#Anchiale briareus

[abookishdreamer]

Character Intro: Hecaterus (Kingdom of Ichor)

Nicknames- The Many-Handed Titan by the people of Olympius

Father by Ktesios & Hestia

Pop by Adranos

Grandpa by his grandchildren

Age- 67 (immortal)

Location- Corinth, Olympius

Personality- He's stubborn, grounded, and loves working with his hands. He cherises the time he has to himself & with family. He's married.

He has the standard abilities of a god. As the Titan god of manual labor (and hands) his other powers/abilities include enhanced craftsmanship, supertasking, being able to shapeshift into ancient & modern labor tools, being exceptionally skilled in the use of melee weapons, and hand manipulation.

Hecaterus is married to Anchiale (Titaness of fire). They have three children- two sons, Ktesios (god of the household) & Adranos (god of fire) and a daughter Hestia (goddess of the hearth). Other members of the immediate family include his daughter-in-law Soteria (goddess of safety) & his granddaughters Eleos (Ellie) (goddess of mercy, pity, & compassion) and Eulabeia (goddess of caution).

He and his wife live in the state of Corinth on their 100 acre farmland. Spaces solely meant for him includes a small tabacco field, a workshop in the barn, & a basement that doubles as a kiln.

Even though Hecaterus enjoys the company of his many farm animals (sheep, horses, goats, chickens, lambs, cows, & pigs) with the latest addition being an old scruffy sheepdog named Gasket, none of them come close to his animal companion- a dragon named Arrowwing. He's a swift beast of amber and dark copper colored scales, dark green wings with brown horns, claws, & crests. He and his wife's dragon are even a mated pair!

A recent clutch of eggs Cinder recently laid are kept safe and warm in the kiln.

Arrowwing is Hecaterus' mode of transportation when traveling great distances.

He loves his wife's whole wheat peanut butter pancakes (which he tops with dark chocolate maple syrup). He also likes scrambled eggs added with mushrooms, spinach, & red onions as well as buttered sourdough bagels. A recent favorite has been the Earthly Harvest raisin crunch cereal.

A go-to drink for him is dark roast coffee. He also likes earl grey tea, water, black tea, ginger ale, beer, and red wine.

He keeps a basic flip phone as opposed to the latest touch screen smartphone as a way of communication.

Among Hecaterus' prized possesions (like his simple bronze & copper shield dating back to the Titanomachy) is his simple dark mahogany wood sailboat he built himself. He and his family jokingly nickname it "The Reliable."

He mainly prefers speaking in Old Greek, even teaching his granddaughters "the old tongue." He's also fluent in GSL (Greek Sign Language).

The ghost of the Titanomachy still haunts him to this day, mainly the dark deranged eyes of Kronos. While his wife fought on the side of Zeus & the Olympians, Hecaterus didn't want to pledge allegiance to any cause.

Nothing else is more important to him than family. Though he loves his kids equally, Hecaterus finds himself closer to his eldest son Ktesios. They annually take hunting trips together. He's fiercely protective of his wife, daughter, granddaughters, and daughter-in-law. Hecaterus appreciates when Soteria trims his hair & beard as well as her delicious pot roast. He doesn't mind knitting or visiting a bookstore with Eulabeia or watching melodramatic teen dramas on TV with Ellie. Riding on dragonback is a great bonding experience for him and his youngest son!

In Corinth, he has recently opened up a school for deaf & hard-of-hearing people.

He considers smoking cigarettes & cigars to be his greatest vice.

A guilty pleasure for him are olympian sized onion rings from Olympic Chef.

In the pantheon Hecaterus is friends with the hecatoncheires (Cottus, Briareus, & Gyges), Geras (god of old age), Iapetus (Titan god of mortality, pain, & death), the blacksmithing cyclopes (Arges, Brontes, & Steropes), Eubouleus (god of the swine & ploughing), Logos (god of stories), Kydoimos (god of uproar & battlefield confusion), Cyamites (god of beans), and Gaia (goddess of the earth).

He dislikes Zeus (god of the sky, thunder, & lightning) but admires the tenacity of his son Hephaestus (god of the forge).

Hecaterus mentored Ponos (god of hard labor & toil).

His favorite desserts include his daughter's dark chocolate fudge brownies and his wife's red velvet cake.

Hecaterus is excited about an upcoming camping trip he's going on with Eulabeia. It's a family tradition, seeing how he went on one with Ellie when she was a little girl.

A favorite frozen treat is pomegranate sorbet.

His all time favorite meal is spanokopita along with lamb & cabbage soup.

In his free time Hecaterus enjoys spending time with family, reading, pottery, sculpting, glassblowing, ceramics, lava surfing, fishing, archery, bowling, hunting, and mountain climbing.

"The most honest and bare work is manual labor."

[rattyexplores]

This is the Strong stick insect. It was hard to photograph, as it was constantly moving, but I still hope you can admire it ❤

- Anchiale briareus

08/11/21

[rattyexplores]

Interesting place to hide, when the jungle’s just next door.

Anchiale briareus, “Strong Stick Insect”

22/09/20