Rhea

Rhea is a greater power of fertility and life, one of the Greater Titans, and mother of the first Olympians.

Description

The avatars of Rhea typically took the form of young, incredibly beautiful women with voluptuous figures that were immodestly dressed.

Divine Realm

Rhea lacks a divine realm of her own, but lives with the Olympians in the shared divine realm of Olympus and resides in her own grand palace.

Activities

Rhea occasionally answers mortal appeals concerning fertility or motherhood, but generally does not interfere as she has given her responsibilities over to the other Olympians. She acts as a great advisor to the pantheon, for whom members seek out whenever they can't turn to each other for advice.

History

Rhea was born as one of the many Greater Titans of the primeval deities Gaea and Uranus. Not long after her sibling Cronus overthrew their father, the two married. However, Cronus had went back on a promise he had made to their mother Gaea to free their monstrous siblings, the hecatoncheires, from their imprisonment by Uranus. Furious, Gaea laid a curse upon Cronus, proclaiming that one day his own children would usurp him, just as he had his usurped his cruel father. Fearful of this curse, devoured each of Rhea's first five children as they were born. These first five children were Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon. With each child sacrificed Rhea grew more and more anguished.

By their sixth child, one who would later be known as Zeus, Rhea had grown furious and would not allow Cronus to takeaway another of her children. She tricked Cronus into instead swallowing a stone in swaddling clothes. This gave their mother Gaea the chance to smuggle the child away and leave him in the care of nymphs on a remote island. When he reached adulthood, Zeus returned disguised as one of Cronus's cupbearers and gave him a potion that induced him into vomiting up his five other children.

Zeus and his siblings, the newly formed Olympian pantheon, then usurped Cronus. Their first act following this was the casting out of the majority of the Greater Titans into the plane of Carceri. For her part in their ascension, Rhea was purposely spared the fate of banishment. She yielded much of her power and responsibilities to her children, who in turn gifted her a palace in Olympus that far exceeded the one she once shared with Cronus.

Rhea

Primordial Titan

Basic Information

Titles

Mother of the Gods

Pantheons

Primordials

Attributes

Alignment

Neutral Good

Symbol

A female face

Realm

Olympian Glades of Arborea/Olympus

Portfolio

Fertility, Life, Motherhood, Seasons

Following

Worshippers

She had no religion of her own
Nor proxies
Though Rhea drew veneration from the entirety of the Olympian pantheon and thus inadvertently received veneration from mortals all across the Prime Material. Whenever Rhea was directly venerated by mortals
It was for her role as the Olympian pantheon's mother and for her role in liberating the Olympians from Cronus.

Domains