…Long Time Ago…
Hades is the eldest son and fourth child of Kronos, King of the Titans and ruler of Mount Othrys, and his sister-wife, Rhea. Before him, his three sisters Hestia, Demeter, and Hera had been swallowed by their father Kronos, who feared one of his own children usurping him, as his own fathered had been to his own children. Rhea had held out hope that Kronos would spare Hades, his first son, and heir.
However, this did nothing to calm Kronos' paranoia, and he proceeded to swallow him whole as well. Hades, thus, spent his childhood undigested in his father's stomach along with his sisters, and later, his younger brother Poseidon would join them after his own birth. Rhea would soon become pregnant with her and Kronos' sixth child and third son Zeus. Wishing to spare him from t
