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;[[PANTHEONS]] ~SPQR~ [[THEOI]]
The ancient Greeks created the word ''Titanes'' to mean
''Strainers'', referring to those who tear at the cosmic order,
who defy the divine justice of the Gods. The Theoi assert theirs
was the first Titanomachy — it’s hard to argue otherwise when
they named the concept and guard the cell of the King of Titans
himself. Not all the Theoi’s adversaries pace subterranean
prisons, however. Some escaped into obscurity. Others are
allowed conditional freedom, the fates of their kin dangling
overhead like swords. Still they strain at their social
and moral confinements, undermining Godly
rule in subtle, canny ways. They may not even
back the old broadbeards fuming
underground, but all are eager to
see Zeus’s kingdom fall.

== TARTARUS ==
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== GAIA ==
'''Aliases:''' Allmother, Gaia, Ge, Mother Earth

Sing at last, O Muses, of the Allmother, unbegotten and
self-delivered. Bearer of the Titans — Land and Sea and
Firmament lay honors upon her. Namer of beasts — the crea-
tures of the World owe fealty to her. Adversary of Heaven
— her sons war and betray in deference to her. From her is
all produced and given! She attends to the growing, so grow
tall, grow strong. She leads in the reaping, so die for her, and
die well!

When Uranus thought to smother her and trap her own
children within her body, it was Gaea who planted the seed
of insurrection in Cronus’s mind, and granted him a mur-
der weapon she personally forged for him. When Cronus
gorged himself on infants in a clumsy attempt to outwit
Fate, it was Gaea who provided Rhea with the stone and the
cunning instructions to hide her lastborn son. When Zeus
dared defy her, it was Gaea who came closest to starting a
second Titanomachy, leading her Gigantes sons and Typhon
himself against the youngest King of Heaven. Gaea, smiling
and elegant, has been instrumental in two wars of heavenly
succession. She’s looking forward to her third.

Gaea chooses to appear as a well-bred, matronly wom-
an, buxom and soft, barely old enough to be a grandmother.
As a primeval of Earth, her powers are varied — the source
of prophetic fumes, she is the Theoi’s first oracle. The lit-
eral fundament, she can conceal creatures and concepts on
or within her figurative body. The origin of all Theoi, she
exploits even the canniest God or Goddess. Though she cur-
rently holds the Mantle of Mother Earth, Gaea herself is not
motherhood — she is survival for only the fittest. She prefers
sacrifices of black sheep, as her once-universal worship in
Greece dictated, and she prefers children who obey.

However, never say Gaea doesn’t love her family. She
happens to love the cycle of succession more. If there is an
abler king, she will help him ascend, and well... there are so
''many'' possible times and manners of Zeus’s fall. Naturally,
Gaea plans to be there, with weapons and alliances forged,
her titanspawn and Scions in formation. Said Scions must
be obedient, and never indulge in weakness; Gaea has been
known to disown Scions who depend too much on her
assistance. Terrible as this seems, Gaea never fails to seek
justice for a hurt Scion, often going to dramatic lengths for
vengeance.

'''Provinces:''' Creator, Primordial (Earth), Tyrant<br>

'''Dominions:''' [[BEASTS]] (Black Sheep), [[CHANCE]], [[EARTH]], [[ENDURANCE]], [[FERTILITY]], [[HEALING]], [[PROSPERITY]], [[WILD]]<br>

=== RELATIONSHIPS AND AGENDAS ===
Gaea cultivates close relationships with her daughter
Rhea and granddaughter Hera, who either don’t suspect her
machinations or are powerless to oppose them. While Gaea
is neither confined nor tortured like other Titans, she knows
her status with her grandchildren is tenuous, so refrains
from direct actions, relying instead on intelligent titanspawn
and Scions. A parthenogeneticist, Gaea is known to create
Scions more often than she adopts or begets them, leaving
her free to craft exactly the tool she needs in the moment
she needs it; the result is a semi-divine legion equipped with
adamantine weapons and breathtaking mother issues. Gaea
wishes to return to the days of her universal worship, to
create unimpeded once again, and to continue guiding the
divine lineage of the Theoi.

=== OTHER PANTHEONS ===
In the last decade, Gaea has struck up an unusual alliance with Coyolxauhqui and the eldest Centzonhuitzanaua.
The Allmother has much in common with what she would
otherwise consider vicious barbarians; all wish for the end
of their respective pantheons and have some experience
at the attempt of it. Of all her entanglements, however, she
finds most promising her connections with the Gods of the
Tuatha Dé Danann, who revile Zeus and harbor no ill-will
toward pantheon-labelled Titans. Were the Theoi to learn
of this collusion, Gaea would need to pluck every string she
could to manipulate her way back into their favor.

=== CURRENT PRIORITIES ===
Gaea keeps tabs on several different prophecies regarding Zeus’s succession by another: Notably, his son by Metis,
his son by Thetis, his child by a thrice-living mortal, and his
child by a two-headed serpent. She is confident in having
found three candidates fitting these criteria, and while she
counsels from afar and equips them for war, she continues
the search for others. Ultimately, Gaea means to guide one
to the throne of Olympus, so that yet another generation of
kings is under her control.


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== ECHIDNA ==
'''Aliases:''' ''Dracaena'', ''She-Viper''

Sing, O Muses, of the mother of monsters! The mother
of the unloved, her wretched babes wagered liked pawns!
Sing of murdered children! Of their matron’s venom-rage, of
the end of man, and the end of Heroes! Loathsome worm and
squirming dragon, the lover of inimical Typhon, the enemy
of beloved Apollo! She whose birth-pangs will end the World
— Monster! Mother! Echidna!

Gaea and Tartarus have long commingled in various inscrutable ways. As such, it is well known that when Mother
Earth and Hell decide to love each other very much, nothing
useful or tolerant of humanity can come of it: Echidna being
the prime example. The Gods abhorred Echidna, an unmanageable monster, even before she took a mate and began to
breed. While the Theoi claim she chose Typhon out of a perverse need to spawn the most horrifying creatures possible,
Aphrodite is first to admit (with a shudder) that she seems to
genuinely love him.

Certainly, they are a match made in — well, somewhere.
Typhon couldn’t have successfully stolen Zeus’s tendons
without Echidna’s low, twisted cunning. When Apollo took
vengeance by filling Echidna with arrows, she would have
putrefied in Pythia’s sunlight if Typhon hadn’t stolen away
with her to Tartarus. No, Echidna and Typhon truly love
each other, just as they truly love the abominations their
union creates.

From the waist up, Echidna is a beautiful maiden, albeit
with cold doll-eyes and a poisonous expression. From the
waist down, however, Hell takes over: Her legs fuse into
one abominable appendage, long and serpentine, frilled and
bristling with venomous spikes. You are likely to find her
coils miles before you catch sight of her unapproachable
maiden-half. More infamous than her terrible visage are
her numerous depraved children: Hydra, Scylla, Chimaera...
you may have heard of a few. Agonizingly to Echidna, her
children’s only worth to the World is in how much fame they
bring the Hero who kills them.

Echidna is begrudgingly aligned with proponents for
Titanomachy only because she hates the Theoi and their
Scions with a venom that suffuses her horrifying body. She
will ''always'' put her family first. Echidna’s Scions are those of
the same mind: mothers, survivors of violence, and creators
joyfully cultivating the ill-advised things they make. She
births or adopts Scions as caretakers for her children, or as
wardens for their spawning grounds and cults.

'''Provinces:''' Creator, Guardian, Monster<br>

'''Dominions:''' [[BEASTS]] (Serpents), [[CHAOS]], [[DARKNESS]], [[ENDURANCE]], [[FERTILITY]], [[FIRE]], [[PASSION]] (''Maternal Love''), [[WILD]]<br>

=== RELATIONSHIPS AND AGENDAS ===
Above all else, Echidna loves Typhon and her children.
Every action and alliance serve to protect these loves; a
Titanomachy with no place for her twisted family leaves her
cold. She wouldn’t have aligned with the Titanomachy at all
if Gaea, whom Echidna venerates, hadn’t entreated her. That
said, Echidna exults in undermining the hunter twins Apollo
and Artemis, as well as Rhea, whom she considers her rival
for the Purview of motherhood. Interactions with her Scions
are curt, similar to a haughty aristocrat treating the nanny.
If left alone, Echidna’s only plan would be to outbreed the
Gods — with the rise in “Bestia Incognita” advocacy, this
plan may be crazy enough to work.

=== OTHER PANTHEONS ===
Monster-mothers lead solitary lives, but Echidna gets
along famously with Misiginebig, much to everyone’s horror
and dismay. Her gamekeeper cults have spread attitudes
of radical monster acceptance across national boundaries,
causing the Shén no amount of grief when a titanspawn finally roped into gainful employment no-call-no-shows and
goes back to terrorizing the locals. Other pantheons keep
their distance from Echidna’s clan, and she likes this just
fine.

=== CURRENT PRIORITIES ===
Echidna is gravid again. This is far from uncommon, but
her gamekeeper cults are unusually restless, and her activist
Scions are squeezing global legislatures to increase protection of ''“Bestia Incognita.”'' Something ''really'' special is on the
way. Echidna’s primary concerns are pre- and post-natal
care for the baby (or babies); namely, she needs an enormous
subterranean nursery, and a lot of food, because she’s eating
for A Dreadful Number Larger Than One now.

Echidna is also concerned with silencing oracles —
she wasn’t born yesterday, and she knows prophecies lead
Heroes to her children’s lairs. She will stop at nothing to
achieve a World that exists only for her and her spawn: ev-
erything a fetid bog and everyone in terrified quiescence.
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== TYPHON ==
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== TITANIC BIRTHRIGHTS ==
=== FOLLOWERS ===
'''Harpyiai Titanes:''' Horrific hybrids of women and rap-
tors, harpies were born of the ichor spilled upon Cronus’s
sickle. Usually bound in service to the Erinyes, these
Harpies choose to serve Cronus and his interests rather than
Olympus.

'''Horai:''' Minor Goddesses of weather and the orderly
procession of seasons, dutiful attendants of Gaea’s favorites.
There were originally numerous Horai, but they’re down to
four and dwindling in power. Their rage at climate instability only burns brighter.

'''Ichthyocentauroi:''' Born when Cronus coupled with the
nymph Philyra in horse-form, these are centaur with fish-tails and lobster-claw antennae. Patient chaperones and adept seafarers, they attend allies of Aphrodite and Poseidon,
though their loyalties are often brought into question by
hawkish Theoi.

==== GUIDES ====
'''[[CHIRON]]:''' The first centaur has built a reputation and
brand as Preeminent Heroic Mentor, despite being Cronus’s
son. An expert in fields from gymnastics to medicine, his
impressive list of references includes Heroes like Achilles,
Heracles, and Sybilla Kostanian — the latter a modern graduate known primarily for crossing the Pacific in five soaring
leaps. Curiously, Chiron is known to have definitely, definite-
ly died 2000 years ago. His reappearance in the early 2000s
have many Theoi conspiracy theorists trading suspicions.

'''Enkelados:''' A giant who served in the Gigantomachy
— Gaea’s attempt at a second Titanomachy — until Athena
threw the island of Sicily at him. He’s subsumed the volcanic
essence of the island and now appears more fearsome than
before, belching fire with his shouts and threats. He’s set on
a rematch with the Theoi and will provide combat training
to anyone who can help get him there.

'''Sphinx:''' A daughter of Echidna with a mortal’s head, a
lion’s body, an eagle’s wings, and a serpent’s tail. Sphinx is
too clever by half, and delights in terrorizing others with her
intellect. Solving one of her riddles is the only way to gain
her respect or her tutelage.

'''Typhon:''' A treacherous, shape-shifting giant, veteran of
the Gigantomachy, Gaea’s lieutenant, and Echidna’s mate.
He variably appears winged, with serpents for legs or for fingers, or up to 100 heads, or any other feature that will leave
mortals screaming. He has an unusual gift for strategy and
psychological warfare and loves anything to do with undermining Zeus.

'''The Wyomese Bear:''' A grizzly bear roughly the size and
weight of a tractor unit, with six legs, an invulnerable hide,
and twice the usual number of teeth, currently stalking the
interior midwestern United States. All local wildlife obeys
its commands and those of its ward.

==== RELICS ====
'''Blood of Uranus:''' A vial of syrupy, wine-dark fluid, glittering with cold stars. When applied to any part of Gaea’s
body (otherwise known as the World), this grotesquely
fecund liquid has the potential to create a new creature nev-
er before seen — from as crude as a beast to as sophisticated
as a God.

'''Echidna’s Scales:''' A chip of Echidna’s lower-body chitin,
hard as a carbide alloy, ranging in size from smartphone to
riot shield. Echidna’s scales are usually weaponized — they
are especially conductive of poison, and wounds caused by
the scale are guaranteed to infect.

'''Echidna’s Venom:''' A high-density polyethylene con-
tainer of some of the most potent contaminant slime ever
to curse the World. Rots non-living organic material, erodes
metal, causes numerous infections. Curiously, has no effect
on plastic.

'''The Mother’s Bones:''' A waterproofed canvas bag full
of various stones of impossible age. Throwing one over your
shoulder so that it lands on the bare earth will cause it to
metamorphose into a fully armored myrmidon with perfect
discipline and obedience.
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|rowspan="15"| '''[[TARTARUS]]'''/'''[[GAIA]]'''
|[[ECHIDNA]]
|'''[[TARTARUS]]'''/'''[[GAIA]]'''
|[[TYPHON]]
|[[TYPHON]]/[[ECHIDNA]]
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* Caucasian Eagle
* Cerberus
* Chimera
* Colchian dragon
* Crommyonian Sow
* Gorgons
* Harpies
* Ladon
* Lernaean Hydra
* Nemean Lion
* Orthrus
* Scylla
* Sphinx
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== Sound Track ==
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPhcJTTz_Fs
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