Explore the pantheons
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Circe
Greek · sorceress · transformation, the isle of Aeaea
The witch-goddess, daughter of Helios, who turned Odysseus's crew to swine. Mastered only with the god-given herb moly, she became the voyage's ally instead, hosting Odysseus a year and charting his course past the Sirens and the dead.
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Medea
Greek · sorceress · devotion inverted, terrible revenge
Granddaughter of Helios who betrayed everything for Jason, homeland, brother, kin, and made his quest succeed. When he discarded her for a princess, she killed the bride with a poisoned crown, and her own sons with her hands, and left in the sun's dragon chariot.