Atropos

* Erebus (Father)
* Nyx (Mother)

**Atropos**, also known as **Morta**, is the Primordial Goddess of the End from Greco-Roman mythology. She is one of the Moirai, Goddesses of Fate, and is responsible for cutting the threads of fate, thus deciding who will die.

## Overview

**Atropos** or **Aisa**, in Greek mythology, was one of the three Moirai, goddesses of fate and destiny. Her Roman equivalent was **Morta**.

Atropos was the oldest of the Three Fates, and was known as "the Inflexible One." It was Atropos who chose the manner of death and ended the life of mortals by cutting their threads. She worked along with her two sisters, Clotho, who spun the thread, and Lachesis, who measured the length.

Atropos has been featured in several stories such as Atalanta and Achilles.

## Appearance

Despite popular belief, Atropos is neither an old crone nor is she a small and hideous hag. Instead, she has the appearance of a beautiful woman with blood-red eyes, long straight dark-purple hair, and a voluptuous figure.

## Personality

Atropos is a cold, manipulative, and ruthless woman. She treats everyone, even her creator and her own sisters, with cold disdain, and only pays respect toward those who she considers strong, such as Zeus or Hades. The only people she truly respects and even reveres are the angels, especially those who serve within Michael's choir.

She is known to be the cruelest of the Moirai, known by epithets such as "The Inflexible One" or "She Who Cannot be Turned". She enjoys taunting others by threatening to cut their threads and end their lives in an instant, or even toying with the fates of mortal beings as if they are her playthings.

Like most gods, she is prideful and arrogant by default, believing that she is among the apex of existence and doesn't need to bother herself with the working of "lower life-forms", i.e. humans. While she didn't care much about gaining followers, she is shown to be upset by the fact some people believe she is a minor goddess.

According to Hermes, the only time she has ever shown genuine fear and desperation was in the beginning of the Great War, when news of the Three Factions entering a civil war were sent to all the pagan pantheons and mythological factions via the putti.

## History

The Moirai - Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho - were created by Ananke billions of years ago when the first non-divine life-forms came into existence in the universe. Like all other Gods of Fate, they were taken in by the Celestial Prince Michael to learn how to spin, weave, and cut the threads of fate.

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

**Thread of Fate** (運命の糸, *Unmei no Ito*): As one of the Moirai, Atropos was trained within Diegesis since the day of her birth to generate, manipulate, and sever the threads of fate - physical manifestation of one's destiny and lifespan, with said person's countless potential and alternate possibilities are sealed within.

**Bronze Club** (青銅警棒, *Seidō Keibō*): Atropos and her sisters each own their own truncheon-like club made from pure Celestial Bronze which they have all shown their immense mastery over. During the Gigantomachy, when the Gigantes Agrius and Thoas bashed into their sanctuary on Mount Olympus in a suicidal attempt to destroy the Olympians' threads of fate, the Moirai had used their clubs to bash their heads in, killing them instantly.

## Trivia

* Her name, Atropos, means "without turn".
* As the Primordial Goddess of Death, she is considered a honorary cthonic goddess.
* Atropa, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, is named after her.
	+ Atropine, a tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic medication used to treat certain types of nerve agent naturally found in nightshades, is named after her.
* The Berg adder (*Bitis atropos*) is named after her.
* The African death's-head hawkmoth (*Acherontia atropos*) is named after her.
* The asteroid 273 Atropos is named after her.
* In some myths, she 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.
* Like her sisters, she also has/had an apprentice in the form of Thanatos.