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| Bio: | Myth Basics Deity Name: Hades Other Names: Aidoneus, Aides (meaning, like Hades, the unseen), Pluto (the rich one), Ditis Pater, Dis Pater, Dis(all meaning the rich one), Orcus (killer), Polydectes (the receiver of many), Clymenus (the Illustrious), Eubulus (the giver of good counsel), etc. He is the "one of many names". Role/Function: King of the Underworld and God of Riches Powers: To judge the dead Objects and Familiars: The two pronged spear (like a trident, but without the middle fork), sceptre, crown, gold chariot with four black horses, narcissius, mint, poplar, cyprus, horn of plenty, black animals (like bulls and ewes), and the infamous helmet of invisibility. Parents: Rhea and Cronus Siblings: Zeus, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera, Demeter Spouse: Persephone Children: None that are acknowledged. It is one of his greatest sadnesses. Mortal Name: Edward Clayton-Smithe Date of Birth: December 21, 1975 Nationality: British Social Class: Born lower middle, has worked himself into great wealth Parents: Marcus and Elizabeth Clayton-Smith Siblings: none Past Relationships: none Significant Other/Spouse: none Children: none Overall Health: good Education: bachelors degrees in geology and engineering, MBA Career: CEO of a mining company Aesthetics Height: 6'4" Weight/Build: Muscular and strong, 225 pounds. Hair: black Eyes: dark brown Skin/Other: paler than Zeus do to his time beneath the ground. Description: His appearance exudes cold arrogance, and arrogance he feels and expresses and always shows on his face except when he's with one of the few people or spirits he trusts. Tall, dark, and handsome with a craggy face and pale skin from spending most of his time far beneath the surface of the earth, he is still fit and trim. He smiles rarely, as there is little to make him happy in his realm. Psychological Personality: Cold and brooding, he can be a frightening figure, imposing and confident as he moves through his realm. There is little that brings him pleasure, even the wealth that is mined in his realm. He feels as though being sent here was a punishment. Because of this, he feels his role here is as judge, and he weighs the souls before him carefully, more than willing to send them to eternal punishment if they so deserve. At least at first. He's capable of great love and devotion, and unlike his brothers, loves his wife deeply, showering her with affection and jewels. Indeed, she is one of the few things that can bring a smile to his face. And while he might not be absolutely faithful to her, he's much more discrete about his infidelity than his brothers. Extravert/Introvert: I Sensing/Intuition: N Thinking/Feeling: F Judging/Perceiving: J Hobbies and Interests: Prospecting, Horse racing. Strengths: He's got a steady personality, he avoids politics and is un-bribeable (mostly). He's loyal to a fault, and once he makes a decision, he does not waver. Weaknesses: He doesn't understand politics very well, and he's blind to the affairs of the living. Relations Friends: He has few friends. Hephaestus is probably his closest friend. He gets along well enough with Poseidon. Enemies: Many. Demeter, mostly. He isn't fond of Zeus, either. Romantic Status: Married Significant Other: Persephone Sexual Preference: As straight as any of the gods. Present Interests: Persephone, Minthe, and Leuce Past Relationships: Likes: Dislikes: Biographical Myth: Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus managed to force his father to disgorge his siblings. After their release the six younger gods, along with allies they managed to gather, challenged the elder gods for power in the Titanomachy, a divine war. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades received weapons from the three Cyclopes to help in the war: Zeus the thunderbolt, Hades the Helm of Darkness, and Poseidon the trident. The night before the first battle, Hades put on his helmet and, being invisible, slipped over to the Titans' camp and destroyed their weapons. The war lasted for ten years and ended with the victory of the younger gods. Following their victory, according to a single famous passage in the Iliad (xv.187–93), Hades and his two brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, drew lots for realms to rule. Hades received the underworld, the unseen realm to which the dead go upon leaving the world as well as any and all things beneath the earth. Hades ruled the dead, assisted by others over whom he had complete authority. He strictly forbade his subjects to leave his domain and would become quite enraged when anyone tried to leave, or if someone tried to steal the souls from his realm. His wrath was equally terrible for anyone who tried to cheat death or otherwise crossed him, as Sisyphus and Pirithous found out to their sorrow. His Queen: The consort of Hades was Persephone, represented by the Greeks as daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers with her friends. Persephone's mother missed her and without her daughter by her side she cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine. Hades tricked Persephone into eating pomegranate seeds (though some stories say they fell in love and to ensure her return to him, he gave her the pomegranate seeds): Because she ate six pomegranate seeds she must stay in the land of the dead for six months and for the remaining months she may live on Mt. Olympus with her family. While she is in the land of the dead she may not eat anything or she will have to stay there forever. "But he on his part secretly gave her sweet pomegranate seed to eat, taking care for himself that she might not remain continually with grave, dark-robed Demeter." Demeter questioned Persephone on her return to light and air: "…but if you have tasted food, you must go back again beneath the secret places of the earth, there to dwell a third part of the seasons every year: yet for the two parts you shall be with me and the other deathless gods." Thus every year Hades fights his way back to the land of the living with Persephone in his chariot. Famine (autumn and winter) occurs during the months that Persephone is gone and Demeter grieves in her absence. Theseus and Pirithous Hades imprisoned Theseus and Pirithous, who had pledged to kidnap and marry daughters of Zeus. Theseus chose Helen and together they kidnapped her and decided to hold onto her until she was old enough to marry. Pirithous chose Persephone. They left Helen with Theseus' mother, Aethra and traveled to the underworld. Hades knew of their plan to capture his wife, so he pretended to offer them hospitality and set a feast; as soon as the pair sat down, snakes coiled around their feet and held them there. Theseus was eventually rescued by Heracles but Pirithous remained trapped as punishment for daring to seek the wife of a god for his own. Heracles Heracles' final labour was to capture Cerberus. First, Heracles went to Eleusis to be initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries. He did this to absolve himself of guilt for killing the centaurs and to learn how to enter and exit the underworld alive. He found the entrance to the underworld at Taenarum. Athena and Hermes helped him through and back from Hades. Heracles asked Hades for permission to take Cerberus. Hades agreed as long as Heracles didn't harm Cerberus. When Heracles dragged the dog out of Hades, he passed through the cavern Acherusia. Orpheus and Eurydice Hades showed mercy only once: when Orpheus, a great player in music, traveled to the underworld to recover his wife, Eurydice. Eurydice had been bitten by a snake and had died instantly. Touched by Orpheus's skill in music, Hades allowed Orpheus to return Eurydice to the land of the living with one condition: that until they reach the surface, he was not allowed to look back to verify if she was behind him. Orpheus agreed; however, he thought that Hades had tricked him and given him the wrong soul. He glanced behind him, thus breaking his promise to Hades and losing Eurydice again. There is another story that Orphueus went to the surface and looked back but forgot they were both supposed to be outside. He would reunite with her only after his death. Minthe and Leuce According to Ovid, Hades pursued and would have won the nymph Minthe, associated with the river Cocytus, had not Persephone turned Minthe into the plant called mint. Similarly the nymph Leuce, who was also ravished by him, was metamorphosed by Hades into a white poplar tree after her death. Another version is that she was metamorphosed by Persephone into a white poplar tree while standing by the pool of Memory. Cerberus Though Cerberus's mythology is nt necessarily part of Hades's, the two are so closely twined, that I am including it as well. Cerberus was the son of Echidna, a hybrid half-woman, half-serpent and Typhon, a fire-breathing giant whom even the Olympian gods feared. His brother is Orthrus, always depicted as a two-headed hellhound. The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as having three heads, a mane of live serpents (similar to Medusa's hair) and a dragon's tail. In most works the three-heads each respectively see and represent the past, the present, and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth, youth, and old age. Each of Cerberus' heads is said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allow the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave. Cerberus was always employed as Hades' loyal watchdog, and guarded the gates that granted access and exit to the underworld. War: Before the Coup of Cronus: Very little had changed for the god of the dead. People still died, and their families still did their best to send them on their way. There were still riches to mine. Though I know you have him siding with Zeus, I think his side could really go either way. He has no real love for Zeus, who forces him to be estranged from his wife for half the year (and which likely leads to his infidelity). Further, he hates Demeter. I don't really see how having her on that side would induce him to fight for his brother Zeus. During the Coup: See above. I just don't see the motivation to fight for Zeus. At most, he paid lip service and secretly rooted for Ares. Mortal:Eddie was born to Marcus and Elizabeth Clayton-Smith. They lived in a small fishing town in outside of Dover. As a child, he lived along the cliffs, rock-climbing playing with his few friends. As he grew older, he developed a morbid fascination for the cemeteries, spending hours wandering among the tombstones and wondering about how they died. The older stones, especially called to him. He'd make up stories about how they died, about their lives and what happened to them after. His sunday school teachers hated him, he asked so many questions. When he entered puberty, he had a lot of trouble adjusting. The other children didn't like him. Even though he'd grown up around him, he was different. His family was a bit better off, so he didn't dress like them, and, to be honest, he was just weird. He creeped them out with his fascination with the dead. Then, he started seeing ghosts. That scared him enough that he stopped visiting the cemeteries for a while, but not for long. Still, as he finished his a-levels and went on to uni at Oxford, where he studied engineering and geology and, once finished, went into business with a fellow graduate, starting a mining company. His friend's family put up the money, he put in the brains. It was very successful, and he quickly made a small fortune. Eddie seemed to have a sixth sense about where to dig, and within a few years the investment from the family was paid back. As the friend got a bit older, he fell in love and Eddie bought him out, now the sole owner of one of the most successful mining companies in the world making Eddie a very, very wealthy mad. Why are they in Athens now? he is looking to expand into undersea mining, and came here to meet with some of the locals who are more experienced with under water opperations. Present location where they are staying Athens: Kolonaki All characters should have dreams or feelings that there is something about their past. What has your character dreamed or felt and thought of it? He's been able to see ghosts since puberty. Lately, he's been having weird dreams too. Although they feel more like horror movies than prophetic dreams, or even memories of a past life. On his/her journal: Ἅιδης Disclaimer This journal is part of a game, and not affiliated with the Grecian gods and goddesses in any way. This is for entertainment/gaming purposes only. No malice or infringement is intended and the contents of this journal and it should NOT be taken as true/authorized. This journal is also in no way associated with the celebrity in the icons. | |||||||||
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