When others suffer, it brings Erebos peace, but not glee, because the alienation and banishment of others enable them to identify with his own. Erebos knows that all that lives will eventually join him, which affords him a kind of satisfaction and certainty. He envies the sunlit world of the living, but only in a daydream-like way. However, he is not without compassion, but his compassion is limited to feeling on behalf of others what he feels, and his acceptance of his fate means that his lieges, the dead, must accept theirs. He is an effective warden and lord of the Underworld realm. It may seem that Erebos is connected to Nyx more closely than the other gods, thanks to black's association with darkness, but this isn't the case: Erebos's realm lacks both the sun and the night.Įrebos is a jealous and tyrannical ruler, proud of his domain as lord of all that ever lived. Because the dead leave their earthly wealth behind, Erebos has become associated with that wealth, as well as with the abundance of (to him, pretty but valueless) gold in his realm. Because of his origins, he is also the god of misfortune, ill fate, begrudging acceptance, envy, and bitterness. Domains Įrebos rules over death and the Underworld. As such, Erebos was born before Heliod and is the oldest of the five major gods of Theros. Then followed the gods of sun and sea, forest and forge. Death came next, ultimate and inescapable. More precisely, Kruphix, as the god of wonder and the unknown, was the firstborn. As explained by Kruphix, gods are born from mortal beliefs, not the other way around. This, however, is only Erebos' mythical origin, held by the mortals of Theros. In time, Erebos accepted his role, knowing that although Heliod had banished him, he would always stand behind the sun god.
That shadow was Erebos, the god of death. When Heliod saw it, he feared and banished it beyond the so-called Rivers That Ring the World, the five rivers that form a boundary between Theros and its Underworld. When the sun first shone on Heliod, the first shadow was cast.
0 kommentar(er)
