Terra
Based on a mix of: Greek Gaia/ Roman Terra the goddess of the world, Hera the queen of the gods (and goddess of marriage), Persephone goddess of spring (and Hades’ wife) and Rhea the Queen of the Titans and mother of the gods.
Immortality isn’t all that fun when all your friends are dead.
“transfunctional goddess”: a goddess related to the three functions of holiness, war, and productivity at the same time. She is first and foremost a first function holy goddess.
She is 5’3 with soft features. Much smaller and less imposing looking than most gods.
Kind and helpful to a fault. Like not “my biggest flaw is I’m too nice” a fault, I mean to the point that an intervention is probably in order a fault.
Probably the strongest thing in Graia. Paradoxically she’s a huge pacifist who hates fighting.
Unofficial “Queen of the Gods”. She hates the title.
Works 25-hour days keeping Kosmic order. That doesn’t even make any sense.
Terra talks to animals like they’re people and can also tell them apart by their faces just as easily as she tells humans apart. Goddess of nature stuff. Her favorite animals are still humans though.
Despite her incredible powers, Terra finds everyday mundanities to be more interesting than the fancy or supernatural. When you can do pretty much anything, those are the only things left that can impress you.
When she isn’t pathologically helping people, she likes gardening, philosophy and people watching.
Supernaturally knows way too much and refuses to explain much of anything.
Can’t tell a lie to save her life. Except lying by omission, she’s a pro at that.
Physically invincible but mentally vulnerable
Despite not having an interest in relationships for most of her life, she is a pathological shipper/ matchmaker for others.
She both has and is a divine weapon.
Raises up heroes but also villains (like Typhon).
Has no parents and yet has 7 siblings. Go figure.
She sure does have a lot of seemingly conflicting characteristics. It’s almost like she’s in a story with key themes related to contradiction or something.
Typhon
Based on a mix of Kronos the king of the Titans and god of Time, Typhon the father of all Monsters from Greek mythology and Saturnus the Roman harvest god.
He is what myth scholar Jaan Puhvel would call “transfunctional”: a god related to the three functions of holiness, war, and productivity at the same time. He is first and foremost an evil second function war god.
He is an 8-foot-tall, devilishly handsome, chiseled Titan of a man. Except when he’s a 10,000-foot-tall monster of a Titan.
Ironically much closer to being Satan than the guy named Hades is.
The dark lord-est dark lord who ever dark lorded. His edgy ideology formed when he was like 15 years old, and it shows.
Is the embodiment of “Wouldn’t an evil Emperor who only rules through fear be doomed to fail?”
He can’t be racist because he hates everyone equally.
Typhon is the most Powerful god or monster ever to live (at least in terms of raw destructive capacity).
“from under the brows of his eyes in his marvelous heads flashed fire, and fire burned from his heads as he glared. And there were voices in all his dreadful heads which uttered every kind of sound unspeakable” – Hesiod
Started using a sickle in battle because as a kid, when he sparred with Terra, he just used whatever he had on hand.
Died in his youth but was resurrected more powerful than ever before!
Terra’s number one fan in the worst way possible.
Has absolutely nothing in common with Terra and would absolutely despise her if she wasn’t so strong.
Has an incredibly active bloodlust and also just regular lust-lust. Lusts after Terra in both ways.
Claims to know Terra better than anyone else when the only things he actually knows about the goddess are her overpowered combat abilities and her measurements.
Collects the weapons of the gods he slays like trophies. He now has an armory of trophies.
Singlehandedly killed the likes of Ouranos, Lugh and Odin. At this point it is easier to count which gods haven’t been killed by him rather than those that fell to his purge
His flaming eyes vaporize anything they touch. Terra keeps trying to explain that they aren’t “fire eyes” they’re “Hagedorn boson acceleration probability displacement beams” but he has no idea what that means.
Knows the second-most of the Universe’s secrets behind Terra and her siblings. Also doesn’t explain anything.
Hades
Based on Hades god of the dead, mines, and the wealth of the earth in Greek mythology.
Despite his name, he’s not the devil, I promise.
He isn’t a transfunctional god, just a humble third function productivity god with some second function warrior traits.
He is 6’3 (tall for a mortal but short for a god), pale as a corpse and not as conventionally attractive as the other gods.
Earned his title as “god of the dead” because of his reputation as the one who slays the Monsters that gods become after they die. As a hunter of the undead, he gained dominion over death in the Graiac people’s eyes.
In myth, he’s called both “the shorn god” in the mysteries of the Cabiri (meaning he’s bald) but also “dark-haired Hades” by the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. My compromise is that he has hair on his head but is one of the few Graiac gods who shaves his facial hair.
He’s the biggest nerd when it comes to economics, philosophy, and politics and can ramble for hours about his passions. Terra thinks it’s cute.
To make the gods’ family tree less of a family circle, in this interpretation, he isn’t related to any other gods (he isn’t Zeus’ brother or Persephone’s uncle).
Hades’ adopted family (the tribe he grew up in) were all killed by Typhon. The only family he has left is ironically Cerberus, one of Typhon’s children whom he adopted as his own.
All the bad stuff you’ve heard about him is really his evil old boss/ childhood bully/ one-sided arch enemy Aidoneus of Molossos
Former Olympus Super Soldier turned Terra’s lovely househusband. He cooks, cleans, takes care of their child, and runs their country while she is away saving the Kosmos.
Even he isn’t sure how he ended up marrying the most beautiful goddess in Graia. It might have something to do with the fact that he’s 90% of the reason why she hasn’t snapped yet.
The founder of the first democracy in Graia, yes even before Athens.
The country he founded is also named Hades. Not his idea. It was the first vote the citizens had.
His favorite fruit is the pomegranate which he used to enjoy as a child. They are the national fruit of the land of Hades.
Rather than just live off the donations of his followers like most gods, Hades spent the last century working in a variety of different jobs: as a miner, as a Monster hunter, as a financial analyst for Mercury, and more.
One of the few people who manages to be broke despite being a god. Being ethical doesn’t pay.
