Theoi

The ancient myths of the Theoi are often misinterpreted through a modern lens, leading to quick and brutal lessons learned by their scions as they come to realize the difference between truth and what is perceived as truth. The many gods of the Theoi are vengeful, rash, and quick to petty offense. They are hypocritical and willing to partake in revenge thousands of years after the slight occurred.

Piety: The Theoi were happy to almost ignore humanity as they lived their mayfly lives, however, a single concept is paramount in the rage of the Pantheon, and a primary theme in their Scions. Mortals (Including Scions) must Know Their Place, and that place is below the Deities. Interestingly, almost all of the Scions of the Pantheon lack this Virtue by a tragic quirk of Fate.

Vengeance: To few other cultures was The Rage of Heaven so great. The Theoi haves axes to grind with most of reality, including each other, and never bury the hatchet. The orders of Zeus often keep the Pantheon out of direct conflict, however tormenting each other's Scions is seen as a fair expression of this rage.

Aphrodite - The Goddess of Beauty, Lust, and Sexuality. Aphrodite is a perfect example of beauty only being skin deep. Standing out as fickle and petty among a fickle and petty Pantheon, Aphrodite ignores the tenants of her marriage vows to her half-brother Hephaestus.

Artemis - The youthful Goddess of the Moon, Childbirth, and Maidens. The twin sister of Apollo, Artemis is the greatest hunter of her Pantheon, and though she would likely be more comfortable among the mountain glens of Greece, she is one of the Dodekatheon.

Dionysus - The God of Madness, Foreigners, and Wine, Dionysus is a wild God among a 'civilized' Pantheon. The patron of a mystery cult, where strange music and orgies in hidden places revealed secrets which gave his followers a better afterlife than others.

Hera - The Queen of the Gods, Hera sufferers frequently from the rampant infidelity of her husband Zeus as these directly subvert her role as Goddess of Marriage. Modern times have painted Hera as s shrewd harpy, ignoring the pain Zeus causes with every bastard born.

Poseidon - The King of the Sea, though he would have wished for the Sky, Poseidon watches those who traverse his land with a wary eye. The God is quick to turn the weather against those he feels that have not given him suitable dues as a God.

Apollo - The youthful God of Sun, Healing, and patron of the Arts and Prophets. Much like his father, Apollo's eye has wandered to many nymphs, women, and men. It is Apollo who drives the Solar Chariot through the sky during the day, resting at night.

Athena - The Goddess of Wisdom, War, and Women's arts. Athena is the patron of the city of Athens, and its defender. Almost the polar opposite of Ares, Athena is representative of a more modern concept of war where a Polis assembles to face their enemies in unity.

Hades - The King of the Underworld, one of the three great kings of the Pantheon, Hades holds dominion over everything underground. Hades rules his realm with an iron fist, though he is fundamentally fair. His rules are occasionally bent however by his wife's interference.

Hermes - The God of many things, Hermes more important patronages are those of Thieves, Travelers, and Traders. The Messenger of the Gods, the God brings the word of Zeus to the depths of the Underworld, and also brings the souls of the dead to the edge of the realm.

Ares - The God of War is a brute and almost unloved among his Pantheon. He is violent, wrathful, and terrible, a warrior embolic of the early period where single combat was king, long before the development of the grand phalanxes which would come to rule War in Greece.

Demeter - The Goddess of Agriculture and the fertility of the land, Demeter is a figure whose nature balances on the single pivotal point of the Abduction of Persephone, her daughter. Potentially a powerful guarding mother figure, or the primordial helicopter parent depending.

Hephaestus - The Smith of the Pantheon, Hephaestus is crippled from being hurled from the heights of Mount Olympus at his birth. He creates many of the powerful tools the Pantheon and their children wield, save for the three wondrous Relics of the Kings which were made by more ancient hands.

Pan - The God of the Wilderness and Wilds, Pan is an aberration among the Pantheon. A God with goat legs and horns, a bringer of chaos, and often represented as shamefully lusty, some suspect the God's supposed descent from Hermes may be an artificial creation.

Zeus - The King of Heaven, and the youngest of the three Children of Cronus, Zeus dominates most of his Pantheon save for those under the law of his two brothers. Though often described as great and neigh-perfect in later periods, Zeus will be his own doom at the hands of an unknown son.