Zagreus (Protogenos)

Zagreus is the favorite son of Zeus and Gaea that was proclaimed by his father as Zeus's chosen successor and heir, a powerful God that upon reaching full growth was foretold by the Fates to a Protogenos in his own right, at first he never reached his destined power as he was slain in a scheme plotted by a jealous Hera.

However, he would not die as Gaea orchestrated that his essence would be divided into a number of aspects, a collective of aspects that would come together some time following the Second Gigantomachy and resurrect Zagreus at his prime.

Zagreus proclaimed himself the First of the Aionian Gods, the next Generation of Cosmic Rulers and based at an entirely new Mountain Home, preparing for their rise and the overthrowing of the Olympians.

Trivia

 * In actual Greek Myth, Zagreus's identity and fate is far more complicated. Commonly he is the son of Zeus and Persephone, or Hades and Persephone, in the former he was later reborn as Dionysus or Demeter resurrected him but was never mentioned again in the mythos.
 * The earliest records of Zagreus describe him in Quota: "Mistress Earth and Zagreus who art above all other gods". But a invocation linking him with the earth goddess Gaia and placing him above all other gods, could not fit easily into the Olympian religion of Zeus. Hence there was much confusion as to the myth behind Zagreus, and the true sources.
 * In Greek a hunter who catches living animals is called zagreus, Karl Kerenyi notes, and the Ionian word zagre signifies a "pit for the capture of live animals".