#Charos

[juliancallejo]

[skyotters]

The Tallan Family for Mermay @jaxyys

[tinswag]

Charos moodboard for Halloween 😈💜🧡💚🖤

[clowndensation]

charos' stats before orin's coup:

vs after her coup:

what having your skull split open by a blood sibling does to a mf :\\

[sugaroto]

Round two

Charos is one of the main characters of Ουκ αν λαβοις πάρα του μη έχοντος/You can't take from the one who doesn't have, who along with Hermes is trying to find Menippos a job so he can pay them and die so they can retire

Charis Romas is an actor mostly known for his roles as Konstantinos Katakouzinos or Periandros Popotas

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[zorialdiamond-blog]

...Speaking of self-indulgent creativity, have some more hyperfixation doodle nonsense.

[newspecies]

hiiiiii now that i have my files back i can actually make a thumbnail for this really old video so. yeah. here it is

[nychannel-rs]

oh my god I didn’t upload this here...

[ivy-kissobryos]

Charon, the Lord of Death

According to Britannica:

In Etruscan mythology [Charon] was known as Charun and appeared as a death demon, armed with a hammer. Eventually he came to be regarded as the image of death and of the world below. As such he survives in Charos, or Charontas, the angel of death in modern Greek folklore.

This is further explored in Modern Greek folklore and ancient Greek religion: a study in survivals by John Cuthbert Lawson. According to Lawson:

There is no ancient deity whose name is so frequently on the lips of the modern peasant as that of Charon. About Charos the peasants will always, according to my experience, converse freely. Neither superstitious awe nor fear of ridicule imposes any restraint. They feel perhaps that the existence of Charos is one of the stern facts which men must face; and even the more educated classes retain sometimes, I think, an instinctive fear of making light of his name, lest he should assert his reality. For Charos is Death. He is not now, what classical literature would have him to be, merely the ferryman of the Styx. He is the god of death and of the lower world.

Lawson then goes on to describe how the importance of Charos has been elevated, for ‘Hades is no longer a person but a place, the realm over which Charos rules’. The author then goes into details surrounding Charos’ family.

On his physical depiction:

Sometimes he is depicted as an old man, tall and spare, white of hair and harsh of feature; but more often he is a lusty warrior, with locks of raven-black or gleaming gold [...] ‘his glance is as lightning and his face as fire, his shoulders are like twin mountains and his head like a tower’. His raiment is usually black as befits the lord of death, but anon it is depicted bright as his sunlit hair, for though he brings death he is a god and glorious.

On his functions, Lawson states:

His functions are clearly defined. He visits this upper world to carry off those whose allotted time has run, and guards them in the lower world as in a prison whose keys they vainly essay to steal and to escape therefrom. But the spirit in which he performs those duties varies according as he is conceived to be a free agent responsible to none or merely a minister of the supreme God. Which of these is the true conception is a question to which the common-folk as a whole have given no final answer; and the character of Charos consequently depends upon the view locally preferred.

The depiction of Charos has also been influenced by Christianity.

Those who regard him as simply the servant and messenger of God, find no difficulty in accommodating him to his Christian surroundings; for, as I have said, the peasant does not distinguish between the Christian and the pagan elements in his faith which together make his polytheism so luxuriant. We have already seen Charos' name with the prefix of ‘saint’; and though this Christian title is not often accorded him, yet his name appears commonly on tomb-stones in Christian churchyards. At Leonidi, on the east coast of the Peloponnese, I noted the couplet: 'Me too Charos pitied not but took, even me the fondly-cherished flower of my home.'

So too in popular story and song he is represented as working in concord with the Angels and Archangels, to whom sometimes falls the task of carrying children to his realm-. Indeed one of the archangels, Michael, who as we saw above has ousted Hermes, the escorter of souls, and assumed his functions, is charged with exactly the same duties as Charos in the conveyance of men's souls to the nether world, so that in popular parlance the phrases ‘he is wrestling with Charos’ and 'he is struggling with an angel' are both alike used of a man in his death-agony.

The author goes on to describe how the Christianized conception of Charon has made him appear kinder, as evidenced by many folk tales where it is shown that:

‘The duties imposed upon him by the will of God are sometimes repugnant to him, and he would willingly spare those whom he is sent to slay’

Some folk tales are then described. Also:

‘Sometimes then the doomed man will seek to tempt Charos with meat and drink, that he may grant a few hours' delay, but against offers of hospitality he is obdurate. Or again his victim refuses to yield to death 'without weakness or sickness' and challenges him to a trial of athletic skill, in wrestling or leaping, whereon each shall stake his own soul. And to this Charos sometimes gives consent, for he knows that he will.

In contrast...

The other and more pagan conception of Charos excludes all traits of kindness and mercy; and men do not stint the expression of their hatred of him. He is 'black,' 'bitter,' 'hateful’. He is the merciless potentate of the nether world, independent of the God of heaven, equally powerful in his own domain, but more terrible, more inexorable: for his work is death and his abode is Hades. Thence he issues forth at will, as a hunter to the chase. ‘Against the wounds that Charos deals herbs avail not, physicians give no cure, nor saints protection’ [...] But most commonly he is the warrior preeminent in all manner of prowess—archer, wrestler, horseman.

Charos is sometimes depicted to be collecting souls to adorn his kingdom. Examples being:

[...] he gathers children from the earth to be the flowers of it and young men to be its tall slim cypresses; more rarely he is a vintager, and tramples men in his vat that their blood may be his red wine, or again he carries a sickle and reaps a human harvest.

It became evident that ‘Charos of modern Greece would seem to have little in common with the Charon of ancient Greece’. Fauriel believes that ‘the usual tendencies of tradition have been reversed, in that it is the name that has survived, while the attributes have been changed’. However, Lawson disagrees. He states that:

I suspect that in ancient times the literary presentation of Charon was far more circumscribed than the popular, and that out of a profusion of imaginative portraitures as varied as those seen in the folk-songs of to-day one aspect of Charon became accepted among educated men as the correct and fashionable presentment. Hades was, in literature, the despot of the lower world, and for Charon no place could be found save that of ferryman. But this, I think, was only one out of the many guises in which the ancient Charon was figured by popular imagination; for at the present day the remnants of such a conception are small, in spite of the fact that there has remained a custom which should have kept it alive—the custom of putting a coin in the mouth of the dead.

In Alcestis, a play written by Euripides, Death seemed to have taken on the role of Charon, to the point where ‘the copyist of one of the extant manuscripts of the Alcestis was so impressed with the likeness of Death to Charon as he knew him, that he altered the name of the dramatis persona accordingly’. The conception of Charon as a Lord of Death occurs even further back than that though.

On the Etruscan Charun:

Hesychius states that the title [greek word] was shared by two gods, Charon and Uranus. Charon therefore, as son of Acmon and brother of Uranus, is earlier by two long generations of gods than Zeus himself, and belongs to the old Pelasgian order of deities. Was Charon then the god of death among the old Pelasgian population of Greece, before ever the name of Hades or Pluto had been invented or imported? Yes, if the corroboration from another Pelasgian source, the Etruscans, is to count for anything. On an Etruscan monument figures the god of death with the inscription 'Charun'; and the same person is frequently depicted on urns, sarcophagi, and vases [...] In appearance he is most often an old bearded man (though a more youthful type is also known) bearing an axe or mallet, and more rarely a sword as well, wherewith he pursues men and slays them. In effect the Etruscan Charun closely corresponds with the modern Greek Charos in functions as well as in name.

In classical times the primitive conception of Charon was in abeyance. Hades had assumed the reins of government in the nether world; and a literary legend, which confined Charon to the work of ferryman, had gained vogue and supplanted or rather temporarily suppressed the older conception. But this version, it appears, never gained complete mastery of the popular imagination, and to the common-folk of Greece from the Pelasgian era down to this day Charon has ever been more warrior than ferryman, and his equipment an axe or sword or bow rather than a pair of sculls. More is to be learnt of the real Charon of antiquity from modern folk-lore than from all the allusions of classical literature.

[skyotters]

Autumn Romance - @jaxyys

[tinswag]

Waiting for a new quest be like...

[sugaroto]

Round one

Charos is one of the main characters of Ουκ αν λαβοις πάρα του μη έχοντος/You can't take from the one who doesn't have, who along with Hermes is trying to find Menippos a job so he can pay them and die so they can retire

Eponimos (previously Eponimos Alkolikos/ Named Alcoholic) also know as Dimitris Porfiropoulos is a YouTuber who usually does comedic videos

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Don't forget to reblog so more people can vote

[queersoda]

i didn’t know i would be interested in runescape again until @wgblair told me about this suave piece of immortal ass

[newspecies]

idk ive been drawing a lot of humans lately

[jahaanofmenaphos]

If you give my WG the option to flirt then by golly he is going to flirt

Also, lots of similarities between Charos and Sliske. Similar mannerisms, speech patterns, dark joviality. And of course, this:

His clothing is also a big tribute to snek man, rocking the purple robes.

So yep, now shipping my World Guardian with Charos. If you need me, I’ll be in the trash compactor

[wgblair]

Ok last spoiler post for now but

So I know that up until this point the most I’ve ever said about Blaire being attracted to anyone was that they kinda had a little crush on the Raptor in the 5th age when they were younger and subconsciously thinks Azzy is hot but represses the hell out of that, both of which I mostly just play for laughs rather than anything serious.

Buuuuuuut, Charos? Its a match made in heaven man. Also, the option to flirt?? Have we ever had that option in game before, like ever? But for real I feel like there is some major potential here.    

He reveals himself and Blaire just spiritually

The flirt option for those of you who didn’t pick it:

“The stories don't do you justice. I expected someone...well...less handsome.”

I feel like I wouldn’t even rewrite that, Blaire just straight up, fully caught off guard blurts it out. 

It’s gonna be like 3 weeks later once they either sort out the dragonkin thing or everything calms down again and they’re gonna bolt upright in bed like “Holy shit I said that outloud?!”

Anyway BlaireXCharos forever I guess. Never thought I’d discover a character so late in the game that I liked so much so instantly.