So....I had to. And yes there will be more and it will continue but I needed this scene out of my head. Let me know if you like this. Also, if any of you who are way more talented than me when it comes to drawing feel free to create based off my description here. There's not enough damn Wojchek art either.

A Prologue

Salt…

Salt and copper.

He tasted both, one familiar and one oddly delicious.

The sea had found him as it filled his Demeter and he felt the burn of it on the wound that the devil had left in its wake.

The water was everywhere, just as he had planned.  Though it had broken his heart he had broken the hull to sink the only true home he had.  He had betrayed his Demeter, his goddess of the waves, but as any captain would he would go down with her.

But that appeared not in the cards for him.  He was still alive or…maybe alive wasn’t the word.  He wasn’t dead.  He was…floating.  The sea, his mother for as long as he could remember, surrounded him.  She was in his mouth, around his eyes, in his nose.  He should be drowning.  But he wasn’t. 

He opened his eyes to what should have been pitch black darkness.  His own eyes many described as two bits of night and just as cold.  His dark eyes had glared down many a man into a blubbering mess of fear on the deck of the ship when it was needed.  Now those black eyes could see as if it was brightest day in the flooded hold of the ship.  Salt surrounded him and in the water he saw the ribbons of red that were coming from the healing ruins of his own flesh. 

He half swam, half walked over to the now gaping hole in his beloved ship.  They had both been wounded by the fucking monster that had killed his captain and his friends.  They had both been infected it would seem by the darkness the monster carried within it. 

He could hear voices just barely through the watery depths.  British voices.  They’d actually made it to England after all it would seem…all of the death and loss for nothing.  But perhaps not.  The monster had wanted to come here for a reason and so he’d still be here wouldn’t he?  Dracula…

Lore Chthonic Order

Character stuffs!

(Sorry for the ping if it shocked you)

Tartarus relationships

Tartarus has a mostly ok relationship with many other Greek deities... By this I mean most of them fear him or at least have a verifiable wariness of him. (Understandable he is a primordial)

I can't reveal all his relationships but I can tell you the important ones.

As far as things go with his son... Anthony, They are improving. Sometimes they may act like siblings rather than father and son but at least they don't go out of their way to cause problems.

*Zeus, the notepad use it.*

Terrified of Demeter "a little bit". And by default her Daughter.

Respects Hera for tolerating Zeus. Sometimes teams up with Ares to yell at Zeus about his affairs...

Zeus is wisely and uncharacteristically quiet and behaves well for a few decades. Then does his own thing... This cycle repeats.

Everyone will probably hate me for this but Tartarus relationship with Gaea is a bit strained.

Initially Tartarus loved her (and he probably still does) but she more or less had a affinity for Ouranos. Not wrong. earth loved the sky; Tartarus probably thought it was ironic at best (don't hate him. he doesn't know what soap operas are and to be fair at that time they didn't exist..) He respected Gaea's decision and contemplated sending a gift and then sort of moved on.

He tried at least.

Flash forward some years a few of Gaea's children are thrown down. Ok Tartarus really didn't like the new complaining voices but he couldn't be bothered to get rid of them. He let Nyx make some new friends-- anything to get them to stop whining about how things weren't great with Ouranos.

Tartarus didn't give any fucks about what was happening above ground. And for a little while was out of the loop of info so he was understandably confused when gaea (haha former crush) came sobbing to him about how her grandchildren had been disrespectful! killing their own father and whatnot and how she just wanted her family to be happy but they couldn't stay peaceful to save their lives. So she'd start from scratch. But she really wanted his help. Yeah Tartarus actually fell for it and agreed.

It was good. It was fine. at first.

Gaea's last relationship didn't go well so it's understandable she'd keep her new partner at arms length. Tartarus could understand that. Tartarus was extremely patient with Gaea but her behavior drastically altered when she realized her exact position in Tartarus's mind.

If you're confused think Morticia and Gomez from the Addams family. But morticia is more manipulative (in subtle ways)

At some point it occurred to her that Tartarus had assimilated Kronos her son. Well she figured Tartarus couldn't be too bright given his location and his seemingly despondent disposition; this meant he could be fairly simple to seduce. Gaea is almost successful. Yes they have kids together but she didn't get any of the pieces of Kronos from Tartarus. Mostly because Tartarus's apathy interfered and he couldn't be bothered to play search and find

After Typhoon was sired Gaea decided the relationship was over since even she hadn't gotten what she wanted she did still get something to her advantage. Tartarus immediately fell into a depression from heartbreak and didn't recover for a few centuries. Rhea spent a lot of her time trying to get him to snap out of it. That was probably the best since her own children didn't appear to need her...

Although Gaea seperated, (since she felt it was time to explore her existence without a male) she did appreciate and thank Tartarus's kindness. Tartarus being classified as gloomy and depressing lived up to that description by making his apathy more obvious. On occasion more damned souls were carted there for imprisonment and Tartarus could care less.

At some point thirty years prior the start of the story he decided to learn why humans were so interesting to the other deities.

Yeah I know it's not accurate to the myth but I'm really imaginative and kinda self centered and it's mythology! Should be fine.

If there is a goddess or deity you wish to know about, I'm pretty sure my ask box is still open.

Any complaints let me know and I'll do my best not to be a dick about it and fix it.

Tag list: @0lympian-c0uncil

(If you other readers want to be added send a ask or a message!)

Think of it as an apology for the main content being so late.

Story:

Warmth of the Family...

"Is he going off to see another mortal?" A solemn woman's voice asked.

Hestia tore her gaze away from the pizza oven where she watched her veggie pizza bake. Her long green, sleeveless summer dress was decorated with dark blue peacock feathers.

Hera had broken three of her nails and her mascara was ruined. Obvious signs that while Zeus had been gone for a few days and while it was in her nature to worry, she'd recognized the pattern long ago and immediately fell into despair.

Hestia looked up at her younger sister. She was older despite physically appearing to be fifteen. Unfortunately she was also almost a foot shorter than Hera who stood at nearly seven feet tall. She wanted to hug her and had no problem nearly jumping to hug her younger sister.

"he is down visiting mortals yes but ... He is not visiting a woman I don't think." Hestia worded as wisely as she could.

"Hah! As if he knows not to mix business with pleasure!" Hera scoffed. She pulled away from the hug about to go break something and sulk some more.

Hestia thought it best to tell her now before Zeus got in over his head like with the Giants' War, and end up dragging them all into it as well.

"There is a powerful force waking up, if actions are not taken to stop it from raising, everything we've built till now could be in danger!" Hestia blurted.

"I know my family, we cannot face what is approaching, the visions I see in the flames-- the world I see..." Hestia began but stopped to look anxiously into the fire, seeing things not many others could easily understand.

"What?! Is that what he's looking into?" Hera asked.

" Why didn't he tell me?!" She demanded, her disappointment in his possibly latest affair currently forgotten. She had grabbed Hestia's shoulders and shook her hoping to get a less vague answer.

Hestia braced herself and opened her mouth

"Hello lovely ladies! Is there trouble? Oh Hera dear have you looked in the mirror?" Eris asked as she flung open the palace doors Hecate in tow. Eris and Hecate were of course good friends and regularly stopped by for a bit of mischief. Today they both wore sparkling black dresses, Eris' v shaped neckline dipping deep enough to make Aphrodite jealous should she appear to get new gossip.

Hera glanced at the door. Aphrodite did not walk in. Hera relaxed.

"Hestia has informed me that we're going to have family troubles again," she voice letting go of her sister's shoulders.

In an instant two heads swiveled to Hestia who looked crestfallen.

"Give me your hands," Hestia said and all the goddesses present joined hands.

Everyone looked at Hecate who normally did not willingly touch anyone besides Persephone, Hades, Eris and Demeter. And the latter two were only on "good" days. "WHAT? I wanna know too okay? I may have to tell Hades and the Queen if this threat is truly powerful like you say." She reasoned.

Eris was hurriedly nodding, "could be interesting, so what do we do next?"

Hestia concentrated, she couldn't see the future clearly like Apollo could but she could sometimes see other family members and their lives. Demigods were easier since goddesses and gods didn't exactly like someone looking after them and trying to offer wisdom on things no one else should know about. A comforting talk and a cup of tea, hot or iced typically fixed this.

That boy... Anthony; he sent chills down her spine and she wasn't sure why. She'd heard his earlier pleas for protection and guidance to a shelter to rest at and she'd done the bare minimum to encourage him, her normal ability to reach into hearts and reassure them of love, safety and optimism. He'd been nearly completely blocked off from her reach. When she tried to see if her flames could guarantee her safety she saw visions of the cities within Olympus in ruin. These were the things she showed her present family now. When the visions ended everyone was panting and looking nervous.

After a long moment of silence, presumably spent in contemplation, Eris said "I smell pizza,"

Hera and Hecate laughed silently thanking Eris for disarming the tense atmosphere.

Hestia relaxed. She grabbed oven mitts to hold the metal plate and sternly said, "everyone gets one slice"

"Do you even know who we are ?" Hermes asked.

"HERMES?!" Everyone except Eris shrieked. Eris grinned "come to enjoy the food?"

"Everyone here knows pizza calls me better than the phone ever will" Hermes said.

"Now Lady Hestia, goddess of good cooking I humbly request a slice of pizza" he put his hands together like he was going to begin praying.

Hestia smiled and nodded. Her earlier unrest was fading. Then she suddenly recalled that Anthony was approaching the Farm Demeter resolved to maintain.

"Oh skata!" She said. Hermes did a double take nearly choking on the soda pop that materialized.

I felt sad reading the new chapter of Lore Olympus not just because of the portrayal of Deme's character (but that was a key factor)

So I wrote this. And decided to share it.

Sorry if the quality is bad. This is not a full chapter. Just something I wrote for fun (sort of).

No promises on whether or not this will appear in the story.

You may be wondering why I am sharing this and not chapter 1-- the answer is simple: I dont do things in order. Probably a bad thing.

Story:

A beautiful woman with sepia skin and auburn hair greeted them. Her yellow dress standing out in the wintery dead of the faded colors of dead leaves. She was nearly as tall as Demeter herself and her green grey eyes sparkled like they carried a thousand stars. Her yellow dress had brown embroidered sunflowers on it and Demeter's hazel eyes widened with recognition.

Demeter blinked. "Mother..!?" Tartarus grimaced but didn't get up from pulling a few leaves out of Anthony's hair.

Rhea beamed "I'm just here for this one," she patted the head of Tartarus's human avatar. Tartarus scowled. "I'm an adult I don't need supervision."

"Oh you started back taking care of yourself! Your hair isn't a mass of tangles anymore! And you smell like hibiscus instead of rain water!"

At this he glowered at Demeter.

"Thanks a lot" he mouthed angrily. Anthony retreated back to Demeter's side.

"You used to be so much prettier before you two separated. Did you move past your fallout with your ex-wife?" Rhea asked trying to be hopeful.

Tartarus stared at her, unresponsive.

Demeter flinched at how cold the air had gotten. Anthony grimaced hiding behind Demeter.

Demeter almost preferred him glaring at Rhea in embarrassment. At least they knew he was okay to talk to.

Tartarus stared quiet for a long time. At last he looked off to where the sun was setting.

"Yes." He voiced. But he sounded dead inside. As if existing was too painful to bear. He walked a few feet away and sat down, turning a darker shade of brown.

Rhea frowned "you're not going to slip back into your languid ennui mode are you? I won't be able to watch someone so kind become THAT again."

Tartarus flinched. "Then why'd you bring up old events?"

"I saw you were looking better and wanted to be sure you were improving !"

"You did it before," Rhea pleaded.

Tartarus sulked. His adolescent form looking cute in a teenage... Ish way.

"What's languid mean and what's ennui?" Anthony blurted feeling like a idiot for not knowing.

Demeter looked at Anthony. "Oh that's when--" she glanced at Tartarus was pointedly glaring at the sunset. Rhea was still trying to hold a conversation but he only responded every third statement.

"Well languid is a state of being where you become really sluggish like Persephone when I tell her to clear all the roses out of her room.

"And ennui is a state of mind when you can't muster the strength to do things or you feel that nothing can make you content with life," Demeter explained.

"That sounds like depression" Anthony remarked.

"In a way it is," Demeter said sadly. Apparently Tartarus had this problem before.

"Aw how cute!" Rhea said. She'd listened to Anthony and Demeter talking and stopped so she could admire the parenting moment. but then her eyes recognized the similarities between Anthony and Tartarus.

"Cute??" Anthony raised an eyebrow.

" Tartarus you... Have a child?" Rhea asked in disbelief.

"..."Tartarus stopped glaring at the sun which seemed to be setting faster.

"He looks just like you--" Rhea smiled. "I'd like to meet his mother" she said eagerly.

"I'm his mother," Demeter said immediately. She took the reins because Anthony would not handle meeting that woman... And Tartarus shut down when she tried asking about Anthony's real mother.

Tartarus scowled. Rhea gaped.

Her eyes glared at Tartarus.

"HOW COULD YOU?! I SAID GET BETTER! I DIDN'T SAY BED MY DAUGHTER!" Rhea raged.

"I'm not his biological mother" Demeter said but Rhea didn't hear her. Too busy yelling at Tartarus about responsibility.

With a sigh Demeter put her hands over Anthony's ears.

"I know how babies are made. My caretaker had a lot of boyfriends" Anthony remarked.

'Still... Tartarus and Demeter....Scary thought' Anthony cringed.

"Oh FOR FUCKS SAKE DEMETER ISNT HIS MOTHER" Tartarus snapped.

"Who is then?" Rhea asked. Tartarus looked like he regretted every life decision that led to this.

"Do you at least know who she is?" Rhea pressed. Tartarus stayed quiet.

"Why did I walk into that?" He muttered.

It was nighttime now. Thousands of fireflies had appeared. To Anthony they were tiny stars he couldn't touch. To Rhea they were reminders of her ever growing family.

"Anthony," Demeter said.

"yes?" Anthony looked.

"About what I said about ennui"

Anthony looked confused.

"Promise me you talk to me if you ever feel this way," Demeter pleaded. She grabbed Anthony's hands, his own cold in comparison to hers.

I've decided to do a story/(or anthology) with a number of chapters in a multiple of three.

I already mentioned that I accidentally broke my phone so I've had to begin again from scratch.

Unfortunately life hurdles caused me to postpone so the attempts to restore the long awaited story was unnecessarily halted.

I know the wait has been unbearable but this time the chapter has actually been restored (mostly)

As a sort of countdown I'll continue releasing info about the changes, characters, designs , plot information, and of course chapter segments.

I've finally gotten the phone fixed so I can resume everything as soon as possible.

Questions are welcome but as the creator I'm allowed to withhold information.

I wouldn't want to spoil the story too much, right?

In any case I'll do my best to keep releasing content and short stories as often as I'm able to

Ahhh I think I should tag you, @0lympian-c0uncil

Patience should be rewarded

Thanks for waiting

Oof damn Tumblr was supposed to notify me. My notifications were on

Anyway

An Ask!

(This may contradict a lot of myths about her but since in most retellings she's portrayed as a friend to both parties surrounding the story of Persephone's abduction.)

I expanded it just a teeny bit.

She's already friends with Eris (you know what they say every friend group has that one chaotic person). At least in the sense of she'll let Eris tag along her trips to the underworld where she visits her basically adopted brother Hades. Sometimes they cause chaos together in the human world. Sometimes it's Eris being chaotic and Hecate coming to her rescue with magic.

Hecate doesn't like initiating contact (bad interaction with Zeus and a few other titans) and sometimes struggles with dealing with the chaos of Olympus and prefers quiet so she spends a lot of time with Demeter, who she views as a sweet younger sister (who mysteriously always has fruit based treats.. not unlike Hestia.)

Hades who struggles with a similar problem and doesn't like the chatter of too many people at once. (At least the dead have much more tolerable chatter ..) the two have nice talks usually about Persephone and how much has changed.

For Persephone, it's more of an aunt/ mentor relationship. Aunt because Hecate seems to have always been around usually getting herbs, dropping off gifts, staying to read stories or "supervise" Persephone play with flowers and make new ones. Since she has experience handling the souls of the dead she helps advise Persephone. Usually she's the voice of reason preventing harsh punishments from Hades, (not always successful with Persephone)

She also likes telling Demeter how her daughter is doing. (Demeter always rants about how proud she is and that she wants to live up to Persephone and be as respectful and supportive as she can). Hecate being almost like a personal messenger for Persephone on days she's too busy. Hecate also finds random doorways for Persephone to use that normally would have closed up... Though actually Hades made it a sort of game: he makes a number of given "gates" and Hecate tells Persephone about them making it sound as though she randomly found them while doing something else and Persephone uses the gate to visit Demeter. Persephone knows about the game but isn't going to tell them. (Yet.)

Oof I rambled.

Hope I answered your question!

Most contact between all four is hugs and linking arms. Sometimes grabbing hands and holding them. That last one is reserved for Persephone when she asks if her mother is heartbroken by the choice she made since it separated them. Hecate reassures her that Demeter is happy she is in a position where she is treated well and wants above All for Persephone to be happy.

If any of what I said made sense at all.

So. A tip: I'm a bit of a clothes/fashion fanatic. I obsess over small details a lot. This is gonna be very evident.

Also I CAN'T DRAW. So there is no art for any of my characters.

Currently.

Moving on.

Right!

The new name for the series is now

Lore Chthonic Order

(Or LCO in abbreviation)

yeah you waited a long time and the title isn't even that good. hilarious right?

I took a lot of inspiration from much anime and existing series. (You know as authors do) so designs are heavily influence by anime characters and such.

I also said there would be other deites in this... series actually I haven't decided if this is a series or anthology (still working out that detail.)

I can't give all the characters information out (like the second protagonist) because that would be spoilery. But I got to give you guys something to make up for the delay in content right?

So let's get to infodumping!

Demeter and Persephone purposely have similar designs in terms of clothing choices. But that is when they are together and only when they are together.

Demeter's character design (as in physical appearance) is inspired by the character design for Type Moon's FATE/ Grand Order's goddess Parvati. At least when she's in her domain and not in typical "civilian wear" when she is around mortals. ...More on that later.

Typically her colors are various greens, whites, browns, and yellows because I like the idea that Demeter gives off a summer vibe (probably some unintended symbolism and hidden messages there. I'll let you work that out) so alot of her clothes are very summery and late spring based.

In LO, Demeter's clothes usually look very business like. Very formal (and kinda boring) BUT I like that choice in clothing it suits her business oriented mindset. (I also like business suits and think women look great in them.) But this is Demeter so I'll make a point to incorporate certain aspects fit for Demeter and what she stands for.

So lots of plant motifs and maybe summer fruit images on her more casual clothes and dresses. But I also want to reference the thing she's iconic for: Persephone. True the myths around Perse don't have the best light and everyone likes making it so it's a "okay" thing that happened (and depending on the version you prefer it kinda isn't...)but whatever! not relevant.

I want to hint at or allude to Persephone the daughter who (probably) ran away and the daughter she loves. In my story Persephone is only seen as her role as queen of the underworld (I think that's justified since the focus IS on all the underworld related deities...) So that means darker colors and delicate...ish appearing flowers (not the common roses. unless you mean "black" varieties and the thorns)

Demeter wants her daughter to be around her (but she's in the underworld for much of the beginning of the story so I think placing little references to her is a good idea.) Demeter herself will not wear too many dark colors and flowers are usually limited to reference her daughter Persephone. No Persephone isn't a delicate flower and in LCO Demeter recognizes this and accepts it. But she also still wishes she could keep Persephone by her side always. Hinting to her in her clothes as a sort of reminder is a good way to emphasize that.

And I like clothes. Like I really like writing about them so brace yourself.

Back to my first point Demeter's physical description design is based on Fate Grand Order's Indian goddess Parvati.

Incidentally Parvati is a mother like figure and in this story Demeter ends up a mother like figure to multiple people so is anyone surprised?

As for normal civilian wear-- well it's just what she wears when she is around a large number of mortals. Usually this is a dress or suit with floral details (or reminders of Persephone). And I think having suits have lots of references to Persephone fits because it's like... Persephone means business in both aspects of her role. And Demeter wants to follow that in her own way so while she can't ask Persephone to wear suits (though she's positive her daughter would look wonderful in them) she wears them herself as a way of hinting how proud she is that Persephone is her own person.

When Persephone is around and not stopping by to drop off a gift she wears clothes similar to her mother in terms of style and colors. Mostly to reference where she currently is. But being the goddess of spring she wears lots more flowers. As per request of Demeter to feel like the old days they are normally large flowers or flowers that would require a lot of... Sun....

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Lore Chthonic Order

Tartarus is a chthonic deity so his color scheme is a automatic dark colors only. When Tartarus first appears in the story he only wears a black hooded robe thst basically covers everything. (Dramatic much)

However When Tartarus makes his first human avatar appearance some thirty years before the start of the story he wore lots of hooded clothes and typically had long sleeves.

He also appears to have a "job" at a laboratory where he can observe earth biology (mostly humans and poisonous plants) so he follows standard lab rules and wears a lab coat, black gloves, and on most occasions boots. Out of irritation he pulls his hair back into a low bun. He doesn't wear safety glasses often as there are no poisons on earth that affect him. (Yeah his body just absorbs the effects to store for future uses)

After being introduced to other clothes he seems to gain a interest in leather nd the belts and buckles that make up the bondage aspect of the goth theme. He is the only male chthonic deity who does not have a grim reaper/afterlife stereotype motif.

Maintaining the mental image that he's ugly (a few mortals be like "why you lying bro?") He sticks to shadows And heavily despises clothes that would be of brighter colors and prints.

I didn't reveal a physical description for Demeter or Persephone (my fault I'll get on it) but I'm sharing one for Tartarus:

He has dark chocolate skin (which is interesting since he basically never gets any sunlight) and eyes of a shade of brown dark enough to be black (like a abyss... Wait a minute). His hair is long, semi curly/wavy and unkempt, sometimes falling in his face. (Demeter can't stand the sight of it and combs it and all the tangles till it "shines".)

Tartarus has a half lidded expression often implying that he's tired (which he is). He is on the rather muscular side compared to Anthony (but refuses to wear short sleeved clothes. Unlike Anthony) Demeter claims that Anthony is the spitting image of his father and Tartarus denies this (saying that it isn't a compliment and Anthony shouldn't take it as one)

His human avatar appearance can be altered but Tartarus just hit the random button and went with the first result that popped up. (Lazy mf)

(Also Damn why'd I make him attractive)

More on Tartarus in a bit!