History of Éris Zeusion
The Goddess of Strife
Éris Zeusion was born in the Shomer universe before the collapse of the Chronoverse. She is the daughter of Yahauah and Naāmah. She is the goddess of strife and discord. She is the polar opposite of her niece, Harmonia Árēsion.
The most famous annal of Éris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of Paris. The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Éris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.
She therefore (as part of a plan hatched by Zeus and Themis) tossed into the party the Apple of Discord, a golden apple inscribed “For the most beautiful one.” This provoked the goddesses to begin quarreling about the appropriate recipient. The hapless Paris, Prince of Troy, was appointed to select the fairest by Zeus.
The goddesses stripped naked to try to win Paris’s decision, and also attempted to bribe him. Hera offered political power, while Athena promised infinite wisdom. But Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta, and Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued.
Mother of Discord
Her lineage is one of discord and hardships. The father or fathers of her children are unknown. Some believe she created the children herself through the power of The One Beyond The Veil. However, to her was born fifteen children. But she still remained a plaything for the whims of her own parents.
Another annal includes Hera, and the love of Polytechnus and Aedon. They claimed to love each other more than Hera and Zeus were in love. This angered Hera, so she sent her daughter to wreak discord upon them. Polytekhnos was finishing off a chariot board, and Aedon a web she had been weaving.
Éris said to them, “Whosoever finishes thine task last shall have to present the other with a female servant!” Aedon won. But Polytekhnos was not happy by his defeat, so he came to Khelidon, Aedon’s sister, and raped her. He then disguised her as a slave, presenting her to Aedon. When Aedon discovered this was indeed her sister, she chopped up Polytekhnos’s son and fed him to Polytekhnos. The gods were not pleased, so they were transformed into birds.
