Akhlys

"The Death Mist is not for helping! It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!"

- Akhlys to Iapetus

Akhlys (also known as Achlys) is the Greek goddess of misery and poison and is the keeper of the Death Mist. She lives in Tartarus.

History
Little is known about Akhlys except that she may have been created before Chaos. However, this is contradicted by Akhlys herself in House of Hades when she says Chaos is her father.

The House of Hades
Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase meet Akhlys to so they can hide themselves in the Death Mist. She betrays them however, and chucks poison at the pair. Percy uses his powers over water to will the poison back to her, which causes her to flee from them. It is during this that a darker force in Percy's personality reveals itself.

Personality
Akhlys is described by Percy as having "serious self-esteem" issues. The goddess is an unambiguous sadist. Also, Damasan mentions Akhlys trust nobody.

Appearance
Akhyls looks like a victim of famine. She has large amounts of dust covering her thin body. She has a drippy nose, bloody red clawed cheeks that drip blood on her tattered dress, sunken eyes, and stringy gray hair that is matted to her head. Akhlys appeared on the shield of Hercules as pale, emaciated, and weeping, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust. She can also run relatively fast when properly motivated as she did when Percy rerouted the flow of poison and then began to choke her on her own saliva.

Abilities

 * She presumably has a goddess' powers, but infinitely stronger as she is one of the Protogenoi.
 * She has Toxikinesis (power over poison).
 * She has control over Death Mist.
 * As her title would imply, she makes people miserable.

Trivia

 * Some myths list Akhlys as a possible daughter of Nyx among the Keres.


 * Although she is thought to be created before Chaos in, The House of Hades she states that she is his daughter. This mirrors how some Greek Creation Myths call Chaos the state before time began and a god, while others proclaim it was Chronos or Akhlys whom created Chaos or existed prior to it.