Echidna

Typhon (Consort)

Monsters (Children)

*"I've watched you every since you killed your father. Trying to be a use to your teammates when you are the weakest of them all. I saw potential in your father and I see even more potential in you. Join me and I will make you powerful beyond imagination.*
―Echidna to Solaris
**Echidna** is the half-woman, half-snake creature in Greek mythology. She is dubbed the mother of all monsters as she gave birth to most Greek mythical creatures and created the Original Monsters, who are the progenitors of the monster race. She is also the consort of Typhon, who is called the Father of Monsters.

Echidna is a main antagonist in Gateway to Purgatory.

The daughter of Ceto and Phorcys, she married Typhon and had many children with him. Over the course of the years, most of her children were killed by the Greek heroes while her husband was imprisoned underneath Mount Etna be Zeus. In an attempt to free Typhon, Echidna raised an army of monsters against the deities but failed and was imprisoned in Tartarus.

Thousands of years later, she broke free and attempted to initiate another war by targeting humanity. While she succeeded in freeing Typhon, her army was decimated by the combined forces of the Chosen Ones and their allies and she herself was defeated by Solaris before being re-imprisoned in Tartarus.

A few weeks later, Tartarus briefly considered freeing her so that she can help him and the Protogenoi in their plan. However, due to her recent failures, he decided not to.

## Early History

* Origin
* The Monster Race
* Typhon's Imprisonment
* The Greek Heroes
* Ancient Times
* Asha and Drago
* Emily

## The Hybrid Chronicles

* Gateway to Purgatory
* Keys of the Multiverse

## Personality

Echidna is a wicked, selfish, manipulative, and spiteful woman. While she did help Asha get pregnant and offered some advice to Dracula in his goal to create a Vaewolf, it was only as a means to her own end; to create extremely powerful monsters from whom she could use as a source of power. During flashbacks to her time spent raising the Original Monsters, Echidna showed several key traits of psychopathy, such as a lack of remorse and empathy, and went so far as to bluntly tell a young Mavetha that her mother no longer wanted her.

She also deals with disobedience harshly, as she tricked Drago into killing Asha and harshly berated Dracula for allowing Emily to escape.

Echidna is a fundamentally selfish person, viewing everything in relation to how it benefited herself and increased her own power, and had little interest in how it could negatively affect others. However, despite her great power, she preferred to achieve her goals with the least amount of complication, effort, or violence, and as a result, she was not above playing nice with others to expedite her plans. She has been shown to make deals, compromises, and concessions in order to get what she wants more efficiently, and did not seem to want to resort to killing or violence unless it was absolutely necessary. She claimed that she understood Solaris's frustration about being one of the weaker Chosen Ones and offered to make him more powerful. However, her bargains had a hefty price as she asked Solaris to help her eliminate the Chosen Ones.

Despite the behavior Echidna exhibited, she has a very rigid sense of honor, as she prided herself on being a woman of her word and made it clear that she expected those with whom she has made promises to do the same. She promised the Chosen Ones that she would not hurt them or their friends if they stayed out of her way. She has shown to truly care about the Original Monsters, especially Amara, helping them control their unbridled powers and protecting them from the deities. She also had a degree of love and respect for Typhon, as she was willing to sacrifice many of her own kind to free him.

## Physical Appearance

Echidna is a brunette with brown eyes. Her cold brown eyes were an indicator of her cruel, apathetic personality. Although the bottom half of her body is usually that of a snake's, she can transform it into that of a human. She has a fondness for the color black, as the majority of her clothes were in this color. In the past she was wearing chitons and Greek leather armor while in the modern day she was usually seen in long, flowing coats, long-sleeved blouses, fitted pants, and high heeled boots. She has an affinity for wearing multiple rings with black gemstones.

## Weaknesses

Echidna possess all the standard weaknesses of a monster. However, since she is Mother of all Monsters, she has resistance and possibly immunity to the majority of the weaknesses that a monster possess.