Anansi

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Known Aliases

God of Knowledge, God of Mischief, God of Spiders, God of Stories, God of Trickery, God of Wisdom, Storyteller, Trickster, Weaver of Tales, Widowmaker (Titles)
Amaomee, Anancy, Ananse, Ananse Kokuroko, Ba Anansi, Ba Yentay, Borebore, Gede Zariyen, High John, Ictinike, Ikto, Iktómi, Inktomi, Kompa Nanzi, Ksa, Kwaku Ananse, Nancy, Odomankoma, Ti Malice, Unktome, Unktomi, Zarenyen (Aliases)

### Relatives

Nyankopon (Father)
Akase Ya (Mother)
Bea and Tano (Half-Sisters)
Ntikuma, Tikelenkelen, Nankohnwea, and Afudohwedohwe (Sons)
Anansewa (Daughter)

### Affiliation

The Abosom (Member)
The Wakhan (Member)
The United Tribes of the Manitou (Member)

## Biographical Information

### Place of Birth

West Africa (presumably somewhere near Ghana)

## Physical Description

### The Tale of the Clever Spider

Nyankapon, the great sky god and leader of the Abosom Pantheon, seduced fertility goddess and queen of the dead, Asase Ya. The product of their affair was the rather unimpressive Anansi. A sickly and frail godling that showed very little promise in his youth. Growing up, Anansi rarely saw Nyankapon, which Anansi felt was due to him being a disappointment his father preferred to forget.

As Anansi grew older, he developed his divine inheritances and magical birthright. From his father, Anansi had inherited a cunning mind that developed new trade and craft skills with great ease. Anansi's mother had given her son a silver tongue that could beguile the minds of any who heard his words. Finally, as Anansi's unique talent, he had developed the traits of a trickster god.

Over the course of the next few years, Anansi engaged in great number of tricks. Through an adventure into the depths of Africa, Anansi walked away as the God of Spiders and Trickery. Through rigged bets, Anansi swindled his arrogant father out of his purviews of Knowledge, Stories, and Wisdom. In the course of sowing chaos, he also became the God of Mischief.

Anansi got married to Aso, a lunar goddess, and had four sons that he was just as unimpressed with as his own father was of him. However, Anansi also had a beautiful daughter that he cherished more than anything. Still, Anansi was never meant to be a family man and anytime he spent at home, Anansi would soon regret it as his wife would constantly complain about him never being around when she or the kids preferred to simply skip out and set off on another adventure or scheme.

Though, as Anansi's misadventures and crafty shenanigans made him more popular among the pantheon's worshipers, he became decreasingly unpopular with his pantheon's gods — particularly Nyankapon. During a night of drinking, many of other gods of the Abosom conspired to do away with the passed out Anansi, believing Nyankapon would award them for doing so. Binding Anansi in mythril chains, the gods then sold Anansi along with another godly prisoner to a demonic slave trader hoping to bring gods to the Void's slave market

Waking up on the infernal slave boat, Anansi learned of his betrayal and soon acquainted himself with the other god he was chained to — an Olympian wind god called Auster. Anansi was sure the Olympians has been gone for a thousand years, so he was captivated to hear the god's tale of what he had been up to since the fall of Hellenism to the rise of Christianity. By the time that Auster had finished his tale, Anansi managed to pick the lock of his chains. As the chains slid off of him, Anansi's powers quickly returned to him, allowing him to quickly free Auster.

Well, demon boat or not, being on the open sea is about the last place you want to be when a cruelly treated wind god is freed. With Auster causing a distraction to allow him to dispose of the demonic crew with ease, Anansi worked to free the other slaves. Once the hellion crew was gone, Auster and Anansi turned the ship over to the slaves and then the unlikely pair took their leave on a simple rowboat.

Washed up on the shores of the New World, some five hundred years before the likes of Columbus, Anansi and Auster became an odd couple as they ventured inland and became guests to the Mayan gods, where they lingered during the last days of the civilization, before heading south.

In South America, Anansi and Auster became Aztec gods, but would see the end of another pantheon with the arrival of white men. So, Anansi and Auster sailed north again and worked to plant seeds for dismantling the slave trade in the Caribbean. However, their actions were not appreciated by powerful figures invested in the status quo, so they were forced to sail north to the American Colonies where Auster's wanderlust got the better of him, and he eagerly set off to explore the untamed western wilderness, with Anansi tagging along.

Though an unlikely encounter with Wohpe, the White Buffalo Maiden of the Lakota, Anansi and Auster were adopted into a new pantheon, with Auster marrying Wohpe. After the wedding and honeymoon, the duo became a trio as they got back on the road and continued their misadventures that we cannot hope to cover all here, but rest assured, the gods must still be up to something.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Daimonic Physiology:** Anansi is a daimon born of two primordial daimon parents.
	+ ***God of Knowledge:*** Anansi possesses extensive knowledge and wisdom, granting him insight into various aspects of the world and its workings. He is highly intelligent and cunning, utilizing his knowledge to his advantage. He is often able to grasp complex concepts through simple observation or the slightest of study.
	+ ***God of Mischief:*** Anansi excels in mischief-making, often conjuring tricks, pranks, and illusions to manipulate and deceive others. He has a natural magical affinity for creating illusions to manipulate and deceive others. He has a natural magical affinity for creating illusions or conjuring minor tools to aid in his schemes.
	+ ***God of Spiders:*** Anansi has a deep connection with spiders, making him both their protector and advocate. He can communicate with spiders, summon and control them, and draw upon their characteristics and abilities; including creating webs, growing additional eyes, and/or additional limbs, or skittering up vertical surfaces with tremendous ease. He can also make his own bite or spit venomous, with a wide-array of magical effects carried in the venom.
	+ ***God of Stories:*** Anansi is a master storyteller, capable of weaving captivating tales and using stories as a means of teaching, entertaining, and influencing others. Being able to tell stories in any language, Anansi can speak and understand every language known to man. He can also disappear from reality and reappear in the Dreaming at will, appearing in the dreams of the nearest sleeping person.
	+ ***God of Trickery:*** Anansi has the ability to change his form, often taking the shape of a spider, another individual, or a hybrid spider-god creature. This power allows him to move unnoticed and assume different identities as needed.
	+ ***God of Wisdom:*** Anansi possessed profound wisdom and insight. With a kiss, he can impart a skill or knowledge he possesses to another or simply put someone in a deep meditative trance in which they will experience potent visions as their mind connect to the Garden of Forking Ways found within the Dreaming.
	+ ***Mythic Strength:*** Anansi possesses great physical strength, enabling him to accomplish impressive feats. He can lift heavy objects, overpower adversaries, and perform extraordinary acts of strength. He's even stronger than most other gods due to also possessing the proportional strength of a spider in addition to his natural divine might.
* **Familiars:** Anansi has had thousands, or perhaps millions, of spider familiars over the years. He no longer sees the need to name them, though he does treat them all as very dear friends. Still, his friends Wohpe and Auster have named his current familiars "Dijien" an African tarantula and "Arachne", an African silk spider.

### Weaknesses

* **Adamant:** Adamant weapons can severely harm and even kill a daimon like Anansi.
* **Envy:** Anansi has a taste for the finer things in life. Luckily, he's god with quite the treasure at his disposal but should he ever be without his material possessions, he will blow his last dollar on luxury rather than practicality. He can't stand to be among the "have-nots" when there are "haves" nearby.
* **Henpecked:** Anansi does love his wife Aso deeply, but he also can't stand her for more than a few hours at a time as she constantly (rightfully) complains about Anansi never being home. Rather than be a decent husband and father, Anansi prefers to flit in and out of the house for just a day or two here to seduce Aso with promises of doing better before he's off again, pursuing another absurd scheme or crazy adventure.
* **Sloth:** Anansi shuns hard work and honest work. He can work hard as long as he's being a criminal or dirty schemer, and he can walk the strait-and-narrow when it's easy money, but he can never tolerate doing hard, honest work.
* **Vanity:** Anansi is a particularly proud and vain god, with no shortage of hubris. Though he is often clever enough to get out of the dangerous situations he finds himself in, it's usually his pride that got him in it to begin with.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Ranged:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 7 — Legendary
	+ **TOTAL:** 130
	+ **RANKING:** High Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Anansi is a mythological figure from West African, African American, and Caribbean folklore.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Anansi

1. ↑ Network Files: Anansi