Hecate

### Occupation

Greek Titan Goddess of Magic, Witchcraft, Crossroads, Boundaries, Ghosts, Necromancy, and the Dark Side of the Moon

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

**Hecate** is the goddess of magic, witchcraft, crossroads, boundaries, ghosts, necromancy, and the Dark Side of the Moon venerated by the ancient Greeks. She is the attendant of Persephone and is the chthonic queen's most trust servant.

## Overview

As a triple goddess, Hecate could appear in three forms: a young girl (the maiden), an adult woman (the mother), and an old woman (the crone). She sometimes appears as a woman with three separate heads, or three entirely different forms for the morning, noon, and night.

However, no matter in what form, she is exceptionally gorgeous, with intricate features like that of a Greek statue - pale, beautiful, and ageless. She is dressed in dark robes, holding twin torches in her hands, a poisonous snake hanging from her shoulders, and a ring of keys and a dagger tied around her waist. She is often accompanied by a pole-cat and a she-dog.

## Powers and Abilities

**Fertility Deity:** As an archetype of a Fertility Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with fertility, virility, sex, sexual health, reproduction, procreation, pregnancy, birth, nature, vegetation and crops. Fertility deities are common in mythology and were important among ancient and current civilizations. In most cases these deities are directly associated with these experiences.

**Knowledge Deity:** Hecate with this ability either is or can transform into a knowledge deity, a god or goddess in mythology associated with knowledge, intelligence, education, wisdom or science. They are a common feature of polytheistic religions.

**Liminal Deity:** Hecate is a liminal deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with thresholds and the varying forms they come in. Liminal deities can be found throughout recorded history.

**Lunar Deity:** As an archetype, a lunar deity is a god/goddess who represents the moon, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Lunar deities and Moon worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms.

**Magic Deity:** Hecate with this ability either is or can transform into a deity of magic, a god/goddess who represent/is associated with the mystic, supernatural, arcane, mythical beings, all kinds of magic and all their aspects, having absolute knowledge and power over them, their concepts and principles. They are a common feature of worship in polytheistic religions.

**Transcendent Mage:** Hecate is a Transcendent Mage: a practitioner of magic who has ascended to or always had a godly state. Hecate has nearly limitless magical power and can almost effortlessly gain access to power hardly touched by any other mystic.

**Nature Manipulation:** Hecate is connected directly to the natural world and thus can communicate, influence, manipulate and control nature: all living beings and plants and natural phenomena, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. They can survive in any natural environment on Earth.

**Night Deity:** Hecate is a Night Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with the Night. Night Deities can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms.

**Ocean Manipulation:** Hecate can create, shape and manipulate the oceans and seas and everything in them, including all the aspects of the oceans, from the purely physical ones and also mythical/conceptual ones, such as: capriciousness, hidden mysteries of the depths, and the subconscious.

**Soul Manipulation:** Hecate can create shape and manipulate the soul, the incorporeal and immortal essence of a living thing, souls are usually most obviously present in sentient beings. At some level all biological organisms have souls, and even non-biological entities (such as rivers and mountains) possess something that is analogous to a soul.

**Trinity Force:** Hecate can utilize the power of trinity. According to legends, the trinity is a concept symbolizing a unity of three different icons intertwined with each other to make a whole. Wielders of this power can join three specific aspects/concepts together to release a great force of power. For instance, if Hecate uses elemental type of aspects such as the sky, land and sea, they can gain control the realms and everything connected to them.

## History

When Persephone was kidnapped by Hades, Hecate was one of the beings who knew of the kidnapping, being able to sense the earth being split apart by the powerful magic of the gods. However, due to Zeus' meddling, she wasn't able to specifically sense who was the one that kidnapped her.

Later on, when she was performing one of her rituals, she discovered a distraught Demeter travelling to find her missing daughter. When she heard about what happened, she quickly connected the kidnapping with the burst of magical energy she felt earlier, and offered to help Demeter on her journey. She would then assist her every night, lending out her silver torches to show the goddess her way.

When Persephone and Demeter were finally united, Hecate was rewarded handsomely, even given the rank of a goddess, which was extremely rare for a Titan born after the Titanomachy. Hades then recognized her talents, being able to sense his magical energy from such a far place and offered her a position in his court, which she quickly accepted, fully knowing the benefits it would give him.

Hecate then became the Court Magician of Hades' court, working as the goddess of magic and sorcery. She and Persephone then became friends, to the point where the chthonic queen would proudly call Hecate her best of friends.

## Quotes

*"You should fear me child, I'm nothing like your gentle Mary. This mother have given birth to no messiah, but witches and serpents and curses of the night." - Hecate.*

*"Hecate's my closest friend! Even if I'm perpetually close to bitch-slapping her smug off her face I would never harm her!" - Persephone.*

*"Drop thy weapons! I shall not beseech. Stand with me and mine witches!" - Hecate warning the Axe-men.*

## Trivia

* According to myths, Hecate has a habit of kidnapping young maidens and turn them into nymphs.