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    Fenyx 
Voiced by: Elana Dunkelman (female), Tyrone Savage (male)

The hero of the story. A story-teller from Argos, Fenyx follows in their brother's footsteps as a warrior, but hasn't seen their first fight by the start of the story. Then they learn that there is a prophecy that states that they will be the one to defeat Typhon.

  • Action Girl: If the player decides to make Fenyx a girl, then they're this.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: It's possible to customize them with blue or green skin.
  • Angel Unaware: Despite Zeus' scoffing, it becomes clear throughout the story that Fenyx is no mere mortal — what with them being able to handle his thunderbolts and becoming strong enough to put even the demigod heroes of myth to shame. It's ultimately revealed that Fenyx is the child of Zeus and Thetis, and thus actually a full deity, but was raised as a mortal on Earth. In the "A New God" DLC, Fenyx is shown with gold sparkles in their skin and hair like the other gods, and earns a spot on the Pantheon as the God/Goddess of Unity.
  • Big Brother Worship: Despite suffering from insecurities from being in his shadow, Fenyx idolizes Ligyron — a famous war-hero.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Sometimes, Fenyx talks to statues as if they were real people.
  • Divine Parentage: At the end of the game, Prometheus drops the bombshell reveal that Fenyx is the child of Hermes and Thetis... which turns out to be a lie. Fenyx is actually Zeus' own child with Thetis, and thus destined to overthrow him.
  • Double Jump: The Wings of Ikaros give them this with Ares's Wrath permitting a triple jump and more with stamina. "A New God" has the Vestment of the Horai which gives a natural triple jump. Upgrading to the Vestments of Unity increases it to a QUADRUPLE! jump.
  • Foreshadowing: There are several instances that hint at their true parentage.
    • Fenyx can handle artifacts that only gods can. At one point, Zeus declares that only he can touch his lightning bolts, but to his shock Fenyx promptly proves him wrong.
    • The sword of Achilles, which was a family heirloom that only Ligyron held hints that their mother is Thetis.
    • Even as far as the character customization in-game in the Hall of the Gods. The process of changing Fenyx's appearance involves TEARING OFF THEIR SKIN...which, generally speaking, is something most normal or even demigod mortals wouldn't be able to survive...but to Fenyx, it only tickles.
    • Then there is the prophecy itself:
      Oracle: Father of your line is not father of your kin [...] Eldest of Thetis, father overthrown. Hero on high, it's time for you to come home.
  • From Zero to Hero: Fenyx starts out as a mere shield-bearer and story-teller who joined the army to follow in the footsteps of their famous older brother Ligyron. By the end of the game, Fenyx is recognized by the Olympians as not only a hero surpassing all others, but as one of their own — being the child of the deity Zeus and the sea-nymph Thetis — and in the "A New God" DLC earns a spot on the Pantheon as the God/Goddess of Unity.
  • Game Preferred Gender: Promotional materials seem to favor Fenyx as a girl.
  • Girls With Mustaches: You can give a female Fenyx facial hair.
  • Guile Hero: Fenyx relies on their wits and stories to get by, not that they're a slouch in the combat department.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: Fenyx doesn't believe they're worthy of being a hero due to having been a mere shield-bearer before washing ashore on the Golden Isle, and convinces themselves that the prophecy refers to their older brother Ligyron, a famous war-hero.
  • Hope Bringer: Considering they used Pandora's Box to restore Hephaistos's Essence, they also go to find the literal Hope that was left inside.
  • Humongous-Headed Hammer: One of the unlockable god powers is the Hammer of Hephaistos, a comically massive warhammer that can be upgraded to have a charged attack and unleash ranged shockwaves.
  • Morality Pet: After all Fenyx did for the Olympians, they ended up becoming a unifying element to the point that the gods were willing to put their differences aside and challenge Zeus himself when he interfered with Fenyx's test to become an Olympian deity.
  • Nice Guy: Fenyx is an affable person who helps people in need, which Zeus scornfully complains about.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Fenyx professes they're a huge fan of Aphrodite's vindictive hubris and Ares' wanton bloodlust — simply because Fenyx was a storyteller and the gods' vices make for interesting stories.
  • Not Quite Flight: After acquiring and repairing the Wings of Daedalus, Fenyx becomes able to glide for as long as they have stamina.
  • One-Man Army: It's revealed that Prometheus made up every instance of Fenyx getting hurt over the course of the story, and that in truth Fenyx Curb Stomp Battled everyone they fought due to being a god rather than a mere mortal or even a demigod.
  • Purely Aesthetic Gender: Players can choose whether Fenyx is a boy or a girl. The only impact it has on gameplay is which pronouns are used.
  • The Reveal: Fenyx is not only a god, but the child of Zeus and Thetis.
  • Screw Destiny: As it turns out, Fenyx was prophesized to overthrow Zeus, being the child of him and Thetis. However, Fenyx chooses to not do so, instead making Zeus promise to be a better father to his children.
  • Shield Bash: The Shield of Athena god power lets Fenyx conjure a mystical shield to block some attacks and charge forward a short distance, with upgrades letting them dash through lasers unharmed, deliver a follow-up attack, and charge up the attack to increase distance and damage.
  • Successful Sibling Syndrome: Grew up their whole life in the shadow of Ligyron.
  • Super Supremacist: In the trailer for the Adventure Time tie-in, Fenyx rolls her eyes at Finn fawning over her and flies away with a disgusted "Mortals...", which actually contradicts her in-game characterization.
  • Winged Humanoid: Fenyx finds a set of mechanical wings made by Daedalus, which they can manifest and retract at-will to glide and double-jump. At the end of the "A New God" DLC, Zeus turns the Wings of Daedalus into actual wings.

    Phosphor 
A bird who once worked for Typhon that defected after Fenyx showed him kindness and joined them on their quest to restore the gods weakened by Typhon and take him down.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason he defects from Typhon is because Fenyx set out to help him when they found him injured on a mountain. At least that's what he wants them to think at first.
  • Disney Death: During Fenyx's fight with Typhon, Phosphor gets killed by the father of monsters as punishment for turning against him for real. But after Typhon is defeated, Zeus resurrects the bird and grants him Resurrective Immortality to boot.
  • Green Thumb: A mild example, Phosphor seems able to summon rigid vines from the ground for him to perch on whenever he needs a rest.
  • Having a Blast: The first upgrade to Phosphor's Attack, Phosphor's Shockwave, adds an explosion to his ramming attack whenever he makes impact with a target.
  • Heel–Face Turn: At the end of Phosphor's questline, it is revealed that Phosphor was working for Typhon the whole time to lure Fenyx into a trap with promise of treasure. However, he has a change of heart at the last minute and aids Fenyx in combatting the monster that was intended to slay Fenyx once and for all.
  • Invisibility Cloak: Phosphor's Cloak lets the bird turn Fenyx invisible, increasing their stealth for sneak attacks.
  • Loyal Animal Companion: Becomes this after Fenyx returns with the seed that would restore him to health, aiding them in combat against Typhon's forces.
  • Made of Explodium: Fenyx statues made by Phosphor's Clone become this if Phosphor is equipped with the "Phosphor of Zeus's Lighting" skin.
  • The Phoenix: Phosphor becomes the first one at the end of the game, with Zeus naming his species after the game's title character.
  • Ramming Always Works: Phosphor's Attack involves Phosphor crashing into enemies, sometimes with added effects depending on which skin the player has equipped to him.
  • The Social Darwinist: Hermes' translation of his chirps reveals that Phosphor starts off as one, expecting Fenyx to punish him as Typhon would for being anything less than perfect and demening her as being weak for showing him kindness.
  • Token Minority: In the Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC, despite Ku's bird companion being referred to as Jing Wei by the Goddess Nuwa, looking and sounding just like Phosphor (at least his original form), the Reaction Shot at being given his name which Nuwa indicates he initially tried to refuse, and the inventory description for him stating he doesn't like being called that all imply that Nuwa somehow summoned the genuine Phosphor to the Mortal Lands to help Ku on his journey, making him the only being of Grecian origin there.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Phosphor's questline reveals that his encounter with Fenyx was meant to be an elaborate example of this trope, until the aforementioned Heel–Face Turn that is.

    Zeus 
Voiced by: Daniel Matmor

King of Olympos and god of the sky.

  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: The game states that a lot of Zeus' antics are a result of him drinking too much. It's revealed that he turned the mortals to stone while drunk, kickstarting the events of the game.
  • Bed Trick:
    • The flavor text for the notes about stunning enemies has Zeus quip that he once impersonated one of his daughters to seduce one of her priestesses. Hunting the legendary beasts reveals said daughter was Artemis and that the priestess, Kallisto, was turned into a bear as punishment; being one of the legendary beasts who can be slain. Prometheus is disgusted, but Zeus sees nothing wrong with having done so, though he remarks he can't remember whether he, Hera, or Artemis turned Kallisto into a bear.
    • Zeus admits that he got Hera to marry him by turning into a cuckoo to exploit her love of animals, then having his way with her when she let her guard down.
  • Berserk Button: He'll own up to and even boast about his many mistakes, but whenever Prometheus brings up Phaethon he won't hear it and refuses to accept blame for his death since he did it to protect earth from being destroyed by Helios' chariot.
  • Big "WHAT?!": Reacts this way when Ligyron admits he never actually did the deeds he's famous for.
  • The Casanova: Zeus is a raging horn-dog, is more than happy to cheat on his wife with anything that moves, and boasts that he has upwards of fifty-seven demigod children.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Zeus hates Prometheus and frequently interrupts his story to complain and make sarcastic remarks.
  • Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: While the game skirts around the topic, many of Zeus' affairs with mortal women were duplicitous and non-consensual — something that Zeus fails to recognize as being reprehensible, to the disgust of Prometheus.
  • Easily Forgiven: Averted. While he does genuinely feel sorry for everything he had done, Fenyx tells him that saying sorry isn't enough and that he needs to work on himself in order to truly be redeemed.
  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • He is notoriously promiscuous, but he stops hitting on Fenyx after learning of the subject being his child. That being said, he did marry his own sister and have children with a number of his other relatives — which Prometheus calls him out on.
    • Zeus hates cannibalism — largely on account of what Kronos did to his siblings and tried to do to him — though Prometheus critically remarks that he's guilty of pretty much every other crime in existence.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Downplayed, as he's more feckless and irresponsible than evil, but he's utterly baffled that Fenyx would take time out of their quest to stop and help a total stranger. In the Stadia demo, he also expresses confusion about Fenyx's willingness to save him and the other gods, given their treatment of humanity.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Famously so. Zeus couldn't care less what gender or species the object of his affections happens to be, even infamously transforming into animals to have his way with some of them. Prometheus snarks that even Zeus' own relatives weren't exempt from his libido. He'll even occasionally comment on how attractive Fenyx is (regardless of gender). Once he realizes that Fenyx is his child, he stops saying how attractive they are.
  • Formerly Fit: At various points, Zeus quips that in his prime he was capable of casually uprooting mountains and that even Ares doesn't hold a candle to his younger self, but that he's long-since gotten out of shape.
  • Henpecked Husband: He considers himself such regarding his relationship with Hera, who is easily-angered, intimidates even the other gods, and vents her wrath on Zeus' paramours and illegitimate children.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: Zeus claims that all mortals are selfish, greedy, war-mongering parasites that were a mistake. It's why he turns them into stone.
  • Hypocrite: Zeus is initially completely oblivious to the fact that he exemplifies all of the flaws he hates in humanity.
  • Jerkass Realization: The entire game is this to Zeus. The more in-depth the story goes into each of the gods, the more he realizes how he parented them wrong. That and he realizes how much of an asshole he's been in general. By the end, he decides to go into counseling to fix himself.
  • Lemony Narrator: He interrupts the more conventional narration of Prometheus to offer quips, complaints, and funny asides.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Zeus is horrified to realize just how horrible a husband, father, and king he really is, spending the penultimate part of the game in a Despair Event Horizon that Prometheus tries to snap him out of.
  • Parental Substitute: He's this to Aphrodite, even including her among his own children, even though she's technically his aunt. Sadly, this hasn't spared her from his garbage parenting.
  • Parents as People: He genuinely loves his children, but his Lack of Empathy makes it difficult for his children to please and approach him. It's so bad, that it could easily dip into Abusive Parents territory. It doesn't help that his own parents (especially Kronos) were terrible as well.
  • Pet the Dog: One of the first things he does after changing his ways is telling Ligyron to free Prometheus... after retelling the story of Fenyx to him.
  • Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: At the end of the game, Zeus — having had a Jerkass Realization — is fully willing to let Fenyx kill him and only asks that they be a better ruler than he was.
  • Shock and Awe: Naturally, since it's Zeus we're talking about, meaning he wouldn't be Zeus without his lightning bolts. Unfortunately for him, Typhon stole and shattered them — leaving him incapable of conjuring more than a few sparks. In the final trial of the "A New God" DLC, he pelts Fenyx with lightning in an attempt to get them to fail his trial, causing the other gods to gang up on him to help Fenyx win.

    Prometheus 
Voiced by: Elias Toufexis

The titan of forethought who brought fire to mankind. As punishment, he was chained to a rock where an eagle pecks out his liver every day. At the start of the story, he gets into a wager with Zeus: if his story of Fenyx doesn't impress the Father of Gods, then he will have to help him beat Typhon. If he succeeds, he is allowed to go free.

  • The Chessmaster: He's the Titan of forethought, after all. Basically everything in the game played out according to his design.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: His fate at the end of the game. Zeus sends Ligyron to free him but first, he must listen to him regale him with Fenyx's story. Prometheus reacts to this with abject horror.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Prometheus hates Zeus and as such often takes the time to sarcastically insult him — particularly when Zeus interrupts his story.
  • Fate Worse than Death: His punishment for stealing fire is to be chained to a rock where an eagle pecks out his liver every day. At the end, Zeus has Ligyron retell the story of Fenyx, which Prometheus calls "worse than the eagle."
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Downplayed. After Zeus turn the mortals to stone, Prometheus masterminded Typhon's escape and the shipwreck that brought Fenyx to the Golden Isle. All of which was to have Zeus killed and Fenyx replace him. However, when Fenyx refuses to kill Zeus, he doesn't really seem too bothered by it.
  • Humanity Is Special: Prometheus is very fond of humans, having had a hand in their creation. Giving them fire is what led to his imprisonment in the first place. And it's them being turned to stone that makes him decide to release Typhon.
  • I Lied: At the end of the game, he reveals he lied about Fenyx killing Typhon and being the child of Hermes, specifically to buy time to keep Zeus occupied long enough for Fenyx to arrive at their location, as well as that he lied about Fenyx being injured at any point on the adventure (they are injured after, but it is explicitly stated to be a new sensation).
  • The Narrator: He tales the tale of Fenyx's adventures in the Golden Isles, although Zeus often interrupts most of the time. It's deconstructed, as the whole story is a massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Zeus, and manipulates it to blindside Zeus to the fact that Typhon never turned humanity to stone, he did, and Typhon's death and last words were a lie. All to allow Fenyx to replace him as ruler of the gods.
  • Obfuscating Disability: He lied about his prophecy powers not working. They're just as good as they've always been.
  • Pet the Dog: When Zeus has a Heroic BSoD upon realizing what a horrible person he was, Prometheus tries to cheer him up throughout Fenyx's ascent up King's Peak. It doesn't work.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Prometheus routinely castigates Zeus for his many, many, many flaws and misdeeds; though Zeus doesn't get the message that he's a terrible king and worse father until late in the game — at which point Prometheus tries to console him when he has a Despair Event Horizon.

The Olympians

    In General 
The rulers of Olympos who overthrew the Titans. When Typhon attacks the Golden Isle, most of them flee; though Athena, Ares, Aphrodite and Hephaistos are turned into shadows of their former selves.
  • Big, Screwed-Up Family: Zeus is aloof, arrogant, and licentious; Hera (who doesn't show up but is spoken about) is positively terrifying when angry; Ares is bloodthirsty — being violence and war incarnate — and petulent; Aphrodite can be extremely vindictive when angry; Athena is overly critical of everything, et cetera. None of the Olympians particularly get along with one another, and they spend much of their time bickering amongst themselves.
  • Forced Transformation: Typhon turns four of the gods who fought against him into different things; Aphrodite into a tree, Ares into a chicken, Athena into a little girl, and Hephaistos into a robot. The other gods weren't present on the Golden Isle and thus escaped his wrath.
  • The Ghost: Hera only appears in a cutscene when Prometheus and Zeus recap the Trojan War, and Apollo body-jacks the fake Oracle and Hermes in order to deliver prophecies but is otherwise absent — Hermes remarking that he stopped coming to the Golden Isle a long time ago. Poseidon, Demeter, and Hades don't show up until "The Lost Gods" DLC. This is lampshaded in the "A New God" DLC, where Fenyx is disappointed not to get to meet any of the other Olympians after their apotheosis.
  • Jerkass Gods: Par for the course, given that the game is based on Greek Mythology. The gods are mercurial at best, extremely vindictive when angry, and tend to treat mortals as mere playthings to amuse themselves.
  • Royally Screwed Up: Kronos of the Titans — the second king of Olympos — was a paranoid tyrant who castrated his own father and ate his children to prevent them from growing up to overthrow them. After doing exactly that, Zeus became a philandering hedonist who happily neglected his duties as a king, husband, and father; which in-turn resulted in his children having severe issues of their own.

    Hermes 
Voiced by: Aris Anthanaspoulos

Messenger of the gods and god of travel, thieves and merchants. He offers his assistance to Fenyx upon learning of a prophecy, which ends with them defeating Typhon.

  • Badass in Distress: Despite being a god, he first appears having been taken captive by a gryphon.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Hermes always has a sarcastic one-liner ready.
  • Flash Step: He can move so quickly he appears to be teleporting, as befitting the messenger of the gods and the patron deity of travelers.
  • The Gadfly: Regardless of the situation, he's bound to do something for his personal amusement.
  • Gossipy Hens: One of his favorite pastimes is to gossip about the other gods with Aphrodite. One of Zeus' loading screen quips even says to pay him in gossip.
  • Hat of Power: Part of Hermes' regalia is a winged hat that — along with his sandals — lets him fly and move impossibly fast.
  • The Kleptomaniac: Hermes habitually steals things often enough for him to admit that it's a problem.
  • Trickster Mentor: He's Fenyx's guide on the Golden Isle and, being the god of thieves, has a penchant for mischief.
  • We Want Our Jerk Back!: Hermes is not happy at all to find that Aphrodite has become nicer after being turned into a tree, and wants to turn her back to her old, "snarky" self as soon as possible.
  • What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Aphrodite can ask this, asking what does he even do all day.

    Aphrodite 
Voiced by: Louiza Patikas
The goddess of love born from the remains of Ouranos' severed testicles, which were thrown into the sea.
  • Ambiguously Bi: She's married to Hephaistos and chronically cheats on him with Ares, but makes more than a few flirty remarks and innuendos to Fenyx regardless of their gender.
  • Apple of Discord: The mythical Apple itself is used to get Aphrodite to open up the way to her vault, especially since it was the thing that started the Trojan War to begin with.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: She's trying to turn over a new leaf, but is almost as promiscuous as Zeus and one of her background dialogue quips has her express disappointment that Ares has been fully restored to his original godly form after having been turned into a rooster — lamenting that some fantasies are perhaps best left unfulfilled.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Like Hermes and Zeus, she expresses her condescension towards the other gods through sarcastic quips — one of the reasons why Hermes likes her so much. She also is deliberately called snarky in-universe by Hermes and Zeus both.
  • Freudian Slip: While Fenyx is climbing the mountain to reach Zeus' throne, Aphrodite uses her powers to help them saying to let the fires of love warm their loins... before quickly ammending it to heart.
  • Gossipy Hens: One of her favorite pastimes is to gossip about the other gods with Hermes.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: You would think being the goddess of love wouldn't give you much in the way of combative capability. Tell that to Typhon, who took a kiss from Aphrodite turned into a nuke to the face.
  • I Hate Past Me: After being stripped of her essence and turned into a tree, Aphrodite is ashamed of her past self and becomes The Atoner. This doesn't last, as even before Fenyx restores her essence she lashes out in anger a few times.
  • I Lied: Aphrodite tells Fenyx that the root blocking the Vault of Tartarus where her essence is stored is stuck, making them jump through hoops to get magical sea-foam to move her root... and then saying it's still stuck — all the while hoping they'll give up. However, in an outburst of rage she confesses she could have moved the root at any point she wanted after they first freed her.
  • Imperiled in Pregnancy: Near the end of the game, Aphrodite reveals that she's pregnant with Ares' child, making her ordeal as a tree this.
  • Jerkass Realization: Being turned into a tree made Aphrodite realize how her jealousy had hurt others in the past (namely starting the Trojan War) and she decided to try and be more compassionate by giving apples to animals. It doesn't last, as even before Fenyx restores her essence she shouts at the animals to stop taking handouts and go get jobs. However, she does note that she is more concerned about the Isle after turning back to normal, so perhaps a bit of it stuck.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: With Hermes, who like to make fun of other people together. However, they did end up having a child together at one point, who is heavily implied to be Hermaphroditus, and she occasionally flirts with him.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: After getting her essence back, Aphrodite is back to her sassy self, but admits that she has become more concerned about the monsters ravaging the island and asks Fenyx to take care of it. She even admits that she's gotten softer.
  • Unwanted Rescue: Aphrodite maintains that she's perfectly happy as a tree, and goes out of her way to discourage Fenyx from restoring her to her true self.

    Ares 
Voiced by: Stewart Scudamore
The god of war, Aphrodite's lover and Zeus' son by Hera. His fall is the hardest, having been reduced to pure poultry.

  • Adaptational Intelligence: Ares is normally depicted as a mindless brute. Here, while he's no Athena, he has been shown to have a fair grasp on strategy, such as keeping the salpinx away from Typhon.
  • Blood Knight: Ares revels in combat and turning battlefields into bloodbaths, but after being stripped of his essence he's turned into a literal and figurative chicken.
  • Casual Kink: He once borrowed Aphrodite's girdle to try it on for himself, and lost it in the cursed pot that he was once trapped in. Having been traumatized from being trapped inside it once before, he recruits Fenyx to help him get it back.
  • Death Seeker: After being turned into a chicken, he tells Fenyx to put him out of his misery by eating him. Fenyx manages to rekindle his courage and desire for battle.
  • Forced Transformation: All four gods have this, but Ares is the most distraught over his condition, having been sent into a deep depression. He outright begs Fenyx to cook and eat him to put him out of his misery.
  • Good Parents: Ares has always been depicted in Classical Mythology as a great father to his children, and this game is no exception. The Ismenian Drakon was his child, and was so heartbroken by its death that he laid its body to rest on the Golden Isle. He laments he's currently not on speaking terms with the Amazons, but hopes to rectify this with Fenyx's help.
  • Interspecies Friendship: After being turned into a chicken, Ares ends up hanging around with a bear and forming a strange bond with it. Even after becoming a god again, he keeps it around, holding onto it like a stuffed animal.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: Some of Ares' mythological counterpart has definitely made its way to the game, to say the least. One set of background dialogue has him share his plan for beating Typhon with Athena. His plan? Stab him. A lot.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy: Being the god of war, it would be shocking if he wasn’t this... and in his chicken form isn't.
  • Sibling Rivalry: He and Hephaistos are romantic rivals over Aphrodite, while he and Athena are rival gods of war. In both cases, Ares does not get along with either of his half-siblings.
  • War God: His domain is in war, though Fenyx briefly asks if he could help with strategy as well... which is more Athena's purview.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: He may be boorish and battle-hungry, but Ares craves his father's approval — one of the reasons for his jealousy of Athena. It never occurs to Zeus that this is why Ares does half the things he does until Prometheus points it out.
  • Worf Had the Flu: In "A New God" during Ares's Trial of Combat, he boasts he could have taken him on singlehandedly, but he slept funny and had a cold.

    Athena 
Voiced by: Melissanthi Mahut

Goddess of wisdom and daughter of Zeus and Metis. Has been turned into a child.

  • Berserk Button: Do not call her a little girl.
  • Big Ol' Eyebrows: Aphrodite mentions that she'll have to ask Hephaestus to invent the lawnmower just so she can wrestle Athena's eyebrows into shape. That said, this is Aphrodite we're talking about.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: Certainly acts this way while she's a child. The game lampshades this by calling her a "sassy lost child".
  • Brutal Honesty: This is revealed to be a trait of hers once her essence is restored. She is wise, but she passes on that wisdom without concern for the feelings of those she speaks to. That said, Fenyx does help her realize that there is a time and a place for such harsh criticism.
  • The Corruptible: Having been robbed of her wisdom after being turned into a child, she fully commits to a false prophecy made up by the Oracle. Athena ends up embracing Typhon's corruption and nearly killing Fenyx to turn them into a Wraith, but Fenyx is able to bring her to her senses by pointing out how nonsensical that plan is. However, this brief contamination affects Athena's essence, resurrecting Medusa within the vault containing it.
  • Curbstomp Battle: When talking about the Trojan War, she says it was basically this. The only way it'd even be a challenge for her is she'd have to be turned into a child again.
  • Little Girls Kick Shins: Fenyx tells her to kick Hermes in the shins if he makes fun of her for being a child. She's at the right height for it.
  • Missing Mom: Zeus turned Metis into a fly and ate her upon learning she was pregnant, something that Athena secretly holds against him.
  • Parental Favoritism: Deconstructed. Even though Athena is Zeus' favorite child, he constantly talks over her while trying to help her. Later on, Athena explains that the only reason she's his favorite in the first place is because Zeus is trying to make up for the fact that he killed her mother.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Athena does not get along with Ares, seeing him as a brutish Blood Knight, and boasts to Fenyx that she defeated him twice in combat during the Trojan War.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Lost Gods DLC reveals she can take the form of an owl at will.

    Hephaistos 
Voiced by: Peter Polycarpou

God of smithing and son of Zeus and Hera. Has been turned into an automaton.

  • Awful Wedded Life: His and Aphrodite's is mutually miserable and he eventually snaps that he wants a divorce after she comes onto Ares right in front of him.
  • Casanova Wannabe: Hephaistos pines for Aphrodite's affections and blackmails Zeus into marrying her to him, and Athena alludes to Hephaistos having put the moves on her as well in her Vault Trial.
  • Catharsis Factor: invoked He'll mention how he was the one who "gave birth" to Athena by splitting Zeus's head open when she was born and loved every moment of it.
  • Character Development: He learns to accept his pain and, at the end of the game, declares that he is divorcing Aphrodite, after she had cheated on him for years.
  • Entitled to Have You: Pretty much his attitude towards Aphrodite. Among Hephaistos' other Freudian Excuses is that Aphrodite repeatedly cheated on him with Ares, even though Aphrodite never agreed to marry him and was forced to by Zeus. Even after being freed by Fenyx and resolving to improve himself he still pines after Aphrodite, who points out herself that love only works if it goes both ways.
  • The Eeyore: Due to his Dark and Troubled Past, he’s constantly depressed. It got to a point where he started trapping his negative emotions in vaults so he wouldn’t feel them anymore.
  • Forced Transformation: He's turned into one of his automatons by Typhon, although he later reveals he let Typhon do that to him as a way to fully escape his pain.
  • Informed Flaw: He was thrown off of Mount Olympus by Zeus for having a bad leg and being ugly. He's actually rather average looking and he seems to walk just fine if the ending is any indication.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Hephaistos despises Ares due to Aphrodite — who he's married to — constantly cheating on him with the god of war.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: While Hephaistos isn't as hideous as Zeus and the other gods say he is, he's not the most-attractive of gods and is constantly ridiculed for it, one of the main reasons why he blackmailed Zeus into marrying Aphrodite — the goddess of love — to him.
  • Ultimate Blacksmith: As the god of invention, Hephaistos has created an army of Magitek automatons, as well as technologies that would otherwise not be discovered by mortals for thousands of years — like steam-power, magnets, and electricity.
  • The Unfavorite: Being thrown off of Mt. Olympus from birth is one thing. "A New God" has Zeus even forget his name.

    Apollo 
The god of the sun, music, and prophecy; and son of Zeus and Leto. While not present on the Golden Isle, he is still willing to take the time to issue a prophecy or two.
  • The Ghost: Hermes remarks that Apollo hasn't come to the Golden Isle in a long time, but he still takes the time to issue prophecies for Fenyx by hijacking the Oracle and Hermes.
  • The Rival: He and Hermes didn't get along, on account of Hermes having stolen some of his cattle and butchered them to make the first lyre.
  • Seers: As the god of prophecy, he can see the future and dishes it out in the form of cryptic riddles.
  • Voices Are Mental: He speaks in the same voice when he possesses the "Oracle" and Hermes.

    Hera 
Zeus' second wife and queen of Olympos. As the goddess of marriage, she is less than pleased by her husband's rampant infidelity.
  • Animal Lover: At one point Zeus comments Hera loves animals, which he used to blackmail her into marrying him by turning into a cuckoo and pretending to be injured.
  • Awful Wedded Life: It's mentioned a few times by Zeus and Prometheus' running commentary that Zeus raped her in order to blackmail her into marrying him, and she hasn't wasted a chance to make him regret it. Zeus sees himself as a Henpecked Husband, while Hera hates her husband's incessant infidelity and — since she can't do much to punish him directly for it — takes out her rage on Zeus' paramours and illegitimate children.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Hera is the patron goddess of marriage, which makes being married to Zeus extremely frustrating for her. She deals with her husband cheating on her by attempting to smite and/or cruelly cursing his paramours and bastard children.
  • The Ghost: Hera only appears in a cutscene where Zeus and Prometheus recap the Trojan War, having offered Paris power in exchange for the Golden Apple of Discord. At one point, Zeus — in the middle of a Jerkass Realization — sadly admits to Prometheus that he has no idea where Hera is.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: While on good days Hera is an example of The High Queen... she rarely has good days due to having to put up with Zeus and the other gods' shenanigans. Zeus considers himself a Henpecked Husband, and notes that even the other gods are afraid of making her angry.
  • Yandere: Nothing enrages Hera more than her husband's infidelity, but as she can't do anything to him she vents her wrath on his paramours and children — regardless of whether they're mortal or divine.

Enemies

    Typhon 
Voiced by: Yorgos Pirpassopoulos

The father of monsters and main antagonist of the story.

  • Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original myths, his motivation for overthrow Zeus was solely motivated by power. Here, he is also motivated by his not entirely unjustified belief that the gods are flawed and should be replaced by him.
  • Berserk Button: Apparently Typhon doesn't like being lied to as he backstabs Ligyron once he learns that he's a Fake Ultimate Hero.
  • Big Bad: Of the game as a whole, having escaped from Tartarus to seek vengeance on the gods for imprisoning him there.
  • The Corrupter: He vanquished the Heroes summoned to the Golden Isle and corrupted their souls into Wraiths. His power also corrupts the wildlife of the Golden Isle, causing animals to develop red, blue, or purple Volcanic Veins.
  • Disney Villain Death: The last we see of him is him falling into the void of Tartarus, and he fades away like all the other defeated enemies as he does so.
  • Draconic Abomination: Typhon is a creature of destruction and chaos who resembles a somewhat humanoid dragon with flaming skeletal wings, tentacles on his left arm, a pair of tentacles with secondary heads, four eyes, and red fangs, and was created to fight the gods themselves. He's also powerful enough to take on the gods of Olympus in combat and win.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Fenyx turns down their chance to kill Zeus, he flies into a rage. In life there are no second chances, you either get it right the first time or you don't. Self-improvement and forgiveness be damned.
  • Hypocrite: Typhon claims that, unlike the Olympians, he has no flaws. However, he has zero tolerance for imperfection, destroying anyone or anything that has the tiniest bit of flaws. Also, while he claims that humans are the victims and doesn't hold a grudge against them, he also doesn't really seem to care about how his actions also affect them.
  • In Their Own Image: His reasoning for wanting to merge Tartarus and human realm.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He's not wrong that most of the gods are terrible, vile bastards. The problem is he's also causing disasters for humanity.
  • Narcissist: Could give Narcissus a run for his money in this department. He believes himself to be flawless and perfect and is willing to remake the world in his own image to prove it.
  • Not Me This Time: For all the atrocities he commits, he did not turn the humans into stone. That crime goes to Zeus.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims to want to help the world because he thinks the gods are horribly flawed and humanity deserves "perfection". Unfortunately, being the Narcissist he is, his idea of perfection is destroying the current world (and all the humans in it) so that he can remake it under his own image.
  • The Perfectionist: Typhon wholeheartedly believes that creation should be without flaws and anything that doesn't meet his absurd standards should be wiped out.
    Typhon: Life isn't a staircase or a charity race! You either get it right the first time, or you fall.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: After his first attempt at overthrowing the gods, Zeus crushed him beneath a mountain and trapped him in Tartarus.
  • Villain Respect: Typhon comes to respect Fenyx despite them being opposed to his plans, at least until Fenyx decides to spare Zeus.
  • We Have Reserves: Even though the monsters seen in-game are considered his children, Typhon doesn’t seem too concerned with them being killed by Fenyx.

    Soldiers of the Dead 
Typhon’s troops. They come in five forms- normal troopers, ones with hammers, ones with daggers, ones with shields, and ones who can summon more soldiers. Their Chinese counterparts are Heavenly Soldiers.
  • Artificial Human: They are revealed to be spawned from the fangs of the Ismenian Serpent, corrupted by Typhon into shock troops for his invasion of the Golden Isle.
  • Mooks: They are the base enemy units of the game, and come in various variants.
  • Shield-Bearing Mook: Some of them can carry large shields to protect themselves from Fenyx's attacks.

    Boars 
Rampaging swine who enjoy attempting to gore Feynx.
  • Full-Boar Action: These boars are under Typhon's control, and they will charge Fenyx on sight.
  • Rolling Attack: One of their methods of attacking Fenyx is curling up in a ball to somersault at them.

    Bears 
Ursine who attack Fenyx when they get too close.
  • Bears Are Bad News: Played straight with the ones under Typhon's control, not so much with the uncorrupted bears, whom are content to leave you be so long as you don't attack them.

    Roosters 
Chickens who frequently attack Fenyx if they are in their presence.

    Lions 
Maned cats who are ferocious.
  • Panthera Awesome: They're big cats corrupted by Typhon's power, making them even more ferocious and deadly.

    Harpies 
Avian humanoids with wings that swoop down upon their foes. Their Chinese counterparts are Yuren.
  • Bird People: Rather than having the body of a bird and the head of a woman, Immortals's rendition of harpies depicts them as humanoid bird-monsters with leonine tails.
  • Deadly Lunge: One of their attacks has them swoop towards Fenyx and ram into them.
  • Feather Flechettes: Their ranged attack fires a volley of razor-sharp feathers, which can be deflected back at them.

    Gorgons 
Snake-like creatures that are rather chubby. Their Chinese counterparts are Fei.
  • Eye Beams: They fire bolts of yellow energy from their eyes, which can be deflected back at them.
  • Fat Bastard: Gorgons in this game tend to look more like Jabba the Hut as opposed to snake people.
  • Reptiles Are Abhorrent: They're ugly snake people who work for the Big Bad Typhon.

    Cyclopes 
One-eyed giants who use rocks and trees to attack enemies. Their Chinese counterparts are Sheng Sheng.
  • Cyclops: They are brutish one-eyed giants, though a couple of the Legendary Cyclopses were stated to have once been Hephaistos' assistants and to have forged Zeus' lightning.
  • Giant Mook: They tower over Fenyx and are enormously strong, with the safest way of engaging them being to catch and return the boulders and tree trunks they throw.

    Minotaurs 
Half-bull humanoids who have a dangerous charge attack. Their Chinese counterparts are Yayu.
  • Bullfight Boss: This is a given. A good strategy for dealing with minotaurs is to dodge their charge and trick them into crashing into a solid object, which not only throws them for a loop but also heavily increases their stun gauge.
  • Our Minotaurs Are Different: A given, given that they are minotaurs. Two of the legendary miniboss minotaurs are indicated to be the original from the Labyrinth, though Prometheus and Zeus don't provide any commentary as to why there are two of them.

    Gryphons 
Winged beasts that attack foes from above. Their Chinese counterparts are Da Feng.
  • Feathered Fiend: True to their myth of orgin, gryphons are half eagle.
  • Feather Flechettes: Unlike the harpies' feathers however, these ones you can't deflect.
  • Panthera Awesome: True to their myth of orgin, gryphons are half lion.
  • Tornado Move: They can create vortexes of corruption that can suck Fenyx in and deal massive amounts of damage.

    Cerberuses 
Three-headed hell-hounds who breathe fire. Their Chinese counterparts are Huo Dou.
  • Breath Weapon: They spit rapid-fire volleys of fireballs that can be deflected right back at them.
  • Hellhound: They are three-headed monstrous dogs with spiked armor plating and red, blue, or purple Volcanic Veins indicating how powerful they are.
  • Multiple Head Case: True to myth, the Cerberuses have three canine heads — the right-most one with its tongue lolling out.
  • Planar Shockwave: One of their unblockable attacks is to charge up and unleash a shockwave of dark energy.

    Chimeras 
Monsters who have the heads of a lion, a goat, and a snake.
  • Breath Weapon: They spit streams of flame and slowly turn to follow Fenyx if they tries to circle around them.
  • Classical Chimera: They are Mix-and-Match Critters with a draconic body and three heads — a goat's, a lion's, and a serpent's.
  • Multiple Head Case: Chimeras have three heads — the right head being a goat, the middle head being a lion, and the left head being a snake with draconic horns.

    Automatons 
Archaic robots that attack foes remorselessly.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: They were built by Hephaistos to assist him, but have been corrupted by Typhon.
  • Energy Weapon: One of the Automatons' unblockable attacks is to crouch and rotate at the waist while firing energy beams from their hands.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: The Automatons fire off rapid volleys of their hands, which home in on Fenyx like missiles.

    Gegenees / Hekatonkheires 
Many-armed monsters who are brutal in fights.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Gegenees are six-armed giants, portrayed in the game as humanoid spider-like monsters with Extra Eyes. Despite being stated to have a hundred hands, the Hekatonkheires share the same model and thus are only shown with six.
  • Sadly Mythtaken: Despite the Lieutenant variants being stated to be Hekatonkheires and to have a hundred arms, the models only have six arms due to being based on the Gegenees — six-armed humanoid monsters from Greek Mythology.

    Abas 
Monsters who like to dig underground. They only appear in "The Lost Gods" DLC.

    Telkhines 
Water using monsters. They only appear in "The Lost Gods" DLC.

    Hydra 
A multi-headed monster that was slain by Herakles; Typhon sending it to kill Athena.
  • Breath Weapon: It vomits globs of noxious green poison.
  • Draconic Abomination: The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, appearing as a multi-headed draconic creature with noxious venom. Only its heads are shown rising up from the abyss of Tartarus.
  • Multiple Head Case: It has nine heads in total, with the legend stating it grows two back for every one destroyed.
  • Unique Enemy: Only one ever shows up in the game, and is fought a couple of times in the Vaults of Tartarus.

    Ozomene 
A dangerous harpy who abducted Nike, and one of the four mythical monsters resurrected by Typhon.
  • Cowardly Boss: Once she hits half health, she'll fly to the summit of her island and force Fenyx to chase her down.
  • Dynamic Entry: Ozomene's intro cutscene shows her slamming into Fenyx just as they turn around — barely giving them time for an Oh, Crap!.
  • Feather Flechettes: Like the lesser harpies, she can fire her feathers as ranged projectiles.
  • Flunky Boss: Ozomene will sometimes go into a dormant state. When doing so, harpies will come to fight in her stead until she's ready to fight you again.
  • Monster Lord: Ozomene is a harpy powerful enough to terrorize the goddess of victory, and is slightly more humanoid than the lesser harpies encountered as enemies — having a humanoid face rather than an avian beak.
  • Planar Shockwave: One of her attacks has her slam into the ground and unleash a shockwave of flames.
  • Power of the Void: She lobs spheres of corruption at Fenyx, which explode when they hit the ground.

    Medusa 
A powerful gorgon who was slain by Perseus, and one of the four mythical monsters resurrected by Typhon.
  • Breath Weapon: Medusa's snakes can fire bolts of energy from their mouths.
  • Eye Beams: Medusa fires beams of purple energy from her eyes. This is, of course, her signature Taken for Granite ability, and Fenyx will be turned to stone and slowed down if she hits them.
  • Gorgeous Gorgon: Even with her sharp teeth, slit eyes, and facial spikes, Medusa's still arguably easier on the eyes than any Mook gorgon Fenyx encounters.
  • Monster Lord: Unlike the Legendary Gorgons based off her sisters, Medusa has a unique character model and is depicted as being more feminine and humanoid. She's also the only gorgon to have Mythical status.
  • Taken for Granite: Along with her aforementioned, petrifying Eye Beams. Medusa can turn her own body into stone as well for temporay invincibility.
  • Was Once a Man: Medusa was once a human before being cursed by Athena, who Prometheus states was jealous of her beauty.

    Polyphemos 
A menacing cyclops who abducted Odysseus, and one of the four mythical monsters resurrected by Typhon.

    Kottos 
One of the three original Hekatonkheires, and one of the four mythical monsters resurrected by Typhon.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Despite Prometheus describing him as having a hundred arms, his in-game model only has six due to being a re-skinned Gegenee.

    Talos 
An automaton built by Hephaistos as a protector who was defeated by Jason, corrupted by Typhon into a destroyer.
  • Humongous Mecha: Even when compared to the other automatons, it easily towers over everything in Hephaistos' domain.

Humans

    In General 
  • Humans Are Flawed: Zeus frequently complains that Humans Are Bastards and was the one who turned them all to stone in a fit of disgust and rage, having already exterminated the preceding iterations of humanity for their flaws. He comes to realize that the gods themselves possess these same flaws, and that despite their flaws there are mortals committed to doing the right thing.
  • Taken for Granite: Most of humanity has been turned to stone thanks to Typhon. Or rather, Zeus deciding that they were too corrupt to be worthy of existence.

    Ligyron 
Voiced by: William Greenblatt

Fenyx's older brother and a war hero.

  • The Ace: Considered this by Fenyx as well as the rest of their crew considering his many heroics. Deconstructed in that this gives him an overinflated ego that even the gods can tell he's really just a jerk, and his passive aggressive condescension with Fenyx who makes it clear later that it was not appreciated, and he willingly sides with Typhon if it'll mean he gets to be a god. Oh, and his heroic deeds were made up by him. He'll say he's trying to be as good of a storyteller as Fenyx, but they'll point out that's just simple lying.
  • Badass Normal: He's a normal human that's actually a capable fighter despite lying about his accomplishments.
  • Big Brother Bully: He looks down on Fenyx while pretending to be caring. The other gods call him a jerk after meeting him once.
  • Broken Pedestal: When it's revealed that he's working for Typhon and he made up all of his past glories, he becomes this to Fenyx.
  • Condescending Compassion: Ligyron isn't hostile to Fenyx, but he treats them as if they're a fragile child and he doesn't take them very seriously.
  • The Dragon: He's revealed to be working with Typhon, intent on becoming a new god after the Olympians are killed.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: He possesses the Boots of Hermes, which enable him to move with superhuman speed and flight. Later in his fight, Typhon begins to grant him power, and his last phase has him create a devastating explosion that creates tentacles.
  • Fake Ultimate Hero: Actually never did anything he claims to have done; the battles he won were just thanks to a freak storm taking out the enemy ships.
  • Godhood Seeker: It's revealed that he wants to become the new king of the gods, and is helping Typhon kill them.
  • Guile Hero: Ligyron is a darker version of this trope. He lied about being a war hero to Fenyx and Typhon.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite siding with Typhon in a bid to become a god, he doesn't get reprimanded or punished for his actions. In fact, Zeus sends him to retell Fenyx's story to Prometheus and then free him.
  • Meaningful Name: Ligyron was another name for Achilles who is his long-dead half-brother through his mother, Thetis, and is a hero himself.
  • Mirror Boss: He has much of Fenyx’s skills when you fight him.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Downplayed, unless you customize Fenyx to look more like him. The only physical trait that Ligyron and Fenyx share no matter what is their eye color. Otherwise, they don't look like they could be related. This is a clue that they don't have the same father.

    The Oracle 
Voiced by: Michael Miranda

A priest who somehow survives being turned to stone and takes over the position of oracle.

  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Because of the smoke in the real oracle's room, this Oracle is prone to... not making a lot of sense.
  • Erudite Stoner: He's high on the incense in the oracle's chamber, and prone to rambling nonsensically. Despite this, he does deliver an actual prophecy and helps Fenyx out on her quest (albeit because of Apollo).
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He gave Athena a fake prophecy, which nearly wound up with her embracing Typhon's corruption and killing Fenyx to turn them into a Wraith.

Corrupted Heroes

    General 
Four legendary heroes who were brought to the Golden Isle to oppose Typhon, but were killed and corrupted into Wraiths.
  • Achilles' Heel: Each hero had a weakness or flaw that Typhon exploited to kill them.
  • Fallen Hero: The four heroes were renowned for their skills and bravery, but were killed by Typhon — who corrupted and enslaved their souls as Wraiths.
  • Fighting a Shadow: As Fenyx progresses through the Golden Isle, the Wraiths will periodically attack using Shades — weaker offshoots of themselves — until Fenyx beats them in their lair.
  • I Shall Taunt You: Whenever one of their Shades is "slain", it gives an Evil Laugh with a mocking gesture before disappearing.
  • Optional Boss: They are all optional fights that can be undertaken to stop their wraiths from attacking you.

    Achilles 
One of the heroes of the Trojan War. He was summoned to the Golden Isle to oppose Typhon, but was killed and corrupted into a Wraith.
  • Achilles' Heel: He was invulnerable save for a single spot on his heel, and died from being shot with an arrow there. The statue of him that Fenyx finds even shows him pulling an arrow out of his foot. During his fight, his right leg is exposed, and shooting that will cause him to stagger.
  • Cool Sword: He used to wield the Sword of Achilles.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Apparently, he was so handsome that even Zeus was attracted to him and expresses jealousy that Fenyx's brother was given his sword, with his complaints being laden with innuendos.
  • Foreshadowing: The fact that Ligyron and Fenyx had his sword in the first place is a hint that their mother is Thetis, who was also Achilles' mother.
  • Starter Villain: The first Wraith you’ll likely encounter and the most simple one in terms of attacks.

    Atalanta 
The fastest hunter in Greece. She was summoned to the Golden Isle to oppose Typhon, but was killed and corrupted into a Wraith.

  • Action Girl: Among the greatest female heroes in all of Greek myth. She even sailed with the Argonauts.
  • Dual Boss: When you fight her, you also fight the bear that accompanies her.
  • Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: The male heroes all fight at close quarters, while Atalanta primarily relies on archery.
  • Master Archer: Atalanta fights primarily with a bow, and can fire multi-shot and charged projectiles.
  • Raised by Wolves: She was raised by bears, and one accompanies her when she fights you.
  • The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female Wraith.

    Odysseus 
Another Trojan War hero, who had a hard time getting home afterwards. He was summoned to the Golden Isle to oppose Typhon, but was killed and corrupted into a Wraith.
  • Doppleganger Spin: One of his attacks involves feinting with clones before delivering the final blow.
  • Guile Hero: Prometheus notes that Odysseus lacked the superhuman powers of the other Heroes, but possessed a legendarily keen mind to make up for it.
  • Master Archer: While his Wraith doesn't fight with a bow, the Odysseus challenges were based on his famous skill as an archer, and the first bow Fenyx gets is the Bow of Odysseus.
  • Shout-Out: The cowl he wears clearly resembles the ones worn by the iconic characters of Assassin's Creed.

    Herakles 
The warrior who underwent twelve brutal labors, and was once a member of the Argonauts. He was summoned to the Golden Isle to oppose Typhon, but was killed and corrupted into a Wraith.
  • Carry a Big Stick: His weapon is a large club.
  • Manly Man: Prometheus described him as the epitome of strength and verility.
  • Nemean Skinning: He wears the Nemean Lion on his head.
  • Semi-Divine: He was a demigod son of Zeus, which shows as he towers above the other fallen heroes.
  • Super-Strength: Herakles is famed for his great strength, and he can definitely hit Fenyx like a runaway freight train.

Mentioned Characters

    Daidalos 
A master inventor and architect who built the Golden Isle.
  • Apocalyptic Log: Daidalos left eleven recordings intended for his benefactor, King Kokalos, expositing why he tricked the King into financing the creation of the Golden Isle.
  • Forced Transformation: It's implied through his recordings that he's long-dead, having built the Golden Isle a long time ago. Zeus turned him into a deer and petrified him for daring to disrespect the might of Olympos... and then decided to keep the island anyway.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He invented multiple sets of functional Magitek wings that Fenyx finds and claims for themself, though Athena and Hephaistos are critical of his workmanship. He also built all the monuments and puzzles on the Golden Isle as a tribute to the gods.
  • My Greatest Failure: Daidalos blamed himself for the death of his son Ikaros, lamenting that his arrogance had cost him everything he cared about. He turned Chryse Island into the Golden Isle as a tribute to the gods, hoping they would resurrect his son.

    Artemis 
The daughter of Zeus and Leto, Apollo's twin sister, and the goddess of the moon, hunting, and archery.
  • The Ghost: Artemis is only mentioned by Zeus and Prometheus a few times during their banter.
  • Master Archer: As the goddess of archery, she was supernaturally talented with a bow.

Myths of the Eastern Realm Characters

    Ku 
Voiced by: Ricky He (English)

A young man who somehow avoided being petrified by the Scar manifesting above Bu Zhou mountain. He seeks to help the goddess Nuwa in restoring balance to the world.

  • Awesomeness Meter: His main gameplay gimmick is the "God Seal", which increases the more he attacks without getting hit. The higher it is, the more powerful his powers become.
  • Bag of Spilling: Averted; he starts the game with all of the moves unlocked with decently-upgraded health and stamina.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Unlike Fenyx, he's not the child of a god like they are to Zeus. He's a natural mortal whose gifts are given to him by Nuwa. Tao Wu reveals he was the one that uncursed him at the beginning as well.
  • Nice Guy: He's earnest and eager to help others.
  • No, You: He gives one of these when Tao Wu tells him even monkeys know how to use tools. He tries to come up with a witty retort and just says "shut up."
  • Too Much Information: He doesn't want to know how Nuwa taught humans about "marriage."

    Nuwa 
Voiced by: Elena Juacto (English)

The Chinese mother goddess whose charge it is to mend the Pillar of Heaven. She is credited with creating humanity as well.

  • Big Good: Unlike Zeus, Nuwa cares for her mortal creations and does what she can to restore balance in the world.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Played for laughs in that of all her creations, she regrets making cockroaches, not knowing what she was thinking.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: She stays behind in the Scar to seal it up.
  • The Voice: The bracer on Ku's arm allows her to speak to him across distances.

    Hong 
Voiced by: Henry Kwok (English)

A golden dragon who lost his physical form. He's the brother of Ni.

  • Oh, Crap!: He says the trope name out loud when he hears Nuwa's voice from Ku's bracer.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: He's more talkative than his shy sister.
  • Weather Control: The dragons could control the weather in their prime. In Hong's case, he just used it to mess with people's picnics.

    Ni 
Voiced by: Elena Juacto (English)

A shy blue dragon that lost her physical form.

  • Shrinking Violet: She doesn't say much and her first appearance has her begging Ku not to hurt her.

    Gong Gong 
Voiced by: Ivan Lo (English)

A water god who is considered to be the strongest in the two realms.

  • Foil: To Ares from the main game. Both are Blood Knights but while Ares loves to fight, Gong Gong blames it on the Flames of Yan Di not working. There's also colors with Ares being red and Gong Gong being blue.
  • Inadequate Inheritor: He considers himself the heir of the Flames of Yan Di. However, the flames refuse to work for him.
  • The Reveal: He's the one who caused the Scar plaguing the expansion because he was denied death in combat.

    Tao Wu 
Voiced by: Russell Yuen (English)

One of the Four Perils, who is dubbed "The Harbinger".

  • Big Bad: Of the DLC.
  • Cold Ham: Compared to Typhon who was Evil Is Hammy, he does this while trying to break Ku's spirit.
  • Panthera Awesome: He takes the form of a giant winged lion in his boss battle.
  • The Voice: He's only heard as a voice that taunts Ku in the Ruins of Heaven.

Lost Gods Characters

    Ash 
The orphaned attendant of a temple to the Olympians, chosen by Fenyx and Athena to unite the lost gods.
  • Ambiguously Human: Ash is stated to be a mere mortal, but she can take a lot of punishment from monsters and is a Multi-Melee Master despite not having any combat training, causing Fenyx to wonder if Ash is just a normal human after all.
  • The Chosen One: Fenyx and Athena — forbidden by Zeus from directly retrieving Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, and Boreas from the Pyrite Island — choose Ash to do so in their stead, impressed by her devotion to them.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Ash's parents were killed in an earthquake in the fallout of Typhon's rampage.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Ash was orphaned by the natural disasters that swept the world following Typhon's escape from Tartaros and Poseidon raising the Pyrite Island off the bottom of the ocean. As a mere temple attendant she was roped into a quest by Fenyx and Athena to convince the missing gods to return to Olympos — which saw her navigating the disaster-ravaged Pyrite Island, fighting against countless hordes of powerful and dangerous monsters, repeatedly travelling to and from Tartarus, and having to deal with mercurial and often smite-happy gods. To cap it all off, Ash fights Kronos — the king of the Titans, who is so powerful that ostensibly only Zeus can defeat him — and then sacrifices herself to fuel the miracle needed to return the Pyrite Island to the bottom of the ocean. Fortunately for Ash, after everything she'd been through Poseidon and Hades resurrect her and take her to Olympos to meet Fenyx in person, with the former saying she earned a Happily Ever After.
  • Energy Weapon: Slaying the first pair of "Extra-Bad" monsters nets Ash the "Nature's Fury" ability, which fires a blue energy beam.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Unlike Fenyx, Ash isn't a goddess or even a demigod — just a mere mortal who can't even swim or climb, though she displays uncanny combat acumen despite lacking any training. By the end of the "Lost Gods" DLC, through helping the various Olympians and other supernatural beings she ends up being capable of many of the same feats that Fenyx was.
  • Hates Being Alone: Ash was desperately lonely after the death of her parents, and talked to the statues of the gods at the temple she worked at as a means of coping. In the very first mission, after Fenyx's connection to her shorts out, Ash desperately begs them not to leave her alone again.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: To sink the Pyrite Island and end the imbalances wreaking havoc around the world, Ash offers up the essence of Kronos and her own life to the gods — throwing herself off a cliff, to Fenyx's horror. However, Poseidon and Hades resurrect her out of gratitude for everything she did for them.
  • Instant Expert: It's frequently noted that despite not having any formal training, Ash is preternaturally skilled at combat — with Fenyx musing that she may not be a normal human.
  • Multi-Melee Master: Fenyx gifts Ash with the mystical Sword of Achilles and Axe of Atalanta as her first weapons, with swords and axes being her primary melee weapons.
  • Only Friend: As Fenyx mentors and guides her, Ash tells Fenyx that they are her only friend — her family and the staff of the temple she worked at having perished in the disasters. Fenyx's response is to suggest they go adventuring together when the quarantine — or rather Ash's quest to return the gods to Olympos — is over.
  • That Was Not a Dream: Ash wonders if she's dreaming or gone insane when the half-finished statue of Fenyx in the temple she works at starts talking to her, and despite assurances that neither is the case still assumes she's dreaming when she arrives on the Pyrite Island.

    Hades 
Zeus' brother and god of the Underworld. Despite his position and all the connotations that comes with it, Zeus was actually on good terms with him.
  • Anti-Villain: Hades is revealed to be the antagonist of the Lost Gods DLC, having grown fed up with Zeus' arrogance and superiority complex. As such, he tricks Ash into helping him unleash Kronos from Tartarus, intending to prove to Zeus that he is just as able to defeat their father as Zeus was. This promptly gets him swallowed whole, and after Poseidon saves him he indignantly helps seal Kronos away again.
  • Creepy Good: Hades is the King of the Underworld, a sinister-looking god with an Undeathly Pallor and purple eyes. However, he's not a bad guy, just fed up with Zeus' arrogance and superiority complex, and helps Fenyx throughout her quest.
  • Everybody Hates Hades: Averted. Zeus actually enjoyed a party he threw once and even walked away with some amphoras of wine gifted to him by Hades. Hades, however, is resentful of Zeus' egotism and his status as the king of the Underworld.
  • The Ghost: In the main game he's only ever mentioned either as a replacement for "hell" or in times when Zeus looked back on times with him.
  • Hades Shaded: Hades has purplish grey skin befitting his status as the god of the Underworld.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Hades' eyes are magenta, his skin is purplish grey, he has purple gems studding his armor, and his clothes are a dark shade of purple — all cluing in that he's the creepy-but-good god of the Underworld.
  • The Resenter: Late into the "Lost Gods" DLC, he reveals to Ash that he resents Zeus for tricking him into becoming the king of the Underworld, especially when there are parts of his kingdom he can't touch.
  • Super-Empowering: He grants Ash the ability to double-jump when she volunteers to help him stop the unnatural disasters wreaking havoc across the mortal world.

    Hestia 
The goddess of fire, one of Zeus' sisters, and caretaker of Olympos, now ruler of the Pyrite Island's western region.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: After reaching her Rage Breaking Point she threatens to turn Ash into her namesake if she stays around any longer. Even after Ash calms her down, Hestia states her days of being meek and mild are over, declaring her intent to set Zeus' beard on fire.
  • Fiery Redhead: Hestia is the goddess of fire, and has red hair and eyes to match. While she's generally the nicest of the Olympians, Zeus exiling her, Boreas freezing her when she went to check on him, and her section of the island being ravaged by a volcano while she was absent causes her to reveal she's bottled up centuries of resentment and anger at having always been taken for granted.
  • Harmless Freezing: Hestia is missing from her sector of the Pyrite Island, and finding her leads Ash to traverse the entirety of the island, eventually finding her frozen solid in Boreas' territory. After Phosphor blasts her with a beam of fire, she's a little disoriented but otherwise no worse for wear.
  • Nice Guy: Played with. Hestia is the only Olympian without any blatant personality flaws, and is genuinely benevolent and caring towards her followers — even building a town for them to live in on her section of the island. Ash and Fenyx initially assume the volcano ravaging her section of the island was her doing, but after being freed she's horrified and immediately sets out to put a stop to it. It turns out that Hestia has bottled up centuries of pent-up frustration and anger at always being taken for granted and looked down on, and seeing her section of the Pyrite Island devastated serves as her Rage Breaking Point.
  • Playing with Fire: Hestia is a goddess of fire and generally tends to Olympus' hearth. As such, she can conjure and manipulate fire and magma, and when she's enraged her eyes glow red and her hair turns into flames.
  • Power Echoes: As she grows increasingly furious over the destruction of the sanctuary she created and being reminded of Zeus' arrogance, Hestia's voice develops an echoic distortion.
  • Rage Breaking Point: While Hestia is generally the nicest of the gods, centuries of being taken for granted and having her input ignored because she's the goddess of the hearth has left her with a lot of pent-up rage. Seeing her portion of the island devastated by a volcano while she was frozen, destroying the village she'd made for her followers and killing many of them serves as her breaking point.

    Poseidon 
God of the seas, earthquakes, horses, and one of Zeus' brothers. He raised the Pyrite Island from the bottom of the ocean after he and several of the other deities were exiled from Olympos by Zeus.
  • Accidental Misnaming: Despite Ash introducing herself to him, Poseidon routinely forgets her name and resorts to just calling her "Bud" or "Buddy", to her annoyance. That he says her name while he and Hades are resurrecting her at the end of the DLC goes to show how great an impact she had on him.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: He has the hots for Demeter, his sister, and his questline involves Ash helping him set up a "peacocking" display to woo her. By this point Demeter is already back on Olympos, leaving Poseidon devastated and depressed... for a short period of time.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: In addition to having dominion over the seas, Poseidon is also the god of earthquakes — which let him raise the Pyrite Island off the bottom of the ocean... albeit in a badly fragmented state.
  • The Ditz: Poseidon is largely a stereotypical musclebound self-absorbed idiot who'd rather come up with grandiose titles for himself — which he thinks are shorter than just his name — than help Ash fix the Pyrite Island.
  • Dumb Jock: Poseidon is the buff and athletic god of the oceans and Zeus' brother — and thus almost rivals him in power — but is severely lacking in the smarts department. For example, his introduction has him believing "King Poseidon" is shorter than just "Poseidon".
  • Really Gets Around: When Typhon escaped from Tartaros and attacked the Golden Isle, Poseidon was evidently basking in the afterglow of a threesome with a pair of nymphs.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Poseidon thinks he should be the King of the Gods, and is charismatic enough that even his rival Athena thinks he could make a good king... were he not a complete and total idiot. The weapons themed after him that Ash unlocks possess bizarrely long self-aggrandizing titles, as well.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Poseidon performing the miracle of raising the Pyrite Island off the bottom of the ocean without proper tribute is one of the main causes of the continued calamities throughout the mortal world after Typhon's defeat.

    Demeter 
Goddess of agriculture and Zeus' sister. She left Olympos for the Pyrite Island after Zeus exiled most of the other gods from Olympos.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Her reaction to learning a nymph had been attempting to make a home out of her sanctum was to declare her intent to "harvest" the lesser nature spirit.
  • Green Thumb: As a goddess of nature and agriculture, Demeter can control and manipulate plant-life, and her section of the Pyrite Island is an enormous garden.
  • Motor Mouth: The woman talks like she has coffee for blood!
  • Obsessively Organized: As a goddess of order, Demeter has to have everything just right. As such, Athena is shocked to discover Demeter's section of the Pyrite Island is overgrown when Ash first encounters her.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Demeter is a huge neat-freak, leaving Athena shocked to see that her section of the Pyrite Island is in complete disarray.

    Boreas 
God of the north wind.
  • Blow You Away: As one of the four wind gods, Boreas is the incarnation of the icy north wind, and thus combines this trope with An Ice Person — being capable of creating blizzards and freezing gales.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: Ash quickly sees through Boreas' antisocial facade and determines he's actually very lonely. Boreas doesn't appreciate her psychoanalyzing him and threatens to freeze her to death if she continues, but is not-so-secretly overjoyed when Ash says the world needs him.
  • An Ice Person: As a god of the north winds, the winds he conjures are glacial and he can also create snow and ice. The northern section of his territory is full of the corpses of Hyperborean giants Ash is horrified to observe have been frozen solid. Even the goddess of fire Hestia isn't immune to this, as Ash finds her frozen solid in Boreas' territory.
  • Personality Powers: Boreas possesses icy wind powers to match his outwardly aloof and antisocial personality. Not-so-deep-down, however, he's deeply lonely and wants to have friends.
  • Winged Humanoid: Like Fenyx, he possesses a large pair of avian wings.

    Kronos — SPOILERS 
King of the Titans, and father of Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, and Hestia. Kronos was a ruthless tyrant who devoured his own children after receiving a prophecy that they would overthrow him, with only Zeus escaping and later freeing his siblings to fulfill the prophecy; imprisoning their father in the depths of Tartaros. Hades plans to free him and prove his worth by defeating him, but it doesn't go as planned.
  • BFS: Kronos' weapon-of-choice is a massive sickle-sword called the Harpē. In the first stage of his boss fight he's big enough to wield it single-handedly, and in the second stage of his boss fight he wields it like a polearm.
  • Chained by Fashion: In the first stage of his boss fight, Kronos' chest and arms are covered by massive black chains that were formerly used to bind him in the depths of Tartaros.
  • Elemental Powers: Kronos can hurl gobs of magma and conjure green flames.
  • Final Boss: He's this to the expansion and the game.
  • God of Evil: Like his half-brother Typhon in the main game, Kronos' power is responsible for corrupting the monsters and animals that Ash encounters on the Pyrite Island.
  • Grandpa God: His design resembles a giant purple Santa Claus, complete with massive white beard.
  • Hades Shaded: Kronos has purplish-grey skin as an indicator that he is a malicious god.
  • I Am a Humanitarian: Kronos ate his own children after receiving a prophecy that one of them would overthrow him. True to his title of "the Devourer", after being unleashed by Hades, Kronos promptly devours him once again.
  • Large and in Charge: As the Titans' king, Kronos is initially so huge only his top half is big enough to see, and he's large enough to swallow Hades whole.
  • Mook Maker: He summons hordes of monsters that Ash has killed by the hundreds.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Kronos was vanquished by Zeus and sealed away in the depths of Tartaros, in a place not even Hades was able to access.
  • Spell Blade: Kronos can wreathe his sickle-sword in fiery green energy when attacking Ash.
  • Swallowed Whole: Upon receiving a prophecy that his children would overthrow him, Kronos did what any unreasonably tyrannical god-king would do and ate them as soon as they were born, with only Zeus escaping to fulfil the prophecy. When Hades frees him from his prison to challenge him to a fight, Kronos responds by promptly swallowing his son whole — and would likely have done the same to the rest of his children once more if Ash hadn't beaten him.
  • Sword Beam: In the second stage of his boss fight, he can unleash shockwaves of green flames from his sword.
  • The Unintelligible: He doesn't speak except for grunts and roars.

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