Hades

Title: King of the Underworld Pantheon: Greek Attack Type: Ranged Power Type: Magical Class: Mage Specialty: High Defense, High Sustain

Inevitably, death sends everyone to Hades, God of the Underworld. In the end, he always gets his way.

Eldest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, Hades was swallowed by his father as an infant along with five other siblings. Zeus, the youngest brother, escaped this fate and freed them once he'd grown strong enough to battle Cronus. Together, the six siblings defeated the Titans and banished them to the dark realm of Tartarus. Now the reigning Gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades drew lots for dominion. Hades drew the Underworld.

Of the few that have entered the Underworld and come back, all speak dismally of the place, never wishing to return. Yet Hades, himself, rarely leaves the subterranean realm, constantly seeking ways to grow the numbers of the dead.

When he desired a wife, Hades captured the radiant Persephone, daughter of the Goddess Demeter. Concealed in the Underworld, none could reach her, so Demeter cursed the land with a great famine. The other Gods pleaded with her to end it lest she destroy mankind, but she would not relent until her daughter was returned. Hades finally let Persephone leave, though not before feeding her pomegranate seeds. Having consumed the fruit, she was bound forever to Hades and required to return to her husband once per year to eat of the seeds again. This, it is said, is a time of mourning and the cause of winter.

While many fear death and view it as evil, in truth, Hades endeavors only to keep balance. He is stern but fair. As God of the Dead and the Underworld, he views his authority on this matter absolute, forbidding anyone to leave his realm and growing wrathful when disobeyed or when someone tries to cheat death or steal from him.

For everyone, death is unavoidable and service to Hades inevitable. Even the Gods.

Appearance: Hades has dark, shadowy skin. His head is completely encased in an ornate gold helmet that covers his face, leaving only a gaping, black maw visible. This inner darkness contains bright yellow eyes inside of a visible, smoky void where the face should be. The helmet is crowned with numerous spiraling, dark brown horns, the largest of which curl backward and upward. The gold of the helmet is cracked and unevenly colored. He wears heavy, segmented gold shoulder pauldrons with large round metal studs. A deep purple, high-collared mantle or cloak covers his upper torso and shoulders, trimmed with wide bands of gold plating. Underneath the armor and fabric, his skin appears to be a dark, reddish-brown, textured and somewhat reptilian or withered. His arms are massive and robed in tattered, brown fabric and plated in gold armor that covers his forearms. His hands are large and clawed, possessing a fleshy, dark color, and his fingers appear elongated and bony.

He holds a gnarled, twisted staff in his right hand, the top of which ends in a serpentine or hook-like curl.

Personality: Hades carries himself with cold composure and absolute certainty, speaking in deep, measured tones that make every word feel inevitable. Stern, formal, and unyielding, he values order, contracts, and the immutable laws that govern life and death, showing no patience for deception, excuses, or emotional chaos. His fairness is rigid and precise, offering no comfort or warmth, yet never straying into cruelty. Beneath his impassive exterior lies a slow-burning wrath that awakens only when his authority is challenged, when a soul tries to escape, or when someone dares to cheat death, transforming him into a relentless force that draws all things back into his realm. Still, he respects discipline, truth, and responsibility, and to those who embody such qualities he can be unexpectedly patient and instructive, though he never lets anyone forget the final truth: sooner or later, everything returns to him.

Passive – Blight Every swing of Hades’ staff leaves a stain of underworld corruption on those it touches. This blight clings to flesh and spirit alike, weakening the victim’s strength and smothering their power. Any soul marked by this darkness becomes far more vulnerable to Hades’ other magic, each spell twisting the blight into a new torment.

Death From Below Hades sinks into the earth as if it were water, vanishing into a shadowed rift. Moments later, he erupts upward beneath his enemies in an explosion of soul-chilling energy. Those already corrupted by his blight find their limbs heavy and sluggish, as if cold hands from the Underworld are dragging them down.

Shroud of Darkness A wave of black silence rolls from Hades’ outstretched hand, smothering all sound and thought in its path. Those caught in the cone can speak no incantation, call no warning. If they bear his blight, the darkness whispers directly into their minds, filling them with terror and driving them to flee from him against their will.

Devour Souls Hades tears at the spirits of those around him, ripping fragments of their essence into his grasp. Enemies feel their very souls wrenched and burned, while any bearing blight ignite in a violent detonation of underworld energy. These detonations spill stolen vitality outward, healing Hades’ allies who stand near the corrupted targets.

Ultimate – Pillar of Agony Hades summons a towering column of underworld power, a screaming vortex of trapped souls that twists and drags all enemies toward him. The closer foes are pulled, the more their defenses crumble under the weight of the Underworld’s judgment. Hades himself grows harder to strike as spectral armor envelops him, and each trapped soul fuels him further, letting him unleash his magic again and again while the pillar continues its torment.

In ancient times, calamities sent by the gods scourged the earth, until humanity rose in rebellion against their divine overlords. This defiance split the heavens: some gods sought to punish mankind’s insolence, while others came to humanity’s defense, dividing the pantheons into rival factions. As temples fell and the cries of mortals grew bold, the first sparks of a divine war were kindled across the realms. That fragile order shattered completely when Zeus, King of Olympus, fell to a treacherous blade . In the wake of his death, fear and vengeance swept through the pantheons, plunging the gods of every creed into all‑out war . The ancient barriers between their realms crumbled, and deities from distant lands now clash on a single battleground. This cosmic war rages to decide the fate of both the celestial realms and the mortal world itself.

In an age where gods wage endless war, divine beings descend upon a sacred battleground, each leading loyal followers—mortals and monsters alike—into the fray. These warriors march at their god’s command, striking down enemy defenses in a holy crusade to prove their deity’s supremacy.

Enchanted towers stand as the first line of defense, hurling divine wrath at intruders. Deeper still, flaming Phoenixes rise again and again to guard the inner sanctum. Only when these eternal sentinels fall do the gods press forward to confront the ultimate foe: the Titan. Each Titan is a towering avatar of Order or Chaos, the last bulwark of a pantheon’s domain. Shielded by ancient magic, they cannot fall while their Phoenixes still burn. But when defenses crumble, gods and followers unleash their full might. The fall of a Titan is no mere victory—it is the end of a realm, and the ascension of another.