Trope-a-Day: War is Glorious - General

April 19

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jrdougan <jdougan@acm.org> on 2016-02-09 00:22:22 wrote:

I can assume they are derived from Ares and Athena? Obviously Ares is a bit more…headstrong…than Kalasané. Dúréníän seems a pretty close match for Athena.

Alistair Young <athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net> on 2016-02-10 00:07:20 wrote:

Well, not explicitly, and in general, I might not want to take that analogy too far. Dúréníän is arguably a pretty close match for those aspects of Athena, but not (obviously) her various other aspects, but Kalasané… well, mythologically, Ares seems to have been more of a personification of the “War Is Hell” trope, with his associations with untamed violence, the barbarity of warfare, savagery, etc., etc., and not really respected among the Olympians, or by any of the Greeks except for the Spartans. The more civilized/dignified Roman Mars might fit better than the Greek Ares when considering how he’s seen, although in terms of his personification’s personality, I might picture him as more like Thor, especially in his personal strength and protective aspects.