Artemis

Associated Abilities: Animal Ken, Art, Integrity, Marksmanship, Medicine, Survival

Associated Powers: Animal, Epic Dexterity, Moon

The Goddess who drives the chariot of Selene through the night sky every night of the year is an eternally young Goddess, guaranteed to forever be a maiden by her father, Zeus, on the day of her arrival on Olympus by her request. She protects herself from those who would attempt to break this pledge constantly, turning Actaeon into a stag to be hunted and consumed by his own hounds after he spied on her while bathing. She is, like her brother, a great archer, and unlike him is a huntress, straying from the civilization he so represents to plunge herself deep into the wilderness of the world to find her quarry.

While in modernity Artemis is often shown to be a spunky young-adult, it would be more apt to represent Artemis as a young teen. Artemis is a youthful Goddess, which to the ancient Greeks, was something one had long since passed in their late teens. However, Storytellers may be more comfortable running Artemis as just slightly older than she is presented mythologically, otherwise some of the stories are a bit problematic, even for the Theoi.

Since Artemis is eternally youthful, and has vowed to stay a maiden forever, she has no true Scions, only adopted ones. It takes a great deal for Artemis to take on a Scion, for it binds to her some degree of responsibility that runs opposed to her images of youth and freedom. Making Scions of Artemis truly rare, though she may be persuaded into mentoring one of the Theoi's Scions.