Elpis

**Elpis**, commonly known as **Hope**, is a lesser Aeon born from the Tree of Life that was used to keep the evils of Pandora's Box at bay.

## Description

Elpis has no true physical form as she is a conceptual principle that runs through the collective consciousness of creation. The Greeks depicted her as a young woman, usually carrying flowers or a cornucopia in her hands.

## Overview

Elpis was one of the Aeons that bloomed from the flowers of the Tree of Life. In the aftermath of the war between the gods and the Ogdru Hem, many evils and unnatural disasters were conceived in the wake of the battle between the two factions, thus Zeus and his fellow chieftain gods commissioned Hephaestus to build a container strong enough to hold the evils.

But even then the box struggled in keeping a hold of the evils, until Elpis offered herself up as a defense to counteract the negative aspects of the world to keep it at bay. The box remained closed with Elips inside for untold centuries until the arrival of man. Pandora would be created by the Greek gods and later tasked with guarding over the box. However, Pandora's curiosity overcame her and opened the box, thus releasing all the evils of the world that were placed inside it such as hunger, fear, sadness, pain, suffering, among many others. Pandora managed to close the box, but it was too late and the evils had escaped with Elpis inside.

Elpis would not surface until the Flood Age, where she would be located by Norea, the child of Adam and Sophia, who then come to use Elpis to aid in Noah's building of the ark as a means to ensure humanity's survival after the Great Flood wipes out all the evils off the face of the Earth, signifying that despite the seemingly insurmountably grim circumstances, hope always lies within the depths of darkness.

## Powers and Abilities

**Blessing Manipulation:** Elpis can create/generate, remove and manipulate blessings, that involves blessing people, become stronger with blessings, manipulate blessings to different effects. They can even manifest blessings as energy or powers itself.

**Compassion Manipulation:** Elpis can sense and manipulate the compassion, friendliness and kindness of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling compassion, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level.

**Desire Embodiment:** Elpis is the personification of all desire and fulfillment. They are given absolute power over their realm. They have power over craving of the unattainable. The force of physical appetite or emotional need. Strong envious desire. In contrast they are also lords over satisfaction, extending to the attainment of one's desire or personal aspirations and fulfillments.

**Divine Force Manipulation:** Elpis has control of anything that is divine. They are able to manipulate divine objects and relics that are connected to the gods or divine power. With this, Elpis is completely considered worthy of spiritual respect, allowing them to achieve feats that are impossible to be reached by mere mortals.

**Divinity:** Elpis has divinity and divine powers granting them an immense amount of sheer power, making them a divine being by nature, a status which can be obtained a number of different ways.

**Dream Embodiment:** Elpis has the power to be the embodiment of dreams and have complete control of their dreams and the dreams of others. They can attack or protect others in dreams as well as affecting the real world to some degree via dreams or daydreams. Elpis may have little to no power in the real world but can still affect the dreams of others even if they themselves are not asleep. Elpis gains power from dreams and can live on in dreams if they are killed in the real world.

**Hope Embodiment:** Elpis becomes the living physical manifestations or personifications of hope and gain the ability to feed on the hope of everyone and everything including themselves. Elpis can convert hope into energy and use it as a full source to extend their own life span or as a weapon. Elpis may never age and may be immune to death unless certain conditions are met.

**Hope Derivation:** Elpis is the source of absolute/perfect/primordial hope in every living being everywhere, directly to cosmic/universal scales. Elpis being the binding existence together by the force/energy of hope. Giving Elpis instant and total dominion over all the powers of hope, anticipation, aspiration, belief, confidence, desire, faith, prospect and the wish. As long as they exist all that is hope and everything connected to it does as well.

**Innocence Manipulation:** Elpis can manipulate the innocence of a person, making someone innocent of anything or undoing the innocence of someone, or toning it down so that there may be some bad things the target could do.

**Serenity Manipulation:** Elpis can sense and manipulate calmness, serenity and tranquility, whether mental, spiritual, physical, social, etc., of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level.