Athena

Kronos and Rhea (paternal grandparents), Oceanus and Tethys (maternal grandparents)

 Hera (step-mother/aunt)

 Hestia and Demeter (aunts), Poseidon and Hades (uncles)

 Triton (foster father/cousin)

Pallas (foster sister/niece)

 Artemis, Hebe, Eileithyia, Persephone, Thalia Grace, Diana of Themyscira, Enyo, the Muses, the Horae, Britomartis, the Moirai, the Charites (half-sisters), Ares, Hercules, Apollo, Dionysus, Hermes, Jason Grace, Jason of Themyscira, Tantalus, Perseus (half-brothers)

Annabeth Chase (daughter), Malcolm Pace, Daedalus, George Washington. and Frederic Bartholdi (sons), Athena's Cabin members

### Affiliation

Gods of Olympus, Olympian Council, Herself

### Occupation

Patron of Heroic Endeavor; Protector of Mankind and Patron Goddess of the Earth

## Equipment

### Item(s)

* Athena Parthenos
* Athena's Cloth
* Aegis Cloak

**Athena** is the Greek Virigin Goddess of Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, Battle Strategy, Civilization, Defensive Warfare, Mathematics, the Arts, and Handicrafts. She is often portrayed as the companion of heroes and patron of heroic endeavor. Athena has protected the peace and love of the Earth since mythological times, finging in the name of hope and justice with the help of her many Saints. Her Roman form is **Minerva**.

## Personality

As the Goddess of Wisdom, Athena is exceptionally brilliant, quick-witted, intelligent, wise and smart and logical and disciplined. She always takes precautions before acting and is the type of person who disapproved of taking considerable risks. It's actually noted that Athena might be the worst enemy someone could make, for she would never give up nor make a rash mistake simply because she hated someone. Athena has a soft side for those who seek knowledge and tries to help them as much as she can. Examples of this include Odysseus, Perdix and Frederick Chase, whom she protected and greatly supported.

In battle, Athena is a fierce, astute, and extremely unpredictable warrior and tactician. Despite her calm and reserved demeanor, she could become intensely focused in a duel, to the extent where one could easily believe that she and her sparring partner were actually fighting to the death. An example of this could be seen where she sparred with her friend Pallas so viciously that a concerned Zeus intervened.

Athena is renowned for her frequent assistance of heroes on their quests, even if those heroes weren't her own children, such as Reyna whom she grants part of her own Aegis and her strength in the battle with Orion. She is able to put aside personal grudges (at least for a time) to either help those who were in desperate need or to serve the greater good of all. Sespite Bellerophon being a son of Poseidon, she still assisted him to capture and tame Pegasus, which set him on the path to becoming a hero.

Athena had a sense of fairness and justice that even her own children weren't exempt from, an example being how she punished Daedalus for killing Perdix by branding him with a partridge. This extended to those who had offended her, as shown by how, despite her great anger towards Arachne, she still found Arachne's fellow citizens, who had benefited from Arachne and still quickly turned on their neighbor after she mercilessly beat on Arachne, to be disgusting for having laughed at the girl. Despite being the Goddess of War, Athena didn't actually enjoy combat but rather accepted it as an inevitable necessity at times. Unlike Ares, she was more focused on minimizing casualties while trying to achieve victory.

As far as gods go, Athena could be helpful and sympathetic even those who had initially offended her. An instance could be seen: once she blinded the mortal Teiresias after he saw her bathing naked. However, after he explained his lack of nefarious intentions and how truly apologetic he was about the incident, her anger cooled and she gave him a staff and the ability to understand the language of the birds, though she didn't return his vision. Even against Arachne, who had earlier greatly offended her for challenging her to a waving contest and mocking the gods with her work, after she hung herself in shame, Athena had enough compassion to turn her into a spider so she and her children could be expert weavers.

However, Athena can be extremely prideful and stern, having a dark side like the other deities: she transformed Medusa and her sisters into the fearsome Gorgons just to get back at Poseidon and cursed the very flute that she had created only because playing it grotesquely altered her facial features. After Paris picked Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess instead of her or Hera, Athena took the side of the Greeks in the Trojan War and did everything within her power to bring him down, a testament to her vanity and capacity for vengeance.

### Mortal Personality

Athena has been known for reincarnating in a mortal body, her personality becoming more humane and emotional than godly, these emotions being enhanced when turned mortal.

After fully assuming her position as Athena, Saori develops quickly into a loving lady, sacrificing, and very protective of her knights and everyone in the world. This can be seen in her sacrifices, how she decides to suffer for all ordinary people in the world, or even offers her life with a smile on her face. In every incarnation, she's a person with strength and great maturity, showing herself well aware of her role as goddess, being willing to accept her role from a young age, despite the sacrifice that it implies, a demonstration of her strength is in once incarnation, when she finds out that her brother had become Hades himself and, despite their bond, she decides to face him to protect the world. She is very receptive to others and is never judgmental.

She has shown to be an empathetic person, often moved by the death of her Knights, and crying when Shion and Dohko were forced to kill the three Silver Knights, she is also shown to be able to create strong bonds with her friends and inspire themhe also shows great sadness even towards the death of its enemies, showing its condolences for the specters of Hades (she openly does it for Kagaho).

## Appearance

Athena is described as wearing elegant flowing gray robes, Greek battle armor, and an Imperial Gold helmet on her head, which is decorated with pictures of gryphons and sphinxes. She also held a spear and rectangular shield in her hands, with both items "glowing with magic." Perseus described Athena's face is beautiful and regal but also somewhat scary, the way a warrior goddess should look. Unlike any dull grey item on the Gray Sisters island, her stormy grey eyes are bright and "full of fierce energy." Percy also realized through her startlingly, cold grey stare that she would make a terrible enemy. Athena was viewed to be one of the most beautiful goddesses of all, given how she was perfectly capable of attracting male attention, but she employs her powers to do horrible things to them if they don't leave on her first warning.

Whenever Athena reincarnates, she's always appearing in the same mortal body that's entirely different from her actual physical form. She has lilac hair, green eyes and often wears a long white tunic. In one incarnation, Athena wears a white sleeveless dress during Hades' attack on the Sanctuary with extra detail added: a high, long neck is added, loose sleeves leaving the shoulders bare

## Minerva

Athena can change into her Roman counterpart of Minerva. Unlike the other gods, she is less warlike and militaristic, being instead a goddess of crafts and wisdom. Because the Romans depicted Minerva as a more cerebral and demure goddess, she dislikes the Romans despite being a Roman god, as they took away all her military importance and stole her statue. Minerva remains a virgin goddess in this form, but refrains from having any children at all, unlike Athena who is able to have "Brain Children."

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

As his firstborn, Athena is the most powerful daughter of Zeus, being an extremely powerful goddess to the point of being entrusted with humanity's protection. Her father regared her presence and words as more important and precious than any others. Due to her considerable influence, she bears a greater level of worship than most of the Olympians, which contributes to her powers greatly. The only gods who surpass her are the six oldest Olympians (the Big Three, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia) and Perseus. She is rivaled by both Apollo and Artemis.

* **Olympian Physiology**: Athena belongs to a race of ancient and inconceivably powerful Old Gods known as the Gods of Olympus, giving her almost unlimited power. She has the conventional superhuman attributes of an Olympian, however many of these were greater than the vast majority of her race and was considered the physically strongest female Olympian.
	+ **Allspeak**: Due to the Allspeak (also called *All-Tongue*), Athena can communicate in all languages, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages.
	+ **Godly Strength**: Athena holds immense physical strength greater than most Olympians and the physically strongest goddess amongst the Olympians. She had blocked multiple strikes from Perseus and when they were locked in combat, pushed him back with enough force to push him into a wall. Athena was thought to have possessed enough strength to break out of Zeus' chest, and she overpowered and disarmed Ares with physical strength alone during the Trojan War.
	+ **Parthenogenesis**: Athena can conceive children when her divine thoughts meet the mortal ingenuity of the men. Her children are born in the same way she was, literally making them *"brainchildren"*. It is believed that this ability was influenced by the fact she came out of Zeus' brain.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: As a goddess, Athena has the power of shapeshifting, in which she proved to be very skilled. She could transform herself into pure intelligence in order to travel from Zeus' stomach into his head, a skill she had learned from her mother. When she first approached Arachne, she transformed herself into an elderly woman and sometimes appears in the guise of an owl or a hybrid between human and owl.
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability**: Athena has shown to be extremely resistant to physical injuries, with conventional bladed and mundane weaponry being unable to pierce her skin unless they are imbued with magical properties. She can withstand high caliber bullets, great impact forces, exposure to temperature and extreme pressure, falls from great heights, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining physical injury. The
	+ **Immortality**: Like all Olympians, Athena is functionally immortal and cannot die through any conventional means. She's immune to the effects of aging, having not aged past her prime since reaching adulthood, nor is she affected by diseases and infections. As an immortal, Athena can fade from existence - either from a lack of worship or the diminishing of domains and if other sources of power are destroyed.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Despite her immense resiliance to physical injury, Athena can still be harmed by magic and weapons containing magical properties. Her divine life-force allows her to regenerate missing tissues and organs with superhuman effiiciancy and is unaffected by any diseases or infections. If harmed by magical weapons, Athena's healing factor becomes slower than normal and any missing limbs won't properly regenerate without magical assistance or propper rest has occured.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: As a god, Athena possessed speed that surpassed that of any mortal and most demigod, allowing her to move at speeds greater than the finest human athlete. The *Athena Parthenos*, which is powered by a fraction of her power, can fire ultraviolet light beams. She was able to descend from Olympus to Athens at the speed of thought, based on interpretation and calculation it scales above the speed of light.
		- **Superhuman Agility**: Athena's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**: Athena's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: As a goddess, Athena's advanced musculature generates considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human. She rarely suffers from physical exhaustion because of this, allowing her to physically exert herself for extended periods of time without suffering from exhaustion.
* **Greco-Roman Magic**: As an Old God and daughter of Zeus, Athena naturally uses Greco-Roman Magic imbued with the supernatural divine energy of the Olympians, which allows her to manipulate magic and various aspects of reality. Despite Athena's magical abilities being subpar to Hecate, her capabilities matched Ares while being equaled to Apollo and Artemis. She made magical ropes powerful enough to bind Zeus, infused her own power into the *Athena Parthenos*, and enchanted a Yankees cap with the power of invisibility.
	+ **Knowledge Manipulation**: As the Goddess of Wisdom and Divine Intelligence, Athena held power over information, the capacity of logical thinking, and knowledge itself. Her exact capabilities were largely unknown, mostly due to Athena feeling as though her domain's abilities were manipulative, instead using these powers to help others where they are intellectucally struggling. Despite granting them enhanced intelligence after seeing their difficult lives, Athena once threatened to make Tony Stark and Reed Richards immensely stupid.
	+ **War Manipulation** (limited): As the Goddess of Defensive Warfare and Battle Strategy, Athena has the formidable power to manipulate war. Unlike Ares who is concerned with the violent and chaotic aspects of war, Athena was focused on strategy, defensive, and the organization of war. Athena's influence over warfare is considered more passive and subtle, and thus wasn't broadcasted as much compared to Ares.
		- **Aegis Sharing**: Athena can imbues the cloaks of her chosen heroes with the invulnerability of her own Aegis cloak, which glitters with power.
		- **Army Control**: Like Ares and Perseus, Athena has control over the armies of humanity and their military. She possessed her own army called Saints when fighting other gods and whom Athena always leads into battle.
		- **Telumkinesis**: As the Goddess of Warfare, Athena has great control over any weapon, much like Ares. She can summon any weapon of war and crafted two swords that bore on her hips that she occasionlly uses for fighting in close range. Athena knows everything about a weapon just by looking at it, ranging from its practice uses to overall history and properties. Like most war gods, Athena could exert her telekinesis to leviate weapons and throw them towards opponents, but disarms them with a gesture.
	+ **Animal Control** (limited): Athena appears to have a high level of control over animals sacred to her, such as owls and serpents. She would later have birds and snakes follow and lead Teiresias, while also granting him the ability to understand their speech. Athena had gifted the Seven with their familiars based upon the animals sacred to their parents, notably giving Annabeth an owl capable of performing knowledge related magic.
	+ **Chlorokinesis** (limited): Though not as powerful as Demeter and Dionysus, Athena has a degree of control over flora. She can influence the growth of certain plants, such as when she grew the olive tree for Athens and created enchanted wood specialized for magical craftsmanship. Athena was also responsible for crafting ambrosia, the food of the gods capable of enhancing the efficiency divine healing factors and granting immortality upon mortals.
	+ **Cursing**: Athena can place horrible curses on objects, once cursing a flute to give the worst fortune to the next person to play it, which ended up with the satyr Marsyas getting flayed alive by Apollo. She later cursed Teiresias with permanent blindness and during the Trojan War, cursed Ajax the Lesser with madness. Athena had notably cursed her son Daedalus with a scarlet partridge-shaped mark that would never fade and to live a long, torturous life.
	+ **Life Creation**: Athena has shown the ability create life to a considerable extent, having conjured a magical serpent intended to enhance the godly qualities of her son Erikhthonios. She's revealed to have breathed life into divine attributes that were bestowed upon Pandora, but didn't actually grant her sentience, and instead ensured these qualities ruled Pandora's actions.
	+ **Transfiguration**: Athena is very gifted in the power of transfiguration. She transformed Medusa, Euryale, and Stheno into the first Gorgons, Coronis into the first raven, Arachne into the first spider, and Perdix into a partridge.
* **Nigh-Omniscience**: Like Apollo and Perseus, Athena is an Old God that's "All-Knowing" and has an immense amount of knowledge that's beyond mortal capabilities. However, Athena admitted she doesn't know nor see everything, since wisdom is the application of using knowledge with logic and intelligence. Her level of omniscience were based on aqcurring and understanding how to use knowledge. As the Goddess of Divine Intelligence, Athena has the capacity of gaining and applying knowledge greater than Apollo by using her wisdom to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting, giving common sense and insights.
	+ **Divine Wisdom**: As the Goddess of Wisdom, Athena is extremely wise, knowledgeable, and intelligent. She's constantly coming up with brilliant ideas, however she tends to measure the odds without taking her own or others' feelings into account. Athena can utilize her accumulated knowledge to wisely discern or judge what's true, right, or lasting, giving common sense and insights towards any situation. She taught the Greeks and humanity numerous skills, such as mathematics and utilizing the oxen to plow their fields. Her wisdom and presence is regarded by her father as being more precious and important than any others, to the point where Zeus trusted her to check on the imprisoned Titans in Tartarus.
* **Cosmo Mastery**: Athena has exhibited great mastery of her Cosmo such as using healing auras, enhancing her magic with spells that defy the laws of physics, and summon defensive shields. Her Cosmo is also awakened to the Eight Sense; thus she is able to descend to the underworld without being subject to its laws. Furthermore, Athena is the only known Olympian capable of entering the Realm of Order without being overwhelming by its primordial energy, likely attributed to being associated with reason and logic.
* **Divine Form**: Like the rest of the Greek Gods, Athena possesses a "True Form" that manifests when she gathers all of her essence in one place. During this time, she emits blinding, searing light that is able to kill any mortal foolish enough to challenge her virtually instantly and vaporizing the physical forms of those who survive an initial glance.

### Abilities

* **Battle Prowess**: As the Goddess of Warfare, Athena is a superb warrior and a complete master of both armed and hand-to-hand combat, but frequently uses her wisdom to overcome her opponents instead of sheer force. She learned all of her great combat skills from the nymphs of Lake Tritonis. She and Pallas had frequently engaged in sparring matches, which were described as so intense that Zeus finally intervened. She was able to defeat the fire-breathing Enceladus (the most cunning Giant) twice, with the help of Hercules and later Annabeth. During the Trojan War, Athena managed to defeat Ares singlehandely and force him to flee the battlefield. Athena is known for engaging other gods every 200 years in a sacred battle known as a Holy War, taking the form of a mortal girl and defend humanity from those who wish to harm them. She's notably capable of fighting against Hades and Poseidon in her mortal form, being considered superior to either of them since both their powers are greatly depeleted and possessed a lesser connection to humanity than Athena. It's been speculated that Athena would make an enemy ten times worse than Dionysus (dangerous when aroused to breaking point) and rivals in battle to Poseidon (one of the three mightiest Olympians).
	+ **Tactical Genius**: As the Goddess of Strategy, Athena is an exceptionally skilled tactician with great observation skills and superb capacity for planning for the long term before acting. Unlike Ares, she only uses violence as a last resort after thinking things through. It's been noted that Athena wouldn't make a mistake because she hated her target or held emotional opinions - if she made a plan to destroy an enemy, that plan would never fail. Zeus admires Athena's incredible tactical skills and he wouldn't let her leave the battle with Typhon because she was his best strategist.
	+ **Weapons Master**: As the Goddess of Wisdom and Warfare, Athena is highly trained in various weapons and could wield anything remotely considered a weapon with an unrivaled level of mastery.
* **Genius Level-Intellect**: As the Goddess of Divine Intelligence, Athena has devoted a great deal of time throughout the centuries to studying and mastering many areas of knowledge including all fields of non-technical science. She's considered a super-genius of the highest caliber, especially amongst Old Gods and was even said to be Thoth's greatest equal in terms of sheer intelligence.
* **Craftsmanship**: As the Goddess of Crafts, Athena is an incredibly skillful craftswoman. She was responsible for teaching Pandora crafts and it was Athena who helped Jason by drawing up blueprints for the *Argo* carving its magical prow herself. She later created the Mark of Athena coin, which guides her demigod children to the Athena Parthenos and helped Perseus repair several of his magical items that had been damaged since becoming mortal.
	+ **Inventions:** Along with Hephaestus and her half-brother Hermes, Athena realized many notable inventions. She invented the bridle to enable men to tame horses and the first flute, which played beautifully for being filled with her divine breath that enabled Marsyas to temporarily hold his own in musical competition with Apollo. She notably designed and built the first chariot.
	+ **Weaving:** Athena is best known for her talent in weaving, the very art she invented. In the Olympian riot, she made magical ropes capable of restraining Zeus himself, to the point he needed help from the Hekatonkheire Briares. During her contest with Arachne, Athena wove a flawless tapestry that was *"majestic, breathtaking, and radiated the power of the Olympian gods",* though the contest ended in a match.

## Attributes

* Her attributes are her spear, the armor, the helmets, the olive tree, the Aegis and the Gorgoneion.
* Her sacred animals are the owl and serpent, which represent the wisdom of the sky and earth, respectively.
* Athena is the patron goddess of Athens, which was named after her.

## Gifts

Athena has shown to be the most active goddess, secretly protecting her children from monsters and giving gifts to heroes who earn her admiration.

* She gave pieces of Aegis to several of her chosen heroes in the past.
* She gave her son Daedalus and her grandson Perdix her blessing of wisdom.
* She gave her daughter Annabeth a protection from monsters when she ran away until meeting Thalia and Luke, a cap of invisibility (though it lost its power when her Roman form and Annabeth argued, but later restores it in a moment of need), and a square of ambrosia.
* She granted Reyna pieces of Aegis to help her in the battle with Orion and lent her strength along with Bellona.

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

* **Athena's Spear**: Athena's signature weapon and symbol of power imbued with the power of Nike, the goddess of victory. Whenever Athena reincarnates and engages battle as a mortal, the spear transforms into golden staff and its power diminished for her body to withstand its divine power.
* **Shield**: Athena dones the Aegis shield, which is impervious to any kind of attack and can eliminate all evil. She's even capable of using the Aegis' divine essence to create and objects from its pieces without damaging the shield, allowing for it to remain functional in battle. Like her spear, Athena's shield becomes diminished in power for her body to withstand its divine power while also having its physical shape altered.

### Uniform

* **Athena's Cloth**: Athena owns a powerful Divine Cloth, which is superior to all categories of Cloths worn by her Saints. When not worn by Athena, her Cloth transforms into the giant statue in her image lying beyond Athena's Chamber at the Sanctuary. Furthermore, Athena's Cloth is capable of manifesting angelic wings that grants her the power of flight, however this capability is only accessible when mortal due to having her divine powers lowered and thus is as vulnerable like every mortal being. To revive the Cloth, it is necessary to spill Athena's blood on it.

### Other Equipment

* **Aegis Cloak**: Athena is notably famous for possessing the Aegis in the form of a mystical cloak, having the same capabilities as her shield but more defensively passive rather than active. The cloak is a divine barrier that can repel and negate various forms of harm, reinforcing Athena's status as a formidable and well-protected deity. It's this aspect of her Aegis that's most commonly shared by her chosen heroes, granting Reyna pieces of Aegis to help her in the battle against Orion which also lent her additional strength alongside with Bellona's.

## Family

Although she is a virgin goddess, Athena can conceive demigod children by joining her mind with her mortal lovers, which she considers to be the purest kind of love that one could give upon. Her demigod children are "gifts" to the men she favors. She loves all of her children and is actually the only known deity who claims demigods at birth. She often gives gifts to their children for their quests and protects them when they need help.

### Mortal ​​​​​Children

 Metion
 Augustine Washington
 Unnamed parent
 Frederick Chase

## Trivia

* Like many of her Olympian siblings, her name starts with an A.
* The first letter of her name 'A' is the same as the first letter in her daughter's name.
* When she leads in battle, Athena was known as "Athena Promachos."
* She also is a patron of Sparta, where she was called "Athena Poliachos, meaning "Athena Protector of the City."
* Athena was known as "Athena Parthenos" ("Athena the Virgin"), which was how she was worshiped at the Athenian Parthenon. This would also be the name of her statue that stood there, which eventually becoming the most famous Greek statue of all time.
* In some Greek myths, Athena was a goddess of magic.
* According to Greek mythology, Zeus trusted Athena to wield his thunderbolt.
* According to Aphrodite, Athena is the most Greek among the goddesses.
* According to Homer's account in the *Iliad*, Athena was a fierce and ruthless warrior and she is portrayed in the Odyssey as angry and unforgiving. However, according to some sources, Athena was praised for her compassion and generosity.
* Athena is one of only three current Olympians goddesses who is a virgin, the others being Artemis and Hestia.
	+ She is also the only Olympian Virgin goddess who has children.
	+ In Greek mythology, the goddess Athena never had any children. Erikhthonios was her adopted child.
* Athena's most important festival was the Panathenaea, which was celebrated annually at Athens.
* Athena is one of the few deities who frequently engages other gods in battle, notably fighting against Poseidon and Hades
* Pallas, one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt, is named after Pallas Athene Parthenos, one of Athena's alternative names.
* Minerva, her Roman counterpart, is displayed on the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government.
	+ She also appears on the state seal of California, because she was born an adult, and California was never a territory
* Athena shares the most similarities with Perseus
	+ They are both deities of warfare with an association with heroes and heroic endeavor
	+ Both have dominion over intellectual spheres of influence
	+ Perseus was a fair and justice god known for being impartial and logical without bias. Athena shares many personality aspects regarding this