Lethe

* Styx (Mother)
* {Pallas} (Father)

* Kratos (Brother)
* Zelus (Brother)
* Bia (Sister)
* Nike (Sister)

**Lethe**, also known as **Oblivio**, is the Goddess of Concealment and Forgetfulness from Greco-Roman mythology. She is a river goddess of the Greco-Roman Underworld and holds direct control over the Lethe River, whose water can induce memory loss.

## Overview

In Greek mythology, **Lethe**, also referred to as **Lemosyne**, was one of the five rivers of the underworld of Hades. Also known as the *Ameles potamos* (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. Lethe was also the name of the Greek spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often identified.

In Classical Greek, the word *lethe* (λήθη) literally means "oblivion", "forgetfulness", or "concealment". It is related to the Greek word for "truth", *aletheia* (ἀλήθεια), which through the privative alpha literally means "un-forgetfulness" or "un-concealment".

## Appearance

Lethe appears as a petite and delicate-looking young girl with curly black horns protruding from the top of her head. Her hair is light-gray with orange streaks and is pulled back in a high ponytail, and she has beautiful light-orange eyes framed by long eyelashes.

She wears an old fashioned ball gown that looked straight out of the *Gothic Lolita* fashion magazine, with an ornamental black helmet with a pink rose at the front with frills and a yellow diamond accessory hanging from it.

She can also transform into a mermaid-like form, with a pale-orange fish tail and scales of various shades of black, orange, and gold scattered across her body.

## Personality

Lethe appears as a poised woman with an air of aristocracy about her. She acts in a way that is befitting of a noblewoman and carries herself in such graceful manners that many believe to be the epitome of nobility. Despite this, her true personality is quite the opposite.

In private, she is a crass and unblushingly slothful person who has little interests other than eating, sleeping, and having sex, which is something her partners glady indulged her in. She has a dirty and morbid sense of humor, and tends to find sadistic joy in the misfortune of others, with her favorite victims being her siblings.

Despite this, regardless if it is private or public, she still possesses a somewhat serious personality with little to no patience to deal with others' foolishness. For all of the lazy behavior she had at home, she is a very proficient worker and does her job seriously and dutifully and is a "perfect working in seemingly all aspects but personality".

Although she acts as a noblewoman with a superior demeanor in public, she isn't without humility and knows when to admit she is wrong and needs help. She also knows how to carefully choose her battles and when to avoid unnecessary conflicts, thus showing a cautious and tactical side to her.

Later on, it's revealed that most of her serious personality stemmed from the duties and responsibilities she had to take on as the oldest daughter while raising her siblings because of their mother's negligence, something that only grew after Enyalios disappeared. While she understood why Enyalios could possibly leave, even implying that she was the one who gave him the idea, she detests her mother with a burning passion and that, under no circumstances, would give "a flying fuck about that bitch [Eris]".

## History

Lethe is a goddess from Greco-Roman mythology who has been worshipped and revered by the people of Greece and Ancient Rome for thousands of years. She is a daughter of Eris, Goddess of Discord, and the river goddess of the Lethe River in the Greco-Roman Underworld whose water is drunk by all shades when they are reincarnated.

## Trivia

* Her name, *Lethe*, means "oblivion", "forgetfulness", or "concealment".
* Ironically, despite being the Goddess of Forgetfulness, between her siblings, she has the best remembering skills.
* She and Hecate often work together due to their shared duties of erasing memories of the supernatural world from mundanes' mind.
* Ancient Romans associated the Lima River with the Lethe River.
	+ According to Hermes, this river used to be the mortal branch of the actual Lethe river in the underworld before its special properties faded away in the end of the Age of Gods.
* The River Lethe in Alaska is named after her.
* The Guadalete River was formerly named the Lethe River after her.