Helios

Siblings: Selene and Eos

**Helios**, also known as **Helius** or **Sol**, is the Titan/god of the sun, guardian of oaths, and the god of sight.

## Description

Helios was depicted as a handsome, usually beardless, man clothed in purple robes and crowned with the shining aureole of the sun. His sun-chariot was drawn by four, sometimes winged, steeds. Helios was married to Perse and had a child who was Pasiphae.

Helios, like his sister, had trained the god Apollo to take over the sun after his retirement and along with Selene; one of the Titans that was not imprisoned within Tartarus by Zeus. Because of this Helios is often considered a traitor by many of his Titan brethren though Helios would showcase his disdain towards the Olympians despite being spared by Zeus.

## History

### Origins

Helios is the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and brother of the Titan goddess Selene and Eos, Titan goddess of the dawn. Unlike the rest of his brethren, Helios did not join the Titans during the Titanomachy which resulted in them labelling him as a traitor. Others believe that Helios did join the Titans but after their defeat he was given a lighter sentence by Zeus.

Helios and the Norse sun goddess Sól intercepted Cthugha, the Living Flame and one of the Ogdru Hem. Together they battled the fiery Old One that was said to have set a star system ablaze; this particular star system is believed to be the Sagittarius constellation which is one of the emptiest places imaginable in space and the emptiness is the result of many stars and space bodies imploding during the battle.

### God of the Sun

He dwelt in a golden palace in the river Oceanus at the far ends of the Earth from which he emerged each dawn, crowned with the aureole of the sun, driving a chariot drawn by four winged steeds. When he reached the the land of the Hesperides in the far West he descended into a golden cup which bore him through the northern streams of Oceanus back to his rising place in the East.

### Phaethon

Phaethon, his son, asked his father for a favor; Helios agreed, but then Phaethon asked for the privilege to drive his four-horse fiery chariot across the skies for a single day. Although Helios warned his son again and again against this choice, explaining to him the dangers of such a journey that no other god but him was capable to bring about, Phaethon was hard to deter, and thus Helios was forced to hand him the reins. As expected, the ride was disastrous as he lost control and set the earth ablaze. Zeus struck the youth with one of his lightning bolts to stop him from burning or freezing the earth beyond salvation.

### Odyssey

In the *Odyssey*, Odysseus' men impiously kill and eat his sacred cattle the god kept at Thrinacia, his sacred island despite Odysseus' warnings. Once informed of their misdeed, Helios in wrath asks Zeus to punish those who wronged him, and Zeus agrees by striking their ship with a thunderbolt, killing everyone, except for Odysseus himself, the only one who had not harmed the god's cattle, and was allowed to live. After that, Helios troubles Odysseus no more in his journey.

### Other Exploits

Helios is the one who tells Demeter that her daughter Persephone has been abducted by Hades. He is also the one who restores the eyesight of Orion the Giant. After his granddaughter Medea murders her children, he lends her his chariot so that she can escape from Corinth. He also lends his golden bowl to Heracles to help the hero cross the river of Oceanus and fetch the cattle of Geryon.

## Powers and Abilities

**Authority:** Helios has the power of authority; a power that grants them the right to rule, enforce orders, and establish laws within their dominion, even extending to the supernatural world. This authority bestows upon them total control over their designated domain including supernatural elements, such as mystical forces, living entities, mythical creatures, and otherworldly dimensions that shape their environment.

**Creator Deity:** Helios with this ability either is or can transform into a Creator Deity, the creator of planets, solar systems, cosmoses, universes, and/or even the Multiverse/Omniverse. This power allows one to create anything on a divine level and may or may not be a Monotheistic Deity Physiology, which is the Supreme Being of all of Creation.

**Day Deity:** Helios is a Day Deity, a god/goddess that is associated with the day and are mostly attributed to Light Deities or Sun Deities and are not as common in recorded history. However, this should not be confused with either of them as a Light Deity focuses on all forms of light (i.e. sunlight, starlight, etc.) while Solar Deities focus specifically on the sun, sunlight and its heat. Deities of the Day focus on light (specifically sunlight) during the daytime.

**Sky Deity:** Helios with this ability either is or can transform into a Sky Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with the skies and the air. They are a common feature in polytheistic religions, and may include characteristics of the air and weather deities.

**Demiurge Physiology:** Helios with this ability either is or can transform into a demiurge, an artisan-like being responsible for the fashioning, shaping, and maintenance of the physical universe, or at least some portion of it. It may clear things to know that in Greek *dēmiourgos* means literally "public worker" and was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan", but gradually it came to mean "producer" and eventually "creator" or "maker". Depending on the system, they may be considered to be either uncreated and eternal or considered to be the product of a supreme entity.

**Divine Object:** Helios has access to an object that grants them divine/holy powers. They can range from source materials to apparel to fully-designed weapons; whatever the form, they can impart divine powers to those who lack them entirely or augment the already existing holy capabilities.

**Divine Sight:** Helios can see the divine beings (angels, deities, holy spirits and even the psychopomps) and their actions and possess or gather divine knowledge. They are also able to see divine or mystic realms and perceive the world on many different planes of existence.

**Enhanced Archery:** Helios possesses superhuman proficiency and skill in the bow and arrow, being able launch multiple arrows with one shot, use the bow as a melee weapon, etc. They can reload the weapon rapidly and efficiently, even with heavy mechanisms like the crossbow.

**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.

**Heaven Lordship:** Helios has authority and duty in Heaven, a place where deities and angels come together, as well as the souls of heroes, and good people in perfect peace and joy. Helios is able to command the deities, angels and have godlike powers in Heaven.

**Cosmos Lordship:** Helios has control of everything existing within their universe. They may even have control over multiple universes as well.

**Health Deity:** Helios with this ability either is or can transform into a health deity. A god/goddess who represents or is associated with healing, health, medicine, childbirth, physicians, diseases and healing magic’s, and these types of deities have been mother goddess figures as well. Health deities were a common feature in mythology and polytheistic religions, and in those real-world mythologies, these deities are the ones who teach medicine and are the patrons for human healing arts.

**Life Deity:** Helios with this ability either is or can transform into a Life Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with Life, the Life force, Lifespans and even possibly the chance of life beginning anew through Reincarnation.

**Joy Bringer:** Helios is a Joy Bringer; a being who bring joy unto good beings, inflicting an unspecific amount of happiness and comfort for an unspecific amount of time due to all the good the targets have done. Ranging from minor joy to full blown joy of every kind. Sometimes this power comes as a natural skill to beings such as Angels and God.

**Knowledge Deity:** Helios 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.

**Ocean Manipulation:** Helios 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.

**Seer:** Helios is a seer, an individual who can see things hidden from others and also has the ability to predict the future or speak for the gods. There are also a small variation of seers known as clairvoyants, prophets, oracles, or diviners.

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

**Super-Beauty:** Helios possess a supernatural beauty that surpasses the boundaries of nature, not just by physical attraction alone, but by other aspects and principles of beauty. Having such beauty can have mystical, empathic or psychic effect that reflects their physical appeal and qualities with graceful and flawless charms. Any who observe these beings will be supernaturally affected to see a perfectly envision and idealized form of beauty unique to Helios due to their increase appeal, apparel, action and even choice of words, all of which can cause awe-inducing effect to others even by sheer presence alone that can have a number of mental and emotional responses from others without negative effects making it impossible for them to look terrible regardless of the situation.

**Theurgy:** Helios can call upon gods and other divine forces to perform miracles and grant power. This allows Helios to become more powerful than those who rely on their own abilities but are reliant on the beings that aid them.

**Trinity Force:** Helios 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 the users use elemental type of aspects such as the sky, land and sea, they can gain control the realms and everything connected to them.

**Vision Manipulation:** Helios has complete control over the vision of oneself and others. They can enhance, reduce or remove them temporarily or permanently, protect them from being overwhelmed, cause the target to see things that aren't there or prevent them from seeing things that are, cause/remove sensory ailments, etc.

**Temporal Cognition:** Helios has a fine-tuned sense of precise time (current time, and the passage of time, personally, objectively and locally), Helios can discern a subject’s age, as well as the alteration of, or travel through, time (including where and when to). Helios can determine the exact time an event has taken place or will take place, or how long it took or will take (as long as he knows the event has happened or will happen).

**Blindness Inducement:** Helios can induce temporary or permanent blindness in other beings and greatly hinder opponents by taking away one of their most important sensory abilities.