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Birth and Fate

Rhea awaiting Cronos atop the Summit of Sacrifice .

In the beginning, there was darkness. The first twelve elder Titans were born on the Island of Creation to the union of the Heavens, their father Ouranos and their mother Gaia , the Earth. The beautiful Island was created before the Titans birth by the Primordials and was home to the Sisters of Fate , the daughters of Nyx and the arbiters of fate and destiny.
The Titans were powerful dieties and created and added new domains and concepts to the still developing cosmos, such as the Sun and Moon by Hyperion and his children, divine law and order by Themis , mortality by Iapetus and finally Time itself, by the youngest one, Cronos .
Their father Ouranos ruled supremely and increasingly tyrannically over the universe, with the Titans being merely tolerated on the face of the Earth unlike their older brothers, the mighty trios of Elder Cyclopes and Hecatonchires who were banished into the primordial abyss for their hideousness, much to the dismay and rage of their mother, Gaia who loved all her children equally.
When the Earth Mother beseeched her children to stand up to the Tyrant, no one objected but only Cronos, the youngest and most ambitious one was ready to actually face and challenge the all-powerful Skyfather. In a terrible cosmic battle, resembling the primordial clashes before the creation of the world, the Titan of Time has slain and castrated his sire, taking over the supreme lordship over the cosmos for himself and bringing forth the Golden Age of Titan rule.
Next to their ever-present father in the Heavens, the Titans also were very cautious and frightened by the power and authority of the Sisters of Fate, perhaps the mightiest of the Night Mothers many children. The Sisters lived on the Island of Creation and ruled over the every-day life and ultimate destiny of all deities , their authority being near-absolute. The Titans saw it fit to move from their birthplace into the wide world and started to shape and take roots in it.


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Powers

The main powers that all Titans possessed are superhuman strength, stamina, durability, immortality and regenerative abilities. Some of the Titans may also possess some form of energy projection and the power to control and manipulate the elements which they embody. Oceanus and Perses seem to be covered in their respective elements, Oceanus being covered in Water and Lightning, and Perses is covered in Lava implying that they both could manipulate those elements. Gaia could also possess the power over Earth and possibly over the life on it.
It is described in the in-game lore and novels, that the Titans used to rule over the universe just like the Gods of Olympus did during their reign. After their defeat, they were stated to have been depowered and dispossessed of their divine powers and domains, so that they wont ever be able to escape their imprisonments.
It is unknown what powers Rhea , mother of the six original Olympians, possesses, as she hasn't displayed her own powers in the series. In the novelization of God of War II , Rhea is mentioned as being among the Titans imprisoned within Tartarus, indicating great potential for being a threat to Mount Olympus .
They also seem to have awareness over the events that happen in the corresponding element that they embody in the world. For example, Gaia saw all the events that happened to Kratos and was able to talk to him despite not being present at the time. The same happens with other Titans like Prometheus and Typhon, who had some knowledge about Kratos even though they were both isolated in a mountain.

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Greek Mythology

In Greek mythology , the Titans (Τιτάν) were the second generation of extremely powerful and physically huge Greek Gods that ruled Greece during the legendary Golden Age of mankind. The original Titans were the children of Gaia and Ouranos .
There were 12 original Titans, the males being known as the Titans ( Oceanus , Coeus, Kreios, Hyperion , Iapetus , and Cronos ) and the females as the Titanides ( Rhea , Theia, Phoebe, Mnemosyne , Themis and Tethys). They were ruled by the youngest Titan, Cronos, who overthrew Ouranos with the aid of Gaia (who crafted his sickle) and his brothers (not Oceanus).
Later, several of the Titans also produced offspring. These included the children of Oceanus (the Potamoi and Oceanids), the children of Coeus (the Coeides: Leto, Asteria and Lelantos), the children of Kreios (the Creionides: Astraeus, Pallas and Perses ), the children of Hyperion (the Hyperionides: Helios , Eos and Selene), the children of Iapetus (the Iapetionides: Atlas , Menoetius, Prometheus , and Epimetheus ).
The Titans preceded the Olympians who, led by Zeus , eventually overthrew them in the Titanomachy . The Titans were then imprisoned in Tartarus , the deepest and darkest pit of the Underworld . Only a few Titans (such as Prometheus, Oceanus) were spared that fate. Atlas, who led the Titans in the Titanomachy, was forced to hold the sky (Ouranos) upon his shoulders, fore the sky was greatly damaged in the war and couldn't support itself and also because of the death of the sky (Ouranus).