Hello there, fellow travelers! I'm back from a short break, and I'm here to share some interesting details I've discovered about Mitya.
Mitya's title is "Rules Set at Naught". The phrase is short, but it says a lot about the character. In this article we will talk about Mitya, a character who deals with rules but refuses to follow them.
Name and Image
"Mitya" is a diminutive of the name Dmitri, which goes back to the Greek Demetrios, "devoted to Demeter." In ancient Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of fertility and the patroness of agriculture.
Dmitri is still a fairly popular name in Russia, but among famous Dmitris the likeliest reference leads us to Dmitri Mendeleev, the chemist who created the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by systematizing all the substances known at the time.
Moreover, Mitya's connection to Mendeleev is closer than it seems at first glance. Mitya's in-game birthday, February 8, coincides with Mendeleev's birthday: he was also born on February 8.
On Mitya's chest we see an atom-shaped brooch, and he works as a researcher at the Royal Energy Commission of Snezhnaya. Besides chemistry, Mendeleev studied physics, where he researched the expansion of liquids. So such a small detail in Mitya's look is more than justified and logical.
The Knot in His Constellation
Mitya's constellation is called Nodus Gordi****, which means "Gordian Knot" in Latin. According to the legend, the Phrygian king Gordius tied a knot that no one could undo, and an oracle predicted that whoever untied it would rule Asia. Alexander the Great was the one who managed to deal with this knot. But the commander did not untie it; he simply cut the knot with his sword.
Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot by Jean-Simon Berthèlemy
The expression "to cut the Gordian knot" means to solve a complex, tangled problem quickly, decisively and in a direct way. This approach perfectly describes Mitya's title, "Rules Set at Naught". His everyday habits are much more modest in scale. He avoids schedules, slips out of the Armory Palace, and wonders whether soup can be cooked in a centrifuge. When someone hints that Mitya enjoys special treatment, Pierro replies that talent and eccentricity usually go together and that what matters is the result. Rule-breaking is tolerated here, and, it seems, valued.
Stellar Linchpin of Electro
Mitya has the Stellar Linchpin of Electro. His connection to this particular element can be supported once again by the legend of the Gordian Knot. The Phrygians chose a simple farmer, Gordius, as their king according to an oracle's prediction (the king turned out to be the first man they met riding a wagon on the road to the temple of Zeus). There is also a version that after Alexander the Great cut the knot, the sky burst into thunder and lightning.
We should not forget that Mitya works at the Royal Energy Commission of Snezhnaya. The Energy Commission is responsible for Kresnik's torches, the structures that warm Snezhnograd. In one iteration of Slavic mythology, Kresnik is regarded as an archaic deity of fire, the summer solstice and thunderstorms. Therefore, Mitya's command of the Electro element is doubly justified.
Kresnik (deity)
The connection with energy and Kresnik's torches may be a second possible source of Mitya's name. Here we can refer to Dmitry Blokhintsev, a Soviet physicist who led the construction of the world's first nuclear power plant in Obninsk. This is only one theory, but it fits well with Mitya's image, which is tied to science.
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