Celestial Apollo

**Apollo**

Formerly a member of The Dark Army.

He dwelled in Olympus and was a second class general who led The Army of the Sun God. He eventually became an imperial celestial and founded his own kingdom: The Divine Sun Kingdom.

## Biography

**Apollo** is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the *kouros* (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as *Apulu*.

As the patron deity of Delphi (*Apollo Pythios*), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Apollo is the god who affords help and wards off evil; various epithets call him the "averter of evil". Delphic Apollo is the patron of seafarers, foreigners and the protector of fugitives and refugees.

Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius. Apollo delivered people from epidemics, yet he is also a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague with his arrows. The invention of archery itself is credited to Apollo and his sister Artemis. Apollo is usually described as carrying a golden bow and a quiver of silver arrows. Apollo's capacity to make youths grow is one of the best attested facets of his panhellenic cult persona. As the protector of young (*kourotrophos*), Apollo is concerned with the health and education of children. He presided over their passage into adulthood. Long hair, which was the prerogative of boys, was cut at the coming of age (ephebeia) and dedicated to Apollo.

Apollo is an important pastoral deity, and was the patron of herdsmen and shepherds. Protection of herds, flocks and crops from diseases, pests and predators were his primary duties. On the other hand, Apollo also encouraged founding new towns and establishment of civil constitution. He is associated with dominion over colonists. He was the giver of laws, and his oracles were consulted before setting laws in a city.

As the god of *mousike*, Apollo presides over all music, songs, dance and poetry. He is the inventor of string-music, and the frequent companion of the Muses, functioning as their chorus leader in celebrations. The lyre is a common attribute of Apollo. In Hellenistic times, especially during the 5th century BCE, as *Apollo Helios* he became identified among Greeks with Helios, the personification of the sun. In Latin texts, however, there was no conflation of Apollo with Sol among the classical Latin poets until 1st century CE. Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 5th century CE.

## Powers/Abilities/Techniques

*Apollo* was *one of the most important, influential* and *widely worshiped deities* in the ancient Greco Roman world. He was a complex deity who was a God of numerous things including *music,* *healing*, *the sun, light, oracles, knowledge, diseases, poetry, dance, archery, herds and flocks*, and *protection of young*.

Apollo possessed the powers of the Olympian Gods which include *super-human strength; immortality;* and *eternal youth*. Moreover, he had the ability to *foretell future events* with *high level of accuracy*. Among other things, Apollo is a *supreme archer* and thus his standard weapon is *the bow and arrow.*

Shapeshifting: In Greek mythology, many gods and goddesses possess the ability to *shape-shift, or physically transform oneself*. Apollo also possesses this ability and can *shape-shift into different forms at will*. According to a myth, he once *shape shifted into a dolphin to hijack a merchant ship.*

Cleansing Ability

Purifying Ability

Healing Ability

Martial Arts

Sealed Power of Fire

Can call down the power of higher beings.

Divine Light

Signature Technique: Arrow of Apollo - Fires an arrow of pure sunlight with unerring accuracy and mighty destructive power.

Divine Arrow - Apollo can fire an arrow into the sky, where the arrow will hang with its' energy intact. At his command, the arrow will fall down in a pillar of sun energy upon an enemy like an orbital strike.

Rain of Arrows

Arrow End - Apollo fires an arrow into the air, which splits into countless arrows which rain down all around him.

Spiral Arrow - Apollo can twist his bowstring in order to add a spin to his arrow, which adds to its' destructive force.

Secret Technique: Light of the Sun

Forbidden Technique: Future Sight - Apollo can actively view the future, but this will damage his eyesight the more it is used.

Ultimate Technique: Heavenly Body Arrow

**Equipment:**

Bow of Apollo

Chariot of the Sun

Divine Stone

Sunfire Blade