Pandora

**Pandora** was the first human woman created by the Olympians, specifically by Hephaestus and Athena by Zeus's instructions. She was created to ward over and guard Pandora's Box.

## Description

Each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Athena taught her needlework and weaving; Aphrodite "shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs", Hermes gave her a shameful mind and deceitful nature and he also gave her the power of speech, putting in her "lies and crafty words".

Athena then clothed her followed with Persuasion and the Charites adorning her with necklaces and other finery. The Horae adorned her with a garland crown. Finally, Hermes gives this woman a name: Pandora – "All-gifted" – "because all the Dodekatheon gave her a gift. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of Earth as part of the punishment of humanity for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts".

## Overview

Pandora was created by the gods to act as the warden for all the evils that sprung forth during the Battle of the Powers; the long brutal struggle between the god and the Ogdru Hem. She would watch over and carry the box, but was not told of its contents of which consists of "burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men", and "a myriad other pains". Pandora remained as the box's keeper up until the end of the Bronze Age, these evils were said to have whispered sweet temptations into her ears, playing unto her inquisitive nature and churning the well of frustration she feels at wanting to know what was inside the box. She finally gave into her impulses and curiosity, promptly cracking open the box's lid to peek at what was inside, but this disastrous moment only served to release the evils back unto the world.

The opening of the jar served as the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Silver Age, in which man is now subject to the myriad of evils that plagued the Earth in the aftermath of the war between the gods and the Ogdru Hem. They would now indulge in all the vices and fall prey to diseases and pains, plunging the world back into darkness. However, despite the evils reigning over the spirits and minds of man, the last bastion remained inside the box; Hope. Hope was said to have been used by Norea to aid in Noah's building of the ark as a means to ensure humanity's survival after the Great Flood wipes out all the evils off the face of the Earth.

## Powers and Abilities

**Curiosity Embodiment:** Pandora with this power becomes the embodiment and personification of curiosity, the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness. Pandora with this power can induce, manipulate or become empowered by curiosity. They can even alter their appearance to make them curiosity incarnate.

**Femininity Aspect Manifestation:** Pandora embodies the conceptual attributes, traits and behaviors of femininity/womanhood and gains power from aspects they represent each reflecting the ideal status of being by their physicality, mentality, spirituality and so on.

**Personal Blessing:** Pandora possesses a personal blessing (holiness, spiritual redemption, divine grace, magical/mystical enhancement, etc.) that grants them supernatural effects, often with beneficial results. Potentially, these effects can be extended beyond the one possessing them.

**Primordial Human:** Pandora is the first of humans to be brought into existence created or otherwise. Primordial humans are considered the parents of all of humanity regardless of race, gender, etc, making them responsible for the origins of the entire human race/species. Primordial humans are not necessarily limited in numbers by just being only one, but rather by being the first of human races that were brought into creation by either a creator deity, a form of an evolutionary process, scientific progress, etc.

**Super-Beauty:** Pandora possesses a supernatural beauty that surpasses the boundaries of nature, not just by physical attraction alone, but by other aspects and principles of beauty. Having such beauty can have mystical, empathic or psychic effect that reflects their physical appeal and qualities with graceful and flawless charms. Any who observe these beings will be supernaturally affected to see a perfectly envision and idealized form of beauty unique to Pandora due to their increase appeal, apparel, action and even choice of words, all of which can cause awe-inducing effect to others even by sheer presence alone that can have a number of mental and emotional responses from others without negative effects making it impossible for them to look terrible regardless of the situation.

**Transcendent Object:** Transcendent objects are capable of granting God-like powers to the wielder. They can range from source materials to apparel to fully-designed weapons; whatever the form, they can impart transcendent powers to those who lack them entirely or augment the already existing nigh omnipotent capabilities.