Lachesis

* Erebus (Father)
* Nyx (Mother)

**Lachesis**, also known as **Decima**, is the Primordial Goddess of Decisions and Possibilities from Greco-Roman mythology. She is one of the Moirai, goddesses of fate, and is responsible for measuring the threads that symbolize life, and decide the destiny of a person after their birth.

## Overview

In Greek mythology, **Lachesis**, also known as **Lakhesis** ("disperser of lots"), was the second of the Moirae Sisters, or Moirae. She was the apportioner, deciding how much time for life was to be allowed for each person or being. She measured the thread of life with her rod. She is also said to choose a person's destiny after a thread was measured.

In mythology, it is said that she appears with her sisters within three days of a baby's birth to decide its fate. Her Roman equivalent was Decima. According to Hesiod's Theogony, she and her sisters (Atropos and Clotho) are the daughters of Nyx and Erebus. In other accounts, they are said to be the daughters of Zeus and Themis as well as several other beings such as Chaos and Ananke.

Lachesis is also mentioned in the tenth book of the Republic of Plato as the daughter of Necessity. She instructs the souls who are about to choose their next life, assigns them lots and presents them all of the kinds, human and animal, from which they may choose their next life.

Lachesis, along with her sisters and Hermes, was given credit for creating the alphabet for their people, forced the goddess Aphrodite into making love with other beings, weakened the monster Typhon with poison fruit, persuaded Zeus to kill Asclepius with lightning, and even aided the gods in their war with the Giants by killing Agrius and Thoas with bronze clubs. Even though Lachesis and her sisters were worshiped as goddesses, their representation of fate is more central to their role in mythology.

## Appearance

Lachesis is a beautiful woman with long, straight and glossy black hair, reaching down to her lower back, while mostly left loose, being parted in the middle of her forehead and sporting two bangs framing her face and going down below her shoulders, her hair is also tied into a pair of bun-shaped loops at both sides of her head, and a braid is present some inches below each of such loops.

Despite her status as a Mediterranean goddess, her attire is mainly Eastern-inspired, reminiscent of traditional clothing such as hanbok or cheongsam. During her first appearance, she appeared in Peter's dreams wearing an attire reminiscent to that of a traditional Japanese *geisha*.

## Personality

Lachesis is an outwardly calm, mature, and confident person, and speaks in an archaic and noble-like form like that from the Victorian era. Like other gods, she is prideful by default, but her pride doesn't make her arrogant and she knows when she needs to be humble and shows respect to others, especially to powerful figures,

She has a sadistic side to her, enjoys toying with people with her divine powers and has no remorse for her actions, instead, treating the people whose lives she has ruined in a trophy-like manner. According to her, there isn't any actual explanation for her "little game" other than the fact she's bored.

Despite this, when her opponents manage to thwart her significantly, her usual cold, smug attitude gives way to anger. When outmatched and unable to flee or use any tricks to save herself, her composure is shown to collapse entirely with her begging her opponents to stop and when her plans are thwarted completely, crying from humiliation.

## History

### Early Life

Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho were created by the primordial goddess Ananke billions of years ago when the life-forms came into existence on Earth under the commands of the Celestial Prince Michael. Like all other fate deities, they were taken in and trained within Diegesis for the entire duration of their immortal youth, being taught how to generate, manipulate, and sever the Threads of Fate.

### The Titanomachy

After the Kronides defeated the Titans and took over the control of the pantheon and of the Ancient Greek cosmos, the Moirai arrived on Mount Olympus to celebrate their victories. They appointed the new rulers with their new domains, as well as re-appointing the domains formerly belonging to the, now imprisoned, Titans to more suitable candidates.

### Rivalry with Norns

At some point in time, the Greco-Roman Moirai and the Nordic Norns had formed a fierce rivalry against one another, to the point where each group would waste no opportunity to insult the others behind their backs. According to Hades, this rivalry had been so old that no one even remembered why they even fought in the first place, said groups included.

## Equipment

**Threads of Fate** (運命の糸, *Unmei no Ito*): As one of the Moirai, Lachesis was trained within Diegesis since the day of her birth to generate, manipulate, and sever the threads of fate - physical manifestation of one's destiny and lifespan, with said person's countless potential and alternate possibilities are sealed within.

**Bronze Club** (青銅警棒, *Seidō Keibō*): Lachesis and her sisters each own their own truncheon-like club made from pure Celestial Bronze which they have all shown their immense mastery over. During the Gigantomachy, when the Gigantes Agrius and Thoas bashed into their sanctuary on Mount Olympus in a suicidal attempt to destroy the Olympians' threads of fate, the Moirai had used their clubs to bash their heads in, killing them instantly.

## Trivia

* Her name, Lachesis, means "disposer of lots".
	+ It's derived from the verb *lanchano* (λαγχάνω) which means "to obtain by lot, by fate, or by the will of the gods".
* Due to her involvement in guiding the souls into the reincarnation cycle of Metempsychosis, she is considered a honorary cthonic goddess.
* The asteroid 120 Lachesis is named after her.
* *Lachesis*, is a genus of pit vipers sometimes called bushmasters, is named after her.
* In some myths, she is either the daughter of Nyx and Erebus or of Zeus and Themis.
* In Ancient Greek religion, murder and suicide was considered blasphemy against her authority.
* Like her sisters, she also has/had an apprentice in the form of Tyche.