The Titans

Characteristics

• Similar immortality to the Vetu, except that the Vetu can (and did) kill them as well.
• The surviving Titans are under a powerful, deep curse by the Vetu called Hades -- they must be born and die every day in Tartarus, the middle of the Underworld, tortured until the end of eternity.
• Titans differ from the Vetu in only one way -- they are all a little physically stronger than the average Vetu.

Lore

Created at the same time as the Vetu, the Titans were a proud, strong race that matured faster than their "distant cousins" did. They were worshipped before the Vetu were even known, and fathered many different races. But when the Vetu finally hit their stride, the Titans were beginning to squabble and kill each other, and in the chaos it was very easy for the Vetu to simply kill off the survivors. In the end, only three Titans still remained -- Hyperion, Oceanus and Themis -- and the Vetu decided to not be so merciful. These three were handed over to Hades, who cursed them to be reborn and die every day for all eternity.

While they were forgotten by the Vetu, even today, the Titans grew insane and spawned many strange creatures while they were imprisoned in Tartarus, mad things that did not serve them or show them any mercy. It was described as a "mad, squirming nest" the last time a Vetu went down there, and that was thousands of years ago.

When the Vetu Hades and Ares were concerned about their legacy dying out, they decided to revisit a dark time on the world, when the Titans and their children made mankind cry in fear. They and their spawn, the two decided, would be released into the mortal world, which would never be the same again. It was this plot, and the presence of the Titans themselves, that gave the ancient Erebus his nightmares.

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