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The Big Three
The Primary Deities
The Lesser Deities

The Deities of Olympus

The Big Three

Zeus
Description: The king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak.
Zeus' Children: Zeus' children have the ability to control the air and lightening. Combining these skills allows them to create many powerful weather conditions and even fly. Generally, a newly awakened offspring of Zeus will be able to cause painful shocks upon touching another person and create small breezes of wind. They are stronger at higher altitudes.

Poseidon
Description: God of the sea. He created horses from sea foam. God of earthquakes as well. Also called 'Earth Shaker' and 'Storm Bringer'. His symbols are horses, sea foam, dolphins, and a trident.
Poseidon's Children: Poseidon's children have the ability to control water and the ability to cause tremors. In water, they can move very swiftly, can breath quite easily, and don't get wet unless they want to. Being in the water, obviously, empowers them. Newly awakened children of Poseidon can control small amounts of water that are nearby.

Hades
Description: God of the underworld and wealth. Brother of Poseidon, Zeus and Hera, and consort to Persephone. His symbols are the bident, the Helm of Darkness, and the three-headed dog, Cerberus.
Hades' Children: Hades' Children can see and speak to the dead, while more developed children of Hades can even control them. As Hades is often associated with the Earth, his children sometimes exhibit the ability to split and mold to the earth to their liking. All children of Hades can sense when someone dies. A very rare ability in Children of Hades is to be able to travel via the shadows. Newly awakened offspring of Hades can talk to Ghosts and spirits and cause small tremors.

Primary Deities

Athena
Description:Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, handicrafts and reason. Sister of Ares, and is the daughter of Zeus. Sprung from Zeus's head in full body armor. She is the wisest of the gods. Her symbols are the aegis, owl, and olive tree.
Athena's Children: While Athena has sworn to remain a virgin Goddess, she still may have children. When she loves someone who is suitably intelligent, the joining of their minds creates a child of Athena. And thus all offspring of Athena are 'Brain Children'. Children of Athena bolster everyone's strength and resilience in battle. They possess and uncanny ability to handle nearly any weapon and generally always make the best decision, even if it isn't the most popular. They are born tacticians and strategists and make excellent leaders.

Dionysus
Description: God of wine, parties/festivals, madness and merriment. He represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. His symbols are the grape vine, ivy, and thyrsus.
Dionysus' Children: Children of Dionysus have the ability to control grow grape vines and ivy from nearly any type of soil which can be controlled and manipulated for offense and defense. They can generate wine and alcoholic beverages with ease. Being in their presence is an intoxicating experience in of itself. Children of Dionysus can even cause madness in some people. Newly awakened offspring of Dionysus can generally coax ivy and grape vines to grow very slowly and cause small animals to go mad. All Dionysus' children get irritable without wine.

Ares
Description: God of war, murder and bloodshed. Brother to Athena, and is the son of Zeus. Has an affair with Aphrodite. His symbols are vultures, dogs, boars, and a spear.
Ares' Children: Children of Ares are born to fight and kill and thus never tire in battle. They are the most brutal of fighter and have what can be considered super strength and a fierceness that few can match. In the heat of battle, ally's of an offspring of Ares are often empowered by their presence. Newly born offspring of Ares often experience uncontrollable spouts of battle lust, which allows them to fight continuously for hours on end.

Hermes
Description: God of flight, thieves, mischief, commerce, and travelers. Messenger of the gods. He shows the way for the dead souls to Hades's realm. He shows up in more myths than any other god or goddess. Likes to trick people and is very inventive. Hermes invented the lyre using a turtle shell and sinew. His symbols are the caduceus and winged boots.
Hermes' Children: Children of Hermes possess a natural quickness and a natural acrobatic tendency (even if overweight), often bordering on super human. Hermes allows his children free postage and thus they can send a message to nearly anyone instantaneously. Children of Hermes can talk and control snakes.

Hephaestus
Description: God of fire and the forge (god of fire and smiths) with very weak legs. He is thrown off Mount Olympus as a baby by his mother and in some stories his father. He makes armor for the gods and other heroes. Son of Hera and Zeus is his father in some accounts. Married to Aphrodite, but she does not love him because he is deformed and, as a result, is cheating on him with Ares. He had a daughter named Pandora. His symbols are an axe, a hammer and a flame.
Hephaestus' Children: Children of Hephaestus can create nearly anything out of nearly nothing. They are renowned for their weapons and trinkets. They can withstand any temperature and can manipulate and control fire and sometimes even magma. At the highest level of development they can create fire that burns forever and melts nearly anything.

Artemis
Description: Goddess of the hunt, wild things, and the moon. Protector of the dewy young, she often recruits young maidens to be a member of her hunting party, granting them immortality. She became associated with the moon. Apollo is her twin brother. Artemis is a virgin goddess. Her symbols are the bow, dogs, and deer.
Artemis' Children:Artemis can have no children as she is a maiden. However, young maidens who wish to be affiliated with Artemis may be invited into her hunting party.

Apollo
Description: God of music, medicine, health, prophecies, poetry, and archery. Also said to be the god of light and truth. Is associated with the sun. Also referred to as the most handsome of the gods. He is Artemis' twin brother, and son of Zeus. His symbols are the bow, lyre, and laurel.
Apollo's Children: Children of Apollo are always natural marksman and generally always possess the ability to heal wounds. Rarer abilities among offspring of apollo is the ability control light and and sometimes even heat. All children of Apollo can sense the Oracle of Delphi if she is near and all children of Apollo have an immediate understanding of the implications of any prophecy. Generally, newly awakened children of Apollo can manipulate a little bit of light and can shoot an accurate arrow.

Hestia
Description: Goddess of the hearth and home, the focal point of every household. Daughter of Rhea and Cronus. Gave up her seat as one of the Twelve Olympians to tend to the sacred flame on Mount Olympus for Dionysus. Her symbol is the hearth.
Hestia's Children: Hestia may have no children as she has sworn to remain a virgin.

Demeter
Description: Goddess of fertility, agriculture, grain and harvest. Demeter is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister of Zeus. Her symbols are the scepter, torch, and corn.
Demeter's Children: Children of Demeter have the ability to make anything that comes from the ground grow and very quickly. Their mere presence sometimes causes life to bloom around them. Children of Demeter can often give sentience to plants if in their presence too long. Sometimes they can control these plants, other times not. Newly awakened children of Demeter can make nearly anything grow if there is a bit of moisture in the air.

Hera
Description: Goddess of marriage, women, and childbirth. Zeus' wife and sister. Appears with peacock feathers often. Her symbols are the scepter, diadem, and peacock.
Hera's Children: Hera, as the Goddess of Marriage, may not have children with anyone but Zeus and thus no half-blood calls her 'Mother'.

Aphrodite
Description: Goddess of love, lust, beauty, wife of Hephaestus. Ares is her lover. Eros is her son. Known as the most beautiful of the Greek goddesses. Her symbols are the scepter, myrtle, and dove.
Aphrodite's Children: Children of Aphrodite are unnaturally alluring and can usually get any man to do what they want. They are forever young but not immortal.

Lesser Deities

Eros
Description: Eros is the god of lust, beauty, love, and intercourse; he is also worshipped as a fertility deity. His Roman counterpart is Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love". In some myths, he is the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares. Like Dionysus, he is sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, "the liberator".
Eros' Children: Eros' children are gifted with the same arrows of love that Eros himself uses. They are excellent archers and inspire love and infatuation (healthy and otherwise) in all those around them.

Nemesis
Description: Nemesis was the Goddess of divine punishment, revenge, and the harbinger of death to those who succumb to their fatal flaw. She is vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. The name Nemesis is related to a Greek word, meaning "to give what is due".
Nemesis' Children:Children of Nemesis automatically know everyone's fatal flaw. They always get their just desserts and thus very few ever befriend a child of Nemesis for fear of accidentally offending them. Oftentimes considered outcasts, children of Nemesis often have the closest bonds to their parents and thus Nemesis allows them to create small avatars in her likeness, which will often fight for them. Children of Nemesis have to give blood in honour of Nemesis to the avatar when they use that power.

Pan
Description: Pan is the companion of the nymphs, and god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, and of hunting and rustic music. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism. Pan is the Father of all Satyrs.
Pan's Children: Pan's Children are often satyrs (but may look human) and possess the unique ability to use use woodland magic, which is the ability to talk to anything in nature, including inanimate objects like rocks. Pan's children can coax nature to do what they want and all animals pay homage to the Satyrs. Being underground or in heavily polluted areas severely weaken them.

Hebe
Description: Hebe is the goddess of youth. She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles. Her successor was the young Trojan prince Ganymede. Another title of hers, for this reason, is "Ganymeda." She also drew baths for Ares and helped Hera enter her chariot.
Hebe's Children: Children of Hebe can make nectar and ambrosia, the food of the Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, which has very strong healing properties. They generally live extremely long lives and are extremely hard to kill as they regenerate extremely fast.

Eris
Description: Eris is the Greek goddess of strife, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. She often accompanies Ares into battle, bearing the Golden Apple of Discord.
Eris' Children: Children of Eris cause chaos everywhere they go. In nature they upset ecosystems, in cities they cause fights to break out and tensions to rise. And this is just caused by being in their presence. Often, children of Eris will be granted an item from their mother (similar to her golden apple), which can cause unlikely events to occur. In battle this makes them extremely unpredictable... and chaotic.

Hecate
Description: Hecate, Greek goddess of the three paths, or crossroads, and the goddess of magic. Her sacred symbol is the number three for she herself has three heads, is often accompanied by three headed animals, and she often comes to represent the three great realms, The Sky, The Sea, and The Earth.
Hecate's Children: Children of Hecate are natural mages and wizards (Hecate even has been rumored to gift her children certain powerful spells). In general, while her children possess great power they are often extremely susceptible to the power and thus experience uncontrollable bursts of magical energy (which occurs sometimes even in the most trained). Because of their mother's affiliation with the number '3', children of Hecate often find some way to honour that number.