Riordan Media/Hades

**Hades** is the king of the Underworld and the Greek god of the dead and riches. He is the eldest of the Big Three, the firstborn son of Kronos and Rhea, and the husband and uncle of Persephone. His Roman counterpart is Pluto.

## Powers and Abilities

**Greek God Physiology:** The Greek gods are a race of immortal beings who control the forces of nature and human endeavors. As one of the Big Three, Hades has the ultimate powers a god can possess, and they are rivaled only by those of his brothers.

* **Shapeshifting:** In their natural, fully empowered form, gods are radiant with a divine light so intense that no being less than a god can look upon it without disintegrating to ashes. In order to interact with mortals and heroes, the gods take on a lesser form which can be safely observed. Hades is quite skilled at shapeshifting, although he hardly ever uses this ability. He transformed into an eagle while escaping Mount Othrys and into a bat while sneaking into Tartarus.
* **Immortality:** All Greek gods are immortal due to consuming ambrosia and nectar, the food of the gods.
* **Omnipresence:** Gods are able to exist in many places at once as long as their domain is being invoked. When their presence is split between multiple places, they only possess a fraction of their power. They are truly only present in one place when in their divine form.
* **Omnilingualism:** The gods are able to speak multiple languages.
* **Power Bestowal:** Gods can impart their power onto others to create new gods, although with each new god created, the bestowing god loses a small and equal amount of their power.
* **Levitation:** All gods are seemingly able to levitate.
* **Teleportation:** All gods can transport themselves instantaneously over vast distances, sometimes by way of special effects.
* **Telepathy:** Gods are able to hear, see, and or intuitively know the thoughts of lesser beings.
* **Superhuman Strength:** Gods possess extraordinary strength that varies depending on the god.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Gods possess extraordinary stamina that varies depending on the god.
* **Transfiguration:** Gods can transform other beings into other forms. Hades transformed Leuke into a poplar tree.
* **Power Drawing:** All gods draw most of their power from their sphere of control or domain. They also possess powers and abilities that are unique to their own domain and vary greatly, even among deities that preside over similar and/or overlapping realms. As the god of the Underworld, Hades has various powers relating to it, including:
	+ **Geokinesis:** As the god of the Underworld, Hades has absolute control over all the earth and earthen materials, including the walls of the Underworld. He has similar geokinetic abilities as his children, only to a much more infinite level.
		- **Earthquake Generation:** When Percy Jackson infuriated him, Hades caused a massive earthquake that shook his throne room. This earthquake was felt miles above him in Los Angeles, devastating the city.
		- **Geothermokinesis:** As he controls the underground, he has some control over magma and lava.
	+ **Metal/Crystal Manipulation:** As the god of wealth and riches, Hades can sense and summon any quantity of precious metals and jewels from under the ground, as well as manipulate them. As a result, Hades is the richest Olympian of all. Hades' palace has several magnificent halls made entirely of pure gold and silver that are decorated with bouquets of flowers made of precious metals and jewels.
	+ **Necromancy:** As the god of the dead and the Lord of the Underworld, Hades has divine authority and absolute control over the deceased.
		- **Reanimation:** He can reanimate skeletons, call forth endless waves of the dead to fight for him, destroy skeleton warriors, and put them to sleep. He can also silence dead souls with a gesture and physically take hold of ghosts.
		- **Soul Manipulation:** He can capture and release living souls in a blast of yellow flames, shown when he abducted Sally Jackson.
		- **Cursing:** Hades is also able to place curses on the living. While he is unable to kill people before the Fates decree its time, he can prevent a person's soul from ever leaving their body, as he did with the Oracle of Delphi. This will mean that a person's body will eventually turn to dust with age while their soul will be lost forever.
		- **Death Sense:** He can sense when a person is dying and when their soul is being judged in the Underworld.
		- **Aura Perception:** He can sense auras, enabling him to determine how much longer someone has left to live.
		- **Resurrection:** Hades is capable of resurrecting the dead. At one point, both Nico di Angelo and King Minos plotted to trade Daedalus' soul to Hades in exchange for him performing a resurrection for them.
	+ **Empathic Aura:** When Percy first met Hades, he began to feel very submissive and had to fight the urge to follow Hades' every order.
	+ **Osteokinesis:** Hades can summon and telekinetically control numerous bones at once.
	+ **Cold Inducement:** When Hades appeared before Hazel Levesque, he generated an aura of intense cold which caused "frost to creep across the rocks and grass".
	+ **Monster Manipulation:** Hades has absolute control over countless ferocious monsters native to his realm, such as Cerberus, the Hellhounds, the Furies, the Keres, the Oneiroi, and various daimons, along with many others.
	+ **Umbrakinesis:** Hades has absolute control over shadows and darkness.
		- **Dark Constructs:** He can shoot solid bolts of darkness and surround enemies with pitch black clouds of lightless space.
			* **Forcefield Generation:** He can solidify shadows into virtually impenetrable shields, which are strong enough to deflect even Zeus' thunderbolts.
		- **Darkness Absorption:** He can absorb and dissipate shadows with his Stygian iron weapons.
		- **Invisibility:** He can use shadows to cover himself in darkness to become invisible.
		- **Shadow Travel:** Hades can use shadows as a way of swift transportation over vast distances.
	+ **Hellfire Manipulation:** Hades has absolute control over black hellfire, which is considerably more destructive than normal fire, as it turns whatever it touches into liquid. He can conjure hellfire and project it from his hands.
	+ **Fear Manipulation:** Hades has absolute control and divine authority over the power of fear. This ability grows even more powerful with his Helm of Darkness. It was implied that Hades, while without his helm, caused the mathematics teacher at Yancy Academy to experience a nervous breakdown before Alecto arrived.

### Equipment Powers

**Helm of Darkness:** While wearing his Helm of Darkness, Hades can pass through walls, melt into shadows, and not be touched, seen, or heard by anyone, including by other gods, Titans, or giants.

* **Intangibility**
* **Invisibility**
* **Inaudibility**