| Minerva's Helm | |
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Origin |
Minerva |
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Type |
Helm |
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Effects |
Grows infants instantly to the age of maturity |
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Downsides |
Superiority complex |
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Activation |
Wearing / proximity to newborns |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 5 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
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Date of Collection |
603 AD |
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Origin[]
Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. She is also a goddess of warfare, though with a focus on strategic warfare, rather than the violence of gods such as Mars. Beginning in the second century BC, the Romans equated her with the Greek goddess Athena. Minerva is one of the three Roman deities in the Capitoline Triad, along with Jupiter and Juno.
Minerva is a virgin goddess. Her domain includes music, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, and the crafts. Minerva is often depicted with her sacred creature, usually an owl, which symbolized her association with wisdom and knowledge, as well as, less frequently, the snake and the olive tree. Minerva is commonly depicted as tall with an athletic and muscular build.
The myth of Minerva's birth follows that of Athena. In it, Minerva was borne of Metis, who had been swallowed by Jupiter, and burst from her father's head, fully armed and clad in armor. She challenged the weaver Arachne to a contest of skill and turned her into a spider for her folly of insulting the gods. As a young priestess, Medusa worshipped at her temple before being defiled by Neptune. Minerva punished her by turning her beautiful hair into snakes, and later had the same visage placed on her Aegis. Like her fully grown birth, the blood of Medusa sprouted the winged horse Pegasus, later given to Bellerophon to battle the chimera.
Effects[]
Accelerates the aging process of any newborn, adolescent or youngling to adulthood. Will push them to the age considered for self-independence and maturity of the common culture, which can be late teenage years to anywhere within their 30s. It settles on a point their body will become healthful, curing any oncoming age-related disorders before progressing.
Their mental growth is impacted to the same amount, leaving them naïve without experience but retaining their greater ability to learn at a rapid pace. No extreme changes to personality or social integration have been noted. Besides the usual appearance of an arrogant, sometimes conceited personality type. Many believe themselves to be at a more perfect level than most, and will flaunt their attributes without concern for degrading others.