Ares

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> Ares
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> * Ares Enyalius (used by Ancient Greeks)
> * Ares Gynaecothoenas (used by Ancient Greeks)
> * Mars (used by the Ancient Romans)
> * Laran (used by the Etruscans)
> * Mars Ultor (also used by Ancient Romans)
> * Ari Adamastos (while posing as a human)
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> ### Titles
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> * God of War, Soldier, Warrior, Courage, Violence, Bloodlust, Rage and Brutality
> * Lord of Strife
> * Master of Taunts
> * Protector of Women
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> ### Species
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> Celestial (God)
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> Agender (male personality)
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> Black
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> Blazing blue
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> Alive
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> * Hera (mother and paternal aunt) †
> * Zeus (father and maternal uncle)
> * Persephone (paternal oldest half-sister)
> * Enyo (younger twin sister and first cousin)
> * Artemis (paternal younger half-sister)
> * Apollo (paternal younger half-brother)
> * Athena (paternal younger half-sister)
> * Hephaestus (younger brother and first cousin)
> * Hermes (paternal younger half-brother)
> * Eileithyia (younger sister and first cousin)
> * Hercules (paternal youngest half-brother)
> * Hebe (youngest sister and first cousin)
> * Kieran Gandulfsson (maternal youngest half-brother)
> * Chiron (half-uncle)
> * Poseidon (uncle)
> * Demeter (aunt)
> * Hades (uncle)
> * Hestia (aunt)
> * Rhea (grandmother)
> * Cronus (grandfather)
> * Gaea (great-grandmother - scattered)
> * Ouranos (great-grandfather - scattered)
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> “For Ares, lord of strife, who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, war’s moneychanger, giving dust for gold. Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear. Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; yea, fills the light urn full of what survived the flame—Death’s dusty measure of a hero’s frame!”
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**Ares** is a Celestial and in ancient times was worshipped as the god of War, Soldiers, Warriors, Courage, Violence, Bloodlust, Rage and Brutality by the Greco-Roman people; he is one of the Olympians.

## Abilities

As the only son between the King and Queen of Olympus and two Elder Olympians, he is a very powerful deity whose power is equal to his half-brother Apollo but due to his bloody reputation is looked down upon so greatly that most other Olympians avoid him.

* **War Manipulation** - As the *God of War*, Ares has the power to manipulate war, strife, combat, and other forms of conflict all to a highly advanced level. Through this power, he is able to influence all forms of conflict, including mental, physical, spiritual, and conceptual ones, regardless of the area and numbers involved, and he could even control how they progress and draw power both from the conflict alone as well as the dying. Ares could also start conflicts by influencing people or events, raise personal and fanatical armies, control and create weapons of every kind and even grant others extensive abilities of combat. Ares is naturally, extremely skilled in all forms of fighting, weapons and both strategy and tactics as well as statistics of war. Ares has the incredible power to invoke war and chaos within an enormously large radius, ranging from a city to an entire continent. With this power, he has full control of the city or continent that is in war and chaos at the time.
	+ **Weapon Manipulation** - As the God of War, Ares has a great amount of control over weapons.
		- **Weapon Conjuration** - Although his symbol of power is his spear, he can transform it into seemingly any handheld weapon conceivable, including a "huge" hunting knife, an aluminum baseball bat, a two-handed great sword, and a shotgun.
		- **Weapon Transformation** - He can transform weapons into something far less threatening, like turning Shizuki's arrows into feathers.
		- **Weapon Curses** - He can curse weapons in a similar way to how his mother curses people with madness.
		- **Weapon Omniscience** - He knows everything about a weapon when he sees it, shown when he examines Riptide in The Lightning Thief.
	+ **Spite Manipulation** - Ares has control over feelings and emotions of war (such as hate and rage), and frequently induces them in order to start fights.
* **Fire Manipulation** -
	+ **Lightning Manipulation** -
* **Battle Precognition** - Ares seems to have a sixth sense regarding the trajectory of assaults in the heat of combat. For example, Ares managed to perfectly position his blocks before (\*&\*) could even swing his sword.

## Etymology

* Ares is perhaps from either Greek *ἀρή (are)* meaning "bane, ruin" or *ἄρσην (arsen)* meaning "male". The name first appears as *a-re* in Mycenaean Greek writing. Ares was the bloodthirsty god of war in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Hera.
* Mars is possibly related to Latin *mas* meaning "male" (genitive *maris*). In Roman mythology Mars was the god of war, often equated with the Greek god Ares. This is also the name of the fourth planet in the solar system.
* Laran in Etruscan mythology and religion, Laran (or *Larun*) is the god of war. In art, he was portrayed as a naked youth wearing a helmet, a cuirass and carrying a spear, shield, or lance.
* Enyalius in Greek mythology is generally a byname of Ares the god of war but in Mycenaean times is differentiated as a separate deity. On the Linear B Knossos Tablet KN V 52 the name *E-nu-wa-ri-jo* is interpreted to refer to this same Enyalios.
* Gynaecothoenas comes from the Greek Γυναικοθήνας meaning "the god feasted by women", a surname of Ares at Tegea. In a war of the Tegeatans against the Lacedaemonian king Charillus, the women of Tegea made an attack upon the enemy from an ambuscade. This decided the victory. The women therefore celebrated the victory alone and excluded the men from the sacrificial feast. This, it is said, gave rise to the surname of Ares.
* Ultor means "avenger" in Latin. Augustus created the cult of "Mars the Avenger" to mark two occasions: his defeat of the assassins of Caesar at Philippi in 42BCE, and the negotiated return of the Roman battle standards that had been lost to the Parthians at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE. The god is depicted wearing a cuirass and helmet and standing in a "martial pose," leaning on a lance he holds in his right hand. He holds a shield in his left hand. The goddess Ultio, a divine personification of vengeance, had an altar and golden statue in his temple.
* Ari means "lion" in Hebrew, in Old Norse it means "eagle" and "brave" in Armenian.
* Adamastos means "untamed" in Greek.

## Trivia

* According to the Databook(s).
	+ Ares hobbies are
	+ His sacred animals are the woodpecker, vultures, a wolf, bulls and pigs.
	+ A favorite offering of his is a roasted pig leg with nettle soup.
		- His second favorite offering is black soup with slices of placenta cake.
	+ Ares dislikes good people being sacrificed to him.
	+ The most precious thing in his life is his spear.
* Ares was often associated with the northern region of Thrace, whose native peoples were viewed by the Greeks as barbaric and war-like. Thrace was believed to be the god’s birthplace, and many of the native tribes claimed to be descended from him.
* In Greek Mythology, Ares was the first Olympian ever put on trial by his fellow Olympians gods for murder (of Poseidon's son *Halirrhothius*). However, since Ares was defending his daughter's honor, he was ultimately acquitted. The trial is said to have taken place on the Areopagus Hill in Athens.
* Ares has an intense fear of jars, as a result of his ordeals at the hands of the *Aloadae Giants*.