Gaea

### Unusual Features

Gaea can appear in humanoid form with varying characteristics, generally with ethnicity matching those who see her.

## Relationship Information

### Family

Chaos (father)

Demiurge (father/brother)

 Ouranos (son/husband) & Tartarus (brother/husband)

 Nyx, Ananke, Tiamat, Oshtur (sisters), Set, Chthon, Erebus, Chronos, Ymir, Surtur, Amatsu-Mikaboshi (brothers)

 Atum-Ra, Khonshu, Pontus, Nereus, Phorcys, Kronos, Oceanus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Koios, Krios, Hekatonkheires, Elder Cyclopes, Typhon, Gigantes, Python, Kouretes, Thor Odinson, The Dadga, Nuada, Bathala, Amihan, Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, Erlik, Kuara, Koyash, Ulgen, Freyr (sons)

Rhea, Themis, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Nesoi, Keto, Meliai, Ay, The Morrigan, Pele, Sedna (daughters)

 Elder Olympians, Chiron, Nemean Lion, Ladon, Hydra, Chimera, Cerebus, Iris (grandchildren

 Perseus Lykaios (step-son/grandson/great-grandson) - reincarnation of Demiurge, her brother/father

### Occupation

Patron Goddess of Earth; Mother Nature; Primordial Earth Mother of Pantheons

### Enemies

* Set
* Amatsu-Mikaboshi
* Darkar

## Equipment

### Item(s)

Ebon Rose

**Gaea** is one of the Elder Gods and Protogenos of the Earth. She's the first being to have sprung from Chaos and known as **Mother Earth**, is mother to all the pantheons of Old Gods on Earth. Her husband is Ouranos whom she had the Titans of Myth and Tartarus, whom she conceived the Gigantes. While her Roman is **Terra** or **Tellus**, meaning "earth" in Latin, Gaea is the very planet itself and is known under many different names.

## Personality

In many ways, Gaea is the ideal mother loving her children first and foremost despite many of them were known for their hideous appearance. She does have certain preferances amongst them, such as her favorite daughter Rhea and her son Clytius. It was originally her decision to let the Olympians beat the Titans in order to help her daughter, but she got enraged due to the way that the gods ruled. She will do anything to protect them, even if it means taking the most extreme measures. It's because of this that Gaea is known to be very cruel to anyone who threatens them. This oddly includes the gods - her own grandchildren- and even her children who don't follow her plans or goals, such as Orion who had claimed that he would kill every beast on earth, probably including some of her children

Perseus described Gaea as somewhat fussy with overprotective maternal instincts towards anyone,. He's also called Gaea unexpected and tempermental as the seasons, the rare instances of showing unkindness is when mortals disregard the natural world and show disrespect to one's betters without cause.

Her reckless actions were often ruled by her anger, especially when her children are harmed. After creating the Gigantes, Gaea "forgot" about Perseus being the representation of Order and his existence's integrity of being neutral, having created a bane focused on causing Chaos.

## Appearance

Because she is literally the Earth itself, Gaea might not have a physical form to speak of. She will sometimes appear to people in the form of a giant sleeping face, but more often than not tends to appear to people in the form of a woman wearing a cloak made of black dirt that churns and shift, as well as a veil made of dust. Behind the veil is a pale face that appears to be asleep, signifying that she isn't yet awake. An awakened Gaea is described as a 20-foot-tall figure of a woman – her skin as white as quartz, her hair brown tangled like tree roots, and her dress woven from blades of grass. Her eyes are described as "solid green" like all nature had been condensed into a few spoonfuls of organic matter".

She could also be beautiful and seductive when she wished to be: when tricking Ouranos to lower his guard down, he was utterly taken aback by her beauty - she wore her best green sleeveless dress, her hair was braided with jewels, and she smelled of roses and jasmine.

It's been suggested that she always appears in the form of however image she was worshiped as by whatever race on earth. So if she appeared before an ethnically diverse group, she appears in the form of an ethnic image connected to that person such as African to a person of African descent and Asian to a person of Asian descent even simultaneously.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

As the Protogenos of the Earth and the second being to exist, Gaea is one of the most powerful beings in existence. She's considered the strongest of the Elder Gods and the very wellspring of life, not just on Earth but throughout Creation itself, and called herself the "source" of the gods capabilities. Her power was so incredibly vast that she can overwhelm and restrict the powers of other beings with her mere presence. Gaea's arrival on Asgard incited fear within Odin, having acknowledge Mother Earth as a primordial force suprior to Eternity and Infinity.

* **Elder God Physiology**: Gaea belongs to a race of inconceivable beings known as the Protogenoi, primordial forces representing aspects of reality itself. She's one of the Elder Gods of Earth, "*minor primordials*" born from the Demiurge however Gaea was stated to have existed before any of them as a Daughter of Chaos. Gaea is the most powerful of her brethren, having the conventional attributes inherent within other primordial beings and depending on whom perceives her, can physically appear in different forms that's a physiological equvalent to an Old God of a specific pantheon.
	+ **Allspeak**: Thanks to the power of Allspeak, Gaea is able to communicate in any language throughout the Nine Realms, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages.
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability**: Gaea has an immense amount of durability and invulnerability somewhat linked to the Earth. Like most primordials, Gaea becomes relatively less powerful when separated from her domain than when being in her element. Because she's the essence of life and nature throughout the universe, Gaea is connected to the universe more than most primordials and its been established without her, everything in existence would crumble back into nothingness. She compltely ignored the combined assault of the Justice League and Avengers, even deeming them annoying.
	+ **Immortality**: As the second being in existence, Gaea has existed since the dawn of time. This makes her functionally immortal and cannot die through any conventional means. She's immune to the effects of aging and is unaffected by any known disease or infection; Although Gaea cannot be killed, her consciousness and physical form can be "scattered" in such a way that reforming takes longer than regular immortals.
* **Eyes of the Beholder**: When Gaea manifests to lesser beings, she usually employs a humanoid form. It's been suggested that she appears in the form of whatever race or ethnicity that sees her and that in an ethnically diverse group, she may appear in the form of the ethnic image associated with each individual, even simultaneously.
* **Divine Magic**: As a Protogenos, Gaea was created before the Rules of Magic existed and doesn't utilize a mystic art that allows those to manifest and perform magic. She has an immense amount of divine and magical power of an undefined nature beyond anything the Old Gods were capable of.
	+ **Nature Manipulation**: As the physical embodiment of the Earth itself, Gaea wields tremendous power over the forces of nature and weaves them to her will beyond any other nature deity. She's the very source of the natural world, giving her absolute command over all forces of nature and the elements connected to them, including the material environment. Gaea's stated to be the wellspring for life, not just on Earth but throughout the Multiverse itself and is even called the "true font" of Creation who gives various abstract forces reasons for existing. Furthermore, Gaea also represents and is the embodiment of life, growth, renewal and the harvest similar to Demeter, but on a more conceptual level.
	+ **Power Bestowal**: Like other mystical deities, Gaea can grant power upon those knowing how to invoke her. It's stated that Gaea is the "source" for all of the gods powers and what they're capable of achieving, even bestowing their spheres of influence. Gaea contained the Dragon's Flame after Demiurge was stripped into nothingness and was shown to "grant" said powers back when Demiurge was remade into something entirely new.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Gaea has considerable telekinetic power and easily levitated Thor’s hammer, which few beings can lift through non-mechanical means. After meeting the Avengers and Justice League, Gaea was able to casually dispose of them with a mere hand gesture. She can even utilize her telekinesis when manipulating the forces of nature, being capable of using the elements by wrapping them around objects and move them without physically touching them.
	+ **Transfiguration**: Gaea can transfigure and transmute virtually anything into something else, being skilled in Human Transfiguration like most gods, with an affinity for anything related to nature - She had transformed Pitys into a pine tree after being killed by Boreas out of jealousy and turned Syceus into a fig-tree. After Diana called upon her, Gaea turned several humans into an entire landscape after they destroyed a forest sacred to the Amazon Fairies, and had changed Daphne into a laurel tree to evade Apollo's advances even while asleep.
* **Nigh-Omniscience**: Gaea was stated to know and understand everything within the Multiverse, including knowing everything happening throughout Yggdrasil from the Earth itself. Unlike most primordials, Gaea was the only one aware of Demiurge's history and rebirth, being aware of Chaos stripping him down into nothingness and them remaking him as Perseus Lykaios.

### Abilities

* **Expert Combatant**: While extremely rare, Gaea has engaged in physical combat but tends to rely on subtle influence of others and powers instead of being front and center. After choosing mammals as the next dominent species of Earth, Gaea fought against her Set in combat; However she realized that she's underestimated Set and invoked her son Atum to aid her in her fight.

## Euipment

### Items

* **Ebon Rose**: One of the four Cornerstones of Creation, Gaea created the Ebon Rose to enable users to anchor themselves to their location when acessing other dimensions. It can also generate thorny vines to entangle others (even a being as powerful as Chthon) and force them into speaking truthfully.

## Trivia

* Gaea, with her multiple names and aspects, sometimes replace some goddesses who were established as independent deities. It is unknown if she shares the name with them, if they are aspects of her, or if they're just other representations of her (divided in legends)
	+ Some of her aliases are sometimes defined as aspects of her (rather than simply alternate names), such as Amatsu-Kami Izanami-No-Mikoto (also known as Izanami)
		- In Hinduism, while later being known as Aditi, Gaea's "golden womb" was named Hiranyagarbha.
		- Among the Akua, Gaea has been named Rangi. That could indicate either that Gaea posed as her own mate, that Rangi spawned from Gaea as an aspect of her, or that some sources confused the male Rangi with the female Papa.
		- Among the Dievas, Gaea is known as Erce, but as Ajysyt to the Yakuts (worshipers of the Tenger). Ajysyt is the niece of the Dieva Perun
* Her sacred animals are the serpent, the lunar bull, the pig, and bees.
* Her name, Gaea, means "Earth", in Greek.
* The large landmass that made up all the continents before they separated is known as *Pangaea*, with *Pan* meaning "all" and *Gaea* meaning "Earth".
* Gaea, a crater on Amalthea (a moon of Jupiter) is named after her
* Gaea is confirmed to being a Protogenos, having emerged from Chaos itself, but is also an Elder God due to gaining a physical form thanks to her relationship with Demiurge and using his power
* Despite his constant reincarnations, Perseus Lykaios was still Demiurge down to his very soul - He's still considered Gaea's father/brother while being her biological step-son/grandson/graet-grandson