The Hecatoncheires stand as eternal guards over the imprisoned Titans in Tartarus, ensuring the defeated elder gods can never escape their confinement beneath the earth.
Hades wore the helm of invisibility forged by the Cyclopes during the Titanomachy. After the Titans' defeat, he received the Underworld as his domain and became their jailer in Tartarus.
The Hecatoncheires, freed from Tartarus by Zeus, turned the tide of the Titanomachy by hurling hundred mountains at once against the Titans' position on Mount Othrys.
The Olympians overthrew the Titans in the ten-year Titanomachy, casting most of the elder gods into Tartarus to establish the new divine order from Mount Olympus.
Poseidon wielded the trident forged by the Cyclopes against the Titans in the Titanomachy. After victory, he received dominion over the seas in the three-way division of the cosmos.
Zeus led the war against the Titans, wielding the thunderbolt forged by the Cyclopes. After ten years of deadlock, he freed the Hecatoncheires whose mountain-hurling broke the Titan lines.
The Titans lured the infant Zagreus with toys — a mirror, ball, and dice — then seized and dismembered him, devouring his flesh. Zeus destroyed the Titans with thunderbolts in retribution, and from their ashes humanity was born.
The elder gods who ruled during the Golden Age before being overthrown by the Olympians, including the twelve first-generation Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia and second-generation members Pallas and Perses.
Atlas, strongest of the Titans, served as their general during the Titanomachy and earned the harshest individual punishment — eternal labor holding the sky rather than imprisonment in Tartarus with his kin.
The Gigantes sprang from the blood of Uranus when Kronos castrated him — the same act that established the Titans' rule. Both races challenged the Olympians in successive cosmic wars.
Metis, a Titaness daughter of Oceanus, provided Zeus the emetic that forced Kronos to disgorge the swallowed Olympians — a pivotal betrayal that turned the Titans' own kin against them.
Mount Othrys served as the Titans' stronghold during the Titanomachy, opposing Mount Olympus where the younger gods rallied under Zeus.
Gaia bore Typhon to avenge the Titans after Zeus imprisoned them in Tartarus following the Titanomachy. Typhon was the old order's final weapon against Olympian rule.
The Titans are the collective children of Uranus and Gaia. Uranus cursed them as 'Strainers' after Kronos castrated him, prophesying they would be punished for overreaching their station.
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