Tartarus

Children: Typhone & Echidna

**Tartarus** also know as **Tartaros**, is the Primordial Deification of the Underworlds ruled over by their respective king.

## Overview

Tartarus is the primordial god and personification of the location Tartarus in Greek Mythology. As a Primordial Deity, he is an entity who is barely even known by even the Titans. He débuts, with his appearance in around 700 B.C. and is very briefly mentioned.

Tartarus is the father of Typhoeus and the giants, of whom Gaea is the mother. He is the oldest child of Khaos. He is the "prison guard" of Tartarus, the darkest pit in the Underworld where monsters go to reform once they are slain. Tartarus is also the place where Uranus threw, in chains, the Elder Cyclopes and the Hekatonkhieres, and the place where most of the Titans were chained after the first Titanomachy.

## Appearance

In his physical form, Tartarus appears as a hundred meters monstrous humanoid standing at immense height, his purple glistening flesh rippling with muscle with a thick skin and eyes that glow when he uses his powers.

His fingers are tipped with razor-sharp black talons. However, his most terrifying and distinguishing feature is his face- in place of a normal face is a swirling whirlpool and inward spiral of darkness, and his voice sounds like it is being drawn back inward rather than projecting outward. Tartarus' black Stygian iron boots are each the size of a coffin, and his hands are as large as crane scoops. His breastplate has faces of gorgons, cyclopes, dragons and other monsters all pressing against his armor as if trying to escape. Tartarus can also take a form that is a hundred meters sphere with many eyes and tentacles and after his defeat, his body was reduced to five meters.

His body gives out a unbelievable aura and his presence also gives out a dark mist. The aura he releases is described as ominous, so terrifying that when the Archangel of Hope, Auriel, fought him, she nearly lost control of her powers after being overcome with fear and cried a little. According to Athena, Tartarus is so massive, and radiates such pure malevolence, that she wanted to crawl away and hide as soon as she saw him, and even dropped her spear in terror. Tartarus' laugh sounded like a mountain "cracking in half". According to Athena again, everything around Tartarus seemed to be drawn to him.

In its true form, Tartarus is an amorphous entity, like all of the primordials. His body is essentially the deepest and darkest domain of the Underworld, with the worst beings condemned by the Dodekatheon imprisoned in his domains. However, when he went to fetch Cronus from his domain, the god was said to be an entity replete with a series of long spectral arms whose color is dark with twinkling stars.

## Personality

Like some of his siblings and creator, although its real mentality is highly unknown, Tartarus has so far proved to be an impartial divine entity and completely devoid of feelings or even ideals, as it remained relatively neutral and ambivalent with the constant wars that were fought among the deities soon after the formation of the universe, not bothering to serve as "a living prison" where the gods send their most dangerous enemies, even if they are their own direct relatives and even claiming that he does not usually interfere. However, his impartiality has limits, as he joined Gaea in the past to bring down the Dodekatheon, resulting in the birth of Typhoeus. Tartarus seems to have a degree of contempt for Satan yet stated that his existence is not worth of his time which is the only reason why is he save from him.

Consistent with the primordial responsible for the most terrible infernal abyss, Tartarus despite his seemingly lack of feelings, is a totally brutal, somber, sadistic, and terrifying entity that, like its domains, brings only despair and fear to all below it through the most exquisite forms of cruelty. He showed himself to be a highly arrogant god with an immense disdain and contempt for demons/fallen angels, angels and even the titans, whom he openly described as annoyances as after easily destroying them. However, Tartarus is honest and admits when someone forces him to take direct action, he will not hesitate. He is also seen as a fair and fierce underworld god, like Hades was.

He has claimed to have a taste for having a physical form and also showed delight in inciting terror in its victims. Like Gaea, he also takes great pride in his Gigantes children.

He is also known for being cruel towards the sinners and guilty. As he stated that their sufferings and agony is his joy, and claimed that they deserve to be punish in Hell for their misdeeds and sinful acts and can be furious when someone blame him for their suffering. Despite his seemingly cruel and terrifying nature, Tartarus is very honest and can be respectful to those who deserves it. The only beings, however, that he is cautious around are his creator, the primeval void Khaos, and the holy creator God, the supreme being of Creation. He is also lenient to his siblings like Erebus as he is one of the very few who can calm him down when angered.

## Powers and Abilities

**Evil Sense:** Tartarus is capable of recognizing evil or negative intent in themselves or others. Tartarus can tell how much evil is within the essence of others and decide how threatening they are based on the amount they sense.

**Judgement Inducement:** Tartarus is able to induce judgement onto anything, casting their decision as they see fit. They can punish, banish, or otherwise decide what happens to their target in accord to what they think of the matter.

**Meta Fear Inducement:** Tartarus can induce absolute horror in absolutely anyone, regardless of how powerful they are, transcendent beings or users of Apathy, Fear Immunity, Indomitable Courage, Indomitable Will, and Tranquil Fear.

**Realm Physiology:** Tartarus is a plane/realm itself, possessing total control of the plane/realm that makes them up, as such they have total control of its dimensions, borders, and entrances and exits. Tartarus can also create any form of life from itself to communicate with others or learn about the rest of existence. The can do anything they want as long as their body/existence isn't destroyed.

**Prison Domain:** Tartarus can bind, imprison and/or otherwise stop object/being by imprisoning them into a domain the user possesses/controls. These realms are usually meant to hold deities, archdemons, fallen and other transcendent beings, but may include particularly heinous/powerful mortals as well, either alive or dead. While they are mainly meant for simply keeping the inmates inside without any chance or hope of escape, in some cases they are subjected to various torments.

**Tartarus Embodiment:** Tartarus embodies hell, the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of condemned evil spirits, something that causes, any place or state of torment or misery.

## History

He was created by Khaos to assist him in his conflict between him and God. Tartarus was born in-between Gaea (Earth) and Amor, preceding Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness) and being the oldest primordial being except for his sibling Chronos.

Long after the conflict, Tartarus created the Greek Underworld, the first Underworld in Creation even before Hell. He had ruled from the realm below the Underworld which also called **Tartarus** along with Nyx and Erebus. It was created to imprison the most dangerous beings in Creation (example being the Titans).

He had ruled for centuries until the end of Titanomachy where he gave it to the God Hades.

## Myths and Legends

In Greek mythology, Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, Tartarus is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the Light and the cosmos are born. As a god, Tartarus is often named as the father of the monstrous Typhoeus with Gaea; Tartarus is also occasionally named as father of Typhoeus's partner Echidna. Echidna and Typhoeus were famed for going to war with Zeus and the gods of Mount Olympus.

In ancient sources though, the concept of Tartarus as a god was marginalized, and the name was one more closely connected with the hell-pit of the Greek Underworld.

In the Greek poet Hesiod's Theogony, c. 700 BC, Tartarus was the third of the primordial deities, following after Khaos and Gaea (Earth), and preceding Amor and was the father, by Gaia, of his only son, the monstrous giant Typhoeus. According to Hyginus, Tartarus was the offspring of Aether and Gaea.

With time, Hades came to overthrow Tartarus as the ruler of the underworld (hell-pit). Nonetheless, Tartarus continued to exist. It is from Tartarus that the Light and the cosmos came into existence.

## Quotes

*"You dare to claim I was the one responsible for your misery? As if it wasn't because of your kind's own hubris? Don't make me laugh, you little brat. I don't even know you pathetic kind even exist." - Tartarus.*

*"And as strange and hypocritical it may sound coming the me, the literally demonic embodiment of wrath itself, but Tartarus should* really *go to an anger management class. It's only a matter of time before his anger foils our entire plans." - Satan talking about Tartarus.*