#IliiLore, #CalliopeLore: A good differentiation between them is the trajectory of their character arcs.
Calliope was very extroverted & naturally charismatic, with the brightest smiles that could burn holes through steel. But she hid a lot of sadness, softness, & insecurity behind her radiance-
#IliiLore, #CalliopeLore: Iliira's Ancient incarnation was Calliope, the eldest & chief (as described by Hesiod & Ovid) of the Nine Muses in Classical antiquity; said Muses being the goddesses presiding over literature, science, & the arts.
Calliope's domain was of eloquence & epic poetry (think-
A group of ten Ancient women dressed in long black robes with white masks, seven adults & three girls, stand on a walkway in the middle of the Peripeteia Krystalline Archive in Elpis. The early morning sun peeks in from the left side. The seven women all stand in the back row while the girls sit in the foreground.
#CalliopeLore: Considering how often I've brought up the immediate family of Iliira's Azem, Calliope, I may as well make a proper thread featuring them all!
Calliope's sisters are all her half-sisters, with a few exceptions of the girls who shared fathers mentioned below.
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#IliiLore, #CalliopeLore: While Iliira, herself, is GNC cisfeminine, Calliope's gender didn't quite fit with modern Eorzean concepts of gender.
Absolutely queer (they/she), but I see all Ancient society as dwelling outside a cisheteronormative mold. In modern terms, "GNC nonbinary," would be the-
#CalliopeLore: Never thought of it before now, but I'd say that Calliope & her sisters are out-of-towners. Not full countryside, but from a small city called Leibethra (based on the Macedonian city of the same name, said to be the resting place of Orpheus.)
Their mother, Mnemosyne, moved there-
#CalliopeLore: The Wind-up Moúsa.
As the eldest & leader of the Nine Muses (at least in real Hellenism, if not for Calliope's role in her own lore being reluctantly supplanted by her golden child younger sister, Euterpe), no other epithet would be fitting for the Muse of Epics & Eloquence.
#CalliopeLore: Calliope is responsible for the Okyupetes that dwelled around Anagnorisis, known in modernity as Alkonosts in Ilsabard & Relmuzaxaal in Tural.
Her original prototype, fondly named Orpheus, differed from the version approved for testing which subsequently survived the Sundering.-
Partial #CalliopeLore
Partial #CalliopeLore
Partial #CalliopeLore
Partial #CalliopeLore
