Talk:Medb/@comment-32952100-20170919225212/@comment-27346922-20171111022942

Scathach being a 5* is absolutely appropriate given that pre-Christianity it's believed she was a Celtic "death goddess" analog who travelled the land and collected lost souls to escort to the Land of Eternal Youth (ie, the good afterlife). She was a sorceress without compare who had mastered all martial arts, and taught warriors brave and skilled enough to find her in her castle on the border between the world of men and the Land of Shadows (ie, the realm of ghosts and demons), most notably Cu Chulainn (it was said the training was so difficult most men died from it, which is why Cu was sent because Forgall Monach wanted him to go off and get killed rather than let him marry his daughter).

Medb is an interesting case, because the one thing you can say about her role in mythology is that always somehow seemed to go her way. She constantly confronted a number of very powerful individuals and just did as she pleased with very little in the way of repurcussions towards her, as it was often the other people involved who wound up dead while she just carried on. She personally hounded Cu Chalainn in the Ulster cycle (yes, hounded is a pun), confronting him numerous times, and each time he ends up killing either one of her many pets or handmaidens but never a mark is left on Medb herself depiste their animosity. And even if the end result was absolutely pyrrhic, she still stole the bull of Ulster in the end because Medb always wins, even if the win is a loss. She was also known to be quite promiscous and slept with a lot of different people of influence (something she actually has in common with Cu), and while unable to entice Cu Chulainn, she still manipulated men such as Fergus mac Roich (also in GO) and Ferdiad of the Fir (Cu's battle-rival who trained under Scathach with him), causing them to get themselves killed based on her various whims.

For the record, she was killed by a flying piece of cheese. Certainly an interesting way to go.