The Titans (Ancient Greek:Τῑτᾶνες), referred to as Titaness (Ancient Greek:Τῑτᾱνῐ́δες) for females, are a widespread race of Primordial Entity and the intermediate race between the Protogenoi and Olympians. They once ruled over the Cosmos, taking control from the Protogenos, under the rule of Kronos until he was overthrown by his son Zeus and most of the Titans were locked in Tartarus.
Titans are based on the creature of the same name from Classical Mythology
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History
The Elder Gods
Birth of the Titans
The King and Queen of the Cosmos, Ouranos and Gaia had several children together. The youngest group of their offspring are the first twelve Titans: Oceanus, the god of the primordial waters, Coeus, god of intellect, Crius, god of constellations, Hyperion, god of light, Iapetus, god of mortality, Kronos, god of the harvest, Theia, goddess of vision, Rhea, goddess of motherhood, Themis, goddess of justice, Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, Phoebe, goddess of prophecy, and Tethys, goddess of the seas. The Titans existed in the Void standing upon artificial ground, solidified Dark Energy, created by Gaia for them to live on.
Gaia loved her children and wanted to have more of them. The approached the Chthonic god, Tartaros, and convinced him into producing three more Titan-like children: Typhon, god of power, Echidna, goddess of monsters, and Python, god of fear.
Second Generation
The twelve original Titans thrived on the ground Gaia created and together produced their own offspring. Oceanus and Tethys had several children together who are groups of water Nymphs, the Oceanids, Naiads, and Potamoi. Hyperion and Theia had three known children, Helios, god of the sun, Selene, goddess of the moon, and Aurora, goddess of the dawn. Coeus and Phoebe had Leto, goddess of childhood. Iapetus and Clymene, one of the Oceanids, together had Atlas, god of endurance, Prometheus, god of foresight, and Epimetheus, god of hindsight.
Titanomachy
Castration of Ouranos
Because of Ouranos' mistreatment to his other children, the Tartalo and Hecatoncheires, Gaia sought revenge against her husband and liberation for her offspring. She made a large Harvesting Scythe and went around to each of the Titans, asking them which one is willing to use it to overthrow their father and release their siblings. All refuse except of Kronos who took the opportunity gladly.
That night, when Ouranos returned to Gaia, Kronos ambushed him and used the harpe to castrate his father, expelling his power from his Avatar, crippling him into incorporealism. During his fade, Ouranos used the last of his power to curse Kronos to meet the same fate he did, that his son will overpower and dethrone him. Kronos, when approached by Gaia, goes back on his word, refusing to bring back the Tartalo and Hecatoncheires, instead locking them away in Tartarus at the first opportunity.
Golden Age
With the fall of their king, the Protogenoi stepped down as rulers of the cosmos, letting the Titans take over. Kronos proclaimed himself king and took his sister Rhea as his queen. The Titans rule of the Cosmos was known as the Golden Age, where all who submitted to Kronos was happy, healthy, and powerful. As time passed, Kronos moved the Titanic Host to Earth in modern day Rome.
Consumption of the Olympians
Paranoid of Ouranos' curse, Kronos wanted to prevent it from coming true at all costs. To combat it, every time Kronos and Rhea had a child together, Kronos would swallow them whole. The rest of the Titans were complacent in this, all except for Rhea, who quietly built resentment for her husband and his actions.
Battle of the Titans
Rhea hid their sixth child from Kronos and replaced him with a rock which he ate without question. Their son, whom she named Zeus was able to grow up in the care of Auðumbla whom Rhea endowed with sapience and a humanoid form. When Zeus came of age, he was given an emetic by the Collector and traveled to Rome to overthrow his father. disguised as the royal cup bearer, Zeus sneaks towards his father and gets him to to drink the emetic. Within moments Kronos fell ill and soon vomited up the contents of his stomach starting with the rock and proceeding with Poseidon, god of the seas, Hades, god of the dead, Hera, goddess of marriage, Demeter, goddess of the harvest, and lastly Hestia, goddess of the hearth.
The freed and fully grown Olympians, combined with the Tartalo and Hecatoncheires they released, and some opposing Titans including Rhea, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, fought against Kronos and the loyal Titans in a grueling ten year long battle. The battle was matched with no side taking the upper hand, until the Tartalo gift the three brothers with magical artifacts, the Master Bolt, the Trident, and the Helm of Darkness, allowing the Olympians to take overpower the Titans and lock them all in Tartarus in place of their elder siblings. Kronos himself was sliced into several pieces to drain away his power so he could never come back.
Atlas, as the general of the Titans was given a worse punishment. Banished to a lonely island in the middle of the sea, Atlas was forced to hold the weight of the heavens on his shoulders, preventing Father Sky from ever reaching Mother Earth and producing more children. The island was named Atlantis, and the sea, the Atlantic Ocean.
The Remaining Titans
Followers of Zeus
The Titans who defected against Kronos was able to join the rest of the Olympians on their new home, Mount Olympus in Greece.
Lady of the Lake
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Father and Mother of Monsters
In the dark corners of the Nether, the monstrous serpentine Titans, Typhon and Echidna settled and together produced many creatures of varying physiology. The first was Orthrus, a giant two-headed canine, next was Kerberos, a giant serpentine canid hybrid with three heads, then was Kaross, a large dragon-like entity who can regrow its head when decapitated, after that was Khimaira, a large fire-breathing hybrid creature, Lamassu, a winged feline-humanoid hybrid, Scylla, a powerful humanoid-cephalopod hybrid, and finally Grypos, a large avian-feline hybrid. These monstrous offspring make up the Alpha Misoteras who will quickly have offspring of their own to spread across the Multiverse.
Characteristics
The Titans are large and strong humanoid beings with semi-incorporeal forms, unlike their progenitors who are fully incorporeal. Titans are relatively tall and muscular entities, roughly fifteen to twenty feet tall in the physical world. Each Titan's appearance varies depending on what aspect they preside over just as their progenitors, the Protogenoi, do.
The Titians ran on a monarchy system, adopted from the Protogenoi, with Kronos and Rhea ruling over them. Unlike the Protogenoi, however, who were mostly independent, most of the Titans were deeply loyal to Kronos and fell with him when the Olympians took over the Pantheon.
Powers
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- Titan Physiology: The Titans are a group of lesser divinities who ruled the cosmos before the Olympians did. They are large and powerful beings in their own right, however, some even more powerful than the Olympians.
- Immortality: Titans are incapable of dying by any means unless attacked by specialized weapons designed specifically to harm them. During the Titanomachy, the Titans were able to live through all of the carnage no matter the attacks the gods used.
- Size Alteration: Particularly strong Titans are able to change their size. Atlas and Kronos doubled in size during the Titanomachy while Mnemosyne shrinks herself into average humanoid size.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Only certain weapons are strong enough to damage a Titan with all others bouncing off of them.
- Regeneration: If a weapon is able to cut or bruise them, a Titan is able to quickly heal the damage so long as it is not fatal.
- Enhanced Condition:
Weaknesses
- Master Bolt:
- Trident:
- Bident:
Notable Titans
Trivia
- Unlike most characters from Classical Mythology, who use the Greek version of the name, Eos and Kratos use the Roman version of their name.
- Kratos uses the Roman name, Potestas to limit confusion with Kratos from the God of War games
- Eos uses the Roman name, Aurora, because the Author likes the name Aurora better
External Links
See Titans on Wikipedia