NAME. Aster Alseides AGE & BIRTH DATE. 3000+ & Unknown GENDER & PRONOUNS. Male & He/Him SPECIES. Dryad OCCUPATION. Unemployed FACE CLAIM. Kellan Lutz
BIOGRAPHY
( tw: death, violence, blood ) As the blood of Uranos fell upon Gaia in Corinth, Aster and his siblings stepped forth from the ash trees that grew in this place. Birthed through conflict when humanity was still in its infancy, Aster served the Titans willfully and wholeheartedly. They revered the new order as Cronus reigned in what came to be known as the Golden Age for the divine. Aster lived among his tress, as one with nature, and rejoiced with his siblings and fellow titan-blooded children. His and his siblings grew together, not only were their trees grown close together, but they were close as well. Aster was closest with his fellow dryads, but learned to wrestle among the oceanides when he dared to tread close enough to the sea. The Naiads were his fastest of friends, as they frolicked and danced playfully through his trees - and for eons there was balance in the cosmos. Harmony, and perfection.
As all ages pass, and just as Cronus overthrew his father, a prophecy existed that someday Cronus would be destroyed by his own children. Living in fear that his reign would someday come to an end, the Titan God of Time consumed his children as they were born. Hoping to save his children, Rhea tricked Cronus by swapping out his last born seventh child with a stone and swaddling it in cloth. Not thinking that his wife would deceive him, Cronus fell for Rhea’s trick. The titaness spirited the infant Zeus away and delivered him to Aster and his two sisters to raise.
In truth, Aster did not wish to raise the boy-god, the present order suited his fine, and if this child was fated to overthrow Cronus and bring about a third age, then he thought it would have been better to toss him down the Titan’s gullet. However, he could not disobey Rhea, and was bound to keep the Titanesses faith, even if he did not wish to. Aster raised the child alongside his sisters and brother’s, they trained him to fight and kept the boy god alive with honey, nectar, and ambrosia. He watched, with some disdain as Zeus grew in power and strength until the God was at last old enough, and strong enough to challenge his father..
Zeus incited the Titanomachy and that was the beginning of the end for Aster and his kind, Cronus and his fellows were overthrown and locked within Tartarus. For not fighting in the war, Prometheus and Epimetheus were tasked with crafting the first man, and Aster watched as Athena breathed life into muck and clay and looked on with interest as the many-armed, and many-legged creatures crawled forth. They were amusing, but also powerful, and as such Zeus on his now divine throne severed these souls in two, weakening them, and cursing them to wander the Earth in search of the other forever.
As the reign of man began to flourish, sacred trees were cut down, waters were polluted, and mountains weathered under the spilled blood of conquest, so too did Aster and his kind begin to fade. It happened slowly at first, oceanides that he had once played with vanished, naiads that he once knew as friends disappeared, dryads that he took as lovers went dormant. He had to watch as his sisters were cut down, his brothers too, the children he’d bore rose as generals, kings, and sired lines of their own that forgot the sacredness of the trees. Aster, too, felt herself fading, and felt remorse at the hand he had played in the undoing of his own fate. he sank into his tree as so many of his kind had before his, and there he slept.
Over thousands of years he slept, aware, and yet unaware of the passing of time. The natural world whispered to his of the changing times, all that he feared, and worse, had come to pass. He wished for an end to the ceaseless sleep, for a way to rejoin his sisters and his brothers who had been destroyed, but instead, Aster awoke. The rumbling of the veil that Prometheus had woven together was fracturing, and this disturbance of magic stirred Aster from his slumber. Of his many siblings, only Ekho still remained, a Dru that Aster would happily die to protect. The world had forgotten them, forgotten the importance of nature, of balance, but if he has awoken, then Aster can’t help but think it was for a reason: he would remind this world of what they had lost, of what had been taken from his.
PERSONALITY
+ transparent, thoughtful, ethereal - unforgiving, judgemental, abrasive
PLAYED BY Shane. EST. He/Him.