Hunter was a Thessalian princess. Apollo witnessed her kill a lion with her bare hands, and was immediately struck. He spirited her away to Libya, where he founded a city in her honor and made her queen. They had two sons; Aristaeus, the god of beekeeping, animal husbandry, and many rustic pursuits, and Idmon, the Argonaut Seer. Of his many loves, she is the only who survived him.

Cypress, another lover of Apollo, had a tamed deer that meant the world to him. When he struck and killed his pet, he was so devastated that he begged Apollo to allow him to grieve for all eternity. Apollo turned him to the cypress tree, the symbol of grief and mourning.

Cassandra was a Trojan princess and daughter of Priam, sister of **Hector** and **Paris**. Sworn to Apollo, he blessed her with the power of prophecy. When she spurned him, he turned his gift into a curse; that no one should believe her prophecies. When Troy fell, Cassandra fell alongside it.

## Titanomachy

**Apollo** is a young god, pre-romantic relationships from myth and children. Life is bright and full of promise - he feels none of the dread of his parents; he is the beloved favorite of his father, Zeus. He has slain the mighty Python, laid claim to the oracle at Delphi.
He is the perfect companion to his twin, Artemis, who he loves more than life itself. He finds raw delight in music and art and wild spaces, in archery and hunting and competition and play. He has not yet met Daphne nor Hyacinth nor Cypress nor Cassandra, or experienced heartbreak. He is impetuous, cocky, and utterly fearless. For him, the world is wide and full of wonder, a ripe orange - and he won't rest until he's sucked it dry.

## Emilien de Sansone

### Description

Emilien de Sansone is the court darling and Master of Ceremonies.

**Emilien de Sansone** is the court darling and Master of Ceremonies. Known primarily by his title, Chevalier, he is technically The Chevalier Emilien de Sansone on all court papers. He Awoke when they called him by name, built temples to him in their palace, and called Louis XIV the Sun King.

He was immediately a darling of the court. He's been appraised of the myths and knows those circulating- but they feel like things that happened to someone else.

He is the King's advisor, and guides fashion, song, music, art around the court. The heavily cultivated court life all passes through his clever hands, and to be his friend is to be successful at court.

Though it is said he wanders the halls as dawn breaks as if searching for something.

## Apollo

### Description

Apollo is a curator of artists.

**Apollo** is a curator of artists. He remembers nothing beyond his name, his love of music and art, and the way he wakes with the dawn each morning. The 20s are a world foreign to him, full of strange machines and alien cities. He has no home, nothing to ground him.

So he befriends artists- so he moves from playwright to architect to musician. Inspiring. While Apollo is your companion, your art is- beautiful. Immeasurable. The best work you will ever create. His blessing an inspiration, a challenge, an obsession. He plays the muse, but muses are fleeting. He never stays for long, some deep seated fear of growing too attached always driving him onward.

## Non-Player Characters

### Roaring 20s NPCs

#### Claude Auclair

**Claude Auclair** Everything about Auclair is fake- the smile, half his teeth, the feigned humility, even his name was fake. He'd been born Pat Butcher, just a few blocks north of the stockyards in this very city. The willowy thirty-four-year-old wears his hair partially slicked back, works in cubism, and enjoys slyly informing admirers of his works that he was the artist with utter charm.

## Locations

### Titanomachy Locations

* **Archery Range** is a range on the mountain for the various gods to hone their skills in archery, located in a narrow but long courtyard open to the air with high walls on 3 sides and round straw targets hung at a variety of distances from the starting line and hay bales lining the back all to catch stray arrows.

#### Oracle at Delphi

**Oracle at Delphi** is slowly growing to its eventual magnificence, but is still a site sacred to Apollo. Beautiful and new; the stones are still being laid for the gymnasium and the amphitheater. Carvings are being added. The temple complex sits high in a mountain face, green and striking and covering nearly half of it. A winding Sacred Path leads from the entrance, the small towns below, to the rooms of learning and sport, the fields for wrestling and games. It has all the beauty of devotion, fresh and alive- a grandeur still waiting to settle upon it with age and use. During the day, a line of worshipers can be found, waiting to consult with the Pythia, Apollo's blessed oracle and seek her wisdoms. The countryside has made the complex rich and more gifts enter on the backs of those who make the climb each day.

* The site of the Oracle at Delphi
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### Sun Court Locations

#### Chevalier's chambers

**Chevalier's chambers** are airy and bright, gold with accents of blue and white. The space is often changing, art coming and going; a commissioned artist might be working in the salon. There are a few rooms and he is particular about who is allowed in them. The deeper a person is allowed within the rooms, the more sparse the design- the eye drawn to certain focal points with precision. A feast for the sensibilities of an aesthete.

## References

1. ↑ Wikipedia - Apollo [1]
2. ↑ Theoi - Apollon [2]
3. ↑ Discord - The Inevitable Dawn [3]
4. ↑ Wikipedia - Delphi [4]