Wrath

## Biography

Aristos was a hunter in his mortal life, and was born a Kadmou. He took to it well enough to become archon later on. He absorbed the misogyny of the bloodlines and took it to heart, adopting an attitude characteristic of this mindset; that women couldn't ever stand up to him. This was fueled by his father's vaunted reputation.

Over the course of his career as a hunter, he had six wives, none of which bore a legitimate male heir, or any child at all. He did have an affair, producing Belen Kadmou. Belen got some amount of respect for being the son of Aristos Kadmou, but couldn't be his heir in Aristos's mind. He also nearly killed Artemis at one point. Aristos's sights were on the rank of archon, and he had a ruthless climb to that rank.

By the second to last Agon, he was archon, and looking to marry the oldest daughter of Demos Perseous, Melora. Lore objected, and so did Demos, refusing the offers of sorely lacking wealth. He killed the previous new Ares, who he felt was weak, and became Wrath.

Wrath went around causing wars and escalating disputes into conflicts into full-scale battles and war. Eventually he figured out about the complete Agon poem, and searched the Aegis for it. During the Awakening, Wrath's hunters nabbed two gods; Hermes and Tidebringer. Wrath beheaded Hermes and locked up Tidebringer to get her to cooperative with his ultimate plan.

Wrath took advantage of the Kadmide hacks of the televisions in the Achilleos Thetis House and used his voice to sap their strength and threaten them. When they didn't comply he tried sending his hunters. That, while killing many Achillides, failed to externalize them. He later went after Iro Odysseos and got Odyssides trapped on buses. When Iro didn't meet his demands and many Odyssides pretended to be her to spare her. He ordered that Odyssides be killed the longer Iro hid.

He sent hunter after hunter to hunt everyone he needed as his plan unfolded: to kill all the old gods and new gods to be the last one standing. His bastard Belen Kadmou was helping too. When Athena 'joined' him, he thought that Athena had 'recognized her master'. He didn't heed any of Belen's pleas to not trust her, instead killing him.

He trapped his hunters in a building to start a fire and exterminate them all. Additionally, he planted the Kadmide Seafire Car to send seafire over Tidebringer's floodwaters and burn New York down. His interpretation of the Agon poem was that a sacrifice of worshippers of other gods was needed to 'win' it.

When Lore came with the Aegis to attack him, he was pleased, thinking that she was submitting. During their confrontation, he expressed his pleasure at Athena's 'submission' to him, too busy preening to heed any warnings about her intentions. Belen's fears about Athena led to Wrath slitting his throat. Lore taunted Wrath by telling Athena that the aegis didn't summon Zeus, and asking why she was working with a new god, the kind she said was inferior and beneath her. Wrath, angry, said that he would cut her tongue out. Wrath expressed sick joy at the idea of Lore being 'broken' by him, saying that he'd have Iro and Lore under his command, doing whatever he ordered of them. Wrath got his arm slashed off by Lore, blinded with Lore's flashlight, and mace sprayed in his eyes. This made him angry enough to decide to kill Lore and not try to keep her and 'break' her mentally as a prize.

The tide of the final face-off turned in his favor when he threw a dagger at Lore coated in a noxious poison, and it hit her. As she started succumbing to it, Wrath picked her up and injured Lore repeatedly, and was about to kill her when Athena betrayed him.

Athena betrayed him, fufilling Belen's worries. He poisoned Athena and Lore, and Athena sacrificed herself to keep Lore alive to save the city. Before Athena did so, she killed Wrath. When he realized this, he fumbled for a lighter to light the Kadmide Seafire Car.

## Appearance

### As a Mortal

During the second-to-last Agon, he was around 60. His hair had silver streaks, and generally he looked his age. He had snakeskin tattoos (as the Kadmides' motif is that of a snake. His skin was olive, and besides his hair's expected silver, it was dark.

### As a New God

He looked in his prime and much the same as before the ascention. His face still looked like 'a cut diamond', his hair was still dark, and he was still olive-skinned.

## Personality

Wrath's main defining traits are his narrcistic arrogance and his powerlust. He assumes that he knows best (especially if another party is a woman) and he has no regard for rules. As a child he was implied to have been afforded lots of respect for being father's son. No one ever in his life barring the Perseides dared challenge him and not submit to his will. It haunted him how he couldn't use the aegis, and met Demos's refusal to submit to selling his daughter in marriage to him with fury.

Wrath does anything for his goals, and values human life very little, even going as far as to try to kill his own hunters in the hundreds. Everything and everyone is a means to his own ends.

## Relationships

### Family and Allies

#### Belen (Bastard Son)

Belen was afforded some amount of respect by virtue of his parentage, and Wrath was somewhat proud of him. However, that was purely situational, as when Belen stepped a toe out of line, he was killed by Wrath easily. He also derided his son after he lost his thumbs and ability to wield a weapon.

#### Athena

Wrath was preening at Athena's allying with him, and he viewed her as a subordinate 'recognizing her master'. He never listened to her, and always condescended when talking to her.

### Enemies

#### Lore

Lore's refusal to break or bend to him always infuriated and amused him in equal parts, viewing her as a challenge and as feral. Wrath delighted at the idea of having her submit and do as she was told by him. Starting from when she was a child, he found only cold amusement in her actions, and viewed her as nothing more than a 'challenge' to break and turn meek and submissive. When he saw her at Ithaka House, he smiled wickedly, having located the girl who'd never submitted to him. During their final confrontation, he thought she was submitting, but became enraged when he realized her intent. Wrath decided to kill her instead of taking her as a broken trophy.

#### Iro Odysseos

Iro he viewed with condescension, and in the final confrontation Lore had with him, he called her 'that girl from the Odyssides', saying that he'd have one (Lore as the other) on 'each knee' (likely meaning they'd serve him as his wives or just trophies in general). He had no problem killing many Odyssides to get at Iro, as she knew something about the full version of the poem that he didn't.

#### Demos Perseous

He never had much respect for Demos, and became enraged at him for refusing to marry Lore to himself. Demos and Aristos traded taunts and verbal blows at each other during their only seen interaction. Demos also seemed to get under his skin by seeing himself as Aristos's equal, when Aristos saw no one as his equal, especially not the archon by default of a bloodline his grandfather killed.

#### Castor Achilleos

Castor was mainly regarded in a condescending way by Wrath. It's unknown how otherwise he felt about Castor.

### Bloodlines

#### The Kadmides

The Kadmides respect him, and did whatever he ordered them to do. However, this didn't stop him from trying to sacrifice them, saying they should be 'honored' to be the first sacrifices to a 'new and glorious age' under Wrath. They were tools to his end.

#### The Perseides

He never got along with their archon, and since the two bloodlines hated each other, he always likely held hatred for them, or at least contempt. He felt that the bloodline was living in squalor, and was tormented by the fact that any Perseous could lift the Aegis his grandfather had taken from the Perseides. This was a main motivator for trying to marry Lore.

#### The Odyssides

The Odyssides he was okay with massacring, as they wouldn't submit to his rule. They also had Iro, the key to the full version of the Agon poem, which incentivized him to do anything he could to get at her. Wrath didn't think much of the Odyssides.

#### The Theseides

They allied with him, therefore they and he likely got along decently well with them.

#### The Achillides

Most of them allied with him, and he was shown to mostly talk to Castor when trying to recruit them.