Erebus Darku

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Name given by birth mother.
Erebus Darku

Gender
Male

Identity
Demi God

D.O.B.
01.04.1977

Apparent age
Thirty Five.

Height
Six feet and two inches.

Weight
210lbs.

Hair colour.
Blue.

Eye colour.
Pearl blue or Black/red

Skin
Marble white.

Clothe type.
Quirky.

Personality
Considered to some as a socialite Erebus is a fairly well known guy around the party circuits, thought of as the life and soul of the party he comes across as a light hearted, joker kind of bloke. Always in the middle of a prank or developing some kind of event on the whole Erebus is pretty popular.

How ever most of it is a front for the real Erebus. A neglected soul. In his own time quiet and reflectivesometimes slightly down hearted he can have a fairly warped view on relationships especially those to do with family. If caught off guard or out of the party environment one might see a different more temperamental and volatile side to him.


Abilities
Erebus can create and control fire at will. Controlling the way it moves and its intensity. Hand in hand with its creation he also has the ability to destroy flame and consume it drawing the heat back into his own body.

Weakness
The cold. If exposed to the cold Erebus will begin to weaken and lose his abilites. If exposed to extreme cold or trapped in the cold for an extended amount of time he will run the risk of death.

Background
Raised in a poor neighbourhood by a mother barley out of her teens and half insane with crazed tales of strange men, Erebus was basically left to fend for himself and with time defend his mother from the sting of drug or alcohol dependent men she bought home over the years to earn herself some cash.

Deciding that he had put up with enough a fifteen year old Erebus freed himself from the family life he had grown to hate. Bouncing from shelter to shelter he basically just existed for the next three years until meeting Liz. His life begun again.

Getting a job the two of them found themselves a little flat and within no time Liz became pregnant giving birth to their son Noah the day before her twentieth birthday.

A doting father Erebus struggled to make sure that Noah received everything that he did not, it meant he had to take on more jobs and had to be away a lot.

Therefore a few months after Noah turned two he had been struck down with pneumonia. On his way to the hospital Erebus's life shattered the hospital had suffered a terrorist attack. Noah and Liz two of the fatalities.

From that moment on Erebus moved around throwing himself from event to event to keep himself busy, hiding his pain well from everyone to the point where they wouldn't even know.

In recent years Erebus settled in Lacrimosa with a vampire coven having spent some time there he took on a orphaned boy named Alex. The boy later went missing spurring Erebus on to make another move. To leave behind the pain which would otherwise engulf him.

To this day Erebus has no idea of his father, or his lineage. His ability with fire a total question mark to him having never found an explanation for why he had such abilities.

In more recent history Erebus had been spending is time in a place named Valentino where he relocated himself after the fall of his time with the coven Matashina. While in Valentino he met a female vampire known as Saoirse who he formed a relationship with despite their vast differences.
He learned more of his family lineage while in Valentino becoming friends with other Demi Gods who helped him find his father.

How ever upon hearing that the coven was reforming Erebus couldn't keep away in the slight chance that the boy he once took as his son might some how find his way back to them.













(Family information part my own part taken from other sources)
Heritage
(Human side)
Mother, Loretta Darku, Age 51.
Wife, Liz Darku aka Lizzy. Would be 32, Deceased.
Son, Noah Would now be 12, Deceased.
Adopted son, Alex. Missing. Last seen in Lacrimosa.
Partner, Saoirse.

(Deity side)
Son of Hephaetus.


Hephaestus (pron.: /hɪˈfiːstəs/, /həˈfɛstəs/ or /hɨˈfɛstəs/; 8 spellings; Ancient Greek Ἥφαιστος Hēphaistos) was the Greek god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes.[1] Hephaestus' Roman equivalent was Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods.

As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos.[2] Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.

Consorts and children

According to most versions, Hephaestus's consort is Aphrodite, who is unfaithful to Hephaestus with a number of gods and mortals, including Ares. However, in Homer's Iliad, the consort of Hephaestus is a lesser Aphrodite, Charis "the grace" or Aglaia "the glorious"—the youngest of the Graces, as Hesiod calls her.[21]

In Athens, there is a Temple of Hephaestus, the Hephaesteum (miscalled the "Theseum") near the agora. An Athenian founding myth tells that the city's patron goddess, Athena, refused a union with Hephaestus because of his unsightly appearance and crippled nature, and that when he became angry and forceful with her, she disappeared from the bed. His ejaculate fell on the earth, impregnating Gaia, who subsequently gave birth to Erichthonius of Athens.[22] A surrogate mother later gave the child to Athena to foster, guarded by a serpent.

On the island of Lemnos, Hephaestus' consort was the sea nymph Cabeiro, by whom he was the father of two metalworking gods named the Cabeiri. In Sicily, his consort was the nymph Aetna, and his sons were two gods of Sicilian geysers called Palici. With Thalia, Hephaestus was sometimes considered the father of the Palici.

Hephaestus fathered several children with mortals and immortals alike. One of those children was the robber Periphetes.

This is the full list of his consorts and children according to the various accounts:
1.Aphrodite
2.Aglaea 1.Eucleia
2.Euthenia
3.Eupheme
4.Philophrosyne

3.Aetna 1.The Palici
4.Cabeiro 1.The Cabeiri
5.Gaia 1.Erichthonius
6.Anticleia 1.Periphetes
7.by unknown mothers 1.Ardalus
2.Cercyon (possibly)
3.Olenus
4.Palaemonius, Argonaut
5.Philottus
6.Pylius
7.Spinter
In addition, the Romans claim their equivalent god, Vulcan, to have produced the following children:
1.Cacus
2.Caeculus



-Erebus's father Hephaestus-

Hephaestus, the god of fire, especially the blacksmith's fire, was the patron of all craftsmen, principally those working with metals. He was worshiped predominantly in Athens, but also in other manufacturing centres. He was the god of volcanoes. Later, the fire within them represented the smith's furnace. Hephaestus was associated with Mount Etna, which is on the island of Sicily. Known as the lame god, Hephaestus was born weak and crippled. Displeased by the sight of her son, Hera threw Hephaestus from Mount Olympus, and he fell for a whole day before landing in the sea. Nymphs rescued him and took him to Lemnos, where the people of the island cared for him. But other versions say Zeus threw him from Mount Olympus after Hephaestus had sided with his mother in a quarrel. This legend says that Hephaestus fell for nine days and nine nights, and he landed on the island of Lemnos. It was on Lemnos where he built his palace and his forges under a volcano.

To gain revenge for his rejection by Hera, Hephaestus fashioned a magic throne, which was presented to her on Mount Olympus. When Hera sat on the throne, it entrapped her, making her a prisoner. The gods on Mount Olympus pleaded with Hephaestus to return to their heavenly domain, as to release Hera, but he refused. Dionysus gave the smith god wine, and when Hephaestus was intoxicated, Dionysus took him back to Mount Olympus slumped over the back of a mule. This scene was a favorite in Greek art. Hephaestus released Hera after being given the beautiful Aphrodite as his bride. Dionysus was rewarded by being made one of the Olympian Pantheon.

Hephaestus is known as the son of Hera and Zeus, although Zeus had nothing to do with the conception. Hephaestus was parthenogenetic, meaning he was conceived without male fertilisation. Hera was jealous of Zeus after he had an affair with Metis, from which the goddess of prudence was pregnant with Athena. However, Gaia had warned Zeus that Metis would bear a daughter, whose son would overthrow him. To prevent this, Zeus swallowed Metis, so he could carry the child through to the birth himself, although Zeus could not give birth naturally. For retribution Hera produced (parthenogeny) Hephaestus, and legend says, that Hephaestus split the head of Zeus with an axe, from which Athena appeared fully armed.

One particular legend says that Hephaestus wished to marry Athena, who was also a patron of smiths, but she refused because she found him ugly. Another legend says that Athena disappeared from their bridal bed but Hephaestus did not see her vanish, and spilt his seed on the floor. In a similar version the semen fell from Athena's thigh and from it was produced Erechtheus, who became a king of Athens. (This relates to Erechtheus being the son of Gaia, Earth.)

Aphrodite, in some versions, was the wife of Hephaestus, and he was suspicious that Aphrodite had been committing adultery. To catch her being unfaithful he fashioned an extraordinary chain-link net, so fine and strong no one could escape from it. Then one day he surprised Aphrodite and the war god Ares as they lay together in bed. He threw his magic net over them and hauled them before the Olympian gods and exhibited them as they were, naked and wrapped in each others arms. Hephaestus asked the assembled gods for just retribution, but they did the total opposite. The gods roared with laughter at the sight of the naked lovers, after which they allowed the couple to go free. According to Homer's Iliad Hephaestus had a wife called Aglaea, who was one of the Charites (Graces).

Being a great craftsman Hephaestus manufactured wonderful articles from various materials, primarily from metal. With help from the Cyclopes, who were his workmen and assistants, he fashioned the thunderbolts for Zeus and his sceptre. He made weapons and armour for the other gods and heroes. For Athena, he made her shield or aegis and for the god of love, Eros, he made the arrows. The wonderful chariot which the sun god Helios rode across the sky was made by Hephaestus and in some versions it was a golden cup or goblet. He also fashioned the invincible armour of Achilles. Hephaestus helped to create the first woman, with the assistance of other gods, after Zeus had ordered that there be a new kind of human. Zeus plotted against Prometheus because he and his race of mortals had only included one gender, which was male, and so Hephaestus formed the first woman from clay. Her name was Pandora (all gifts) and from a supernatural jar, she released the evils of the world on mankind.

Hephaestus is usually shown as an animated cripple bent over his anvil. He wears a beard and is normally depicted as being ugly, and in some art forms he walks with the aid of a stick. Homer describes Hephaestus as lame and walking with the aid of a stick. Hepheastus was worshiped mainly in Athens, where the Temple of Hephaestus and Athena (the Hephaesteum, also known as the Theseum) still stands. It is the most complete example of a "Doric" temple (one of the three orders in Greek architecture). It was built in 449 BCE and stands on a hill close to the Agora at the foot of the Acropolis. Hephaestus and Athena Ergane (protectress of craftsman and artisans) were honoured with the festival "Chalceia" on the 30th day of the month Pyanopsion. The Romans took Hephaestus as one of their own gods attaching the myth and cult to their god of fire and calling him Vulcan (Volcanus).

(Taken from Encyclopedia Mythica)

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