Hermes

"My son, I'm the god of travelers, the god of loads. If I know anything, I know that you must walk your own path, even though it tears my heart."

- Hermes

Hermes, also known as Mercury, is the God of Trade, Wealth, and Travelling from Greco-Roman mythology. He is one of the Twelve Olympians who rule over the pantheon from Mount Olympus.

Overview
"The Greek god of travelers and thieves. A diverse god, he is seen as a symbol of human unconscious and the mental world. In alchemy, he is equated with the Philosopher's Stone, the ultimate mystery in the field."

- The Infernal Compendium

Hermes, the youngest of the Twelve Olympians, is the messenger of the gods in the ancient Greece. He is the offspring of Zeus and Maia, and also recognized as the patron of travelers, commerce, athletics, literature and poets, sometimes of healing and invention, even of thieves and liars.

He was well worshiped by the ancient Greeks and apparently his figure appeared in many of their myths. As an infant, he created the first chelys lyre, which he gifted to Apollo as compensation for stealing immortal cattle, who in return gave him the caduceus, a herald staff adorned with wings and entwined by two serpents, nowadays often used to symbolize medicine.

His main task is to aid travelers on their journey, and to guide the dead to the Underworld, where he could enter or leave without any hindrance. He is known to wear a winged hat (petasos) and winged sandals (talaria).

Hermes is the analogue of the Roman god, Mercurius. He has also been combined with the Egyptian god Thoth to become Hermes Trismegistus.

Appearance
Hermes appears as a handsome young man in his 20s with long light-purple hair tied into a long ponytail and light-blue eyes. He is described as having an athletic figure, slim and fit, with elfish features and a sly grin. He also has a shorter stature compares with the other Olympians, being a head shorter.

He wears a winged pointed-hat similar to that of a traditional wizard, silver-and-blue robes and dark-blue dress pants, and a pair of silver-winged boots. He also wears a tattered dark-purple hooded-cloak. When he first appeared in Chapter XXX, he wore a "fancier version of a USPS mailman uniform" and sported winged shoes.

Personality
Hermes is, unlike many of the other Olympians, a generally reasonable and helpful figure. He has a greater understanding of humans, much like his half-sister Artemis. He isn't prone to the overt arrogance of some like Zeus and Hera, nor the character quirks like Apollo and Aphrodite. Part of this may be due to part of his job being to help mortals rationalize divine events, thus giving him a greater understanding of things beyond himself. He is shown to care a great deal for his children and to be far more accepting of others. Both traits are not common among the other major Olympians.

His visits are often beneficial to gods and mortals alike, and he is known for often helping struggling heroes and demigods, though this is frequently at the request of other gods or personal motivations. He is also known as the friendliest to mankind.

He is shown as being quite playful and childish. He can be arrogant and boastful of his own power and authority as one of the Twelve Olympians, though his boasting is mainly for the sake of boasting and doesn't carry any ill-intention within them. He is also fairly talkative and has trouble keeping his mouth shut when gossiping with others, a trait unknown to him but is rather well-exploited by many other gods when they want exclusive information.

He tends to be one of the more clever and cunning of the gods, and is known for his deception, trickery, and craftiness. He is the divine patron of thieves and merchants, which Apollo has commented to not be much different from one another, and he is said to be the one who taught them how to cheat and lie. According to him, to understand how Athena's mind works is an easier task than to understand Hermes'.

He takes his duties as a god very seriously, rather unlike gods such as Apollo and Dionysus, who take their duties and responsibilities in a much lighter manner. As a result, he will not breach his divine duties, even to save his own children, since not even he can defy [Fate], as attempting to do so would only make matters worse.

Roman Form
Hermes can change into his Roman counterpart of Mercury. As Mercury, he is more disciplined, militaristic, and warlike. While the Greeks saw Hermes as a crafty, cunning, and resourceful being, the Romans envisioned Mercury more as the god of commerce and trade rather than just being a god of thievery and travel.

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Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

 * Witchcraft: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose those of heavenly nature, pagan gods such as Hermes are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals rumored to be capable of even killing immortals such as the pagan gods.
 * Celestial Weapons: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including pagan gods such as Hermes.
 * Lack of Worship & Offerings: As a pagan god, Hermes gains more power from the prayers, offerings, and sacrifices from mortal devotees, and is dependent on it to maintain his immense divinity. If he stops gaining offerings from his loyal followers, his powers may become immensely weakened. Due to his essence being tied to the Western Civilization, he can gain power from those associated and symbolized by his divine domains, or associated with him or the myths surrounding him.
 * Due to his status as a chthonic god, he can maintain and even strengthen his divinity by absorbing the spiritual energy of the souls of the deceased or of the Realm of the Dead itself.

Killing

 * Divine Weapons: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, can be used to kill or injure fellow immortal gods like Hermes. However, due to his immense power, only a god’s Symbol of Power is capable of killing him.
 * Enochian Weapons: Hermes can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals.
 * Longinus: As the Longinus are Sacred Gears made out of Enochian metals of the highest-ranking, forged by Heavens' forges with the highest-quality Enochian technology and are imbued with fragments of the Biblical God's divinity, those with enough skills and experience can absolutely and permanently killed Hermes, to the point where he can never be reborn or resurrected again.
 * Faustian Weapons: Hermes can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals.
 * Primordials' Weapons: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

Quotes
"I am Hermes... Giver of fortune and fame, and herald of souls... To my alter ego: Love thy neighbor with a selflessness like the wind's..."

- Hermes

"The faster you go the harder you hit. Smack enemies in the face with your fists."

- Hermes

"You might wanna run, 'cause like, my friends are coming, and they are all big, and have swords, and... and stuff."

- Hermes

Trivia

 * Before Hades rejoining the Twelve Olympians, he is the only chthonic god in the council.
 * As a Messenger God, he and Iris are the only Greco-Roman gods that can travel between the Divine World and the Mortal World freely.
 * The caduceus is often confused with the Staff of Asclepius, which is a sign of healing, whilst the caduceus is not.
 * While both him and Nike are about as fast as each other, his winged shoes give him an advantage.
 * As he is the god of invention, he claims that he invented the Internet.
 * He likes to sit in the back of the bus (the disguised Sun Chariot) with Apollo.
 * Mercury, the first planet from the sun, was named after him, as well as the element, Hg.
 * The word mercurial is commonly used to refer to something or someone erratic, volatile or unstable, derived from his swift flights from place to place.
 * The 69230 Hermes asteroid is named after him.
 * Thierry Hermès, founder of Hermès, was a demigod son of his and was said to have found company in his honor.
 * His proficiency in alchemy is connected with the figure known as Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes Thrice-Greatest"), which is a form shared with the Egyptian god Thoth.
 * He appears in one of Aesop's Fables entitled "The Honest Woodcutter". In it, he gives a woodcutter who lost his axe two new golden and silver ones in addition to his own when he honestly which one is the one he lost. He also refused to give any axes to another woodcutter who lied saying the golden one was the ax he lost.
 * The Fetiales refused to recognize the identity of Mercury with Hermes, and ordered him to be represented with a sacred branch as the emblem of peace, instead of the caduceus. In later times however, he was completely identified with the Greek Hermes.
 * A Roman historian, Tacitus, associated Mercury with the Norse god Odin.