Moros

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Moros is the Greek personification of impending doom. He is the force that drives people toward their deadly fate, and in some stories he even helps people sense when death is near. His Roman name is Fatum. Moros is a child of Nyx, the goddess of night; some traditions say he is the son of Erebus, the god of darkness, while Hesiod says Nyx bore him on her own. He is the brother of the Fates (the Moirai) and of other death figures such as Thanatos, the god of peaceful death, and the Keres, spirits of violent death and sickness. In Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is said to have given humans Elpis, the spirit of hope, to help them ignore Moros’s certainty. Moros is described as the all-destroying god who does not free his victims, even in death. Aeschylus suggests that a person dies at the end of life no matter how many wounds they bear. In some depictions he is linked with the pale horse of apocalyptic imagery, ridden together with Thanatos.