The Horae

The **Horae** or **Horai** were the goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time. The first triad of Horae were birthed from the union between Themis and Zeus with the second triad from the union between Themis and Lucifer.

## Overview

Horae were originally the personifications of nature in its different seasonal aspects, but in later times they were regarded as goddesses of order in general and natural justice. They bring and bestow ripeness, they come and go in accordance with the firm law of the periodicities of nature and of life. Traditionally, they guarded the gates of Olympus, promoted the fertility of the Earth, and rallied the stars and constellations.

## Description

The course of the seasons was also symbolically described as the dance of the Horae, and they were accordingly given the attributes of spring flowers, fragrance and graceful freshness. For example, the fair-haired Horae, together with the Charites and Peitho crown Pandora—she of "all gifts"—with garlands of flowers. Similarly Aphrodite, emerging from the sea and coming ashore at Cyprus, is dressed and adorned by the Horae, and, according to a surviving fragment of the epic Cypria, Aphrodite wore clothing made for her by the Charites and Horae, dyed with spring flowers, such as the Horae themselves wear.

## Common Powers and Abilities

**Fertility Manipulation:** The Horae can create, shape and manipulate fertility, the natural capability for living beings to reproduce (in terms of animals) or grow (in terms of plants). They can make land, living beings or plants fertile, allowing them to reproduce or grow, or make things infertile, making them unable to reproduce or grow.

**Guardianship:** Guardians are often those who are of noble birth or a high position of great historical or legendary importance. They have taken/been given the responsibility to defend, protect and, if needed, avenge the focus of their protection, which can be an object, place, concept, or person (throne/crown, village/gate/country/planet, love/good/harmony, royal heir/chosen prophet, etc.) among other things.

**Justice Manipulation:** The Horae can manipulate justice among living and non-living beings in different ways.

**Order Manipulation:** The Horae can create, shape and manipulate order on a literal, symbolic, conceptual and physical level. They have ability to recognize, discern, envision and understand overt and/or underlying patterns and structure of anything physical, social, mental or natural and know their weaknesses, strengths and all other information and how to use them to reach the wanted goal. Atomic Vision is very limited and focused form of this ability.

**Peace Embodiment:** The Horae with this power can become the embodiment of Gentle, they are able to be delicate and treat everything with great care and attentiveness. They may be able to convert their gentle works and actions into a sort of energy to become a weapon or an attacking offense and also making it become a support to others as well as defense from any opposing powers of this embodiment.

**Season Embodiment:** The Horae embodies and personifies all the seasons Winter, Spring, Autumn, and Summer, which allows them limitless control over the season and everything connected to it. The Horae have divine authority over all the concepts they all represent such as Death, Light, Rebirth.

**Time Embodiment:** The Horae become the embodiment of time. The Horae gain the power to control the timeline of all things whether to fast forward things or rewind them. The Horae can cause anything to rot, corrode, decay and turn to dust, or reverse things to the past to the point in which they have never existed. They can travel in time, and read, manipulate and remember past, present and future timelines/events.