Athena

Athena (アテナ), meaning Goddess of Wisdom, Courage, Inspiration, Civilization, Law, Justice, Strategic Warfare, Mathematics, Strength, Strategy, the Arts, Crafts, and Skill (知恵、勇気、インスピレーション、文明、法、正義、戦略戦争、数学、力、戦略、芸術、工芸、技術の女神) in Greek, or Athene (アテネ), meaning Wise (賢い) in Greek, also known as Pallas Athena (パラスアテナ), meaning Goddess of Wisdom (知恵の女神) in Greek, or Minerva (ミネルバ), meaning The Mind (心) in Latin, is the Goddess of Wisdom (知恵の女神), Goddess of War (戦争の女神), Goddess of Strategy (戦略の女神), Goddess of Warfare (戦いの女神), Goddess of Justice (正義の女神), Goddess of Reason (理性の女神), Goddess of Foresight (先見の女神), Goddess of Civilization (文明の女神), Goddess of Athletics (陸上競技の女神), Goddess of Astronomy (天文学の女神), Goddess of Banquets (宴会の女神), Goddess of Boxing (ボクシングの女神), Goddess of Education (教育の女神), Goddess of Craft (工芸の女神), Goddess of Intelligence (知性の女神), Goddess of Mathematics (数学の女神), Goddess of Heroism (英雄の女神), Goddess of Skill (技の女神), Goddess of Arts (芸術の女神), Goddess of Diplomacy (外交の女神), Goddess of Commerce (商売の女神) and the Goddess of Defense (防御の女神). She is known as the Patron of Heroic Endeavour (英雄的な努力の守護者), The Wise One (賢い人), Gray Eyed Athena (灰色の瞳のアテナ), and Old Gray Eyes (古い灰色の目). 
== Background ==
Athena is born to Zeus, son of Cronos and Rhea and Metis, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. All of her grandparents are children of Ouranos, son and husband of Gaia, who is a self-emerged deity. According to myth, Zeus tricked Metis into turning into an insect and had the latter to be swallowed by the former. Metis would forever remain and live the rest of her life in Zeus' stomach, in the state of coma. Since she was pregnant when getting swallowed, Athena was born in Zeus' stomach, where she spent her childhood in. As she quickly aged, she became so big that Zeus was forced to call Athena's elder half-brother Hephaestus, God of Smiths, to crack Zeus open to free Athena, who has became a full-fledged warrior by the time she came out of Zeus' body. 
== Personality ==
Athena is very loyal to her father. As a highly educated goddess, she can't stand her elder half-brother and arch-rival Ares who is impulsive, bloodthirsty, and a warrior raring for a fight regardless of the consequences. Athena constantly defeat Ares with her strategies. 
== Appearance ==
Athena is a warrior that has a western knight's helmet. She has a kanji "知恵" meaning wisdom. 
== Abilities ==
=== Astral Projection ===
Athena was able to return in an Astral Form. To her account, it also gave her a different outlook on the world and caused her to finally have seen the truth.
=== Conceptual Embodiment ===
As a God, she is considered the embodiment of Wisdom, Reason, and Purity.
=== Immortality ===
Like all Olympians, Athena was immortal, unable to age or die from natural causes or mortal weapons. Divine weaponry, like Pandora's Box and the Blade of Olympus as well as fellow Olympians, gods, Titans or Primordials could harm and kill her, however.
=== Invulnerable ===
Like all Olympians, Athena was invulnerable and couldn't be harmed by regular weapons.
=== Object Possession ===
Her favorite method of communicating with her servants and subjects was by taking possession of a statue that represented her. She did that through the series, to guide Kratos.
=== Power Bestowing ===
Athena was able to bestow her servants with incredible power, she was even able to make Kratos the new God of War, turning him from a mortal demigod into a full fledged god with many powers.
=== Power Conjuration ===
Athena was able to conjure magic.
=== Acausality ===
The laws of time and space work differently for the Gods of Olympus.
=== Self-Sustenance ===
Gods have no need to eat, sleep, or drink, nor do they need to breathe.
=== Precognition ===
Athena was able to have a future vision, in which Ares defeated the combined forces of Poseidon, Athena, and Artemis.
=== Weapon Creation ===
As the Goddess of War, Athena was able to create incredible weapons of war, when she was alive and when she was in her Astral Form. Those weapons were the Blades of Athena and the Blades of Exile. It was possible that she also crafted the Blade of the Gods as it was found in her city and the blade was held by a statue of her. She also bore two swords on her hips, which she used for fighting.
=== Flight ===
She actually showed that ability in her Astral Form, but it could be assumed that she truly did have that ability.
=== Telekinesis ===
She can control objects, even living things. 
=== Transmutation ===
In her Astral form, Athena was able to transform the rusted Blades of Athena into the Blades of Exile.
=== Intangibility ===
While in Astral Form, Athena was able to phase through objects at will, and could become tangible at will.
=== Pyrokinesis ===
Seeing as how her weapons were imbued with fire and the fact that the God of War had possessed that ability, it was likely that she had pyrokinetic abilities as well.
=== Superhuman Strength ===
As a god, she was far stronger than any mortal and even stronger than most demigods and possibly many Gods. In her confrontation against Kratos, she was able to block a blow from the Blade of Olympus. When they were locked together, she held her ground when Kratos tried to push her, and in return, she was able to push him back until he drifted her to the side. It's safe to assume she was quite close to Kratos in terms of strength.
=== Higher-Dimensional Existence ===
Upon her death and sacrifice, she ascended to a higher level of existence, which Cory Barlog elaborates to be a higher plane of existence to everyone else.
=== Superhuman Stamina ===
As a god, she had incredible stamina and could keep fighting without tiring.
=== Superhuman Speed ===
As a god, she possessed speed that surpassed that of any mortal and most demigods. She was able to descend from Olympus to Athens at the speed of thought, based on interpretation and calculation it scales above the speed of light. She was however, not as fast as Hermes.
=== Shape-Shifting ===
It was safe to assume that she was able to take on any form that she saw fit.
=== Divine Wisdom ===
Being the Goddess of Wisdom, she had a high genius level of intelligence. Her extreme intelligence allowed her to be able to do the following: Figure out challenges and puzzles, come up with great ideas and plans, overcome her opponents, figure out questions or not so obvious causes, and guide people. During a fight, most of the time, Athena used her intelligence rather than sheer force (with the exception of her fight with Kratos). In Greek Mythology, Athena always bested Ares in a fight, both with wisdom and power. As the Goddess of Wisdom, Athena is extremely wise, intelligent, and knowledgeable, constantly coming up with brilliant ideas. She tends to measure the odds without taking her own or others' feelings into account. During the creation of Pandora, Athena gifted the girl with cleverness and curiosity. She taught the Greeks numerous skills, such as mathematics and utilizing the oxen to plow their fields. Due to her wisdom, Zeus trusted her. 
==== Strategic Skill ====
As the Goddess of Strategy, Athena is an exceptionally skilled tactician with great observation skills and superb capacity for planning for the long term before acting. Unlike Ares, she only uses violence as a last resort after thinking things through. Athena wouldn't make a mistake because she hated her target or held emotional opinions, if she made a plan to destroy an enemy, that plan would never fail. Zeus admires Athena's incredible tactical skills since he wouldn't let her leave the battle with Typhon because she was his best strategist. Along with her daughter, she made numerous battle plans of various lethal degrees.
=== Craftsmanship ===
As the Goddess of Crafts, Athena is an incredibly skillful craftswoman. She was responsible for teaching Pandora crafts. She later created the Mark of Athena coin. 
==== Inventions ====
Along with Hephaestus and her half-brother Hermes, Athena realized many notable inventions. She invented the bridle to enable men to tame horses and the first flute, which played beautifully for being filled with her divine breath. She notably designed and built the first chariot. She created two angelic automatons as a gift to her father.
==== Weaving ====
Athena is best known for her talent in weaving, the very art she invented. She made magical ropes capable of restraining Zeus himself. Athena wove a flawless tapestry that was majestic, breathtaking, and radiated the power of the Olympian gods, though the contest ended in a match.
=== Audiokinesis ===
Being a goddess of the arts, she has an affinity for arts and music, though not quite on par with that of her half-brother Apollo.
=== Persuasion ===
Athena is shown to be very eloquent, as she could manipulate other gods. She even avoided punishment from the Olympus Riot through talking with Zeus.
==== Memorization ====
She can never forget what she hears.
=== Prowess in Battle ===
As the Goddess of Warfare, Athena is a superb warrior and a complete master of both armed and hand-to-hand combat, but frequently uses her wisdom to overcome her opponents instead of sheer force. She learned all of her great combat skills from the nymphs of Lake Tritonis. She and Pallas would frequently engage in sparring matches, which were described as so intense that Zeus finally intervened. During the Trojan War, Athena managed to defeat Ares singlehandely and force him to flee the battlefield. She was able to defeat the fire-breathing Enceladus (the most cunning Giant) twice, with the help of Hercules. In particular, she would make an enemy ten times worse than Dionysus (dangerous when aroused to breaking point) and rivals in battle to Poseidon (one of the three mightiest Olympians).
=== Telumkinesis ===
As the Goddess of Warfare, Athena has great control over any weapon, much like Ares.
==== Weapon Conjuration ====
She can conjure any weapon, though she prefers to use her spear and Aegis.
==== Weapon Curses ====
She can place curses on weapons.
==== Weapon Omniscience ====
She knows everything about a weapon when she sees it.
==== Disarmament ====
She can disarm her opponents with a gesture.
=== Mystiokinesis ===
Athena has control over magic, albeit subpar to Hecate. She infused her power on the Athena Parthenos statue which acts as an incredible barrier and enchanted a Yankees cap with the power of invisibility. During the Olympian riot, she made magical ropes to bind Zeus.
==== Granting Aegis Portions ====
Athena can imbues the cloaks of her chosen heroes with the invulnerability of her own Aegis cloak, which glitters with power.
==== Teleportation ====
She transported Annabeth's books out of her bag to replace them with her Yankees cap along with a square of ambrosia.
=== Chlorokinesis ===
Though not as powerful as Demeter and Dionysus, Athena has a degree of control over flora. She can influence the growth of certain plants, such as when she grew the olive tree for Athens.
=== Parthenogenesis ===
Athena can conceive children when her divine thoughts meet the mortal ingenuity of the men. Her children are born in the same way she was, literally making them "brainchildren". It is believed that this ability was influenced by the fact she came out of Zeus' brain.
=== Life Creation ===
Athena has demonstrated the ability to manipulate reality itself to a considerable extent. She conjured up a magical serpent.
=== Curses ===
Athena can place horrible curses on objects and people. She can curse a flute to give the worst fortune to the next person to play it. She can curse others with permanent blindness. In the Trojan War, she cursed Ajax the Lesser with madness. She cursed her son Daedalus with a scarlet partridge-shaped mark that would never fade and to live a long, torturous life.
=== Transfiguration ===
Athena is very gifted in the power of transfiguration. 
=== Shapeshifting ===
As a goddess, Athena has the power of shapeshifting, in which she proved to be very skilled. She could transform herself into pure intelligence in order to travel from Zeus' stomach into his head, a skill she had learned from her mother. When she first approached Arachne, she transformed herself into an elderly woman. She appeared as a park ranger at the Hoover Dam. In The Last Olympian, she took the guise of an owl.
=== Control of Animals ===
Athena appears to have a high level of control over animals sacred to her, such as owls and serpents. She would later have birds and snakes follow and lead Teiresias, while also granting him the ability to understand their speech.
=== Weaknesses ===
Reason rules her; she is not usually emotional or compassionate but she does have her favorites. This might lead her into killing her relatives. 
== Olympian's Crown ==
=== Battle ===
Athena will swing her sword, charge at you, call animals, and keeps on fighting until defeated. 
=== Boons ===
==== Individual Boons ====
Athena will apply boons that applies Exposed, that for 5 seconds, victim takes more damage when struck from behind.
* Divine Strike: Attack is stronger, and can Deflect.
* Divine Flourish: Special is stronger, and can Deflect.
* Phalanx Shot: Cast damages foes in a small area, and can Deflect.
* Phalanx Flare: Cast damages foes around you, and can Deflect.
* Divine Dash: Dash deals damage and can Deflect.
* Athena's Aid: Call briefly makes you Invulnerable and Deflect all attacks. Max gauge bonus multiply the duration by 6. 
* Holy Shield: After you take damage, damage nearby foes and briefly Deflect.
* Bronze Skin: Resist damage from foes' attacks.
* Sure Footing: Resist damage from Traps.
* Proud Bearing: Begin each Encounter with your charge partly full. 
* Blinding Flash: Abilities that can Deflect also make foes Exposed.
* Brilliant Riposte: When attacks Deflect, they deal more damage.
* Deathless Stand: Resurrection inflicts Impervious longer. Replenish 1 charge now.
* Last Stand: Resurrection restores more Health than usual. Replenish 1 charge now.
* Divine Protection: A barrier that negates incoming damage. Barrier Cooldown is 20 Seconds. 
==== Compound Special Duo Boons ====
* Parting Shot (With Aphrodite): Cast gains any bonuses you have for striking foes from behind. Bonus Backstab Damage is 35%. 
* Merciful End (With Ares): Your attacks that can Deflect immediately activate Doom effects. Doom Combo Damage is 40. 
* Deadly Reversal (With Artemis): After you Deflect, briefly gain +20% chance to deal Critical damage. Critical Duration is 2 Seconds. 
* Stubborn Roots (With Demeter): While you have no resurrection your Health slowly recovers. Life Regeneration is 1 Health every 0.8 Seconds. 
* Calculated Risk (With Dionysus): Your foes' ranged-attack projectiles are slower. Foe Projectile Speed Reduction is 50%. 
* Unshakable Mettle (With Poseidon): You cannot be stunned, and resist some damage from Bosses. Boss Damage Reduction is 10%. 
* Lightning Phalanx (With Zeus): Your Phalanx Shot Cast bounces between nearby foes. Max Bounces is 3.
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