Iapetus

Siblings: The Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, and the Titans

Iapetus was one of the elder Titans, sons of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth). Led by Cronus, Iapetus and his brothers ambushed their father as he descended to lie with Mother Earth. Crios, Coeus, Hyperion and Iapetus were posted at the four corners of the world where they seized hold of the Sky-God and held him fast, while Cronus castrated him with a sickle. The Titans were later deposed by Zeus and cast into the pit of Tartarus. According to Pindar and Aeschylus (in his lost play *Prometheus Unbound*) the Titans were eventually released from the pit through the clemency of Zeus.

Iapetus and his three brothers probably represent the four pillars of the cosmos which are described in Near-Eastern cosmogonies holding Heaven and Earth apart. Iapetus himself would have been the pillar of the west, a position later held by his son Atlas. When the Titans were later cast into the pit of Tartarus - which Hesiod describes as a void beneath the foundations of the cosmos, where Earth, sea and sky all have their roots - their cosmological role shifts from being supports of Heaven to bearers of the entire cosmos.

Iapetus "the piercer" was probably also the Titan god symbolizing mortality and the mortal life-span as his sons Prometheus and Epimetheus were the creators of mankind and all other mortal creatures.

## Powers and Abilities

**Craftsman Deity:** As an archetype, the divine craftsman can be an angel, deity (god/goddess), or higher spirit who represents or is associated and/or is the Smith of the Gods. In mythology these types of entities are associated with smithing, the forge, craftsmanship, crafts, invention and technology.

**Dark Divinity:** Iapetus possesses a dark form of Divinity, these types of users have divinity and divine powers granting them an immense amount of raw power beyond the mundane; however, their divine source is darker in nature while still being considered "holy" beings.

**Directional Lordship:** Iapetus has absolute control over any direction (west, east, north, south and center) and everything on and associated with that direction, such as entities, elements, colors, concepts, seasons, places, etc.

**Prime Being:** Iapetus is the prime being that originated/created a species and all its variations, making them essentially the most powerful among their race, having utmost power and authority over other beings of its kind. The prime beings do not always possess the power to create life forms, but possess the original or main gene that all others derive from. Iapetus can even control or destroy their own species.

**Super-Spearmanship:** Iapetus is able to wield a spears or spear-like weaponry with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, dexterity, and skill, allowing them to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease, such as piercing through nigh invulnerable or intangible materials, create pockets of vacuum with simple thrusts, cleave through entire landmass such as mountains while creating fissures, rend large objects into mere pieces with ease, block or deflect things that should be impossible to perceive, pierce targets from a short distance without moving, and manipulate the length of the spear-shaped.