Gigantes
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"Those giants are tough to kill, boy. They’re a different breed. […] Back in the beginning, y’see, everything in creation came from the same parents—Gaea and Ouranos, Earth and Sky. The had their different batches of children—your Titans, your Elder Cyclopes, and so forth. Then Kronos, the head Titan—well, you’ve probably heard how he chopped up his father Ouranos with a scythe and took over the world. Then we gods came along, children of the Titans, and defeated them. But that wasn't the end of it. The earth bore a new batch of children, except they were sired by Tartarus, the spirit of the eternal abyss—the darkest, most evil place in the Underworld. Those children, the giants, were bred for one purpose—revenge on us for the fall of the Titans. They rose up to destroy Olympus, and they came awfully close." |
— Hephaestus about the Gigantes, to Leonidas Valdez[[{{{4}}}|[src]]] |
The Gigantes (singular: Gigante), also known as Giants (singular: Giant) were descendants (mostly children) of Tartarus and Gaea born to destroy the Olympians and take over the universe during the first and second Gigantomachy.
List of known Gigantes
- Porphyrion (King, Bane of Zeus/Jupiter)
- Alcyoneus (Eldest, Bane of Hades/Pluto)
- Clytius (Bane of Hecate/Trivia)
- Damasen (Bane of Ares/Mars, defected)
- Enceladus (Bane of Athena/Minerva)
- Ephialtes, Otis (Twin Banes of Dionysus/Bacchus)
- Hippolytus (Bane of Hermes/Mercury)
- Mimas (Bane of Hephaestus/Vulcan, also fought Ares/Mars in place of Damasen)
- Orion (Bane of Apollo and Artemis/Diana)
- Periboia (Princess, Bane of Aphrodite/Venus)
- Polybotes (Bane of Poseidon/Neptune)
- Thoon (Bane of the Moirai)