Thanatos (Deity)

## Thanatos

God of Death, Mortality, Afterlife, Peaceful Demise, Darkness

**Thanatos**, also known as the "**Death Incarnate**", is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *Historic Tales* series created by David Jaffe and Scott Phillips. He was a God who was revered in the Earth's Greco-Roman mythology

"*There is no fairness in Death.* "

—Thanatos.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Steven Blum (English), Masaki Tani (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Gianni Gaude (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

Thanatos is a dark-skinned but pale, slender and thin but chiseled figure with sharp features and short white hair that used to be long, now falling in locks around his face. He has circles, with striking golden eyes that glow with an unearthly light. His dark leather armor is adorned with silver embellishments depicting poppies. He wears a hood that covers the top of his head and frames his face, and his black cloak flows behind him as he moves with graceful, agile movements.

* Hair Color: White
* Skin Color: Dark (but Pale)
* Eye Color: Golden
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Around 5'7"
* Weight: Not Known

## Relationships

### Family

* Nyx (mother)
* Erebus (father)
* Erinys (Daughter; Deceased)
* Hypnos (Twin Brother)
* Pasithea (Sister-in-Law)
* Charon (Brother; Deceased)
* Aether (Brother)
* Moros (Brother)
* Hemera (Sister)
* Nemesis (Sister)
* Lahkesis (Sister)
* Atropos (Sister)
* Clotho (Sister; Deceased)
* Pandora (Sister)
* Morpheus (Nephew)
* Thalassa (Niece; Deceased)

## Abilities and Powers

As the God of War, Ares possesses a formidable arsenal of superhuman and magical abilities - all in correlation with combat and warfare, as these were his spheres of influence. As an Olympian prince and born son of Zeus, his powers were considerably stronger than lesser gods. Befitting his name, Ares is a mighty fighter of Olympus and one of the most powerful Olympian Gods, possibly equal to or even exceeding his uncles in power who were second only to Zeus himself.

### Powers

* **Superhuman Strength**: Thanatos as an Isu God and one of the oldest and strongest among them, has an immense amount of strength enough to kill another Titans or Gods.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Thanatos, as a God of Death, is extremely durable as one of the survivors from the war of Titans, with only a single scar on his chest. Thanatos is also shown to be very resistant against divine weapons as he was impaled on his own blade but took it out completely unharmed and seemingly only annoyed.
* **Death-Force Manipulation**: As a God of Death, Thanatos has primary authority and represented the death itself, he can kill or manipulates death forces to his will. His very existence allows everyone to die.
* **Immortality**: As an Isu God, Thanatos is immortal and can live forever. He does not age and is unaffected by time or succumbing to mortal frailty. He could not be killed by earthly weapons; only divine forces and other gods, Titans or Titans can kill him.
* **Possession**: Thanatos is capable of manipulating dead bodies and uses them as the medium as he did during Kratos' journey to warn him to leave his goal of saving his brother from his domain.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Despite his figure with sharp features, Thanatos is very mobile and is able to keep up with both Hermes and Apollo. His great strength allows him to leap great distances as well.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: As a God, Thanatos has unlimited stamina and can remain in battles for very long periods without tiring.
* **Flight**: Thanatos can

* **Necromancy**: The spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares. He once presented her with a ship full of perfectly obedient Confederate skeleton warriors.
* **Tactical Analysis**:' Ares seems to have a sixth sense regarding the trajectory of assaults in the heat of combat. He is able to perfectly position his blocks, making his opponents believe he knew exactly what they were going to do the moment before they did it.
* **Astral Projection**: Ares was able to project an image of himself out of the fire to communicate to Kratos after an enemy attack of his lands.
	+ ***Transfiguration***: Deities possess the ability to shapeshift & to transfigure others. Ares had an infamous reputation of transforming his enemies or those who had offended him into dangerous animals. However, he has also been shown to utilize this ability as a way of rewarding.
* **Shapeshifting**: As an Olympian, Ares was able to alter his appearance at will. He did that however to a small extent as the change of his hair was altered between *God of War: Ascension* and *God of War*.
	+ **Size Alteration**: Ares was able to alter his size, and often increased it to titanic proportions, as he did during the Battle of Athens.
	+ **Transformation**: Ares was able to produce claws.
* **Telepathy**: Ares was able to talk to people through their minds, without physically getting involved with his target.
* **Telekinesis**: Ares was able to move objects and people with his mind and did that on a massive scale. Ares used the ability to rip the Blades of Chaos from Kratos' arms, and, during the Battle with the Barbarians, lifted people in the air and broke them in half.
* **Teleportation**: Throughout his battle with Kratos, Ares was able to teleport all around the area very quickly.
* **Geokinesis**: Ares would occasionally summon enormous volcanic rock structures to try to attack during Ragnarök.
* **War Embodiment**: As the God of War, Ares was the embodiment of War itself and was able to draw power from it. Ares is an extremely fierce warrior, as well as a master of both armed & unarmed combat. In combination with his other abilities, Ares was able to lay waste to huge armies with little to no effort. However, his occasional tendency to underestimate his opponents & start toying with them has caused him to suffer defeats. Ares has the power to manipulate war, strife, combat, & other forms of conflict - all to a highly advanced level. Through this power, he is able to influence all forms of conflict, including mental, physical, spiritual & conceptual ones, regardless of the area & numbers involved, & he could even control how they progress & draw power both from the conflict alone as well as the dying. Ares could also start conflicts by influencing people or events, raise personal & fanatical armies, control & create weapons of every kind & even grant others extensive abilities of combat. Ares is naturally, extremely skilled in all forms of fighting, weapons & both strategy & tactics as well as statistics of war. He has the incredible power to invoke war & chaos within an enormously large radius, ranging from a city to an entire continent. With this power, he has full control of the city or continent that is in war & chaos at the time.
* **Telumkinesis**: As the God of War, Ares has a great amount of control over weapons. Although his symbol of power are spear, he can transform it into seemingly any handheld weapon conceivable, including a "huge" hunting knife, an aluminum baseball bat, a Late Medieval two-handed great sword & a shotgun. He can transform weapons into something far less threatening. During his experiences in battle, Ares has shown the ability to materialize various weapons such as a gigantic war hammer, an axe, and a sword, all of which were enveloped in flames. Ares is also able to curse weapons, disarm his opponents with a gesture & gain knowledge about a weapon when he sees it.
* **Aggressiokinesis**: Ares has control over feelings & emotions of war (such as hate & rage), & frequently induces them in order to start fights. He can instantly cure "battle jitters."
	+ **Powerful Roar**: With more than enoth Anger, Ares roars so loud it sounds "ten hundred billion men."
* **Underworld Control**: Ares seems to have limited power over the forces of the Underworld. He crafted the Blades of Chaos from the deepest layers of Hades. Furthermore, the vast majority of Ares' army was made of undead monstrocities, hinting that he has limited necromancy.
* **Monster Control**: Ares could control over a vast legion of monsters which served as the backbone of his army. In conjunction with his undead troopers, he was able to command Harpies, Minotaurs, Gorgons, and Cyclops.
* **Control of Animals**: He can summon and control animals that are sacred to him, such as vultures & wild boars.
* **Master Combatant**: As the God of War, Ares was the most imposing and skilled warrior of Olympus, surpassed possibly only by his father and uncles. He has mastered all weapons used in the war including sword, axe, war hammer and his back spider-like blades which coupled with his godly powers and physical prowess makes him even more formidable. Even facing Titan Giants alone, Ares proved himself to be an extremely hard adversary, fighting with the giants on equal terms most of their battle and ultimately killed them despite at one point nearly ultimately lost.
* **Enhanced Marksmanship**: As a god of war, he possessed a greater level of marksmanship as he was able to perfectly hurl a large pillar from Athens to the far-off Pandora's Temple in the Desert of Lost Souls to fatally impale a Titan Giant during the Great War.

### Weaknesses

* **Wrath**
* **Power Loss**

### Transportation

* **Ares' War Chariot**: Ares uses a changeable war chariot as his preferred mode of transportation. It is usually driven by Ares himself or by his charioteers, Deimos & Phobos. As a tradition, his sons are to drive it when they turn fifteen though a daughter is allowed if she is deemed worthy. His preferred form for his chariot is a motorcycle.

## External links

* Thanatos *Wikipedia*
* Thanatos *Assassin's Creed Wiki*
* Thanatos *God of War Wiki*
* Thanatos *Hades Wiki*
* Thanatos *Myths and Folklore Wiki*
* Thanatos *Villains Wiki*