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A sigil commonly used to represent the Kin of the Leagues of Votann as a whole.

The Typhon-Styx Protectorate is a minor league of the Leagues of Votann located in the galactic core.

It is an ancient, and well-established Kin power bloc. No league boasts greater or more indomitable fortifications in its space than the Typhon-Styx. The Typhon-Styx Protectorate seek always to render themselves indomitable, so that they may be unassailable by enemies and invaders.

Their Oathbands lean towards steady and relentless strategies, advancing from one defensible position to the next and allowing waves of enemy counter-attacks to smash themselves apart against swiftly-raised ramparts and tanks, dug in as temporary bunkers.

The holds of the Typhon-Styx are, without exception, massively fortified. They are forever being improved by the league's diligent Brôkhyrs.

Trivia[]

The Typhon-Styx Protectorate is named after two concepts from ancient Greek mythology, the divine monster Typhon and the River Styx.

Typhon was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia and Tartarus. Typhon attempted to overthrow Zeus, the king of the Olympian gods, for the supremacy of the cosmos. The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus finally won with the aid of his thunderbolts. Defeated, Typhon was cast into Tartarus, or buried underneath Mount Etna, or in later accounts, under the island of Ischia.

The Styx is a mythological river that forms the boundary between Earth (Gaia) and the ancient Greek Underworld. The Rivers Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx all converge at the centre of the underworld on a great marsh, which sometimes is also called the Styx.

The use of these names here coincides with the general reliance upon the mythological nomenclature and imagery, particularly that of legendary giants, used in the fictional culture of the Leagues of Votann.

Sources[]

  • Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pg. 31
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