Kronos was the leader and the youngest of the Titans, the generation of gods which predated the Olympians. They were the children of  Gaea, the earth, and Uranus, the night sky. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own sons, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, and imprisoned in Tartarus.

Gaea gret to hate Uranus when imprisoned the elder children of Gaea, the hundred-armed Centimani and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, as he found them revolting and could not stand the sight of them. Gaia fashioned a great sickle and gathered the male titans to persuade them to overthrow Uranus.  Only Kronos was willing to usurp his father’s place. And with the sickle overthrew his father and cast him from the heavens (mythology states that he was castrated with the sickle).

After claiming the Throne of Heaven, Kronos re-imprisoned his elder brothers, the Centimani and the Cyclopes and set the dragon Kampe to guard them.  He and his sister Rhea took the throne of the world as king and queen.

As Uranus before him, Kronos earned the ire of his mother Gaea, who prophesied that he was destined to be overthrown by his own son, just as he had done to his father before him.  As a result, when his firts five children were born, the gods who would become the elder five Olympians, he devoured them all as soon as they were born, to thwart this prophecy.

When his youngest son Zeus was born, Rhea sought out Gaea to help her save him.  Rhea gave birth to Zeus in secret on the island of Crete, and when Kronos came to devour the child she gave him instead a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes.  He devoured this stone instead of Zeus, who remained hidden and raised beneath Mt Ida to adulthood.

On reaching adulthood, Zeus conspired to overthrow his father and free his siblings from inside his father’s stomache.  He spirited unseen and quietly to Mt Othrys and poisoned Kronos, who immediately regurgitated the stone followed by his five siblings, who were now fully adult.

In the war that followed between the new Olympians gods and the Titans, Zeus freed the Centimani and Cyclopes to fight for him, and with their help, was able to defeat the Titans and claim the Throne of Heaven. Kronos with the rest of the Titans were imprisoned in the howling void of  the lowest pit of Tartarus, chained there for all eternity.

After millennia however, Kronos has built an influence of power even in Tartarus and has been exerting that influence in a bid for freedom. Primarily using the Centimanus Kottos, his elder brother and jailer and his proxy in the outside world to shape events and act in to bring about his eventual freedom.  These actions are the spark which ignite the adventures of The Hammer of Argus.