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The power to use the traits and powers of the Protogenoi. Variation of Greek Deity Physiology. Combination of Embodiment Deity Physiology and Primordial Deity Physiology.

Also Called[]

  • Actuals (Nobilis)
  • Elder/First Gods/Goddesses
  • Greek Primordial Deities/Gods/Goddesses
  • First (Protos) Born (Genos)
  • Πρωτόγονοι (in modern Greek)

Capabilities[]

The user either is or can draw power and abilities connected to the protogenoi, primordial Deities of Greek mythology.

The protogenoi were the first born of the immortals, who formed the very fabric of the universe, known in Greek mythology as the Protogenoi (protos meaning "first," and genos "born"). They were, for the most part, purely elemental beings - Uranus was the literal sky, Gaea the body of the earth, etc. A few of them were occasionally described or portrayed in anthropomorphic form, however these forms were inevitably inseparable from their native element. Everything in existence is born of them, including the Titans and the Olympian gods. Unlike the Titans, when overthrown by the next generation of deities, the protogenoi didn't lose their power or position, for the very simple reason that they form the existence. They are mostly found and commonly referenced in ancient Greek texts such as Hesiod's Theogony (c. 700 BCE/late 8th century).

Protogenoi[]

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Deities[]

Original[]

Chaos/Khaos

  • Absolute Separation (In Christian theology, the same term is used to refer to the gap or the abyss created by the separation of heaven and earth)
  • Air Deity & Creator Deity Physiology (Creator of the Gods according to most ancient sources such as the Theogony which is constantly described "as the standard organisation on the gods' origin"
    • Air Embodiment
    • Chaos Embodiment (limited; Chaos was a chaotic & soupy mist; in Ovid's Metamorphoses "Chaos was an unformed mass, where all the elements were jumbled up together in a shapeless heap")
    • Complete Arsenal (Possibly as the creator of the Gods)
    • Creation Embodiment
      • Creation & Destruction Manipulation
      • Creative Source (The modern interpretation of the term: The term chaos has been adopted in modern comparative mythology and religious studies as referring to the primordial state before creation, strictly combining two separate notions of primordial waters or a primordial darkness from which a new order emerges and a primordial state as a merging of opposites, such as heaven and earth, which must be separated by a creator deity in an act of cosmogony)
      • Deity Creation (Created the Protogenoi Gods)
    • Infinity Manipulation and Temporal Entity (The notion of the temporal infinity was familiar to the Greek mind from remote antiquity in the religious conception of immortality. The main object of the first efforts to explain the world remained the description of its growth, from a beginning. They believed that the world arose out from a primal unity, and that this substance was the permanent base of all its being)
    • Limitation Transcendence and Meta Movement Manipulation (Xenophanes' statement. In a phrase of Xenophanes, "The upper limit of the earth borders on air, near our feet. The lower limit reaches down to the "apeiron" (i.e. the unlimited)." The sources and limits of the earth, the sea, the sky, Tartarus, and all things are located in a great windy-gap, which seems to be infinite, and is a later specification of "chaos".)
    • Meta Matter Manipulation (contained all the matter in the Cosmos)
    • Void Embodiment (In the Theogony. Hesiod and the Pre-Socratics use the Greek term in the context of cosmogony. Hesiod's Chaos has been interpreted as either "the gaping void above the Earth created when Earth and Sky are separated from their primordial unity" or "the gaping space below the Earth on which Earth rests.")
    • Primordial Force Manipulation (Based on Aristophanes' comments: "At the beginning there was only Chaos, Night, dark Erebus, and deep Tartarus")
    • Universal Force Manipulation

First Generation[]


  • Nyx
    • Absolute Destruction, Absolute Erasure and Absolute Restoration (Could likely kill Zeus)
    • Alpha Physiology (Stronger Goddess; Night is a prominent figure in several theogonies of Orphic literature, in which she is often described as the mother of Uranus and Gaia. In the earliest Orphic cosmogonies, she is the first deity to exist.)
    • Cosmos Lordship (formally; one myth, given to Zeus)
    • Darkness Deity Physiology (Primordial Goddess of the Night)
    • Divine Aura (Nyx's power is so strong that even Zeus himself feared angering her in book 14 of the Iliad)
    • Meta-Concept Manipulation and Absolute Transcendence (Without the assistance of a father, Nyx produces Moros (Doom, Destiny), Ker (Destruction, Death), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Pain, Distress), the Hesperides, the Moirai (Fates), the Keres, Nemesis (Indignation, Retribution), Apate (Deceit), Philotes (Love), Geras (Old Age), and Eris (Strife). A number of these offspring are similarly described as her children by later authors)
      • Negative Forces Manipulation, Femininity Aspect Manifestation, Super Fecundity/Deity Creation and Concept Creation (In Greek mythology, Nyx (/nɪks/ NIX; Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, [nýks], "Night") is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness). By herself, she produces a brood of children which are personifications of primarily negative forces)
      • Mother Goddess Physiology (If Roman sources such as Cicero are used, Aether and Dies (Day) are the children of Nox and Erebus, in addition to Amor (Love), Dolus (Guile), Metus (Fear), Labor (Toil), Invidentia (Envy), Fatum (Fate), Senectus (Old Age), Mors (Death), Tenebrae (Darkness), Miseria (Misery), Querella (Lamentation), Gratia (Favour), Fraus (Fraud), Pertinacia (Obstinacy), the Parcae, the Hesperides, and the Somnia (Dreams). In the genealogy given by the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Nox is the offspring of Chaos and Caligo (Mist), alongside Dies (Day), Erebus (Darkness), and Aether. With Erebus, she produces Fatum (Fate), Senectus (Old Age), Mors (Death), Letum (Destruction), Continentia (Strife), Somnus (Sleep), the Somnia (Dreams), Lysimeles (Thoughtfulness), Epiphron (Hedymeles), Porphyrion, Epaphus, Discordia (Discord), Miseria (Misery), Petulantia (Petulance), Nemesis, Euphrosyne (Cheerfulness), Amicitia (Friendship), Misericordia (Pity), Styx, the Parcae (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos), and the Hesperides (Aegle, Hesperia, and Erythea))
      • Absolute Immortality (Night was called the "immortal nurse of the gods" (as quoted in the Derveni papyrus), and in its narrative she nurtures and gives shelter to the young Zeus. Later in the work, after Zeus overthrows his father Cronus and becomes king, he consults Night on how he can consolidate his rule)
    • Seer and Omni-Precognition (She is described as she "who knows all the oracles", and delivers a prophecy to him from within her shrine (adyton); she also has power over Prophecy itself)
    • Uniqueness

Second Generation[]

  • Achlys
    • Absolute Emotions and Sorrow Derivation ((Achlys /ˈæklɪs/ (Ancient Greek: Ἀχλύς "mist"), in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles, is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing the personification of sorrow. In Homer, achlys is the mist which fogs or blinds mortal eyes (often in death)))
    • Creator Deity (limited, later in myth), Death Deity, Darkness Deity, & Poison Deity (Controls poison and death)
      • Death Embodiment (the clouding of the eyes before death)
        • Vapor Meta Death-Force Manipulation (the Death Mist; In Homer, the word achlys (ἀχλύς, 'mist'), is frequently used to describe a mist that is "shed" upon a mortal's eyes, often while dying)
      • Death, Nether, & Poison Empowerment (In the Shield of Heracles, an archaic Greek epic poem (early sixth century BC?), that was attributed to Hesiod, Achlys is one of the figures described as being depicted on Heracles' shield, where she is understood as being the personification of sorrow or grief: "Beside them [Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos (the Moirai), and the Keres] stood Death-Mist [Ἀχλὺς], gloomy and dread, pallid, parched, cowering in hunger, thick-kneed; long claws were under her hands. From her nostrils flowed mucus, from her cheeks blood was dripping down onto the ground. She stood there, grinning dreadfully, and much dust, wet with tears, lay upon her shoulders")
      • Nether Embodiment
      • Night Embodiment (limited; represents the eternal night predating beings such as Nyx & Chaos)
    • Poison Embodiment, Esoteric Toxin Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Omnipoison and Meta Magic (Related to Poison and in Roman-only interpretations of Greek texts. Nonnus, in his Dionysiaca (c. 5th century AD), seems to regard Achlys as a kind of witch. According to Nonnus, Hera—angry with the guardians of the infant Dionysus (the sons of the Naiad nurses of Dionysus)—"procured from Thessalian Achlys [Ἀχλύος] treacherous flowers of the field", which she used to sprinkle a sleeping charm over their heads, then "she distilled poisoned drugs over their hair and smeared a magical ointment over their faces", changing their human shape into that of horned Centaurs)

Pain, Deception, Anger, Mourning, Lying, Oath, Vengeance, Self-indulgence, Quarreling, Forgetfullness, Sloth, Fear, Arrogance, Incest, Fighting, Ocean, Themis, Tartarus, and Pontus; and the Titans, Briareus, Gyges, Steropes, Atlas, Hyperion and Polus, Saturn, Ops, Moneta, Dione, and the three Furies (Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone))

    • Archetype:Creator Deity (Said that "everything came from" Aether.")
    • Archetype:Ultimate Being (According to Orphic text number 5: "Yours are Zeus' lofty dwelling, endless power too; of the stars, of the sun, and of the moon you claim a share. O tamer of all, O fire-breather, O life's spark for every creature, sublime Ether, best cosmic element,

radiant, luminous, starlit offspring, I call upon you and I beseech you to be temperate and clear)

'Night and Day passing near greet one another as they cross the great bronze threshold. The one is about to go in and the other is going out the door, and never does the house hold them both inside, but always the one goes out from the house and passes over the earth, while the other in turn remaining inside the house waits for the time of her own departure, until it comes. The one holds much-seeing light for those on the earth, but the other holds Sleep in her hands, the brother of Death—deadly Night, shrouded in murky cloud')

Third Generation[]

Thalassa

Associations[]

Source[]

https://www.theoi.com/

Known Users[]

See Also: Protogenoi

  • Cytherea, the Divine Ignition (Exalted)
  • Abundance (Goblin Slayer)
  • Aion (Greek Mythology)
  • Protogenoi (Greek Mythology)
  • Primordials (God of War)
  • Actuals (Nobilis)
  • Protogenoi (Percy Jackson series)
  • Chronos (Smite)
  • Nox (Smite)
  • Terra (Smite)
  • Aither (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Chaos (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Chronos (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Eros (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Gaia (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Nyx (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Ananke (The Wicked + The Divine)

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