Gods

The **Old Gods**, also known as the **Greek Gods**, **Olympian Gods** and **Twelve Olympians**, are a divine race of long-lived supernatural beings who were worshipped through multiple cultures. They monitor the natural world and moderate the humans' interaction with it. They occupy a realm known as Mount Attilan.

Gods earn their official titles from the aspects of nature and life that they seem to represent, including war, love, wisdom, seas, thunder, dreams, hope, fear, truth, lies, light, darkness, etc. They are creatures who live for many centuries, growing more powerful as they age. Gods are described as being part of a family or "pantheon".

## Creation

The existence of gods dates back to sometime before 8000 BC, thought how they came into creation is unknown. Despite this, they're still subjected to the balance of nature, thought to an ill-defined degree.

Omari's notes on various mythologies, particularly Roman mythology, indicates that Vulcan is one of the six primordial deities who emerged at the dawn of creation, along with the Sol or the Sun. While recounting his findings to Lino, he also states that they have a singular father, and he is immensely powerful. His notes allude to that being Jupiter. Considering Monet's claim that the myths that persist today are a gross oversimplification as well as the names are all wrong, this remains unknown.

## History

Sometime before 8000 B.C., the gods believed they were once normal, and were happy once. Every god except for Oberon. His insatiable desire for conquest led him to find new places where he could be feared and loved. Oberon, his daughter, Monet and many other Gods crossed into the mortal world from Mount Attilan and then they discovered they were different from mortals and were more powerful, and as such wars intensified.

As time went on, the gods began to know they were different and superior to mortal beings as they possessed supernatural abilities. They soon became worshipped in several cultures, including: Greek, Rome and Egypt.

### Ancient History

Omari learned that the gods used stars to navigate through space and dimensions, and named constellations after ancient heroes, one of whom was named Alya.

## Characteristic Traits

Gods bear a similar outward appearance to that of humans. Despite their aforementioned physical likeness to human beings, the Gods are otherwise extremely different anatomically, they are relatively unaffected by the passage of time or illness. However, grievous injuries inflicted on a god by another of their kind can leave them seriously weakened. Gods can also shift their bodies to pure light, with luminescent colors as well as shapeshift themselves into different forms of people, as well as animals.

Gods are immune to human illnesses and cannot be killed by conventional means. Lino, a demigod was said to have never suffered an injury his entire life.

Notably, they wield unparalleled supernatural power, thereby surpassing near every supernatural species, and are thought to be the strongest beings in the universe. They were able to summon immeasurably powerful bolts of energy capable of destroying battleships with ease. As revealed by Omari, only a God (or a demigod child of one) has the power to kill another god. Gods are also able to travel between dimensions using their power. With the ability to control the elements, they were said to able to cut the skies with a punch and crack the earth with a kick.

Gods can't normally reproduce with humans, as stated by Lino's uncle's past as a playboy. However, if one of the parents is "upgraded" or "downed" to the same level of the other, a Demigod can be born. Monet couldn't access her powers on Earth, at the time when she became pregnant Lino Freeman.

## Powers, Abilities & Weaknesses

### Powers

The full extent of the gods powers and abilities are unknown. Furthermore, it is unknown if their abilities extend collectively to all gods, across different cultures, or their offspring or if they vary from one individual to the next. Gods possess abilities allowing them to manipulate reality and nature.

* **Invincibility**: Gods, as demigods alike, possess a durability unlike any other and far exceeding supernatural beings. For example, Lino fought Icicle and given his birthright, was invincible in the battle.
* **Longevity**: Gods have extended lifespans or perhaps a form of immortality. This is not explicitly known with various statements. Monet implies that her history is a "long story". Monet stated that she herself was forced to live through 10,000 years of misery through her father's tyranny.
* **Super Strength**: Gods possess a strength unlike any other and far exceeding supernatural beings. For example, Lino was able to lift a set of barbell weights, approximately 250 lbs or so, with one hand.
* **Flight**: Gods possess the ability to defy the laws of gravity and propel themselves through the air unaided in extreme momentum. During his brief confrontation with Lino and Christian, Sirius flew away to avoid fighting. Monet also flew through the air while carrying the shipping container which contained Lino.
* **Remote Viewing**: The gods have demonstrated to be able to see long distances, with just their own sight.
* **Energy Manipulation**: Gods are able manipulate and create energy from their bodies.
* **Divine Magic**: Gods are able to cast powerful prodigious spells that affect reality and nature.
* **Individual Powers**: Lino implies that the gods have "all kinds of powers", including the ability to wield and shape time. He assumes they could take him and Christian back to certain points in time to change certain events. Though the validity of this claim is unknown, Monet claims that Kronos is the god of time, implying that the power is exclusively his. It is theorized by Lino that there are some abilities wielded by the gods that are all shared, (e.g. their superhuman strength, shapeshifting, telekinesis, remote viewing, energy manipulation, etc), but their could be some talents that are specific to individuals, like his mother's ability to bend light, his half-sister, Akira's ability to control sound, his half-brother's ability to manipulate water, his half-sister, Terra's ability to manipulate nature, his aunt's ability to dreamwalk or his grandfather's ability of mental manipulation. While in a training simulation of fighting the gods, Omari describes that Oberon can pierce the sky with lightning and call it down to strike his enemies, as well as use it as a means of transportation, in order to ride it.

## Notable Gods

 **Akira Cannon** | Akira Cannon is a young god, who's been raised by her mother, Monet, the Queen of Mount Attilan. Akira is known for her ability to manipulate sound to her advantage. She is on a quest along with her siblings, AJ and Terra to find and meet their half-brother, Lino.
 **Alya** | Alya is an ancient God rebel hero, who was the eponym of a star constellation, known as *Alya's Cloak*. According to Omari Freeman, the gods used stars to navigate through space and otherworldly dimensions and named constellations after ancient heroes, one of whom was named after Alya.
 **Deimos** | Deimos is known as the God of Treachery and Mischief, who created a mysterious stone, known throughout legends as the Stone of Dreams, which has the power to alter reality and grant any wish.
 **Kronos** | Kronos is the God of Time. Though Monet describes her family as "douchebags" and the "true monsters", she liked Kronos because he never forgot her birthday.
 **Monet Cannon** | Monet is known as the Goddess of Light and Justice. She is the eldest daughter of Oberon Cannon, an immensely powerful father of an entire family of gods, the elder sister of Sirius, Rhea and numerous other siblings, the estranged wife of Omari Freeman, the widow of late Archer, the mother of demigod, Lino Freeman, and young gods, Akira, AJ and Terra Cannon.
 **Oberon Cannon** | Oberon is the Father of an entire family of gods, as well as the grandfather of the demigod, Lino. He is believed to be immensely powerful, whereas Monet described as cruel, punishing humans with earthquakes, fires and floods.
 **Sirius Cannon** | Sirius is assumed to be a god by Lino. He is the God of Warfare, Wisdom, Blacksmiths, Fire and Forges, whose has created supernatural objects and weapons for millennia. He is the son of Oberon Cannon, the brother of Monet, Rhea and numerous other siblings. He is a wildcard with an unknown, but complicated past. Mythology has come to know him as Vulcan, Hephaestus and hundreds of other names.
 **Terra Cannon** | Terra is a young god, who been raised by her mother, Queen Monet of Mount Attilan. Terra has been known for her ability to control nature in various ways. After learning of the existence of her half-brother, Lino, she and her older siblings, Akira and AJ quest to find him.

## Trivia

* According to Monet, the "Stars" are brighter and more beautiful than anything else in the universe. However, they are also blinded by their own radiance and light, do not have much interest in the lives of mortals, do not know or comprehend patience or waiting because they don't have a need in such things, wanting nothing and take anything for their liking.