Quote Originally Posted by QT_Melon View Post
One thought occurred to me about depression

As powerful as our Ancient selves seem to be as a people they are ill equipped to handle depression. Hermes obviously had it, and people both around him and audience wise are quick to tell the dude to go away.
Not something I entirely agree with, but still a bit of a point of discussion.

I don't think we can really say that Hermes 'obviously had depression', our only real evidence is that he's introspective and thinks about darker stuff than usual (frankly I'm more inclined to give that armchair diagnosis to Emet-Selch). But... honestly, if it were true, yeah, Amaurot would be a god-awful place at understanding that. It's a very conformist society, and for all its supposed wisdom, also a very ignorant one. Completely willing to stick their heads in the sand rather than consider a fault with their society or an alternative viewpoint. They'd suck REAL BAD at mental health issues!