Primordiai



The Primodiai (sing. Primordial, also known as the primordial gods) are the first race of immortals to come into existence and were born directly from the void of Chaos. Unlike the Titans and the gods, they are essentially sentient aspects of the universe itself and have absolute and total control over it, so therefore they cannot truly be killed.

Primodiai can manifest in physical form as seen with Gaia, Uranus, Tartarus and Nyx. They can be banished from manifesting in the world physically, but their consciousness can never be destroyed. Even the power of Cronus' Scythe and other weapons of immense power are ultimately only able to disperse their physical forms and can’t truly destroy them.

Birth of the Primordiai
Initially, all the matter in the cosmos drifted around in a gloomy, soupy mist called Chaos, the first of the Primodiai. Eventually, some of its matter collected to form the earth, which developed a personality that called herself Gaia. After a period of time, the sky appeared: a great dome above the earth that became Uranus. He married Gaia and had several children together, whom he hated and she loved. Gaia alone gave birth to the mountains, Ourea.

Water pooled out of the mist of Chaos and formed the first seas on earth, that like his predecessors, developed a consciousness: Pontus. Finally, another dome emerged from Chaos. Unlike Uranus, this was Tartarus, the Pit of Evil right beneath the Earth itself. Both of them harbored feelings for Gaia, which made her relationship with Uranus rather difficult.

Other Primodiai also appeared from Chaos, namely Erebus, the Darkness and Mist, Nyx, the Night, who was born with the help of Tartarus, and Akhlys, Misery and Poison, who was created with the help of Nyx. From the union of his children Erebus and Nyx, it was born Aether, the Upper Air and Light. Without the aid of a consort, she gave birth to Elpis, the Spirit of Hope, and Hemera, who ironically was the Day.

First Titanomachy
Although Gaia originally wanted the Olympians to win this war as she helped her favorite daughter's children from her then youngest son's cruelty, she became unhappy with the way the Olympians defeated her children. With Tartarus, she gave birth to another brood of children, Giants, each one of them born to oppose a certain god. As the giants could only be killed by the combined power of a god and a demigod, the gods called upon Heracles and Dionysus, two of the most powerful demigods ever to help them defeat the giants.

Later, Gaia gave birth to her most powerful son, Typhon, whom Zeus defeated with the help of several other gods using trickery. With the last child of hers defeated, Gaia admitted defeat and fell back to her slumber.