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One of the four Primordial Beings of the universe spawned by the entity [[Chaos]] in the beginning of time, Erebus is the deity of All Darkness and Shadow. He is and always will be everywhere and nowhere.
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<group>
<data source="user"><label>Portrayed by</label><default>?</default></data>
<data source="species"><label>Species</label><default>[[Primordial being]]</default></data>
<data source="realm"><label>Realm</label><default>Darkness & shadow</default></data>
<data source="birthday"><label>Born</label><default>Unknown</default></data>
<data source="parents"><label>Parents</label><default>''[[Chaos]]''</default></data>
<data source="spouse"><label>Spouse</label><default>[[Nyx]]</default></data>
<data source="children"><label><small><small>Notable children</small></small></label><default>
''(in alphabetical order):''
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[[Hypnos]]
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<data source="other"><label><small><small>Other children</small></small></label><default> TOO MANY TO LIST, but specifically in or mentioned within the Elysium'verse:
''(in alphabetical order):''
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[[Morpheus]]
[[Phantasos]]▼
[[Phrike]]
▲[[Phantasos]]
[[Sophrosyne]]
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Erebus lives in the walls and every corner. He is maybe made of shadow, or not. He is probably tangible, based on his ability to sire children, but... maybe not.
=Personality=
...Unknown, very few have ever met him. This is including his parade of
One can assume that he does not possess any sort of paternal traits.
=Family=
Erebus' background is basically the same as it is within the mythological source material. [[Chaos]], who created the universe, next spawned four [[Primordial Beings]] to form the world; the Sky, the Earth, the Night, and the Dark. Erebus (the Dark), descended to the Underworld with his sister Nyx (the Night), and the two of them married and began to populate the Underworld with their offspring.
(Sorry, take it up with Ancient Greece.)
The children of Nyx and Erebus, by this time in the modern day, number presumably into triple digits. Their kids are responsible as daemon personifications for all sorts of "darker" traits and actions; they include entities of Death, Aging, Insanity, Sorrow, Decay, Nightmare, Sleep, Dream, and so on and so forth. [[Ker]], Goddess of Violent Death, and the first Death Incarnation, is one of their first born children. Nyx and Erebus have been spawning offspring since the dawn of time, and most of their children sprawling throughout the centuries either don't get along with each other, or have intermingled as their own couplings true to the nature of the Greek pantheon. Or both! The [[House of Nyx]] is a chaotic mess.
For Erebus' own part in this, he has taken a notoriously absent role in the upbringing of his own children, in the sense that despite being ever present and always existing in the recesses of Nyx's own home, literally most of their children have never ''met'' Erebus. Nyx has never seemed to mind this, content to keep pairing with him to add babies on top of babies, and delusionally priding herself on their big happy household.
The physical and emotional absence of Erebus as a parental figure plus Nyx's failings as a parental figure herself has impacted the adulthood and behavior of many of their children, particularly in reference to unhinged villain [[Thanatos]], who was able to prey on his own siblings unsupervised since toddlerhood. In fact, many of Erebus' children are inclined towards violence and general monstrous traits, which he... probably knows about? But has apparently not cared about enough to be present. The opinions of his children about him range from indifference to resentment. Again no one really knows how he feels about this, as his ''own'' opinions about his children seem to range from indifference to... apathy? Who knows.
=Trivia=
The darkest part of the Underworld is an area named after him, also called Erebus.
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Erebus is one of the few Elysium characters who is functionally almost the exact same as his mythological counterpart, only with some contextualization added to relate to our more fleshed out cast. For more information on Erebus in Greek mythology, please visit [https://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Erebos.html his Theoi page].
[[Category:Minor characters]][[Category:Primordial beings]][[Category:Underworldians]] [[category:Completed pages]]
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