Aengus

Aengus is one of the gods of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Overview

Aengus, also known as Angus Og, Mac Ind Og, or Mac Og, is the most beautiful of the Tuatha. His long blond hair, vibrant blue eyes and delicately-sculpted features are enough to make men and women alike swoon in envy and desire. He has the lithe frame of a fencer or gymnast, rather than the heavily-muscled form of his father, the Dagda. Aengus is the God of youth, love and poetic inspiration, and he delights in embodying the first and spreading the other two as far and wide as possible. Aengus is better known for feats of manipulation than deeds in battle. He was able to trick his father into giving him the Brú na Bóinne, the Dagda’s own home, through a play on words. He is associated with birds, especially swans, and the birds that used to circle his head in a rapturous delight at the sight of his beauty have transformed today into the rows of Xs that lovers write to each other at the end of their letters.

In modern life, Aengus can be found wherever he has the greatest chance to inspire love or to prove his wits. He has been the host of a highly-rated daytime talk show and a sex therapist, a high-stakes gambler and a persuasive lawyer. The Scions of Aengus are always beautiful and in the peak of health. The can be found in any profession where beauty and a silver tongue are in high demand – as attorneys, salesmen, models, actors and politicians. While they are better negotiators than warriors, more than one Scion of Aengus has ended a fight by talking rings around a less clever foe until more physically powerful allies could arrive.

Associations

Powers: Animal (Birds), Enech, Epic Appearance, Epic Charisma, Epic Manipulation, Health
Abilities: Animal Ken, Art, Empathy, Medicine, Occult, Presence
Rivals: Aphrodite, Artemis, Hel, Izanami, Tlazoltéotl

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