Lethe

Lady of Sleep, Lady of the Poppies, Beloved of Hypnos, Weaver of Mist, Upholder of Moonlit World

### Other Names

God of Oblivion
God of Forgetfulness
God of Lost Memory
God of Concealment
God of the Lethe
God of Lethe River
God of the Masquerade

## Relationships

### Ancestors

Khaos (Progenitor)
Erebus (Grandfather)
Nyx (Grandmother)

### Parents

Eris (Mother)
**Adopted Parents**

* Styx (Mother)
* Pallas (Father)

### Siblings

Children of Eris
**Adopted Siblings**

* Kratos (Brother)
* Zelus (Brother)
* Bia (Sister)
* Nike (Sister)

## Personal Status

### Affliations

House of Hades
Mansion of Night
Greco-Roman Underworld
Chthonic Deities
Greco-Roman Deities
Greco-Roman Pantheon
Realm of the Dead

### Abilities

**Ethereal Energy*** Memory Erasure
* Memory Absorption

### Ranking

Minor God
Chthonic God

## Portrayal

### English VA

Casey Lee Williams

**Lethe**, also called **Oblivio**, is the Goddess of Forgetfulness from Greco-Roman mythology. She is a River Goddess of the Greco-Roman Underworld and holds direct control over the Lethe River, whose water can induce memory loss.

## Overview

In Greek mythology, **Lethe**, also referred to as **Lemosyne**, was one of the five rivers of the underworld of Hades. Also known as the *Ameles potamos* (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. Lethe was also the name of the Greek spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often identified.

In Classical Greek, the word *lethe* (λήθη) literally means "oblivion", "forgetfulness", or "concealment". It is related to the Greek word for "truth", *aletheia* (ἀλήθεια), which through the privative alpha literally means "un-forgetfulness" or "un-concealment".

## Appearance

Lethe appears as a petite and delicate-looking young girl with curly black horns protruding from the top of her head. Her hair is light-gray with orange streaks and is pulled back in a high ponytail, and she has beautiful light-orange eyes framed by long eyelashes.

She wears an old fashioned ball gown that looked straight out of the *Gothic Lolita* fashion magazine, with an ornamental black helmet with a pink rose at the front with frills and a yellow diamond accessory hanging from it.

She can also transform into a mermaid-like form, with a pale-orange fish tail and scales of various shades of black, orange, and gold scattered across her body.

## Personality

Lethe appears as a poised woman with an air of aristocracy about her. She acts in a way that is befitting of a noblewoman and carries herself in such graceful manners that many believe to be the epitome of nobility. Despite this, her true personality is quite the opposite.

In private, she is a crass and unblushingly slothful person who has little interests other than eating, sleeping, and having sex, which is something her lover glady indulged her in. She has a dirty and morbid sense of humor, and tends to find sadistic joy in the misfortune of others, with her favorite victims being her siblings.

Despite this, regardless if it is private or public, she still possesses a somewhat serious personality with little to no patience to deal with others' foolishness. For all of the lazy behavior she had at home, she is a very proficient worker and does her job seriously and dutifully and is a "perfect working in seemingly all aspects but personality".

Although she acts as a noblewoman with a superior demeanor in public, she isn't without humility and knows when to admit she is wrong and needs help. She also knows how to carefully choose her battles and when to avoid unnecessary conflicts, thus showing a cautious and tactical side to her.

Later on, it's revealed that most of her serious personality stemmed from the duties and responsibilities she had to take on as the third-oldest daughter while also raising her younger siblings because of their mother's negligence. As such, she detests her mother with a burning passion and that, under no circumstances, would give "a flying fuck about [Eris]".

## History

Lethe is the daughter of Eris, Goddess of Discord, with an unknown deity. She was the third-oldest daughter, only younger than Atë and Dysnomia in terms of age by a couple of decades. However, because of their mother's negligence, she was forced to become the caretaker to her younger siblings.

When she reached maturity and became the River Goddess of the Lethe, she was adopted by Styx and her husband Pallas, and moved to the higher-layers of the underworld where the Lethe river was located. Sometimes in the later years of the Greek Dark Ages, she became the lover of Hypnos, God of Sleep and her maternal uncle, and even gave birth to some of his Oneiroi children.

## Trivia

* Her name "Lethe" means "oblivion, forgetfulness, or concealment".
* Ironically, despite being the Goddess of Forgetfulness, between her siblings, Lethe has the best remembering skills.
* Lethe and Hecate often work together due to their shared duties of erasing memories of the supernatural world from mundanes' mind.
* Ancient Romans associated the Lima River with the Lethe River.
	+ According to Hermes, this river used to be the mortal branch of the actual Lethe river in the underworld before its special properties faded away in the end of the Age of Gods.
* The River Lethe in Alaska is named after her.
* The Guadalete River was formerly named the Lethe River after her.