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Race: Winged Unicorn.
Eye color: Green
Main and tail: Gold
Height: 5’4
Age: Unknown, but looks to be in her young twenties.
P.O.B: Athena sprang full-grown from the forehead of Zeus, and became his favorite child. Her symbols include the owl and the olive tree.
Master: None
Pet: None
Looks: She is a winged unicorn her, fur and feathers are pure white. Her main and tail are a bright gold and her hooves match. Her eyes are a mesmerizing shade of green, which seem to sparkle with light. She wears a short Greek robe with a red waist band and a golden chain. Though she is Greek she has a fascination with the Roman Helmets, thus why she wears one. On her right arm lies a matching red ribbon, and gold arm bands on each arm. Lying on her right leg is a golden band much like the ones that are worn on most arms. She carries a short sword. (picture soon to be up)
History of Athena: Athena (uthē'nu), or Pallas Athena (păl'us), in Greek religion and mythology, one of the most important Olympian deities. According to myth, after Zeus seduced Metis he learned that any son she bore would overthrow him, so he swallowed her alive. Later Hephaestus split Zeus' skull with an ax, and out sprang Athena, fully armed. Athena was a deity of diverse functions and attributes. Her most conspicuous role was perhaps that of a goddess of war, the female counterpart of Ares. However, she was also a goddess of peace, noted for her compassion and generosity. Like Minerva, with whom the Romans identified her, she was a patron of the arts and crafts, especially spinning and weaving. In later times she was important as a goddess of wisdom. Athena was also a guardian of cities, notably Athens, where the Parthenon was erected as her temple. In a contest with Poseidon concerning dominion over Attica, Athena made an olive tree grow on the Acropolis while Poseidon caused a saltwater stream to gush from the Acropolis. The other Olympians, asked to judge the contest, decided in favor of Athena. Her statue, the Palladium, was supposed to protect the city that possessed it. It was said that because she accidentally killed Pallas she set the name Pallas before her own. Although a virgin goddess, she was concerned with fertility, and at Athens and Elis her worship was notably maternal. Athena is represented in art as a stately figure, armored, and wielding the aegis. Her most important festival was the Panathenaea,. which was celebrated annually at Athens. It included athletic and musical contests, poetic recitations, and sacrifices. At the end of the festivities a grand procession carried a richly embroidered peplos to the Acropolis as a present to Athena.
