Ares

**Ares**, also known as the "**Red-Eyed Rage**", is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *Historic Tales* series created by David Jaffe and Scott Phillips. He was the Olympian God of War, Rage, Battle Lust, and Violence.

Born as the son of the Gods, Zeus and Hera, he is renowned across the world for being the physical valor necessary for success in war but can also personify sheer brutality and bloodlust, his reputation concerned by some than others.

Arrogant and prideful, Ares is highly confident of his own might and looks down on those below him for their perceived weaknesses. He often represents physical, violent, or untamed aspects of warfare, in the contrast to his half-sister.

"*You mortals say that war never changes. While I would like to agree with you on some points, I vehemently disagree on others. All wars are fought with a goal in mind. And though that goal may vary in methods, it is the climax that is a constant. The total humiliation of one side. Regardless of what side you are on, war is an ever-evolving beast. It is mindless, constantly growing new limbs and organs to better itself. And though personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.*"

—Ares.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Steven Blum (English), Masaki Tani (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Gianni Gaude (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Gray
* Eye Color: Red
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

"*Sound the drums of war! Once a soul is in my grasp, warrior, I will grant them the strength to crush their enemies.*"

—Ares.
As the god of war and bloodshed, Ares is an aggressive individual, embracing violence and seeing destruction as ranging from beautiful to highly amusing. He was a bold and highly fierce warrior in all aspects of his view on life. He was incredibly bloodthirsty and values the bloodshed of his enemies that he spreads and enjoys battling for the sake of the thrill of the battle itself, and was thrilled by others following the same philosophy, though interestingly Ares never stood for needless bloodshed.

Despite being a bloodthirsty and dangerous god, Ares was actually a sympathetic father, as he tried to be to his children what Zeus had not been for him and was both loving and fiercely protective of them. Ares went so far as to kill Poseidon's son Alirrothios for trying to rape his daughter Alkippe. His sons Phobos (fear) and Deimos (terror), took it upon themselves to make their father proud by sewing chaos whenever possible, acts which were greatly appreciated by Ares.

Even though he embodied war, he is never a villainous character. Despite his rugged traits, Ares is also very honorable, and proved to be an understanding and receptive individual as he held no qualms towards Thor for defeating him and even enjoyed his defeat. Similarly, to Thor, Ares refused to fight an opponent that is disabled, injured from some other fight, or are ill.

Surprisingly, unlike Hades and Poseidon, Ares also never forced himself on any of his sexual partners nor did he find the need to use trickery to sleep with them.

## Abilities and Powers

As the God of War, Ares possesses a formidable arsenal of superhuman and magical abilities - all in correlation with combat and warfare, as these were his spheres of influence. As an Olympian prince and born son of Zeus, his powers were considerably stronger than lesser gods. Befitting his name, Ares is a mighty fighter of Olympus and one of the most powerful Olympian Gods, possibly equal to or even exceeding his uncles in power who were second only to Zeus himself.

### Powers

* **Dimensiokinesis**: Ares is able to create pocket universes that he could control completely.
* ***Superhuman Senses***: Ares' senses are enhanced to immense superhuman levels, allowing them to perceive the world in far greater detail than the senses the average human possesses. Ares is able to sense how Kratos retrieved Pandora's Box while being dozens of miles away from the Desert of Lost Souls.
* **Immortality**: As a god, Ares is innately immortal; neither aging beyond his prime nor succumbing to mortal frailty such as disease or impotence of any sort. He cannot be slain by earthly weapons; only divine forces and weapons such as the power of Hope, Blade of the Gods or other immortals such as Titans could slay him.
* **Superhuman Strength:** As a God of War and Zeus's firstborn son with Hera, Ares has immense colossal levels of godly physical strength, which allows him to be able to crush buildings effortlessly, which he relies on greatly in many fights on equal terms and make the ground shake by stompings.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Ares possess incredibly durability as a God of War. Ares also shows to be very resistant even against divine weapons like Blade of the Gods.
* **Power Bestowal**: Ares' blessing, which is only bestowed upon people who chose to follow him and show unflinching courage (or blood-lust) on the battlefield, grants the person who receives it superhuman strength & near-invulnerability. Ares was able to grant the chosen warrior with a large variety of abilities and weapons, the highest amount of attack power as well as the ability to empower their weapons with fire to burn enemies, a power common among the Gods. It was he who gave Kratos his original blades, the Blades of Chaos.
* **Necromancy**: The spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares. He once presented her with a ship full of perfectly obedient Confederate skeleton warriors.
* **Tactical Analysis**:' Ares seems to have a sixth sense regarding the trajectory of assaults in the heat of combat. He is able to perfectly position his blocks, making his opponents believe he knew exactly what they were going to do the moment before they did it.
* **Pyrokinesis**: Ares possessed the ability to manipulate fire, in every way possible. Ares was able to infuse it in his weapons, throw fireballs from his hands, and ignited people at will. Ares often used that ability to kill those who opposed him. Ares also used it in an aesthetic way, as his eyes, hair and facial hair lightens up on fire which intensifies when he is angered. However, he does not possess the command over fire those like Pytthon has, nor is he immune to its power.
* **Astral Projection**: Ares was able to project an image of himself out of the fire to communicate to Kratos after an enemy attack of his lands.
	+ ***Transfiguration***: Deities possess the ability to shapeshift & to transfigure others. Ares had an infamous reputation of transforming his enemies or those who had offended him into dangerous animals. However, he has also been shown to utilize this ability as a way of rewarding.
* **Shapeshifting**: As an Olympian, Ares was able to alter his appearance at will. He did that however to a small extent as the change of his hair was altered between *God of War: Ascension* and *God of War*.
	+ **Size Alteration**: Ares was able to alter his size, and often increased it to titanic proportions, as he did during the Battle of Athens.
	+ **Transformation**: Ares was able to produce claws.
* **Telepathy**: Ares was able to talk to people through their minds, without physically getting involved with his target.
* **Telekinesis**: Ares was able to move objects and people with his mind and did that on a massive scale. Ares used the ability to rip the Blades of Chaos from Kratos' arms, and, during the Battle with the Barbarians, lifted people in the air and broke them in half.
* **Teleportation**: Throughout his battle with Kratos, Ares was able to teleport all around the area very quickly.
* **Geokinesis**: Ares would occasionally summon enormous volcanic rock structures to try to attack during Ragnarök.
* **War Embodiment**: As the God of War, Ares was the embodiment of War itself and was able to draw power from it. Ares is an extremely fierce warrior, as well as a master of both armed & unarmed combat. In combination with his other abilities, Ares was able to lay waste to huge armies with little to no effort. However, his occasional tendency to underestimate his opponents & start toying with them has caused him to suffer defeats. Ares has the power to manipulate war, strife, combat, & other forms of conflict - all to a highly advanced level. Through this power, he is able to influence all forms of conflict, including mental, physical, spiritual & conceptual ones, regardless of the area & numbers involved, & he could even control how they progress & draw power both from the conflict alone as well as the dying. Ares could also start conflicts by influencing people or events, raise personal & fanatical armies, control & create weapons of every kind & even grant others extensive abilities of combat. Ares is naturally, extremely skilled in all forms of fighting, weapons & both strategy & tactics as well as statistics of war. He has the incredible power to invoke war & chaos within an enormously large radius, ranging from a city to an entire continent. With this power, he has full control of the city or continent that is in war & chaos at the time.
* **Telumkinesis**: As the God of War, Ares has a great amount of control over weapons. Although his symbol of power are spear, he can transform it into seemingly any handheld weapon conceivable, including a "huge" hunting knife, an aluminum baseball bat, a Late Medieval two-handed greatsword & a shotgun. He can transform weapons into something far less threatening. During his experiences in battle, Ares has shown the ability to materialize various weapons such as a gigantic war hammer, an axe, and a sword, all of which were enveloped in flames. Ares is also able to curse weapons, disarm his opponents with a gesture & gain knowledge about a weapon when he sees it.
* **Aggressiokinesis**: Ares has control over feelings & emotions of war (such as hate & rage), & frequently induces them in order to start fights. He can instantly cure "battle jitters."
	+ **Powerful Roar**: With more than enoth Anger, Ares roars so loud it sounds "ten hundred billion men."
* **Underworld Control**: Ares seems to have limited power over the forces of the Underworld. He crafted the Blades of Chaos from the deepest layers of Hades. Furthermore, the vast majority of Ares' army was made of undead monstrocities, hinting that he has limited necromancy.
* **Monster Control**: Ares could control over a vast legion of monsters which served as the backbone of his army. In conjunction with his undead troopers, he was able to command Harpies, Minotaurs, Gorgons, and Cyclops.
* **Control of Animals**: He can summon and control animals that are sacred to him, such as vultures & wild boars.
* **Master Combatant**: As the God of War, Ares was the most imposing and skilled warrior of Olympus, surpassed possibly only by his father and uncles. He has mastered all weapons used in the war including sword, axe, war hammer and his back spider-like blades which coupled with his godly powers and physical prowess makes him even more formidable. Even facing Titan Giants alone, Ares proved himself to be an extremely hard adversary, fighting with the giants on equal terms most of their battle and ultimately killed them despite at one point nearly ultimately lost.
* **Enhanced Marksmanship**: As a god of war, he possessed a greater level of marksmanship as he was able to perfectly hurl a large pillar from Athens to the far-off Pandora's Temple in the Desert of Lost Souls to fatally impale a Titan Giant during the Great War.

### Weaknesses

* **Wrath**
* **Power Loss**

### Transportation

* **Ares' War Chariot**: Ares uses a changeable war chariot as his preferred mode of transportation. It is usually driven by Ares himself or by his charioteers, Deimos & Phobos. As a tradition, his sons are to drive it when they turn fifteen though a daughter is allowed if she is deemed worthy. His preferred form for his chariot is a motorcycle.

## External links

* Ares *Wikipedia*
* Ares *Assassin's Creed Wiki*
* Ares *God of War Wiki*
* Ares *Heroes Wiki*
* Ares *Myths and Folklore Wiki*
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