Hecate

Dark Lady, Ghost Queen, Greek Triple Goddess, She Who Acts From Afar, Bane of Witches, Patron Goddess of Witch-Hunters

### Other Names

God of Magic
God of Sorcery
God of Necromancy
God of Boundaries
God of the Crossroads
God of the Dark Moon
Moon of the Underworld
Lady of Entrance Ways
Queen of Sorcerers
Patron of Sorceresses

## Relationships

### Ancestors

Khaos (Progenitor)
Ouranos (Ancestor)
Gaia (Ancestor)
Krios (Grandfather)
Coeus (Grandfather)
Eurybia (Grandmother)
Phoebe (Grandmother)

### Parents

Perses (Father)
Asteria (Mother)

### Romances

**Numerous Lovers**
Helios (Formerly)
Hermes (Friend with Benefits)

### Children

**Immortal Children**
Circe, Lamia...
**Mortal Children**
Alabaster C. Torrington, Lou Ellen Blackstone, Erik Weisz, Jonathan Harrington

## Personal Status

### Affliations

House of Hades
Greco-Roman Underworld
Chthonic Deities
Greco-Roman Deities
Greco-Roman Pantheon
Realm of the Dead
Apostles of Hekate (Patron)
Tytanos Faction (Formerly)
Khaos Brigade (Formerly)

### Abilities

**Ethereal Energy*** Mana Manipulation
* Illusion Manipulation
* Darkness Manipulation

### Ranking

Minor God
Chthonic God

## Portrayal

### English VA

Lydia Mackay

**Hecate**, also called **Trivia**, is the Goddess of Magic, Necromancy, and the Crossroads from Greco-Roman mythology. She is the retainer and closest companion of Persephone, Queen of the Realm of Hades.

## Overview

**Hecate** or **Hekate** is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, snakes or accompanied by dogs and in later periods depicted in triple form. She is variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, night, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery.

Her earliest appearance in literature was in Hesiod's *Theogony* in the 8th century BCE as a goddess of great honour with domains in sky, earth, and sea. Her place of origin is debated by scholars, but she had popular followings amongst the witches of Thessaly and an important sanctuary among the Carian Greeks of Asia Minor in Lagina.

Hecate was one of several deities worshipped in ancient Athens as a protector of the *oikos* (household), alongside Zeus, Hestia, Hermes, and Apollo. In the post-Christian writings of the Chaldean Oracles, she was also regarded with rulership over earth, sea, and sky, as well as a more universal role as Mother of Angels and the Cosmic World Soul. Regarding the nature of her cult, it has been remarked, "she is more at home on the fringes than in the centre of Greek polytheism. Intrinsically ambivalent and polymorphous, she straddles conventional boundaries and eludes definition."

The Romans knew her by the epithet of ***Trivia***, an epithet she shares with Diana/Artemis, each in their roles as protector of travel and of the crossroads.

## Appearance

Hecate is a tall and seductive woman with full lips, smooth skin, and a voluptuous body. She has wavy pink hair kept loose in a lob hairstyle with bangs swept to the left side, and enchanting purple eyes. When angered, her eyes burst into ghostly-silver flames.

She's dressed in a very revealing manner. She wears a slim, sleeveless, and form-fitting mulberry-colored top and miniskirt with evening gloves of the same color. Her top showcases much of her torso, with a large V-shaped opening exposing parts of her breasts and midriff. Her miniskirt is short and barely covers her buttocks. She wears thigh-high boots that are skin-tight and split at the collars, dark-purple stockings and garter belts underneath, and a red-velvet choker with a pair of amethyst earrings.

In her true form, she appears as an entity with three upper bodies of beautiful women springing from a single lower body made of Mist. Her heads are veiled with black cloths, each face depicting a stage in a woman's life (child-woman-crone), and she wears dark-blue robes.

## Personality

Hecate is a woman with a very relaxed manner and prefers to do things at her own pace. She is smart and sarcastic, quicky to make anyone who step out of line to feel small and stupid with short and simple retorts. She loves solitude and expects people to make their own independent choices.

She has a gentle and caring side that only her children and her closest friends have seen. She is extremely protective of those she cares about and is not afraid to get her own hands dirty if it means her loved ones remain safe. Regardless, this doesn't mean she would cuddle them as she's always willing to call them out on their actions or stupid decisions. To those unfamiliar with her, however, she might be seen as cold, distant, and uncaring about the fates of others.

Despite her love for alcoholic drinks and the little amount of modesty she dresses, she isn't lazy, much to many people's surprise. When it comes to her duties, both her divine duties and her duties in the House of Hades, she is quick and efficient, keeping things running perfectly in the underworld as Persephone's right-hand woman.

She has a love for chaos that she relished in when she was young and appears to thrill at the prospect of punishment and retribution. She is downright giddy whenever she's plotting revenge on anyone, and even has a "punishment shirt" for workers who make mistakes. Despite this, she is very materialistic above all else, as she loves "creature comforts" of the underworld even more.

Regardless, despite her many years of faithful service, she resented the Olympians for being unfair because she's a minor goddess, which led to her supporting Kronos in the Titan War. However, since her children have been given their place in Camp Half-Blood, she has given up her grudge against Olympus but becomes more protective and worrisome of her children due to her public status as a traitor for the Olympians during the war.

## Powers & Abilities

### Demigod Powers

As shown through Alabaster C. Torrington and many others, a demigod born of Hecate might inherit powers such as:

* **Reality Warping**: By manipulating the magical force known as the Mist, they can manipulate reality to certain degrees, performing feats such as overwriting, erasing, or rewriting the reality around them. While less experienced demigods are limited to what's "real", stronger and more experienced demigods can make changes from nothing, even affecting the laws of physics to some levels.
* **Darkness Manipulation**: They can create, shape and manipulate darkness and shadows. They can generate an aura of pure darkness with which they can turn into different shapes, objects, materials and substances of varying complexity, permanence and solidity, ranging from items such as tools and weapons, to other forms such as structures, entities and elements.
	+ **Night Empowerment**: They become stronger, faster, more durable, etc... during the night. Their magical skills gain an immense boost in their mastery and effectiveness during nighttime. Depending on the amount of ethereal energy they possess, they might possibly unlock abilities related to the affinity or enhance their umbrakinetic powers.
* **Undead Manipulation**: They can create, manipulate, and destroy the - both physical and ghostly - undead, command dead shades, or condemn them to torment. On the battlefield, they can reanimate the corpses of fallen soldiers to fight alongside them, though this does take a mental toll on them and should only be done in the most dire circumstances or with the support of enchantments and/or magical devices.
* **Magic Augmentation**: They can enhance powers, effects, and objects that originate from magic, including magical objects/items, potions, spells, magical creatures, ley lines, etc... for a certain amount of time. While their power works on non-affiliated magic, magical objects and spells originating from other mythologies are unaffected by it.

## Trivia

* Her name "Hecate" means "far-reaching, far-darter", originating from *Hekatos* (Ἑκατός).
	+ Hekatos is also an obscure epithet referring to Apollo.
* Hecate's attributes are twin torches, key, rope, dagger, and the crossroads.
	+ Her sacred animals are dogs, polecats, red mullets, snakes, and frogs.
	+ Her sacred plants are garlic, aconite, belladonna, dittany, and mandrake.
		- Yew and oak are also considered sacred trees for Hecate.
* Hecate is a Triple Goddess, belonging to several trinity of goddesses.
	+ Together with Artemis (Crescent Moon) and Selene (Full Moon), she represents the Dark Moon.
	+ Together with Persephone (Maiden) and Demeter (Mother), she represents the Crone.
* Hecate's favorite drink is a "short black".
* Hecate and Persephone are the closest in age, being born only 3 months apart.
* According to Hermes, Hecate laughed when Mufasa died while watching *The Lion King*.
* Hecate has been incorporated in various systems of modern witchcraft, Wicca, and neopaganism.
* Hecate has appeared as a character in William Shakespeare's play *Macbeth*, both as her own character and as the original actor who portrayed Lady Macbeth, albeit she had to disguise as a *male* actor for the latter.
* Despite popular belief, Hecate hates witches with a burning passion, even claiming that they are her natural enemies and that she's the "patron goddess" of all witch-hunters.
	+ Many famous witch hunters in history were her demigod children.
* Hecate's Roman name "Trivia" means "three ways".
	+ The term "trivia" refers to obscure knowledge that she presides over.
* According to Roman mythology, Hecate used to kidnap young maidens, whom she later changed into nymphs called Lampades or turned them into terrifying monsters called Empousai.
* In some myths, Hecate is said to be the mother of Scylla, who she sired with Phorcys as the father.