Oceanus and Tethys produced the three thousand Oceanids and river gods, including Styx, Electra, Clymene, Doris, Metis, Tyche, Perse, Plouto, Philyra, Peneus, and Achelous.
The Titan Pallas and the Oceanid Styx produced four children — Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia — who personified zeal, victory, strength, and force respectively.
Styx the Oceanid goddess and the River Styx are one — the river is the physical manifestation of the goddess who flows through the underworld as its most sacred boundary.
During the Titanomachy, Styx was the first immortal to bring her four children — Kratos, Bia, Nike, and Zelus — to fight for Zeus against the Titans, securing their place as his eternal attendants.
Styx was the first immortal to ally with the Olympians against the Titans. In reward, Zeus honored her name as the binding oath of the gods — any deity who swore falsely by the Styx suffered nine years of exile.
The Oceanids were three thousand freshwater nymphs born to Oceanus and Tethys who nurtured rivers, springs, and streams across the world. Hesiod named the eldest and most honored among them in the Theogony.
Styx married Eurybia's son Pallas, becoming Eurybia's daughter-in-law. Through this union, Styx bore Nike, Zelos, Kratos, and Bia, who allied with Zeus in the Titanomachy.
The most solemn divine oath is sworn upon Styx, and Horkos enforces its binding power. In Hesiod's Theogony, gods who swear falsely by Styx face nine years of exile from Olympus, a punishment Horkos ensures is carried out.
The River Styx encircles Tartarus in Hesiod's cosmography, its waters sealing the abyss with the most sacred oath in the cosmos — gods who swear falsely by Styx are confined near Tartarus in punishment.
Styx, the most honored of Tethys's daughters, was the first to rally to Zeus's side during the Titanomachy. Her mother Tethys remained neutral, but Styx's loyalty earned her eternal honor as the river by which the gods swore oaths.
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