PoseidonWP (ポセイドン, Poseidon?) is a Divine Spirit and the God of the Seas in Greek mythologyWP. He is featured in the backstory of the Okeanos Singularity and one of the Lostbelts in Fate/Grand Order.
Profile[]
Background[]
Poseidon is the God of the Seas and Earthquakes in Greek mythology, and brother of Zeus, King of the Gods, and Hades, God of the Underworld. A son of the leaders of the Titans, Kronos and Rhea, Poseidon was a Machine God sent by Chaos from another Universe to colonize another planet. After thousands of years of wandering out the universe, he and the other ship gods made an emergency landing on Earth, which met 78% of their landing conditions. There, Humans started to worship them as gods. During 12,000 BC, he was killed by Sefar, and eventually reincarnated in Greece as a Divine Spirit.
As with the other Olympians, Poseidon plays a role in many stories of Greek mythology and their derivatives. One of his sons was the hunter Orion, who gained the love of Artemis and as Poseidon's son was able to walk on water.[1][2] Poseidon gave the divine horses Balius and Xanthus to Peleus as a wedding gift, who would later be used to pull the chariot of Peleus's son, Achilles.[3] Minos, king of Crete, had a promise with Poseidon to sacrifice a bull presented from the sea god, however one year he broke the promise and sacrificed another bull instead. For breaking the promise, Poseidon cursed Minos's wife Pasiphae, causing her to have sexual desires towards bulls and resulting in the birth of Asterios.[4]
In the story of Medusa, which differs from her actual life, Poseidon's pursuit and violation of her is responsible for her subsequent curse and transformation into a monster by a goddess, either Poseidon's wife or Athena, and his children with her, Pegasus and Chrysaor, are born from her neck after she is decapitated by Perseus. In another story, he had his way with the LapithWP Caenis but granted her a wish as compensation, transforming her into the male CaeneusWP and giving him impenetrable skin, so as not to suffer the same fate again.
In Roman Mythology, he is known as NeptuneWP.
Appearence[]
Originally, Poseidon was a Machine God just like his lostbelt counterpart, however, after being vanquished by Sefar, he was degraded into a Divine Spirit. Triton inside Captain Nemo notes that Poseidon wasn't as mechanical as the Twelve Machine Gods seen in the Atlantic Lostbelt.[5]
Personality[]
Triton remembers what Poseidon truly looked like only because Poseidon gave him special treatment since he entrusted him to defend the seas as his successor. Captain Nemo doesn't think he thought of his "children" who lived on land as anything more than Familiars. Super Orion confirms he doesn't actually know anything about his father, and that he doesn't even remember having met him when he was alive.[6]
Role[]
Fate/Grand Order[]
Third Singularity: Okeanos[]
Prior to the events of the Okeanos Singularity, Francis Drake had reached Atlantis after a seven-day voyage and encountered Poseidon, who intended to flood civilization. Drake subsequently defeated Poseidon, taking a Holy Grail which was in his possession and causing Atlantis to sink. Drake's grail would interact with the other grail which was planted into the era to disrupt the Human Order Foundation, resulting in the endless sea of the Okeanos Singularity.[2]
Abilities[]
Although he possesses Authority over the seas, due to being from the same line of ships as Demeter, he is also worshipped as an Earth God, granting him Authority over the Earth.
Noble Phantasm[]
Poseidon's primary weapon is a trident, a Divine Construct that holds the power to control all the Authorities of the Sea and which is said to cause earthquakes when he strikes with it. Poseidon Maelstrom, an EX-rank Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasm is just a limited reproduction of a small portion of his Authority over the Ocean. Caenis's Divine Core is unable to handle its full power and would be destroyed if she attempted to use its full potential.
References[]
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order material II - Orion, pg.192-201
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fate/Grand Order - Okeanos: The Four Sealed Seas of the End
- ↑
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Tempestuous Immortal Chariot [Noble Phantasm], p.178 [T] Tempestuous Immortal Chariot [Noble Phantasm]
Troias Tragōidia. The Noble Phantasm of Rider of Red, Achilles. An A rank chariot driven by three steeds. The horses consist of the two divine horses which the sea god Poseidon gave to Achilles’ father Peleus as a wedding gift, Xanthus and Balius, and the famous horse which Achilles stole from a city he attacked using his divine horses, Pedasos. According to legend, Achilles’ chariot is thought to been driven by three or four horses. Xanthus and Balius apparently served as the central pivot while Pedasos had a supporting role.
As divine horses received from Poseidon, Xanthus and Balius were clearly stated to have both been immortal in the original texts. After being summoned as a Servant’s Noble Phantasm, they aren’t quite immortal, but at the very least, they can be considered as tough as Servants themselves.
When Achilles is summoned as a Rider, his most harshly prana-consuming Noble Phantasm is this chariot. In the worst case, it is estimated that it can consume enough prana to summon another Servant besides Achilles.
Xanthus is a truly unpleasant horse who has fun telling Achilles when he falls into a dangerous situation.疾風怒濤の不死戦車【宝具】
トロイアス・トラゴーイディア 。 - ↑ Fate/Grand Order material II - Asterios, pg.120-129
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Atlantis: Ancient Ocean of the Dreadnought Gods, Section 9: Peacefully Reminisce around a Fire
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Atlantis: Ancient Ocean of the Dreadnought Gods, Section 15: An Absent Monster and Great Labyrinth in the Ruins