Pallas- Greek TitanTitan

The Titan of Warcraft

Pallas was a son of Crius and Eurybia, born into the second generation of Titans alongside his brothers Astraeus and Perses. His name comes from pallō — to brandish a spear — and warcraft was his domain. He married the Oceanid Styx, who ruled the underworld river by which the gods swore their unbreakable oaths. She bore him four children: Nike, Zelus, Kratos, and Bia — Victory, Zeal, Strength, and Force.

These were not gentle abstractions. Hesiod says they could never be parted from Zeus — they sat where he sat, followed where he led. But they came to Zeus through their mother, not their father.

The Defection

When the Titanomachy broke out, Styx did not wait to see which side would win. She was the first of all the immortals to bring her children to Olympus and pledge them to Zeus — a gamble on the younger gods before the war's outcome was certain. The Theogony records Zeus's reward: Styx's waters became the oath no god could break, and her four children would stand beside his throne forever.

Pallas fought with the Titans and lost. His own children became the enforcers of the new order. In Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Kratos and Bia open the play by hauling Prometheus to a cliff at the edge of the Scythian wilderness. Kratos orders Hephaestus to nail the Titan fast with adamantine spikes — arms and legs pinned to the rock. Hephaestus pities the kinsman he must shackle, but Kratos has no patience for mercy. Bia stands beside them and never speaks; she has no lines in the entire play, pure force without voice. When the hammering is done, Kratos mocks the prisoner: let him try now to steal fire for mortals. Then they leave Prometheus hanging.

The children born of a Titan's blood pinned another Titan to a rock on Zeus's orders.