#olethros

[yeyinde]

yeah. i'm into him.

[galacii-gallery]

Happy Pride Month!!!

Here’s some of the characters from the Shattered Fates AU in Pride Scarfs ^^

[shattered-fates-au]

Shattered Fates... Fresh, Error and Ink(?)

[katerinaaqu]

been playing Hades II for a while and wanted to ask whether Moros was an actual deity/personification of doom in ancient Greece or if there are any depictions of what he could've looked like.

do we know anything about him anyway? did he have a cult or something?

Yes Moros or Olethros is technically the personification of doom (hence the name) and one of the children of Nyx (oftentimes associated with deities like Thanatos, Hypnos and Oneiroi -Death, Sleep and Dreams-)

As it happens with most of these personifications their descriptions are very scarce and extremely vague and more often whatnot they are more related to their essences rather than their appearances. For example Moros being referred to as "all-destroying" (πανώλεθρος - panôlethros) or "set to stone"/"appointed" aka "certain" (πεπρωμένον - peprômenon) or in things like Quintus Smyrnaeus work Olethros is also named "dark" in the essence of "unpleasant" or "terrible" etc which is hardly surprising given that what we modern people call "primordial gods" are more or less the abstract essences or the aspects of the physical and spiritual worlds rather than deities themselves (with exceptions of course).

That being said abstract essences rarely ever have cults and much less deities that have to do with death and destruction. Moros is mostly related to the abstract essence of doom that can befall to people so not only doesn't he have a certain concept apart from what his name suggests but also he is an essence of extreme negative concept so to my knowledge there isn't worship of his much like there is no worship of Death or the essence of night etc

This is more or less as he is presented in the sources when he appears because he represents something abstract to begin with, at least from what I know.

Ironically we have depictions of Thanatos for instance or Hypnos. Sometimes they are Winged. Maybe one can imagine Moros in a similar aspect I guess.

[alexxuun]

(Hob/Destruction) Giving this rarepair some love <3

[ineffablyendless]

Thinking about Destruction the last couple of days rotating him in my head and the fact that Hob Gadling is friends with both of them simultaneously but separately is cracking me up something fierce. "Olethros do u have any advice on how to court this dark and mysterious non human entity who is as beautiful and and elusive as moonlight in a rushing stream" and Olethros has no idea he is trying to help his best human man friend bang his brother. Crying over this.

[pandoras-proxy]

Shade and Calista reunited as Olethros post-campaign. 

Olethros are described as having moth wings, so Calista has luna moth wings while Shade has afflicted dagger moth wings. Thank you @iingezo for some helpful advice on this one!

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