Modeler Morpheus

Modeler Morpheus (造形者モルペウス, Zōkeisha Morupeusu) is the fourth of the sons of Hypnos, the one in charge of controlling the dreams of heroes and monarchs.

Manga
Morpheus is sent along with his siblings in search of Pegasus Temna, with orders to imprison his body and soul in Morphia, a place in the World of Dreams where the souls of heroes and kings are imprisoned. After achieving it without the slightest difficulty, Morpheus locks Tenma in a dream in which Hades and Athena are still mere children. In this dream, the Holy Wars never truly existed leading the Saint to believe that everything that has happened so far had been only a dream. However, Athena, in an attempt to save Tenma, took control of her "younger self" in the dream and guided him to an image of Sagittarius Sisyphus. This image awakened Tenma's memory and allowed him to being expelled from the dream.

Upon breaking free from Morpheus' power, Tenma attacks the god with Pegasus Meteor Fist, but Morpheus is unaffected and traps the Saint in a net of Poppies from the Underworld: these flowers possessing the ability to absorb all feelings and emotions of those trapped until they become an empty shell. Before he had completely succumbed to their power, moved only by sheer force of will, Tenma breaks free. His Pegasus Cloth turns into a Divine Armor. With this new power, he lands a single blow to kill Morpheus. Before reaching his inevitable fate, Morpheus comes to the realization before dying: Hades seemed to speak to the Pegasus Saint in a vision which empowered him to wake from the poppies.

Later his soul would be summoned by his brother Oneiros to form a monstrous creature, but it is destroyed by the Golden Arrow of Sagittarius, imbued by the Athena's Cosmo and divided in four by El Cid, enabling him to attack the four souls at the same time.

Anime
His story is very similar to the manga with slight variances. In the anime, he is a speculator along with Oneiros and Phantasos when El Cid bouts against Icelus and loses his right arm. In the manga, however, he never comes face to face with Capricorn El Cid. In the manga, his attack has no name, however, it is dubbed Morphium Coma in the adaption. In this version, Athena does not interfere with Tenma's vision. It is the death cry of his sibling, Phantasos that awakens the Saint and Tenma happened upon the vision of Sisyphus himself.

Origin of the name and Influences
Morpheus means 'Fashioner', which is derived from the Ancient Greek: μορφή meaning 'form, shape.' This is possibly a reference to how the god shapes dreams. His character is heavily inspired by his mythological counterpart, however, Morpheus loses his status as the main divinity of dreams in favor of Oneiros whom, in actual mythology does not exist as a sole entity, but rather the unified name for the gods of dreams. This explains why Oneiros fuses with Morpheus and his siblings in the story and can siphon their power.

In Greek mythology, Morpheus is the son of Hypnos and is sometimes considered the most important of the numerous Oneiroi, the divinities that shape dreams. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Morpheus is responsible for taking on the appearance of human beings while Phantasos looks after objects and plants and Phobetor (designated Ikelos by the gods) looks after animals. He was represented with wings that allow him to fly silently and his hiding place was an ebony bed located in a cave at whose entrance poppies bloom, which recalls the residence of Hypnos.

In Mythos, he was also God of Dreams, who especially influences kings and heroes. He was, according to sources, the son of Hypnos (God of Sleep) and Pasithea (Goddess of Relaxation and Rest). It is one of the main divinities of what is called the Oneiroi (divinities that personify dreams) generated by Nyx. Morpheus sleeps humans and appears to them in dreams under different forms, most of the real time, such as, for example, under the characteristics of a loved one. This god is found in different works of literature and today the etymological basis of his name is used to designate some words such as Morphine, a plant of the sleeping poppy race, used as an analgesic, but which causes many problems dependency.

Morpheus, his brothers, and their mother and father all lived in the land of dreams located in the Underworld. His other family members included Nyx, his grandmother and the deity of night, and Thanatos, Morpheus’s uncle and the god of death. Morpheus is the oldest of the triplets known as Oneiroi (Morpheus, Icelus Phantosos). The Oneiroi served as assistants to Hypnos, the God of Sleep, he brings the calm of dreams to mortals as well as to the gods who fall under his power.

Only the gods that resided in Olympus could visit Morpheus and his family in the land of dreams. Its gate was heavily guarded by two fearsome monsters that would materialize the fears of those who tried to pass through uninvited. The River of Forgetfulness and the River of Oblivion were also located in the land of dreams. Since Morpheus was the overseer of dreams of the mortals, he was considered one of the busiest gods. In some interpretations, he did not wed, but in others, he was paired with Iris, another messenger of the gods and the personification of rainbows.

Some statues of Morpheus have been sculpted that depict him having one winged ear, symbolizing him listening to dreams through his regular ear and delivering messages from the gods through dreams with his winged ear.

Abilities

 * Morpheus, like every god, possesses complete mastery of the energy known as Cosmos.
 * Morpheus like every god possesses immortality, and is a creature that has lived since the mythological era.
 * Related to the world of dreams. Being a god, he has unusual physical strength and can travel at his discretion between the real world and the world of dreams. Like all gods, he is immortal, unless his body and your divine spirit is destroyed. In a pinch, he can fuse his own soul with that of his brother Oneiros.
 * Morpheus has absolute control over Morphia. As aforementioned Tenma and Sisyphus were trapped within this realm and, despite being under his influence, he is unable to predict nor stop Tenma's will that brings him down in one fell swoop, provided with a makeshift God Cloth. This is possibly due to Hades' interference. The same, in the manga, for Athena finding a means to invade this realm to show Tenma the image of Sisyphus that allows him to break out of the ideal reality.
 * When his victims are locked within Morphia, they are trapped in a dream that closely resembles reality. Morpheus is in full control of that dream and can slowly make the locked soul believe that everything he sees is true. Meanwhile, the physical body of his victim remains in a trance or coma, in Morphia, or dying.
 * The person who falls body and soul in Morphia then finds himself paralyzed and unconscious on a wall, near the entrance that leads to their dream. Visibly, Morpheus manages this place with extreme ease, since Athena has difficulty reaching it and is violently expelled after having reached it.

Morphium Coma
Morpheus manifests white poppies around the body of its victims. Each poppy that changes color is an emotion that steals from its enemies. Little by little, the victim is deprived of anger, sadness, the desire to fight, and so on until they have no emotion left. The number of flowers that bloom, as well as the color that appears on each of them, is equal to the number of feelings that the person has and that are withdrawn.

Trivia

 * Apparently El Cid destroys the souls of Morpheus and those of his brothers with the Golden Arrow sent by Sisyphus and Athena, destroying them completely.