Eshu

> My son... live up to your full potential. You're weak! You're weak among the Orisha Gods and Orisha Demi-Gods! Return to me... until you have achieved this power!
>
> Eshu, to his son, Vincent

**Eshu**, also known as **Èṣù**, is the deity of Chaos and Trickery, he is also the supreme ruler of the Yoruba Pantheon. He is also the father of the demi-god, Vincent Orisha.

## Overview

Èṣù is a spirit of Chaos and Trickery, and plays frequently by leading mortals to temptation and possible tribulation in the hopes that the experience will lead ultimately to their maturation. In this way he is certainly a difficult teacher, but in the end is usually found to be a good one. An example can be found in one of the *patakis* or stories of the faith.  Èṣù was walking down a road one day, wearing a hat that was red on one side and black on the other. Sometime after he entered a village which the road went through, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger's hat was black or red. The villagers on one side of the road had only been capable of seeing the black side, and the villagers on the other side had only been capable of seeing the red one. They soon came to blows over the disagreement which caused him to turn back and rebuke them, revealing to them how one's perspective can be as correct as another person's even when they appear to be diametrically opposed to each other. He then left them with a stern warning about how closed-mindedness can cause one to be made a fool. In other versions of this tale, the two halves of the village were not stopped short of extreme violence; they actually annihilated each other, and Èṣù laughed at the result, saying "Bringing strife is my greatest joy".

### Powers

* **Deity Physiology:** Eshu is a Supreme Yoruba Deity with similar Asgardian attributes. As such, he possesses the conventional attributes of an Asgardian God, albeit at a higher level.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Eshu, without the aid of anything, through his own biology, possesses superhuman strength that is substantially superior to that of an average Yoruba male. He possesses sufficient physical strength to lift up to 50 tons. It is possible, however, that he can further increase his strength through mystical enchantment on a temporary basis.
	+ **Superhumanly Dense Tissue:** Like Asgardians, Eshu's bodily tissues have roughly 3 times the density of the same tissues in a human being. While he has the looks and physical proportions of a much smaller person, the increased density of his body actually makes him several hundred pounds heavier than he appears. This increased density also contributes to his superhuman strength to a limited degree.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** The tissues of Eshu's body are superhumanly durable and are roughly equal to those possessed by the average Yoruba male. However, at times, Eshu had imbued himself with magical abilities that enable him to withstand injuries that would prove fatal to another Yoruba if hit. He is able to withstand high caliber bullets, falls from great heights, powerful impact forces, exposure to temperature extremes and powerful energy blasts without being injured.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Like all Yorubas, Eshu although he is inhumanly durable, at least by human standards, can still obtain injury, also like all Yorubas, his metabolism enables him to rapidly regenerate damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than a human being.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Eshu's Supreme Yoruba Deity metabolism grants him superhuman levels of physical stamina in practically all activities. He can exert himself at peak capacity for about 24 hours before fatigue begins to impair him. However, much like his physical strength and durability, Eshu can temporarily augment his stamina through magical means.
	+ **Immortality:** *To be added.*
	+ **Sorcery:** Eshu has extensive training in sorcery, giving him the ability to generate and control a great quantity of mystical abilities for a variety of purposes. His magical abilities are equal to Zeus, the most skilled sorceress in the Greek dimension.
		- **Telekinesis:** Being a telekinetic, Eshu can influence the movement of objects and people with his mind, and as such, this power proves to be devastating and chaotic in nature.
		- **Mystical Energy Blasts:** Eshu can project powerful beams of concussive force.
		- **Mystical Force Fields:** He can generate highly durable force fields.
		- **Illusion Casting:** His illusion casting can fool cities, and powerful entities such as Thor.
		- **Teleportation:** Eshu has the ability to teleport himself or others across dimensions.
		- **Psionics:** Eshu has demonstrated powerful psionic capabilities, the full limits of which aren't known. He has demonstrated the ability to project his thoughts telepathically across great distances, even across dimensional barriers, as well as potent hypnotic capabilities. He is able to communicate with beings telepathically, though his ability to do so is greater with beings that serve him.
		- **Shapeshifting:** Like a number of gods or goddesses, Eshu possesses highly developed shapeshifting capabilities. He is able to adopt almost any form imaginable whether it be animals, other humanoid beings, or even inanimate objects.
		- **Transmutation:** Eshu can also transform external objects into other forms and substances by magic; for instance, he has turned clouds into dragons and even changed cars into ice cream.
		- **Physical Enhancement:** His magic can be used to further enhance or augment his physical diagram, like his speed, strength, and stamina, but only temporarily.
		- **Enchantment:** Eshu can also bring inanimate objects to life and mystically imbue objects or beings with specific but temporary powers, and bestow superhuman attributes to living beings or inanimate objects.