Ares (Greek God of War)

# Ares

## Basic Info

### Alias:

God of War, Lord of Chaos, Devourer of Peace, PlagueSpreader, God of the Burning Hammer, The Fearsome Wolf of War, and The King of Warriors.

## Portrayal

### Writer:

Manta

*The Greek God of War, and an enemy to all forms of life. He is responsible for most of the Wars on Earth and is now trying to gain greater powers from the conflict which brews on the daily basis. He is manipulating events from the back and will unleash his wrath when the time is right.*

## History

### Early Life

Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera, and he is one of the true children born from the relationship between the King and Queen of the Olympians. A truly gifted child, he has the raw strength of his father and the magical capabilities of his mother. He grew to become a handsome and well-built young man, excelling at every type of magic and combat skill that was taught to him. He has a natural affinity towards fire and dark magics, and this caused some concern amongst the Olympians. Ares could be the champion of the gods, and he could protect Olympus from all kinds of threats. He represented the future of the gods. A perfect warrior who was easily mastering magics of all kinds. Soon enough, Ares would be partnered up with Athena, his sister, to go on missions to prove their individual capabilities to the other gods. Athena was intelligent, calm and disciplined, keeping the mission’s success to be her ultimate goal. Ares was brutish, chaotic and barbaric, annihilating everything that stood on his pathway, prioritizing the joy of fighting over the mission’s success.

As gods grow up, the things they are meant to represent would manifest as well. It was clear that both siblings were connected to the concept of War, but there were subtle differences. When it was time for them to assume divine roles in creation, Athena was given the title as the Goddess of War, Wisdom and Intelligence, and Ares was given the title as the God of War, Violence and Conflict. Together they represent what War truly was. Soon, Athena would outshine Ares, and she slowly became the prodigal one who will be the exemplary deity who will serve as an example to the rest of the Olympians. Ares would go on to become more rooted in his taste for battle and chaos, and this alienated him from the rest of the gods. His powers manifested further, and it soon became clear that Ares’s powers were somewhat similar to Hades powers, and that caused some fear amongst the gods. Hades has a fearsome reputation, and Ares was blessed with immense powers as well. Zeus would come to fear that Hades might use Ares against Olympus, to undo the wrong that was done to him when the Titan Kronos was killed. This alienation pushed Ares away, and it brought him to Hades, who very willingly took in the War God. Hades would hone Ares’s magic, and he taught him how to use his magic to gain more power from the world. Ares would assume his true powers here, and once he has mastered his powers, he could lead an attack on Olympus.

The war lasted for a long time, and in the end, Ares defeated most of the other gods and goddesses. Zeus himself had to strike his own son down, and that ended his rebellion. Ares was cast as Olympus. Exiled as one of them, and left to wander the world as a god without a pantheon. Ares would use his powers to create a dimension called the Areopagus, where he could reign as king. Ares would make use of what Hades had taught him, to make use of mortals to further his own strength by forcing them into more chaos. He took both physical and magical forms to influence humanity, pushing them into deeper wars. His influence spread easily, and his powers grew immensely as well. He would decide to attack Mount Olympus once more, now with the collective power he had amassed from humanity’s hatred. This time, he summons the souls that were killed on the battlefield, striking the heavens with an army of the dead. His brutal attack destroyed the heavens, and compared to the last time, his fury was far greater, ripping and tearing through the gods like they were mere pieces of paper. The war that he started has fueled him even more, with every kill he administered, his powers increased many more times. His power had even overwhelmed Zeus himself, for when the armies of the gods had all been slain. Athena would charge against her own brother, and their battle shook the world. Athena outsmarts Ares with her infinite wisdom, and she manages to push him back for a while. However, hatred is a powerful tool for the war god, and he taps into his infinite hatred against his own family. His powers kept increasing, and in the end, he manages to bulldoze through Athena herself. Zeus has to settle this before Ares succeeds in his ambition to paint the world bloody red. He would engage in a battle with the war god, and this time Ares was much stronger, matching the King of the Gods himself.

However, Zeus had so much more experience, and his power came from the Titans themselves. He already had a contingency plan in place, in case Ares might resurface into the world before the rest of the Olympians could intervene in his eternal war. A warrior gifted to the Amazons, a secret tool that will exist to be Ares’s one true slayer. Without knowing this detail, Ares fought madly, roaring with insanity and ferociously striking his own father. Zeus would muster up all of his strength, and strike a blow so powerful that it would pummeled the war god to the mortal realm, and it destroyed Ares’s physical body as well. Ares would slam onto the Earth, and his powers and magics had all been shattered. He was just a formless existence, instantly losing all the powers he accumulated all this while. Ares would wander the Earth, unseen by mortals and named as a broken god by the deities. He would travel nation to nation, creating conflict with what little magic he had. This slow accumulation led him to assume a physical form eventually. One with half of what he could naturally do previously. His power would grow steadily, as he would fuel the Germans towards the self-destruction of the world. With his physical body, he shape shifts and monitors the entire war. Little did he know that Zeus’s weapon would come back right before Ares could complete his work. Diana Prince. The Godkiller. Ares fought valiantly against this living weapon, but it would seem that she embodied all that was pure and love, concepts that rivalled Ares’s own domains of control. Lacking his true strength, he would perish once again at the hands of Diana, and this would mark his third defeat.

Time and time again, he fails to complete his mission just as its about to be fulfilled. He slowly heals from yet another physical death, licking his wounds within the Areopagus. Much to his delight, whatever seeds of conflict he had sowed within Humanity, had perfectly sprouted into a world of true chaos. The technological advancements that the mortals went through modified the way Ares could sap out the conflict that was being done on Earth. From guns to missiles. From missiles to tanks and jets. From militaristic vehicles to biological and chemical warfare. Everyone has become more divisive now, and it was due to Ares’s influence from his previous incarnation. Ares silently consumes all of the conflict. The Atlantean wars. Invaders from the stars. Killer clowns and maniacal warlords. They all pledged their efforts to Ares unknowingly, enacting chaos and conflict. Ares would manipulate the mind of the pirate, David Hyde, in an attempt to fuel the Atlantean crisis against the Surface World. He whispered dark magic into the mind of the pirate, putting the illusion that Arthur Curry was the one to have killed David’s father. Black Manta would unleash total destruction over the seas, but that met its end when Manta was subdued by the Atlantean King. Here and there, Ares pushed very powerful people over the edge, causing more destruction to ensure his power remains eternal.

The gears of time have pushed forward, and now Ares looms over humanity once more. This time, he had become whole, just as he was in Olympus. Every war and fight were a prayer in his name, and similarly he grows stronger and stronger, becoming the full-fledged God of War. He will rip apart humanity, pit these heroes against one another and tear Diana apart once and for all. All this while Ares kept his true self-contained, not allowing his true nature to reveal itself. But now, Ares will lay siege to everything and everyone he sees, and plunge this creation into an eternal war where he will become the God of not just War, but Reality itself. This time, Ares will no longer hide his brutal side. He will embrace this darkness, violence and bloodshed. He will take his true form to the battlefield and break the world in half with his true might.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Divine Immortality**
* **Divine Invulnerability**
* **Olympian Physiology**
* **Dark Sorcerery**
* **Flame Manipulation**
* **Metal Manipulation**
* **Weapon Manifestation**
* **Necromancy**

### Weaknesses

* **Divine Weapons**
* **Divine Beings**