Gelaorea

Gelaorea, daughter of mortals, was a minor poet in life.

Back then, some were weirded out by her both because of her reserved personality and the fact her works, when they weren’t about dreams or nightmares, were about men punished by the Gods.

Not only she was fascinated by the world of dreams and how it worked; but she found the story of people prideful enough to challenge the Gods and the punishments they received afterwards as much fascinating.

While that reputation made her feel isolated at times, she didn’t mind it too much: it meant fewer people annoying her and a minor part of her liked some people found her “scary”.

Despite her “dark” reputation, her ending wasn’t anything “darkly poetic”.

Already weakened by an illness which forced her to lie down in the last years of her life, one day she received a letter from a friend trying to cheer her up “with a funny illustration” at the end of it.

The illustration wasn’t nothing that special or clever, it being just a cat with a very long body with the caption “Long”. But Gelaorea found it so funny she started laughing and laughing until she stopped breathing altogether.

Ashamed for how her life ended (despite in part being glad her last moments of her life were spent having fun), to those who don’t know she says she drowned in a river.

Since she wasn’t that cruel, nor she did great feats (her works not being famous enough to make herself a name in history), her official place is Asphodel but she found a job in Hades’ Administrative Chambers, her work mostly involving reports and handling documents.

You can find her at her desk or in the archive or scribbling something totally work-related, no poetry about the Champions of Elysium or the House of Hades, no sir.