Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-25936766-20170519131520

SpiritedDreaming wrote: 1-Can you tell me the connections between Mercury and the god Mercury beyond his Name and emblem?

2-I do admit that Gengis Khan is an option. I wasn't advocating Shere Khan as the allusion of Sienna Khan, merely pointing out that only a few nods here and there are actually necessary. 1-The fancy shoes? Hermes had the winged shoes, the Talaria. Merc may not have jet boots, but he has special ones at least.

On a less general sense, he might have some similarity with one of Mercurius's different aspects. Mercurius Visucius, syncretism of the Celtic God Visucius and Mercurius, was sometimes linked to Mars and worshipped in the frontier area of the empire in Gaul and Germany. Mercurius Artaious was a deity of bears and hunting worshipped in Beaucroissant.

The one I'm most sure of are the shoes/boots. The second bit is more theorical.

2-I know, but I'm also pointing out that when all we have is really just the name (in Sienna's case), jumping to conclusions is also not a good idea. In Ghira's case it's better since he at least is colored in black (like every single other Belladonna, apparently), but still.