Hmmmn. Depends on how you look at it; there are actually two The Morrigans. The death, and the goddess. From all I've read, the goddess is dead on celtic myth in her Aspect.
The death, now . . She was Apprenticed-death--which means that another death came along, had a shiny moment, and trained her in the aspect, then gave her/let her handle a weapon that had been used for taking people's souls for a few centuries. (I actually suspect that her teacher didn't realise she was female for some time; he found her getting involved in tavern brawls on a regular basis)
About a hundred years after she'd been made a death, she tracked down the goddess, in Ireland, and offered Her a deal. Worship, dedicated deaths in battle, in exchange for protection and the occasional warning. So the goddess doesn't fade as fast as she would if she had v. few or no worshippers, and the death's survived seven hundred some years of chasing the battle shiny. It's worked out very well for them.
What does she want? . . I'm not sure anyone--including her--really knows. She doesn't show more of an agenda than 'ooooh, shiny, can I fight it?'--which has made whole generations of other deaths' hindbrains go *flail!*. She can get away with this 'cause of Eduard De'Ath--who is a Machiavellian and does plan and plot and use people like chesspieces. She's a weapon, she knows it, she accepts it, and then goes out and attacks things for the glee of it.
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Date: 2005-06-17 10:30 pm (UTC)From:The death, now . . She was Apprenticed-death--which means that another death came along, had a shiny moment, and trained her in the aspect, then gave her/let her handle a weapon that had been used for taking people's souls for a few centuries. (I actually suspect that her teacher didn't realise she was female for some time; he found her getting involved in tavern brawls on a regular basis)
About a hundred years after she'd been made a death, she tracked down the goddess, in Ireland, and offered Her a deal. Worship, dedicated deaths in battle, in exchange for protection and the occasional warning. So the goddess doesn't fade as fast as she would if she had v. few or no worshippers, and the death's survived seven hundred some years of chasing the battle shiny. It's worked out very well for them.
What does she want? . . I'm not sure anyone--including her--really knows. She doesn't show more of an agenda than 'ooooh, shiny, can I fight it?'--which has made whole generations of other deaths' hindbrains go *flail!*.
She can get away with this 'cause of Eduard De'Ath--who is a Machiavellian and does plan and plot and use people like chesspieces. She's a weapon, she knows it, she accepts it, and then goes out and attacks things for the glee of it.