This article is about the character. You may be looking for the character from the TV series or the character from the films. Hermes is the Greek god of roads, travel, gymnasiums, athletes, diplomacy, orators, thieves, commerce, trade, and invention. He is the messenger of the gods and is charged with guiding the souls of the dead to the afterlife. His Roman counterpart is Mercury. Hermes was born sometime after the First Titanomachy, the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the Pleiad Maia. (The