Alecto

**Alecto** is the Goddess of Vengeance from Greco-Roman mythology. She is the eldest and leader of the Furies, the original erinyes who serve as castigators of mortal crimes, with her being the castigator of moral crimes.

## Overview

**Alecto** ("implacable" or "unceasing anger") is one of the Furies in Greek mythology. Either a monster or minor goddess, she was born along with her sisters from the blood of Ouranos after his castration by Cronus.

She bears the job of punishing moral crimes such as anger. Alecto's function is similar to Nemesis, with the difference that Nemesis's function is to castigate crimes against the gods, not mortals. Her punishment for mortals was Madness.

Some depicted her and her siblings as the daughters of Nyx.

## Appearance

Alecto appears as a well-muscular woman with blue-tinted skin and madness in her eyes. She has blood-red eyes and wild silver-white hair tied into a ponytail. Like her sisters, she only has a single bat-like wing, which is located on the right side of her body and is a toxic-green color.

## Personality

Alecto is known for her cruel, ruthless, and merciless nature, even among the sadistic erinyes. However, unlike her sisters and creations who prefer torments in the flesh, she prefers psychologically tormenting her victims with horrific hallucinations until they are driven into insanity.

Despite this, however, she is still an honorable judge, and although her judgements might be merciless, they are fair and are only dealt out to those who really deserved it. She also has a great respect for the rules of the Underworld, even reminding Hades of the unspoken rules over life-and-death that he, as a chthonic god, must respect when he desired to revive his lover Maria di Angelo.

## History

### Early Life

Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone were created by Ouranos millions of years ago to serve as guardians of honor and to enforce the authority of the Titans.

However, when Kronos overthrew his father and became ruler of the Ancient Greek cosmos, he banished them to the Underworld where they became tormentors of the shades who descended there.

### The Titanomachy

During the Titanomachy, Alecto and her sisters, much like other chthonic gods, swore an oath of servitude to Hades and the Olympian dynasty due to their personal discontent toward Kronos and the Titans' rule who looked down upon the chthonic gods as "lesser spirits". From then on, she became Hades' bodyguard and the rebels' chief interrogator.

After the Olympians achieved victory, she and her sisters returned to the Underworld, having grown to love the underworldly realm as their new home. As part of their agreement upon swearing servitude, they got their positions as castigators back and are now in-charge of enforcing the rules settled down by the Olympians among humanity.

### Queen of Furies

At some point in time, when human population boomed and the Furies became unable to keep all of them in check at once, Alecto was granted permission to create a semi-divine race of spirits to help them with their task. To do so, she coupled with Ares and used his seeds to create the Erinyes, lesser spirits of vengeance, and become their queen.

### The Aeneid

In an attempt to prevent the Trojan refugees from having their way with King Latinus by marriage or besiege Italian borders, Juno commanded Alecto to wreak havoc on the Trojans and caused their downfall through war.

To do this, Alecto took over the body of Queen Amata, who clamored for all of the Latin mothers to riot against the Trojans. She then disguised herself as the priestess Calybe and appeared to Turnus in a dream persuading him to begin war against the Trojans. When Turnus refused, she abandoned persuasion and cursed him, causing his blood to "boil with the passion for war".

Feeling unsatisfied with her work in igniting the war, she asked Juno if she could provoke more strife by drawing in bordering towns, though Juno refused as it would draw the attention of Jupiter and that she would manage the rest of the war herself.

## Powers & Abilities

### Abilities

**Divine Physiology**: Alecto possesses all the standard traits and physical capability of a pagan god. By absorbing the power either gained from humans' offerings and sacrifices or naturally originated in the Realm of the Dead, she can empower herself multiple times and become as powerful as a greater god, though not on par with the Twelve Olympians.

* **Supernatural Condition**: Alecto possesses supernatural capabilities and attributes, both physically and mentally, that are drastically beyond what is naturally possible, which allow them to dwarf most beings within the supernatural world. Despite this, however, as a minor god, her powers still aren't on-par with greater gods without being empowered.
* **Divine Presence**: Alecto emits a transcendent presence which has supernatural effects that can cause malefic or catastrophic events or effects to happen. As the Goddess of Moral Crimes, those in her divine presence will have less control of their morals and will most likely commit passion-fueled crimes against others.
* **Immortality**: Alecto is an immortal pagan goddess and can exist for infinitely unless she fades away or is killed using God-Slaying Magic.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: She possesses an incredibly powerful regenerative healing factor, meaning that she can rapidly heal and get restored to her optimal and full health at an extremely fast rate. Like other chthonic deities, when her body is destroyed or when she is killed by any non-permanent means, she will instantaneously be regenerated within the Realm of the Dead.

**Master Magician**: Alecto has demonstrated her ability as a master spell-caster capable of a multitude of different schools and systems of magic. Her most skilled magic systems are Olympus Magic and Hadean Magic, though she is also knowledgeable about the ancient magic wielded by the primordial gods due to her former past as Ouranos' castigator.

* **Transformation Magic**: Alecto is proficient in Transformation Magic, which allows her to shapeshift into various different characters, as well as the physical form of various monsters.
	+ **Natural Weaponry Manipulation**: She has complete control over her own natural weaponry, allowing her to freely alter and manipulate them. She can manipulate the shape, growth, coloration, density, sharpness, project them as projectiles, induce/remove infections/ailments, etc.
* **Dark Magic**: Alecto is proficient in Dark Magic and can place a curse on whatever she wishes. The exact effects can be nearly anything she desires, with the most common effects being misfortune/bad luck, various illnesses, infertility, physical defects/ugliness, etc.
* **Flight**: According to Hermes, Alecto and the other Furies can only fly through by using their magical energy for repulsion or propulsion as it is physically impossible, even by the norms of the supernatural world, for them to lift themselves above the ground, much less hover or even float above the ground, with a single wing.

**Master Whip Proficiency**: Alecto possesses great proficiency, capabilities, and knowledge in whips. She is able to wield a whip with great proficiency in range, accuracy, and speed, thus allowing her to perform feats such as snatching her opponent's weapons, swinging from high altitudes and slicing the flesh of her enemies when striking at great speed.

### Powers

**Divine Power**: As a minor goddess, Alecto possesses all the standard abilities of a god, including the ability to perform magic without the need of a magical foci or a magic circle. Due to her origins as a chthonic god, she can absorb the spiritual power of the Realm of the Dead to empower herself without having to resort to humans' sacrifices and offerings.

* **Afterlife Traveling**: Alecto can travel between the mortal world and the Realm of the Dead, particularly between the mortal world and the Greco-Roman Underworld, freely and safely navigating both worlds and any adjacent dimensions connecting the two.
* **Mental Inducement**: As the Erinys of the Soul, Alecto is able to cause her target's mind/brain to convert into a desired state, causing short-term change in emotions, sensations, memories, etc. The exact length of the effect depends on her target's mental state, as she's not directly manipulating them but putting the target into a condition of self perspective.
	+ **Confusion Inducement**: She can cause confusion in a person or group of people. Depending on her desires and/or the circumstances, this can cause momentary or longer lasting inability to focus attention, loss of orientation, or even disordered memory.
	+ **Insanity Inducement**: She can cause madness in a person or group of people that have no mental illness. Depending on her desires, the victims may go slightly loopy or lose total grip of reality becoming delusional, lose control over themselves, paranoid, catatonic or hostile. This is her favorite form of punishment, which she has regularly applied onto her targets since the time of Ancient Greece and Rome.
		- **Mental Hallucination**: She can create, shape and manipulate hallucinations/delusions. These mental illusions can be used as distractions, cause the target to go insane from the wild sensation or even cause the target’s mind to collapse permanently.
* **Fear Inducement**: Alecto can evoke and increase fear and horror in others, which resulted in alterations within the target’s perception, causing them to see their environment as ominous and her as more dark and foreboding than she already is.

## Equipment

**Adamantine Whip** (アダマントむち, *Adamanto Muchi*): Alecto and the Furies all wield enchanted whips created by the Elder Cyclops out of modified Adamantine, which is considered to be one of the most powerful sacred metals in existence. It possesses similar properties to the death scythes wielded by reapers, which allow it to damage the target's body and soul simultaneously.

## Quotes

**Alecto**: "*Good job, redblood! You made it all this way! But, I have got to send you back to daddy, now. Nothing personal!*"
**Zagreus**: "*Wish you could join me, Alecto. Want me to put in a good word with Father next time, so you can come visit us at the House yourself?*"
**Alecto**: "*Oh, you know, I'd rather have my eyes put out, but thanks for offering! Now, time to head on home.*"
— **Alecto to Zagreus**

## Trivia

* Her name, Alecto, means "implacable, endless, or unceasing anger".
* 465 Alekto, a main-belt asteroid, is named after her.
* She prefers cats over dogs and tea over coffee.
* Her relationship with Ares ended sometimes during the American Civil War.
* Due to a past "disagreement", she is semi-banned from entering the House of Hades.
* She was among the first female students to graduate from Harvard's Mathematics Program.
* Rumors said that she is the Erinys with the highest amount of, secret, war crimes, though this rumor is neither confirmed nor denied by any Hadean god.
* Despite popular belief, she wasn't the Erinys who chased Orestes for his crimes, but rather, it was her sister Tisiphone, who avenges victims of murder, especially of parricide, siblicide, and filicide.