Dolos (Art by J.Kiakas)
Dolos or Dolus is the spirit of trickery and the son Nyx, the primordial goddess of night, and Samael a former archangel of God.
Description[]
He is a master at cunning deception, craftiness, and treachery. Dolos is an apprentice of the Titan Prometheus and a companion of the Pseudea (Lies). He is the twin brother of Apate, the goddess of fraud and deception. There are even some stories of Dolos tricking gods into lies.
Overview[]
Dolos along with his sibling is a theos angelos, a product of a union between a deity and an angel, in this cause being Nyx and Samael. The circumstances surrounding his conception is unknown as neither Nyx nor Samael himself speak of it. One account details that their birth were echos of Nyx's frustration and feelings of betrayal indicating that Samael had deceived her into laying with him in some way.
Dolos became known for his skill when he attempted to make a fraudulent copy statue of Aletheia (Veritas), in order to trick people into thinking they were seeing the real statue. He ran out of the clay he was using to create the statue, and had to leave the feet unfinished as he quaked in fear while his skill-master looked over his attempt at deceitfulness. To his surprise, Prometheus was rather amazed at the similarity between the statues, so Dolos then became a master at his crafty and tricky ways.