Hades

God, Elder God, King of the Underworld, Lord of the Underworld, The Hospitable One (Titles)
Aidoneus, Pluto (Aliases)

### Relatives

Cronus (Spiritual Father)
Rhea (Spiritual Mother)
Zeus, Poseidon (Spiritual Brothers)
Hestia, Hera, Demeter (Spiritual Sisters)
Dionysus, Plutus (Sons)
Macaria, Melinoë (Daughters)
Methe, Priapus, Karme (Granddaughters)
Britomartis (Great Granddaughter)

### Affiliation

Olympians (Member)
The Underworld (Ruler)

## Personality

Hades is probably one of the most misunderstood Greek gods. He is considered to be a stern & fair god as well as one of the more passive Olympians in mythology. Many have portrayed him as a sinister & malevolent demoniac monarch of sorts, when he is fact a more a neutral being, with a great appreciation for justice & morality. He is extremely solitary & independent, choosing to rely on his own resources as opposed to that of others. However, he gets occasionally bitter for the negative things that have happened throughout his life: the most prominent is the fact that he was left to rule the Underworld himself & that he is feared by most of the other Olympians.

He maintains a calm, reserved manner but is capable of a violent & terrifying temper. While honorable, there is a cruel & darker side to Hades. He also carries grudges for an extremely long time, a trait he passes onto most of his children. His cruel traits mirror that of his father Kronos in terms of cunning, ruthlessness & deviousness. Though Hades is not evil like his father, he is rather distant & bitter due to past tragedies which leads him to behave the way he does.

Hades is also noted to be a very hardworking & busy god, rather unlike many of the other gods who take their duties & responsibilities in a much lighter manner, such as his son Dionysus & Apollo.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Olympian God Physiology:** As one of the Big Three, Hades has the ultimate powers a god can possess. They are rivaled only by those of his brothers, Zeus & Poseidon. Hades is so powerful that when a human encounters him for the first time, they automatically begin to feel very submissive right away & have to fight the urge to follow Hades' every order, as well as a strong desire to curl up & sleep at Hades' feet.
	+ ***Immortality*:** Daimons are immortal & can live forever. They do not age like humans & are unaffected by time or succumbing to mortal frailty as sickness or impotence of any kind.
	+ ***Superhuman Agility***
	+ ***Superhuman Durability***
	+ ***Superhuman Senses***: Daimons' senses are enhanced to immense superhuman levels, allowing them to perceive the world in far greater detail than the senses the average human possesses.
	+ ***Superhuman Speed***
	+ ***Superhuman Strength*:** Daimons possess incredible physical prowess.
	+ ***Transfiguration*:** Olympians possess the ability to shapeshift & to transfigure others. Though quite skilled in the ability, Hades rarely uses it.
* **Divine Abilities**
	+ ***The Divine Six*:** Hades is one of the Divine Six, making him one of the Elder Olympians. This position allows him to have a say in the upmost important issues.
	+ ***Council of Twelve*:** Hades is a member of the Council of Twelve, making him one of the twelve major deities of the pantheon. Every summer & winter solstice, they hold an official meeting to discuss the state of their pantheon. However, he usually sends his son Dionysus in his place as he cares little for politics.
	+ ***God of the Dead*:** Hades has divine authority & absolute control over the deceased. Hades' nickname "The Hospitable One" is a reference to him always having room in the Underworld for one more soul. He can reanimate skeletons, call forth endless waves of the dead to fight for him, destroy Skeleton Warriors & put them to sleep. He can also silence dead souls with a gesture & physically take hold of ghosts. He is also able to place curses on the living. While he is unable to kill people before the Fates decree its time, he can prevent a person's soul from ever leaving their body. This will mean that a person's body will eventually turn to dust with age, while their soul will be lost forever. Hades is able to sense when a person is dying & when their soul is being judged in the Underworld. He can also sense life auras, which allows him to determine how much longer someone has left to live.
		- ***Osteokinesis***: He can summon & telekinetically control numerous bones at once.
	+ ***God of Riches*:** Hades can sense & summon any quantity of precious metals & jewels from under the ground, as well as manipulate them. As a result, Hades is the richest Olympian of all. His palace has several magnificent halls made entirely of pure gold and silver, decorated with bouquets of flowers made of precious metals & jewels. A very impressed Persephone admits to never having seen "such dazzling wealth" even on Mount Olympus itself, since whatever she could destroy in a tantrum, Hades could instantly replace with something even better.
	+ ***God of Darkness*:** Hades has absolute control over shadows & darkness. He can generate, absorb & dissipate darkness, allowing him to shoot solid bolts of darkness & surround enemies into pitch black clouds of lightless space. Hades is also to solidify shadows into virtually impenetrable shields, which are strong enough to deflect even Zeus' thunderbolts. He can also use shadows to cover himself in darkness to become invisible or as a way of swift transportation over vast distances.
	+ ***God of Silence***
	+ ***Lord of The Underworld*:** Hades is the undisputed leader of The Underworld, ruling the entire realm with his wife Persphone. All souls bow down to him.
		- ***Geokinesis***: As the God of the Underworld, Hades has absolute control over all the earth and stones, as well as the walls of the Underworld. He is skilled in navigating under the earth, even before he became the Lord of the Underworld. He was able to lead his siblings in & out of Tartarus itself via a complex network of Underworld tunnels. He can also generate massive earthquakes that shake his throne room & can be felt miles above him on the surface world.
		- ***Magmakinesis***: As Hades controls underground, he has some control over magma & lava.
		- ***Dark Infernal Pyrokinesis***: He has absolute control over black hellfire, which is considerably more destructive than normal flames, as it turns whatever it touches into liquid. He can conjure it & propel it from his hands.
		- ***Infernal Monster Lordship***: Hades has absolute control over countless ferocious monsters native to his realm, such as Cerberus, the Hellhounds, the Furies, the Keres, the Oneiroi & various daimons, along with many others.
		- ***Cryokinesis***: He can generate an aura of intense cold, which causes "frost to creep across the rocks & grass."
	+ ***Divine Intellect*:** Hades is also extremely intelligent (and certainly the smartest of his siblings), shown by his incredible ability to invent new & original (and often the perfect definition of poetic justice) punishments for sinners in the Fields of Punishment on the spot. His intelligence makes him a brilliant strategist & tactical thinker, and he is extremely difficult to outwit in a debate, argument or battle of wits.
	+ ***Phobikinesis***: Hades has absolute control & divine authority over the power of fear. This ability grows even more powerful with the Helm of Darkness. The only person his power is inferior to is Phobos, the God of Fear.
	+ ***Hypnokinesis***: Hades has complete mastery over the Oneiroi dream spirits & he used them to spread the word that all of the dead needed to take a coin with them to gain passage onto Charon's boat.
* **Helm of Darkness:** One Hades' symbols of power, it allows him to become a shadow. This means he can pass through walls & melt into shadows, not be touched, seen or heard & radiate fear so intense that it can make a person go insane or stop their heart. When utilized at full power, the Helm's aura of ineffable deadly terror is so intense, that it can easily unhinge people's minds & stop their heartbeats, which, according to Grover, is why most rational beings fear the dark. Hades' Helm is shown to be powerful enough to scare even Zeus & Poseidon simultaneously, to the point that both of them paled & started to sweat with fear.
* **Hades' Sword:** The sword was forged by his wife, Persephone. It has a key of death embedded in its hilt, so the wielder can raise the dead from the deepest corners of Tartarus or send a soul to the Underworld by one touch of the blade.
* **Keys of Hades:** They are magic keys that have the power to "seal" or "free" people in the Underworld, which means someone can bring someone from or send someone to the Underworld using the keys.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Strength:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Speed:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Occult:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Weapons:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Range:** 9 - Omega / Exemplar
* **Strategy:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Combat:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **TOTAL:** 150 - Threat Level 9 / Critical Threat

## Trivia

#### General

* He has intense black eyes that "glitter like frozen tar."
* Due to his role as Lord of the Underworld & Ruler of the Dead, he was referred to as *Zeus Katakhthonios* ("the infernal Zeus")
* Like Kronos, he is greatly feared by all of his immortal siblings, nephews & nieces, all of whom rarely visit him. As a result, one thing that nearly all the other Olympians agreed upon in their massive family feuds, was not to pick a fight with Hades.
* He is Kronos's firstborn son & the eldest of the Big Three.
* As the god of wealth, Hades is the richest Olympian of all.
* The dwarf planet, Pluto, is named after his Roman counterpart. The name Pluto derives from the Greek title *Plouton*, meaning "the Rich One."
* He is regularly confused with & compared to the Devil. However, they are cordial with one another.
* In spite of his intelligence, Hades was initially inept at courting women & was forced to seek Zeus' advice on how to properly woo Persephone.
* Hades has made it his goal to bring living sinners to justice as well & would dispatch the Furies to drive them to madness, until they were ether killed or made amends for their misdeeds. He becomes infuriated by those who've managed to escape just punishment for their crimes.
* Hades has a twisted sense of humor. Sometimes, he'll shadow travel behind Apollo & startle him so that he would shoot his plague arrows in the wrong direction, thus infecting the wrong city because Hades found that funny.

#### Relationships

* His mother Rhea is the only one who has always loved him unconditionally.
* His closest friend is Hecate.
* Hades is a monogamous man & has not participated in any affairs unlike many other gods.
* He gets along well with his brothers but they annoy him due to their lack of seriousness.
* Hades & Hera used to be close friends until married Zeus. Its rumored that Zeus even sent Hades to the Underworld to keep him away from her.
* His favorite nephew is Hephaestus. He also gets along well with his other newphew, Hermes.