elegantlion Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Preferably in Classical or Norse mythology? I'm working on a story and my brain is worn out and I can't find what I want on google. The characteristic I need is someone who would try to change the fates of other individuals. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Hmm, King Acrisius? He was given a prophesy that his grandson would kill him, so he locked his daughter Danae away. Didn't manage to stop Zeus from fathering her child, Perseus, so he tossed mother and babe into the ocean. Followed by traditional stories of Perseus and Medusa, Andromeda, etc., but eventually Perseus is competing at games when a wind blows his discus off course to strike a random old man in the crowd killing him...which was Acrisius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 The story of Oedipus has two people who try to interfere with fate. King Laius of Thebes learns from the oracle that his unborn son, Oedipus, is fated to kill his father and marry his mother. He sends a servant to leave the baby to be eaten by wild animals in the mountains, but a shepherd finds him and gives him to the king and queen of Corinth, and they raise him. As an adult, Oedipus visits the oracle where he hears of his fate, so he leaves his country in an effort to protect his parents, not knowing they had really adopted him. He eventually kills his birth father and marries his birth mother, not realizing until years later what he had done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Also, King Admetus. He was ated to die young, but when Apollo was banished from Mount Olympus he went to serve Admetus for his punishment. Apollo tricked the Fates (by getting them drunk) into allowing Admetus to live past his expiration date provided he could find someone to die in his place... The rest of the story: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admetus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 A major purpose of Odhinn is to manipulate people into being in the right place/time to play their proper roles in Ragnarok. However, he doesn't control the fates of people directly (the Norns and their own actions do that), but must work around the Norns to accomplish his purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Oh, all the Greeks try to fight fate all the time. It's hubris is what it is, and all they ultimately accomplish is giving their son/grandson/whatever a *reason* for wanting them dead. If they'd just hugged the kid and bought him lots of presents and whatever, that's how the dread fate could be averted! Oedipus is, of course, the logical conclusion of this, and yet Greeks never seem to learn to STOP TRYING TO TRICK FATE. Alternate moral: Prophecies are trying to punk you. If you see a seer coming towards you, give a false name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Cool, thank you all. Will read closer when it's not 3 am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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