Tartarus

**Tartarus** is the Greco-Roman Primordial Deity of the Underworld and the Abyss that personifies all underworlds (including Hell).

## 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 Dʰéǵʰōm 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 Dʰéǵʰōm in the past to bring down the Dodekatheon, resulting in the birth of Typhoeus. He also joined the other primordials more than once to defeat being like the Outer Gods and Aructhas. 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 Dʰéǵʰōm, 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.

## History

He was created by Khaos to assist him in his conflict between him, Azathoth and God. Tartarus was born in-between Dʰéǵʰōm (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. After the Titans defeat, Dʰéǵʰōm and Tartarus had together created the monster king known as Typhoeus from a piece of Therion.

## Tartarus

### Aliases

Tartaros, The Underworld, Personification of all Underworlds, Lord of Tartarus, Father of Typhoeus, Ruler of the Underworld, God of the Abyss, Protogenos of the Abyss, Hell, The Pit of Evil, The Darkest Pit of Hell, Father of the Giants, Lord of all the creatures of darkness, The Pit of Evil, Emperor of Monsters, Lord of all the Creatures of Darkness, God of Hell

### Affiliations

Underworld, Hades, Tartarus, Protogenoi, Monsters