Clotho

* Erebus (Father)
* Nyx (Mother)

**Clotho**, also called **Nona**, is the Primordial Goddess of the Beginning from Greco-Roman mythology. She is one of the Moirai, Goddesses of Fate, and is responsible for spinning the threads of life, thus deciding who will be born.

## Overview

**Clotho** is a mythological figure. She is the one of the Three Fates or Moirai who spins the thread of human life; the other two draw out (Lachesis) and cut (Atropos) in ancient Greek religion. Her Roman equivalent is **Nona** ("the Ninth").

She also made major decisions, such as when a person was born, thus in effect controlling people's lives. This power enabled her not only to choose who was born, but also to decide when gods or mortals were to be saved or put to death. For example, Clotho brought Pelops back to life when his father killed him.

As one of the three fates her impact on Greek mythology was significant. Clotho, along with her sisters and Hermes, was given credit for creating the alphabet for their people. Even though Clotho and her sisters were worshiped as goddesses, their representation of fate is more central to their role in mythology. Thread represented human life and her decisions represented the fate of all people in society.

## Appearance

Despite popular belief, Clotho is neither an old crone nor is she a hideous hag. She is an attractive woman with a curvaceous body and long pink hair falling down to the middle of her back in a quite wavy ponytail.

## Personality

Clotho usually is a stoic, mature, and calm individual. To some, her speech seems inhuman and almost robotic, as she pauses between words and speaks of people as if they are experiments or projects. Compare to her sisters, she is much more responsible and takes her duties as a [Goddess of Fate] more seriously and is always trying to keep things in order.

Unlike her sisters, she has shown much more compassion to humans and their daily struggles, though she couldn't do much to help them due to her domains restricted her to only deciding when and where they would be born and to whom they would be born.

According to Apollo, she does have a weakness, which is her fondness for good alcohol despite her low tolerant for it. When she is drunk, she displays a much more cheerful and even childish side of her, and is very easy to please, which is how the gods were able to convince her to save people such as Peplos or Alcestis. However, after a dozen of mortals were saved through this methods, her sisters had decided to always keep an eye on her whenever she's drunk to prevent more instances like this to happen.

## History

The Moirai - Atropos, Lachesis, and **Clotho** - were created by Ananke billions of years ago when the earliest known life forms came into existence on Earth. Like all other [Gods of Fate], they were visited by the Celestial Prince Michael in their dreams to learn how to spin, weave, and cut the threads of life.

For the most part, she and her sisters lived distant from the other gods, though when the Olympians defeated the Titans and claimed Mount Olympus as their own, Zeus invited them to live with them and the remaining gods, which they accepted. Upon arriving, they appointed new domains for the Elder Olympians, as well as rearranged pre-existed domains of deceased gods to more suitable candidates.

From then on, they lived together in a secret cavern on Mount Olympus that changed every hour, with only Zeus and Hestia knowing how to find them. Every now and then, they would appear in Greek myths, such as resurrecting Pelops after his father killed him, allowing Alcestis to exchange her life for her husband's, or warning Althaea of her son Meleager's doomed fate.

## Equipment

**Bronze Club**: Clotho and her sisters each own their own truncheon-like club made from pure Celestial Bronze which they have all shown immense mastery over. During the Gigantomachy, when the Gigantes Agrius and Thoas bashed into their temple on Mount Olympus in a berserked state, all three Moirai used their bronze clubs to bash their heads in, killing them violently.

## Trivia

* Her name "Clotho" means "spinner".
* Due to the associations between [Fate] and [Death], Clotho is considered a cthonic goddess.
* The asteroid 97 Klotho is named after Clotho.
	+ Klotho, an enzyme that is encoded by the KL gene, is named after her.
* In Ancient Rome, as Nona ("ninth"), Clotho was called upon by pregnant women in their ninth month when the child was due to be born.
* In some myths, Clotho is either the daughter of Nyx and Erebus or of Zeus and Themis.
* In Ancient Greek religion, murder and suicide was considered blasphemy against her authority.
* Like her sisters, Clotho also has an apprentice in the form of Eileithyia.