Lachesis

* Erebus (Father)
* Nyx (Mother)

**Lachesis**, also called **Decima**, is the Primordial Goddess of Decisions from Greco-Roman mythology. She is one of the Moirai, Goddesses of Fate, and is responsible for measuring the threads of life and weaving the life of mortals.

## Overview

**Lachesis**, in ancient Greek religion, was the second of the Fates, or Moirai; the others were her sisters, Clotho and Atropos. Her Roman equivalent was **Decima** ("the Tenth").

Normally seen clothed in white, Lachesis is the measurer of the thread spun on Clotho's spindle, and in some texts, determines Destiny.

Lachesis was the apportioner, deciding how much time for life was to be allowed for each person or being. She measured the thread of life with her rod. She is also said to choose a person's destiny after a thread was measured. In mythology, it is said that she appears with her sisters within three days of a baby's birth to decide the baby's fate.

## Appearance

Lachesis is a beautiful woman with long, straight and glossy black hair, reaching down to her lower back, while mostly left loose, being parted in the middle of her forehead and sporting two bangs framing her face and going down below her shoulders, her hair is also tied into a pair of bun-shaped loops at both sides of her head, and a braid is present some inches below each of such loops.

Despite her status as a goddess from the Mediterranean, her attire is mainly Eastern-inspired, reminiscent of traditional clothing such as *hanbok* or *cheongsam*. During her first appearance, she appeared in Boutros' dreams wearing an attire reminiscent to that of a traditional Japanese *geisha*.

## Personality

Lachesis is an outwardly calm, mature, and confident person, and speaks in an elegant, yet somewhat old-fashioned, tone like that from the Victorian era's nobles.

Like other gods, she is prideful by default, but her pride doesn't make her arrogant and she knows when she needs to be humble and shows respect to others, especially to powerful figures.

She has a sadistic side to her, enjoys toying with people with her ethereal powers and has no remorse for her actions, instead, treating the people whose lives she has ruined in a trophy-like manner. According to her, there isn't any actual explanation for her "little game" other than the fact she's bored and wants entertainment.

Despite this, when her opponents manage to thwart her significantly, her usual cold, smug attitude gives way to anger. When outmatched and unable to flee or use any tricks to save herself, her composure is shown to collapse entirely with her begging her opponents to stop and when her plans are thwarted completely, crying from humiliation.

## History

The Moirai - Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho - were created by Ananke billions of years ago when the earliest known life forms came into existence on Earth. Like all other [Gods of Fate], they were visited by the Celestial Prince Michael in their dreams to learn how to spin, weave, and cut the threads of life.

For the most part, she and her sisters lived distant from the other gods, though when the Olympians defeated the Titans and claimed Mount Olympus as their own, Zeus invited them to live with them and the remaining gods, which they accepted. Upon arriving, they appointed new domains for the Elder Olympians, as well as rearranged pre-existed domains of deceased gods to more suitable candidates.

From then on, they lived together in a secret cavern on Mount Olympus that changed every hour, with only Zeus and Hestia knowing how to find them. Every now and then, they would appear in Greek myths, such as resurrecting Pelops after his father killed him, allowing Alcestis to exchange her life for her husband's, or warning Althaea of her son Meleager's doomed fate.

## Equipment

**Bronze Club**: Lachesis and her sisters each own their own truncheon-like club made from pure Celestial Bronze which they have all shown immense mastery over. During the Gigantomachy, when the Gigantes Agrius and Thoas bashed into their temple on Mount Olympus in a berserked state, all three Moirai used their bronze clubs to bash their heads in, killing them violently.

## Trivia

* Her name "Lachesis" means "disposer of lots".
	+ It's derived from the verb *lanchano* (λαγχάνω) which means "to obtain by lot, by fate, or by the will of the gods".
* Due to the associations between [Fate] and [Death], Lachesis is considered a cthonic goddess.
* Lachesis and Hermes once worked together to create the Ancient Greek alphabets.
* The asteroid 120 Lachesis is named after Lachesis.
	+ *Lachesis*, is a genus of pit vipers sometimes called bushmasters, is named after her.
* In some myths, Lachesis is either the daughter of Nyx and Erebus or of Zeus and Themis.
* In Ancient Greek religion, murder and suicide was considered blasphemy against her authority.