Khione/Chione

**Khione** (pronounced "KIE-oh-nee") is the Greek goddess of snow, daughter of Boreas, god of the North Wind and Winter, and sister of Zethes and Calais. She is depicted as a goddess in the series, although in some myths she is visualized as a snow nymph. Her Roman counterpart, **Chione**, is sometimes used as merely an alternative way of spelling her name. Khione likes to turn people into ice sculptures.

## Basic Info

### Alias

Goddess of Snow, Ice and Winter, Daughter of Boreas, Lady Winter, Mistress of The Snow, Mom (By Katherine), Ice Queen

## Family Info

### Siblings

Zethes and Calais (brothers)Crius (paternal half-brother)

### Offspring

Eumpolpus (By Poseidon)Katherine Wilson (By Nicolas)

### Extended Family

* Zephyros, Eurus and Notus (Uncles)
* Zack Martinez (Cousin)
* Erikhthonios of Athens (maternal grandfather)
* Hephaestus (maternal great-grandfather)
* Athena (maternal great-grandmother)
* Immaradus and Ceryx (grandsons)
* Naus (great-grandson)
* Eumolpidae and Kerykes (descendants)

## History

### Early Life

Khione is the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and the Athenian princess Oreithyia, whom he abducted.

### Birth of Eumolpus

She was loved by Poseidon and bore him a son, Eumolpus. In fear of her father's wrath, she cast the child in the sea, but Poseidon saved him and entrusted him to the care of Benthesikyme. The Eumolpidae in charge of the Eleusinian Mysteries claimed descent from her, as the mother of Eumolpus with Poseidon.

### Daughter of Sais

She was hardly ever represented in Greek or Roman mythology. However, in some myths, it is claimed that she had a daughter, Sais, with an unknown man and the baby was killed by the Fates as soon as she was born.

### Affair with Apollo

She also had an affair with Apollo. She later gained self-confidence and boasted that she was better than Artemis, because two gods fell in love with her, and zero in her. According to some versions of the goddess for her pride she pierced her guard, and according to others, Khione was protected by the power of Poseidon and Apollo.

## Personality

Khione, possibly fittingly enough has a very cold personality, being very deadpan, blunt and sarcastic. Khione appears as a self-defined person. If you asked her that question, you’ll get a sharp, well-thought out response. She would pause for a few seconds, smile warmly (so warmly, you think, how could she be the one to have cold infest her heart?), and give her reply. Khione can also be very manipulative at times. However, Khione does have a soft spot, mainly for her daughter, Katherine and her girlfriend, Grace. Khione also doesn't like it when people call her hot as she finds it insulting

## Appearance

Khione has a mane of lush brown hair that faded to white, ice-blue eyes, and unnaturally pale skin that was the color of snow. Khione was also said to be the fairest and most beautiful woman in all the land. She wore a white dress, and sometimes had a silver crown atop her hair. She was so beautiful that when Ryan first met her, he thought of her as the most dazzling girl he had ever seen, and later even compared Zamaya to her. However, unlike her father and brothers, Khione has no wings.

## Powers and Abilities

### Goddess Powers

She presumably has the standard powers of a goddess.

* **Cryokinesis**: As the Goddess of Snow, Khione has divine authority and absolute control over ice, snow, and cold.
	+ **Freezing**: Khione can turn humans or demigods into ice. Anyone who goes near the ice statue will possibly be frozen as well.
	+ **Cooling**: Khione can make something grow colder and colder to the point where it feels like it's burning. In The 9th Story, Khione threatened to show the giants "the horrors of frostbite."
	+ **Cryo-Aerokinesis**: Khione can make icy wind blow something out of the air, like she did with Gaia's monster in The 9th Story
	+ **Snow Transformation**: Khione can turn herself into anything associated with snow.
	+ **Cold Nuclear Blast**: She has the ability to create something similar to a nuclear blast, only instead of heat and radiation, it is made of cold.
	+ **Blizzards**: Khione can can summon very violent blizzards and other snow-associated calamities with a wave of her hand. In The 6th Story, the blizzard she summoned at Pike's Peak was believed to be the reason why Tempest couldn't summon lightning.
	+ **Heat Sensitivity**: Khione can sense fire, as she did with Oscar and Esperanza in The 6th Story, due to the latter's pyrokinetic abilities.
* **Aerokinesis**: As the daughter of Boreas, she can control and manipulate the wind.
	+ **Flight** (possibly): It is also possible that Khione can fly or levitate herself with wind, like Tempest, since her father is a wind god and one of her spheres of control is icy winter winds.
* **French fluency**: Khione can speak fluent French, although this is because her father is based in Quebec.
* **Charmspeak** (possibly): Khione can do something similar to charmspeak, by whispering in people's ears. She can do this because, as stated at the Wolf House, her voice is "like snow, soft, and very cold", and because she is only confirming peoples' greatest fears. She has done this to Aeolus and even Zeus himself.

## Trivia

1. She hates mortals for two reasons: one was because they never honored her, even in ancient times, and the other reason was because many mortals believe in the concept of global warming and she thinks that the concept is ridiculous since she keeps the world cold.
2. In most myths Khione is just a minor nymph, and not even a goddess.
3. She's insulted when she's called "hot," because she's the goddess of snow.
4. It could be implied that Khione was attracted to Tempest because when she saw Tempest and Angelica holding hands, she burned their hands with cold, although, this may have been because their contact caused warmth. Lycaon said that Tempest also made an impression on "her" referring to Khione, but that could be because Tempest shocked Khione really badly. She also wanted to keep Tempest as an ice statue for herself.
5. She has a cold personality.
6. According to Apollodorus, Khione had a child named Eumolpus with Poseidon.
7. Khione was labeled as a "Meddlesome D-list Goddess," by Hera.
8. In their first meeting, Oscar Vasquez developed a crush on her.
9. Her Norse equivalent is Skadi.