AoC: Male beauty, hunting, the death/rebirth cycle.

AL: CG

WAL: Any

Symbol: Anemone

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Olympus (Wanders)

Known Proxies: None

Adonis is the male counterpart to Aphrodite, and popular in other pantheons as well as the Greek one. Adonis appears as a beautiful young man with hunting gear, and he is often depicted fighting a boar. Aphrodite has a very special place in her heart for Adonis, whom she saved once from death. He is a cheerful, outgoing type, and the other gods find him amusing and inoffensive. He has no fixed realm, but wanders Olympus, hanging out with Aphrodite, Hermes and Ganymede. Presently, Adonis is recuperating after being killed by Ares. For a god it was but a temporary thing, but it put him off the stage for a lifetime or more in mortal terms, and he only survived by having a toe in the door of the Babylonian pantheon.

AoC: The sea

AL: CN

WAL: Any (sailors, divers)

Symbol: Conch shell

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Ossa/Caletto

Known Proxies: Theseus (px/male human/R12/CG)

Amphitrite is the daughter of the titan Oceanus, and the wife of Poseidon. She is a personification of the sea, and is respected and honoured by seafarers. Poseidon has few friends, and his wife's presence is always a comfort to him in his rejection. She travels their realm, sometimes with him, and sometimes travelling alone, in a chariot of shells drawn by tritons. Despite her unpredictability and wildness, she is remarkably constant and faithful to Poseidon. Unlike other godly spouses, she respects and loves her husband's other children, and in fact her proxy, Theseus, is one of these. He has a long-standing rivalry with Hades' proxy Minos, who commanded the first minotaur, which Theseus killed.

AoC: Fate, necessity, the universe, judgement

AL: N

WAL:Any

Symbol: Scales

Home P/R: Outlands/Courts of Necessity

The spirit of necessity, Ananke is the judge of all events, determining their outcome based on what is necessary for the universe from moment to moment. Even Zeus and the other powers must obey her decrees, although it's thought they put this system in place. As such, she is often judge and jury when the powers have disputes. Often though, Anakne is inscrutable and seemingly random. Her Courts of Necessity are a set of infinitely many courts buried in the center of a swirling grey cloud that moves about the Outlands. In the largest chamber of the courts, a giant judicial scale stands. Anakne's favored proxy is a barmaid named Margiurette from an undistinguished prime. No-one knows why, but Margiurette acts as the mouth of Ananke, analysing and correcting what is necessary. Ananke is more powerful than her status would appear to allow, due to the power devolved on her shoulders by Zeus.

AoC: Justice, civilisation

AL: LG

WAL: Any non-evil

Symbol: Scales

Home P/L/R: Arcadia/Unknown

Known Proxies: None

Astraea is a dying power. No-one knows why, but she is slowly wasting away. She is a daughter of Zeus, and highly favoured by him, but for some reason her power has been declining steadily for a thousand years, and may be visiting Anubis for a long stay before long. Which would be a pity, as a more noble and honest power a berk'd have to go far to find. She loves great cities with just laws, and if she can find just one to adopt her as patron, she might be saved.

Ate

AoC: Hatred, injustice, crime, insensitivity

AL: CE

WAL: Any evil

Symbol: Darkness

Home P/L/R: Abyss/Unknown (habitually wanders the prime)

Known Proxies: None

Ate is a posessing spirit as much as she is a goddess. She revels in taking a hold of mortals and making them destroy things dear to them. Of all those she has tormented, only Zeus' proxy Hercules has resisted. Those afflicted by her might do well to seek out the oracles of Apollo. Most people say that Ate is the daughter of Eris, whose other offspring include many apocalyptic personifications like Famine. But at least one source says she's secretly Zeus' own child.

AoC: Childbirth

AL: CG

WAL: Any

Symbol: Unknown

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Olympus (Eileithyia's Infirmary), Arcadia/Buxenus/Heliopolis (Nekhbet's Sanctuary)

Known Proxies: Iris (demipower of rainbows)

Eileithyia (also spelt Ilithyia) is a kindly, motherly goddess, who is said to watch over mothers in childbirth and determines when they can be delivered. Hera has often quarreled with Eileithyia over the illegitimate offspring of Zeus. Hera feels that the women who tempt her husband away should suffer as much as possible, whereas Eileithyia wants to alleviate suffering. The kindly power is an ally of Apollo and Artemis, at whose birth she was midwife. Her realm on Olympus is a pleasant, airy temple-like building, reknowned for the skill of the healers there.

Amongst the Egyptians, she is known as Nekhbet, the goddess of the Upper Kingdom, and appears with the head of a vulture. Her realm in Arcadia is very similar in style and function to that on Olympus, and the two are linked by portals.

AoC: Darkness, evil, punishment

Alignment: CE

WAL: CE

Symbol: A black rift

Home P/R: Perdition/The Spanning Darkness

Erebus is as much a place as a power, the embodiment of the idea that the planes, and the beliefs they represent, do not have clear boundaries but are rather full of ambiguity. He is also a generic symbol of the tainted and evil nature ascribed to mortality by many thinkers, and encourages his few worshippers to promote exactly such thoughts in order to strengthen the cause of misery. His realm, in Perdition, a Cordant plane, seems to visitors from Perdition to be a huge, chasm-like cave full of chills and dangerous holes. But it can also be reached from Colothys in Carceri, by following certain blind canyons, and from the Underworld, in Hades. In these cases, the visitor seems able to fly, but comes under attack from invisible spirits. After some time, survivors find themselves on the other 'side' of the darkness, in the destination plane. It is not known whether those planes can be reached from the Perditian end.

AoC: Strife, discord, war

AL: CE

WAL: Any evil or chaotic

Symbol: None known

Home P/L/R: Abyss/Wanders and Discordia/Strife Unforgiving

Known Proxies: Ate (q.v.), and the demipowers Labour, Forgetfulness, Famine, Strife and Murderous Quarrel, who are all her children.

Eris is the goddess of strife, war and disagreement. While Ares controls the acts of battle and murder, Eris is the one who gives people these ideas to start with. Eris is notorious for having started a war which involved many proxies, pitting them against one another. Amongst those involved were Anchises and Aeneas (Aphrodite's proxies), Odysseus (Athena's proxy) and Menelaus (Hera's proxy). Why? Because Eris forced a mortal to choose between those three feminine powers, all more graceful than she, and when Aphrodite was chosen, Athena responded with the kind of jealousy that usually characterises Hera's actions. The war's over now, and most of the heroes, even the ones who died, are now semi-retired as proxies. Eris can't wait for another chance to stir things up though.

AoC: Love, lust, homosexuality

AL: CG

WAL: Any

Symbol: Bow and arrow

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Olympus (wanders)

Known Proxies: Hylas (Px/human male/F3/CG)

Eros is a very old god indeed, predating most of the titans. In fact, he's Gaea's brother, and has been around longer than almost every other thing. Despite his great age, Eros appears as a handsome child with a bow and arrow (similar to a form taken by a friend of his, the much younger Lathander), and the arrows are said to do no harm, but to inspire passion in those struck. He is often to be found with Aphrodite, with whom he works closely, although it's mere screed that he's her son; he's old enough to have created her himself. His favoured proxy of the moment, Hylas, is a former lover of Zeus' proxy Hercules, and Hercules (who recently attained demipower status) is thought to favour a reunion, although Hebe (q.v.) may be less keen on the idea.

AoC: Service, duty, male beauty

AL: LG

WAL: Any non-evil

Symbol: Eagle's wings addorsed

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Olympus (visits all the good powers)

Known Proxies: Miletus (Px/human male/F9/LG)

Ganymede was a prince on the Prime somewhere (it's rumoured that one of his successors was involved in the war started by Eris (q.v.)). But his beauty was such that he was spotted by Zeus, who swooped down in the form of an eagle and took him to Mount Olympus to be his servant and lover. As such, Ganymede represents the power of physical attraction, the benefits of dutiful service, and also the sheer power of Zeus, who is amongst the greatest of all gods, that he can raise a mortal up to godhead for his own desires. Of course, being a wild and a passionate deity, it's no surprise that Zeus would be most motivated by love and attraction. Ganymede is on good terms with all the non-evil Olympians, except for Hera. He has little time for Ares and Hecate, whose posturing and respectively macho and bitchy pretensions go right against his own mild-mannered character. As a spot of trivia for proxy-watchers, Ganymede's only proxy Miletus is a former lover of Hades' proxy Sarpedon, who quarreled with his brother Minos about him. As the brothers are now reunited, Miletus is single again, but like his power, he's quite happy to do his job and get on with (after)life. (Sarpedon is missing from OHG, but in fact it should be he, rather than Aeacus, who completes the triad of judges of Hades. Aeacus is (Px/race unclear/P9/LN), and although he's Hades' proxy, acts as his father Zeus' eyes and ears in the Underworld.)

AoC: Artistic and poetic excellence

AL: CG

WAL: Any (artists)

Symbol: Three meteorites

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Helicon

Known Proxies: Vergil (Px/human male/ [B15/W(N)5] /NG)

The graces are powers associated with the Muses (q.v.) and with Apollo. Their realm on Mount Helicon, which they share with the Muses, is actually Apollo's secondary realm. They provide to artists and poets the so-called 'divine inspiration'; while the Muses inspire creativity, the Graces allow excellence. Their proxy, Vergil, is actually a follower of the Roman pantheon, but as it contains almost entirely the same bloods as the Greek one, nobody minds. Vergil is also an expert on the subject of the Lower Planes, especially Hades and Baator, and he chronicled the journey of Aeneas into Hades that he made before being made a proxy.

AoC: Eternal youth and vigour

AL: CG

WAL: Any, but especially those with an eye to becoming proxies

Symbol: Lettuce leaf

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Olympus (Hero's Rest)

Known Proxies: None (she never keeps them)

Hebe is the goddess who personifies the ever-youthfulness of the Olympians. She herself is quintessentially vigourous, and appears as a deva with a playful smile and a constant urge to run and laugh. She was until recently a cupbearer to the gods like Ganymede (q.v.), but since marrying Zeus' proxy Hercules, whose realm she shares, she's stepped down and allowed Zeus' boyfriend to get on with it. Hebe is the daughter of Hera: she has no father. For this reason, her marriage to Hercules is a sign of tentative peace between Zeus and his proxy, and Hera.

AoC: Sunlight

AL: N

WAL: Any

Symbol: The sun

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Olympus (Helius' Palace)

Known Proxies: Phaethon (Px/human male/T4/Fated/CN)

Helius is the personification of the sun. His worship and cult are limited, although in island areas, where the sunlight and the winds it creates are vital to commerce, he is revered as a god of trade. Apollo, who also has jurisdiction over the sun, has been the cause of a slight waning of Helius' power lately. Helius' proxy, his son Phaethon, is a boastful and incautious youth, who longs to drive the chariot of the sun. It's widely said there'll be trouble if he ever does, especially with Zeus trying out lawfulness in order to fulfill his role as Jupiter to the Romans.

AoC: Fate, destiny

AL: N

WAL: Any

Symbol: Spinning wheel

Home P/L/R: Grey Waste/Pluton/The Underworld (Wheel of the Fates)

Known Proxies: None

The Fates are the counterparts to the Furies: where the Furies kill and punish those who anger the gods, the Moirae allot fair lives to those who don't. They are three in number: the first, Clotho, spins the thread of a person's life. The second Fate, Lachesis, measures the fair length for it, and her sister Atropos, the Inflexible, cuts it with the shears that are her symbol. The Fates are utterly inscrutable, and not even the other gods dare cross them.

AoC: Death, murder

Alignment: CE

WAL: CE

Symbol: Fractured skull

Home P/L/R: The Abyss/572/Mortalus

Mors is a cruel, vicious, driven power, worshipped mainly by psychotic murderers and evil warlords, and serving as an assistant to Ares, whose own portfolio of war helps Mors gain more power, bit by bit. Ares is particularly trying to raise Mors' profile after losing a proxy of great value to him. The more warlords can be persuaded to forget all about mercy and good taste, the better for the general cause of mayhem and evil.

AoC: Inspiration

AL: N

WAL: Any (artists and poets)

Symbol: None known

Home P/L/R: Arborea/Olympus/Mount Helicon (Grove of the Muses)

Known Proxies: Thamyris (Px/human male/B7/NG)

The Muses are the minor goddesses who provide the matter of artistic works. Although an artist requires the Graces (q.v.) to produce a work of genius, it is said, the Muses give him the material to work with. They are nine in number (three threes, rule-hunters) and their names are Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania and Calliope, who is their nominal leader. Their proxies are all blind, a price they pay for being able to compose epics or sculpt beautiful statuary.

AoC: Night

AL: NE

WAL:Any N or E

Symbol: Darkness

Home P/R: Nether/Deepest Chasm of Night

Nyx, also called Nox, is a mean, cynical power, in keeping with her gloomy portfolio. Her principle claim to fame is that she's the mother of a lot of the minor powers of the Greek Pantheon, including Thanatos, Nemesis and the Fates. She's admired by the Bleakers for her uncommitted, apathetic nature and grim darkness, but is otherwise not a major figure on the planar stage. Her realm, in the Cordant plane of Nether, is just a huge dark chasm in the drab, waterlogged plain of Nether, and the only sound there is the constant drip of the murky water trickling into the fathomless depths.

AoC: Renewal, winter and spring

AL: NG

WAL: Any

Symbol: Pomegranate

Home P/L/R: Grey Waste/Pluton/The Underworld

Known Proxies: None

Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, once assisted her mother in Olympus, where they had equal standing. However, Hades, who in those days was more reckless and adventurous, abducted her away to Pluton. Hermes was sent to fetch her, but she had eaten a pomegranate whilst in the Underworld, and for every seed she had swallowed, she had to stay a month of every year in the Waste. Since then she and Hades have got on a lot better, and he now gives her more of the respect she deserves, and doesn't begrudge her her trips to Olympus. Although she likes Hades well enough, she pines for the open spaces of the Upper Planes, and relishes every moment spent there. She is often worshipped alongside her mother. For people wishing to get a favour from Hades, she is a valuable ally.

AoC: death, spirits

Alignment: N

WAL: N

Symbol: Grey skull

Home P/L/R: The Grey Waste/Pluton/the Underworld; also wanders Carceri

Thanatos is a quiet, inoffensive power concerned mainly with the safety of petitioners. He's honoured by priests who bury the dead and treat the dying, and by clued-up Dustmen, and by the followers of Hades, whom he serves. Although he mostly dwells in Hades' realm, he's also responsible in part for the dead of Tarterus, and has the nearly-unique power to wander there freely, probably because of a close attunement to the lower slopes of Olympus. There's no known link between Thanatos and the mysterious Abyssal realm of the same name.