Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170505174118/@comment-25936766-20170614151118

Arkantos95 wrote: Really? You still have a guy whose last name is literally the Ancient Grecian Grim Reaper? Actually, the Ancient Greeks had many "Grim Reapers".

Technically speaking, while Thanatos is "the" greek personification of Death, it is more precise to say the Moirae sisters, particularly Atropos, are their equivalent to the Grim Reaper.

After all, Atropos is the one who actually ends the life of mortal people by cutting their threads of life and fate. Clotho spins the thread, Lachesis measures the length, and Atropos cuts it off when time is due.

There's also the Keres AKA Tenebrae, also daughters of Nyx, female death-spirit. Keres means "Death Spirits", quite literally. With gnashing teeth and claws, and a thirst for human blood, they hovered over battlefields in search of wounded, dying men. The term Ker was also used for other things at times, such as referring to someone's fate.

The main difference they have with Thanatos is that Thanatos symbolizes peaceful death, like dying of old age, while the Keres represent violent death. Painful death. Disease and Destruction.