One of the most famous Greek gods is Hades. He is often portrayed as a cruel man who watches over Hell. While this is not all true, it is not all wrong. He is a cruel ruler who rules over the Underworld and stands guard over the pit Tartarus. But why is Hades so evil and cruel? Does he not love anybody? Here is the story of the God of the Underworld and Treasures.

Hades is the eldest son of the first Olympians. He is the son of Rhea and Cronos, brother to Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. His wife is Persephone, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus (yes, she is Hades's niece). His weapons are a pitchfork and a crown that allowed him to turn invisible. His domain is the Underworld and all the treasures of the earth. He is often seen with the dead and his servants Cerberus and the Furies, winged demons that collected the souls of the damned. To anger Hades means to suffer for eternity in the lowest hall of the Underworld. His Roman name is Pluto.

Hades's childhood were not a peaceful one. He was born into the world as Prince and Heir to the Titans, being the eldest son. However, a second after he is born, his father grabs him and begins eating him. Hades remains conscious the entire time and grows up in his father's stomach with four of his siblings.

He has to share a tight, dark, and moist space with four other people. By the time he is freed, Hades is a full grown man. Hades's first sight is a young man in armor standing over him and his father behind him, vomiting continuously on the floor. Not exactly something desirable to see the first day in the world.

Hades and his four siblings escape to a mountain and plan their revenge. Hades and his brother Poseidon talk to the young man named Zeus about what it is they can do. They each forge their own weapons and fight their parents and uncles. Hades chose to fight for two reasons: he grew up in a stomach and he gets to rule since he is the eldest son.

After fighting for ten years, no side has budged. Both sides were equally powerful. One day, Zeus disappears and returns the next day with six new people, three with one eye and three with one hundred arms. The three-eyed giants give Hades a crown that allowed him to travel in shadows. Hades grins an evil grin and attacks his father in the dead of night, stabbing Cronos's stomach with a blade. The next morning, his brothers join his side. Hades holds down his father as Zeus begins cutting him up and Poseidon opens the earth to a straight shot into a lake of fire.

Now, Hades plans on reshaping the world when Zeus says that he deserves to rule for freeing them. Poseidon also wants power, and all three decide to draw straws. Hades, as the oldest chooses first, then Poseidon, and Zeus gets the last.

Hades looks at his straw and realizes that he drew the shortest one. He watches in dismay and anger as his youngest brothers get the Sky and the Sea, leaving him with the Underworld as his sisters claimed the surface world. Hades goes on down into the Underworld and builds a palace made from a stone and sits with monsters and dead spirits around him. Angry at his siblings above, he rules the world below with an iron fist and a pitchfork forged from an iron unlike any found.

Hades begins to get lonely in the Underworld. He hires guards and servants from around the Shadow worlds and becomes close with monsters, including a three-headed dog, a witch goddess, winged women, and a race of snake people. However, Hades looks up to the world above and sees his brothers running around with women and happily having families. Furious at the lack of responsibility they have, Hades chooses to have a wife.

Hades looks to the fields and sees a beautiful maiden collecting flowers. Hades lures her to a patch of shadows and drags her to the Underworld. At first, the maiden named Persephone cries out for her mother Demeter and refuses to welcome Hades as her husband, but over time she grew comfortable around him and liked the idea of being a Queen of the Underworld. She grew hungry and ate some seeds from a pomegranate that Hades offered. Hades smiled because he now had a wife.

Hades then turned around and saw a young man in winged shoes with a scroll from Zeus saying to return Persephone to her mother Demeter so that Demeter will do her job. Hades agreed, but said that Persephone will return to him every six months.

Hades often goes unchallenged in his ruling as King of the Underworld and Protector of the Dead. A few times, mortals challenged him, such as Orpheus and Sisyphus, but as the Master of Death, Hades always wins. And those that do lose to Hades gets a worse fate than they originally had. For this reason, mortals do not tempt Hades. They do not even mention his name if they can help it.

Hades is the Master of the Underworld and Death. He is not to be messed with and is seen as angry and ruthless. That is just because his brothers get to party all the time while he works 24-7. He never gets a break and his wife is gone half the year. So, he vents his anger into his work. Can you blame the guy? Besides, the only people who see his wrath are those who do evil in their lives and the immortals. The only benefit that Hades has is that he gets to bother his father whenever he wants to.