Nymph & Satyr

## History

The Titanic Gods, Okeanos and Tethys they created the first nymphs, fusing their bodies together to avoid punishment from the other Titans. From the mass created by their strange joining, 3.000 nymphs were spawned along with an immortal nymph as chieftess, known as Okeanid, the 3.000 nymphs were divided into thirty tribes, each tribe is made up of one hundred nymphs.

Each tribe was different and unique, possessing wildly elementally based physiologies, appearance and powers divines. All were female.

Though the nymphs were much less potent than the two original Titans, more of them meant they could oversee a wider area. In addition, their nature possessed the right amount of stability and mutability, which allowed them to mate with mortals to even further their numbers. When they bore male offspring, an entirely different being was born. The male sons of the nymphs were horned and goat-legged creatures they called satyrs.

## Description

These distinctly different beings are actually an extreme example of sexual dimorphism as they respectively represent the female and male biologies of the same race. Further making these beings unique, is that the females come in wildly different races and subspecies, while the male satyrs only come in three forms: the meadow, forest, and mountain satyr. One distinguishing characteristic common to nearly all members of their race is an accelerated libido and sex drive.

Further causing a divide among their race is that Nymphs and Satyrs can be immortal and mortal. While only a few immortal satyrs, there are dozens of immortal nymphs. The immortal nymphs are usually relics from the first or second generation, created by the Primordials or Titans, and they are usually highly venerated in Elysium, taking on leadership roles among their kind.

Possessing highly mutable metaphysical genetics, nymphs and satyrs are able to procreate with a number of beings to produce offspring. When they mate with one another or with mortals, the offspring is a nymph or satyr. If they mate with a dominant metaphysical species such a God the offspring can be Demigod or even God (if both parents were immortal gods)

Powers and abilities of these creatures varies by race, but typically nymphs possess elemental powers. So powerful is the elemental power of a nymph is that they can survive simply on the ambient essence of their home biome and do not require any other sustenance. Meanwhile, Satyrs are intuitive psychics that make excellent trackers and guides and have super sharp senses. Satyrs do require sustenance and are actually possessed of rather large appetites and are prone to overeating and other forms of excessive lifestyle if left to their own devices. Satyrs are also typically opinionated and critical, but in a lighthearted way which is where the term 'satire' comes from; meanwhile, nymphs are usually much more free-spirited and accepting of differing world-views.

Nymphs and Satyrs can be felled by mortal weaponry. If immortal, they share the gods' weakness to adamant.

Divine beings born of nymph mothers, such as Athena, Triton and Hermes usually have an affinity for manipulating raw elemental essence. This is affinity is something which is worth mentioning as there are a number of artifacts created for the Titans that even most Elder Gods cannot master these treasures as they lack the raw elemental affinity to use these. An example of these relics is the Talaria which require a being capable of making rapid manipulations to the air essence around them to safely fly at rapid speeds.

The Okeanids and Greater Satyr are the one hundred immortal Nymphs and Satyr of Elysium. Unlike regular nymphs and satyr, Okeanids are immortal and contain power roughly equal to a godling or lower-tier god. When an Okeanid is killed, they do not reincarnate. Instead, their immortal soul is immediately transferred to another nymph or satyr. The soul does overwrite the heir's personality, but the memories of the Okeanid are still accessible to them. A nymph that inherits the shard becomes an Okeanid. A satyr that inherits a shard becomes a Greater Satyr or Satyr Chieftain. Presently, there are one hundred Okeanids and one hundred greater satyrs.

## Types of Nymph

### Okeanids & Greater Satyr

When the original 3.000 nymphs were born from the fusion of the Titans Okeanos and Tethys, one hundred greater nymphs (or Okeanids) were also born. These nymphs carried an immortal souls and were ordained by their sisters to be the leaders of their race. The Okeanids pledged their service to Gaia, then to Rhea, and now call Demeter their Sacred Mother. There Satyr counter parts are known as Greater Satyr.

* **Notable Okeanids:**
	+ Thetis (Grand Chieftess of the Okeanids)
	+ Echo (Chieftess of the Dryads)
	+ Maia (Chieftess of the Oreades)
	+ Amphitrite (Chieftess of the Nereids)
	+ Medusa (Chieftess of the Gorgons)
	+ Minthe (Chieftess of the Cocytus)
	+ Peitho (An Okeanid)
* **Notable Greater Satyr:**
	+ Pan (Grand Chief of the Satyrs)
	+ Fauna
	+ Silenus
	+ Krampos

### Dryads

Dryads (also known as a Forest Nymph, Tree Nymph, or Wood Nymph), can meld with trees, pass through wooden walls or doors, instantly fashion simple spears or staves, cause fallen leaves to swirl about there environment without wind needed to blow them, speak to trees and forest creatures, and practice powerful essence effects to wood, trees, and forest.

* **Notable Dryads:**
	+ Echo (Chieftess)
	+ Chloe
	+ Sygra

### Gorgons

Gorgons (also known as the Cavern Nymphs) originally look like regular nymphs but during the war between the Gods and the Titans, they sided with the Titans. In the final battle, as the Titan Pallas was about to kill Athena's daughter Kalliste, Athena tried to to aid her daughter but was tripped by the Gorgons leader Medusa. This gave Pallas time to kill Kalliste. Sometime after the war, Athena pursued Medusa and her Gorgons. The Gorgons fled and settled in a cave under the Temple at Delphi, where the strong essence from the carcass of Python, a dragon slain by Apollo, would mask their presence from Athena. Over time as the Gorgons had been feed on the dragon's remains, combined with the earthen essence of the cave they called home had mutated the nymphs, transforming them into serpentine creatures with snakes replacing their hair and the ability to petrify anyone who locked eyes with them.

* **Notable Gorgons:**
	+ Medusa (Chieftess)
	+ Euryale
	+ Stheno

### Lampades

Lampades are the Stygian Nymphs that live in the Underworld. There are five tribes, each named for the rivers of the Underworld: Acheron, Styx, Lethe, Phlegethon and Cocytus. Due to the essence of the underworld they can reshape or summon ghosts, swim in or meld with Underworld Rivers and Marshes, summon Stygian lantern lights, and has influence over the vegetation of the Underworld.

* **Notable Lampades:**
	+ Minthe (Chieftess of the Cocytus)
	+ Daeira (Chieftess of the Styx)
	+ Orphne (Chieftess of the the Acheron)
	+ Gorgyra (Chieftess of the the Phlegethon)
	+ Leuce (Chieftess of the the Lethe)

### Heliades

Initially, the Heliades were not considered nymphs, considering they had a non-satyr brother. However, after Phaeton's death, the Heliades were grief-stricken, and this emotional disruption also caused their internal essence to become unstable. They accidentally absorbed their departed brother's essence in this moment of vulnerability. As a result, they became even more unstable, soaking in essence from nature and transforming themselves into poplar trees, similar to how nymphs adapt to whatever essence is present in their environment over time. Through the guidance of the nymphs, the Heliades learned to control their ability and newfound connection to nature and were then invited to join the union of nymph tribes.

* **Notable Heliades:**
	+ Lampetia (Chieftess)
	+ Kabeiro

## Trivia

* When the first child from the union of a Greater Satyr, Pan, and Greater Nymph, Echo, was expected, the Natural Order decided to impart the unborn child with an unbound Okeanid Soul. Months later the female child named Fauna was born but was not a nymph the child was the first and *only* female satyr.
* The Goddess Khione is an Honorary Okeanid.
* Nymphs feel a connection to reincarnated heroes due to them also be ancient beings like them.
* In NeOlympus, it is revealed that when the Titans Okeanos and Tethys united, could conceive 3.000 daughters, which were divided into tribes of twelve members giving a total of thirty tribes of nymphs, in each of the thirty tribes of nymphs there is a chieftess who is also the older sister of her respective tribe.
* In NeOlympus, it is revealed that when the Titans Okeanos and Tethys united, could conceive 3.000 sons, beings with the bodies of a human but who have the horns and legs of a goat.

## Links and References

* List of Nymphs
* List of Satyrs

1. ↑ NeOlympus Chapter 12
2. ↑ NeOlympus Divinity and Reincarnation
3. ↑ NeOlympus Gods Heroes Monsters and More
4. ↑ New-NeO-Echo
5. ↑ RepCap: Medusa
6. ↑ New NeO: Minthe
7. ↑ NeOlympus Chapter 12
8. ↑ New-NeO-Fauna