#h1-story-discussion
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what is the War-God's Bloodlust' Prophecy?
I saw it on achivements but its not in my prophecy list
thats the ares heart unlock
just keep talking to him then he asks you to kill a bunch of enemies
ok thx
how do i unlock artemis’ heart?
follow your heart, do things Artemis would like, and play lots
I finally got to the postman delivery job
this game sure does have a lot of minigames
the what now
you heard me
no yeah, what is that
||epilogue stuff||
ohhh i see! never thought about it that way you do take over hermes’ job for a while
I just got to the resolution of ||Dusa’s|| plot line, I think.
Hey quick question
||before the epilogue are you not able to meet chaos? nyx said I could give him a letter but I've seen not a single chaos gate or the well boon to get a gate in 3 runs now||
Chaos' pronous are they/them/theirs btw @stiff geyser
for if you should be able to meet chaos prio to the epilogue, yes you should be able to, RNGesus might not have been kind to you the last 3 runs is all
just finished a fourth and dang chaos is a bootyhole I want to eat potato salad with them
5 runs to get a chaos gate
dang
guys
@peak pumice yeah, Zag knows about her.
The scene where the player learns of her is a flashback.
It's part of why he starts trying to escape.
ohh so ya... ok so if managed to get it right on the first run, doesnt change...
hmm i wanna think of a way
OHH what about demeter and her daughter?? ay?
what
What about it?
no wait still doesnt affect the first run story
ok i cant think of anything. i can only think from a players perspective, it will be a shock value
Yeah
since like "wait that's the mom?"
Unless they know the Myths a bit 😉
wdym? pls tell me its nt abt incest
Nope, but Hades' wife is Persephone
So getting the reveal that Persephone is in fact Zag's mum is very much a "hah! that makes more sense!" moment
They changed some stuff from the original myths to make it less creepy like ||Persephone has a random human dad in this game, I think||.
Spoiler moment
I accidentally clicked on this channel and let's just say I know some stuff I shouldn't now
I like this version of ||Demeter|| so far. Like it’s an interesting design that’s not what you usually see.
Oof, that's unfortunate. But this is the spoiler channel...
Hey so I saw that you can get into a relationship with some characters
Is it possible to max the friendship without the relationship thing?
I love the dusa scene
There was an admirable attempt to scrub out all the mythologically accurate incest in this game, and I appreciate it
Audiences don’t necessarily want to play out the incest in Greek mythology
Although theirs is one of the better love stories in Greek mythology
Dusa scene is the best and I will fight anyone who has issues with it being as it is
Okay, so please don't spoil what happens in the story, but does it have a definitive end? And how many runs do you need to complete to see it all?
I'm on my 5? or 6th? clear
Yes, there’s an ending
||10 for the true ending, but to see the epilogue requires more because it involves maxing your relationships with the gods||
||There's credits, then there's epilogue / true ending, which requires a bunch more stuff to be fulfilled! ||
@storm river @agile iris Thanks! I'll keep playing!
I think this is the first game where it's taken me this long to get to the ending though lol
I don't game often but when I do I finish 261 runs in one month 😆 so I have a bad sense of how long this game actually is.
Depending on your playstyle, I think it takes about 50-100 hours to reach the epilogue
That's very ballpark, though
Lol, I'm at 77 hours right now
Usually I complain about the story taking this long but this game is REALLY good, I didn't even notice.
And there's just so much content?! It's amazing
Yesterday I got a dialogue by Dionysus asking Zagreus to tell some crazy stuff about them being connected to Orpheus and see of he would believe it
I absolutely lost my mind, that's so clever of you
I was wondering why the game insisted in disregarding the Orphic Hymns
If you've watched the OSP youtube video about Dionysus being Zagreus / just know the mythology that was such a huge treat
Zagreus Dionysus is such an interesting story
it is! and that's why I was very confused as to why the game did not mention it
but then it did
in this way
So do I only get Dusa's Companion by maxing out the ambrosia?
I know she can give it all back
and justified the Orphic cult's version in game, it's SO META
Just wait till you start giving Zeus nectar!
oh man
the amount of research for the mythological back up of this game is delightful
whoever did the research on this team honestly deserves a grand vacation, some award and all the love
Artemis also nudged Zagreus because his name means hunter, which is a sweet little detail
and Ares threw some shade at her saying that hunters catch but he kills, which is great because Zagreus specifically means a hunter who catches living prey
all of this while Zagreus is mortified by Tisiphone's accusation
it's so fine
Well, Zag does quite a bit of murder up in Styx
and he feels bad about it, he tells so to Achilles
He does
to be fair - zagreus in the game never got to leave the house of hades, so he basically never actually got to murder anything but shades, which arent "killable"?
I guess always that he doesn't kill humans he doesn't feel like a murderer
And Ares also feels the death of living things and applauds him for it
English is not my first language but I tend to understand murderer as someone who kills humans while "killer" would be the word for someone who kills animals
thats an interestign way to understand those words huh
btw about artemis' and ares' differences, i love how different but similar their trial of the gods fightingstyles are
I couldn't say, I make a point in avoiding them two in particular when it's about trials
I am ✨ scared ✨
Aphro is way worse
I am still waiting for when I get an Ares Aphrodite duo boon, hasn't happened so far
they are my Olympian OTP
I can do EM4 any day, but dodge a very slow moving projectile? No way
and they have not delivered
I want them to comment on each other but it doesn't seem to happen
Are you sure you're fulfilling the prerequisite boons?
same
it and poseidon stun me for whatever reason
everything happens very slowly in my game because of it 🤣
i really cant do em, but 20 heat? heck yeah
added to the fact I am not great at the game yet I refuse to activate God's mode
You can just look at the codex man
It tells you all the prereqs for all boons...
very blind I insist :V
So blind you hang around the spoiler channel
I will check them next time I play, I promise
hey I needed to express my astonishment at the Orphic hymns reference
mind you, I got the game because of Orpheus
Dont think that counts as a spoiler, really. Probably safe to discuss in the general chat
I came here instead of going to general because it was a huge surprise for me and I wouldn't want to ruin it for someone else, even if the amount of players aware of the difference between orphic cult sources and the hesiod theogony isn't likely to be big
I presume there will be a similar twist to explain why Demeter insists she's not Chronos' daughter, even if all the sources indicate she is
or all I am aware of, at least
I am not a Greek myth scholar, I just like the subject
Do you know who persephone's father is, in the game, yet?
Nope
Well, that might clue you in on what SGG wanted for this particular interpretation of the pantheon
looking forward to it 
just gotta gid gud and read the information the game provides to help me
||Oh no, Asterius and Thesus and buddies again. Also are they romantically involved
, Asterius said that Zagreus will never understand their bond||
I don't think it's outright stated to be romantic but they have some form of love for sure.
The kind of friendship that can only be expressed by throwing your bro headfirst into your mutual rival.
They have a deep, deep love we are not meant to understand
they're definitely married (heh) but whether it's romantic is up to interpretation LOL
The kind of love where the only significant event in your life is fighting some dude who broke into your house and broke your sister's heart but he kills you and you go to hell but then he comes and finds you and asks if you'd rather split a flat with him in the upper east side the rent is unbelievably low and there's this nice bistro around the corner with this fabulously rustic greek influence.
Gay culture

But all seriousness what else should we think if they give the same backstory to the king and Bull that they do to the two actual romantic partners Patroclus and Achilles
Does anyone ever think about what the game might have looked like if they went with their original choice for the story - Theseus?
I imagine the hell levels would have basically been the labyrinth but with added bits
So I'm gathering a good amount of keys, but I unlocked all the arms and mirror stuff. Is it just a trading item at the broker now?
Keys can be used for trade but also when you gather them || for changing boon or room choices with random rolls||
Fated Choice and Fated Persuasion essentially
also like.... a cosmetic upgrade at some point
Yes, I do gather them for the reroll chances. Just been accumulating them and realized I really can't spend them anymore.
Yep, right now I just use them for trade until I complete all necessary upgrades for the weapons (I have like two left to fully upgrade) and then the rest I'll spend on that cosmetic upgrade for the interface designs
I'm still requiring lots of nectar, I only beat a run once
oh well then the keys will definitely be needed for nectar trade
closest answer to that #ask-supergiant message
Do I get something from giving nectar to bouldy?
More importantly, you get the satisfaction of being friends with Bouldy (and avoid cursing your run)
I had no idea and I've just been giving Bouldy nectars for giggles
I'm so dumb but I'm happy to know this
What is the amount of wins you need to get the credits to roll for the first time? That was an incredible moment by the way.
I think it was 10 clears iirc
Yes it's 10
Thank you
Sorry to ruin it ||Sisyphus is a crafty dude and probably just drinks all the nectar you are giving bouldy||
😢
to this: does anybody still have access to the fanart of sisyphus thinking of how to get more nectar out of zag, saying to give it to bouldy and zag just throwing all his nectar inventory at the boulder eventually smashing it?
just pouring one out for Bouldy =)))
BROTHERS I FOUND THE FANART
show us!!!!!!
it is unfortunate that the theme I want requires all the titan blood =))))) but I'm almost done needing them so... soon....
||Can I lift the heracles weights with practice?||
||Just like how I learned to play the lyre||
nope i wanna say they are just glued to the ground cause house contractor could do you like that
ah ok, I thought maybe it was a quest but then nothing showed up in the list so it makes sense.
it's as much of a prank as the lonely board games
||i have the prophesy to get to know the gods better||
i would rather play board games with ||the romanceable people|| then lay with them tbh...
thats some hella ace vibes
being ace kinda makes me uncomfy thinking about the laying but it's a game so i guess thats fine
and greek mythology
lot of layage to be happening
Ngl would liked the platonic options to have that tbh
did you max any of them?
max necter yea
and ambrosia?
havent been able to give any ambrosia
i had like 4 on total max when i got the next prophecy
You need to do their favors too
ah
ill go look up their favors then
not all
You can guess what kind of favor it is by what they're god of
since some cant be maxed before ||epilogue||
wouldve loved a romance option without the lay too, with them maybe askking to come by for a bit of board game? but i'm already so happy with everything representing lgbtq+ already so it's just wishful praying hah
||you must love dusa then||
ah
||just came across some dusa dialogue with hella trans vibes||
they're greek gods, they don't care about monogamy
except for hades himself but then, zag isn't like his father
but it's ok the way it is, i am so very insanely thankful for the representation of nonbinary, bi/pan relationships and aro/a bit of ace with artemis too
The poly rep is something you don't see much at all
I thought the Artemis-Zeus duo dialogue made artemis quite lesbian coded
Quick question, why do some chaos boons last for 4 or more chambers?
i kinda assumed the poly wouldnt be just obvious to be a thing since like greek mythology and literally everythign achilles said about it
To me it was ace/aro coded
they arent boons but challenges
since zeus is like, why don't you like any of the hunks I throw your way, and artemis is like, she'd rather hang out with her nymphs
But it's very possible she's female facing bi
||zag asked about their body and they said
Um prince so look thats very private and i know you dont mean any harm but it isnt something i discus with people OK i am who i am||
But still, they last up to the end of the game with an implied 'reward'
i kinda took that as less of a trans thing and more of a "i like being just a head"
stay ahead while you can
idk
just seemed like something one of my trans friends would say
It can definitely be read both ways :3
I think of them as ace lesbian, but that's interpretation ofc
Anyone have any idea how to make Thanatos appear more often in the field so he can come to the house? Or is it just random? I am picking him as my romance option.
i never cared about the gender of the bodies so i just assumed dusa didnt want to have one at all....
which i have mad respect for
It's random for thanatos to show
you go floating slither maid!!!!!!
random unfortunately. I don't think the pierced butterfly makes him more likely to appear?
However, I heard if you want a chance for him to show, you need to take some damage in the chambers before
Speaking of dusa, for her favor is it all the lounge upgrades, like even the stupid expensive ones?
Just most of them
||you can go for all of them and theres no consequeces||
You don't need to get the ones with the diamonds
artemis-aphro dialogue is kinda bi/pan ace heavy after you know of the ||callisto|| stuff
Oh. Good to know. Thanks mate!
artemis is sworn to be ace in the myths
I'm really impressed by how well the LGBTQIA+ rep is handled, it feels natural and implemented incredibly well for the most part
yes
wym by for the most part?
the most important part of the lgbtqia+ representation is that you legit forget about it, it isnt just screaming I AM GAY CHARACTER at you and running away
it's a part of the npc without being their only trait
||i love how achillies and pats relationship is handled||
||it just feels like a normal thing||
ikr!
I have a gripe with how dusa's lead up mostly, the outcome I love, just the lead up to that I have issue with
Morso how zag comes on incredibly strong to dusa seemingly out of nowhere
the ||achilles patty love|| never feels forced like it's only there to get lgbtqia+ rep but more like, yeah people fall in love without it being important of when where and who
I just love how dramatic they are
||risk it all||
achilles was very dramatic in life too
i dont want to know the context of it being used for the very first time
||they literally mixed their ashes thats hella dramatic||
||Pat|| being like WE MYRMIDONS AREN'T THE EMOTIONAL SORT even tho I keep rolling up on him mumbling sadly about his husband every time I come over
||and historians said they were just good friends for hundreds of years||
he was moping in his tent, then patroclus disguised himself as achilles, dies, and achilles gets so mad he angers a river spirit because of all the bodies he kills
bros being bros
I think it was because of some slave girl in the original mythos? Not sure tho
cousins in that terrible Troy movie
they did a sailor moon?
I believe Hector (?) took a slave girl from him and he got mad so wouldn't fight for him
to be fair, they ARE cousins
are they?
According to their lineage, Achilles and Patroclus were related to each other through a nymph called Aegina. After being raped by Zeus, Aegina gave birth to Aeacus, whose son, Peleus, was the father of Achilles. The same Aegina also married a mortal man called Actor, whose son was Menoetius, the father of Patroclus. Based on this, Achilles and Patroclus were first-cousins once removed.
sweet home alabama
tbf, orpheus and eurydice are both children of apollo
eh
it doesnt count if its with a nymph
rarely ever
gods get exceptions to the incest
Except not in Hades the video game 
there was a lot of incest for a culture where incest was fairly frowned upon
there are more myths about eurydice NOT being a woodnymph than with any of them being related to apollo
Yeah, finding presents for baby showers on mount olympus must be rough
just get more ambrosia
because then you have to find presents for a matched set of twins that are anthropomorphic personifications
most greek gods like to lay horizontally and drink, just get the bar going and the baby showers are perfect
Which gods do you need affinity with for the epilogue?
it doesnt matter which, more tht you have some maxed i'd say
there are no requirements of maxed totally or even maxed nectar
||Demeter|| can't be fully maxed out until after the epilogue
But if you get her up to the locked heart, it counts
I only have... Athena Maxed. But i'm still working on things so that should be fine.
Just cleared the main story
Than wanted to be Patroclus levels of angst but it's hard when you grew up with happy bois-Zag and Hypnos

I think you need to have all the "Olympians" maxed or near max? I've never had the requirements laid out for me by someone in the know. I just know that I had to get all of them really high and that I had already gone as far as mom and dad would let me before I finally got the prompt.
Tisiphone said my name!!!
check the pins
Mmm... Mmmmrr
@somber estuary all? Can i just pick one fav gods to max? I like artemis
considering the conflict at hand, no :)
||According to the pins I found that the exact requirement is any 6 relationships categorized as Olympians (presumably the Olympians page in the Codex encapsulates all these for obvious reasons) must be at maximum, which as far as I can tell includes their locked heart quest EXCEPT for Demeter which specifically was mentioned earlier to not require the locked heart because it does not even unlock until after the epilogue. Also the pinned guide does specify that she still counts towards the 6 Olympians requirement as long as you get her to just before the lock.||
I would generally avoid this channel unless you've at least seen the credits
So quick question, why havent i been seeing eurydice? Its been over 15 runs i think since i last encountered her
Yeah, it’s just rolling rooms poorly
I was just wondering cause my orpheous quest has ground to a halt
Yeah, it just takes some time occasionally
So another question, who do i have to hunt down to get the aspects for stygius, aegis, and the rail?
There's about 20 important things after the first time you send dad home early. Oh who am I kidding, every little bit of dialogue is important in this game.
Hidden aspects prereqs are in pins
Yeah I was trying to remember without consulting the pins. I don't actually remember most of the conversations about the hidden aspects. I'm pretty sure it was Nyx, Chaos, and Zeus respectively for those.
It cracks me up how Ares fanboys over Thanatos, Nyx and still worships Chaos. Lad just want a new family so bad haha
Playing back through Hell Mode and going through the Dusa/Nyx story.
It still rubs me the wrong way same as when I first played through it.
@atomic forge I mean, if my dad told me how much he'd be OK with killing me and not regretting it right after I went up to him complaining about how my sister gave me a major stomach wound that I was still suffering when I told him about it, I'd want a new family too
I know right, even in the game he tells Zagreus he'd rather have him as a son like come on. Pretty sure in mythology too Hera told him something along the lines of you suck and I hate you
And he did live away from Olympus, in Thrace
cracks knuckles, hey yall ever think about the fact that in most of your interactions with the olympians, whether they are commenting about ares or speaking to him in a duo, most of the remarks range from subtle to blatant jabs at ares and he never reacts to any of it and you just have to wonder if hes so used to it he ignores it??
i think about it a lot
Except Aphrodite. When you get duo of these two it's just extremely uncomfortable badly hidden hints at the fact that they are shagging
I mean it’s relatable if nothing else
You shall not goad me into anger with a petty insult such as this, you know. Nevertheless, there is a price which must be paid for it.
Honestly, that's just Greek mythology in a nutshell, they are always throwing shades at him but in the vast majority of the myths he is in (I'd say except Adonis') he isn't being petty or crazy like them
thats why hes my fav olympian, outside of representing the brutality of war hes comparatively not that bad. but of course, being war and all the bad that comes with it, hes inherently hated
Short end of the stick and all
He gets his ass whooped in a lot of myths he is in too haha, makes you pity the guy a bit
Hey, is there anything I need to do to reunite orpheus and eurydice? I've maxed them both out on nectar and am on like over 20 clears...
ugh, my hearts about to break
i dont wanna kill skelly
but i got the means to do it at a press of a button
do i go for the free stuff?
Yes you can, keep playing and keep talking
also not asking for a direct answer or anything, just a hint/nudge
but how do i learn music from orpheus?
Keep playing the lyre between runs!
Oh! At some point there going to be the option for you to buy one for your bedroom I think. You might need to get a specific convo with orpheus first
Some of them are important aha!
ONE KEY SHORT
@odd fox if it helps, I will say that I was being sarcastic
@somber estuary Thank you
What do you mean? You're missing out on the main aspect of the game 😢
grinding for nector
My favourite cosmetic thing is ||putting that huge ass portrait of yourself right next to Hades' chambers||
So how exactly do I get the door unlocked to the right of Achilles?
Yes
So, kill hades a lot?
I've only killed him 3 times so
But it's surprisingly easy now that I've killed him once
Does beating the game at max heat even do anything?
Oh haha
It just gives you bragging rights, but no one has done it on this current patch
Congrats!
Congrats on making it this far
Yeah he does that on the ||tenth run||
It cracks me up that he still drops titan blood when he does that like wtf man
Congrats once again!
||congratulations now that you have solved one relationship problem, the rest of the world expects you to solve theirs||
Yeah I was surprised too, and wondering if that meant I had nothing left to do
Oh boy I was wrong
Yeah
I'm so close too but they just...Won't
At that rate the first thing I'll manage to do is free Sisyphus and I don't even WANT that!
There's quite a bit of back and forth
Have you two ( @atomic forge and @wild bay ) heard Patroclus say the phrase “risk it all”?
Have you unlocked the Admin chamber?
Also, have you been completing plot points that have taken priority for Achilles and Nyx (such as beating up ||your dad|| successfully?)
Yep and yep, I definitely feel like I'm close, Achilles said he was gonna think about it
And I'm just here like goddamn do it you absolute gay disaster, even I managed to hook up with a guy who runs away two sentences in a conversation
So then yeah, you’re just waiting on dialogue from Patroclus, then
Then a follow up with Achilles. And then talking to Nyx whenever she isn’t busy with plot points
I think Nyx being involved in almost every major plot is extra frustrating when you have like 8 things finishing at once while you’re also hitting Credits or Epilogue
Well, since Nyx is my favorite character I enjoy having every opportunity to talk with her after each run. So that's a good problem to have.
Reminds me
It took me 20 runs complete dusa because nyx decided start a new plot point with her
Into it decided do the one I wanted half way
yeah; I wanted to finish Achilles and just couldn't get his contract because Nyx kept being away or talking about other things
none of the other things had a reward tied to them
Achilles was the last one to finish for me because of Patroclus rng
yeah, he was my last too. Way after the epilogue even.
Which was why I was so frustrated by the added Nyx delay hahaha
This is a big reason to not actually complete Nyx's quest until you've done literally everything else
it was actually a thing with Dusa that got in my way
I'd finished Nyx long before I even got to the point of needing her for Achilles >< ...I was very very slow on Achilles
I just want to reunite my boys!
I'm less keen on reuniting orpheus and eurydice because, well, I'm in love with he tree lady but oh well
The only quest I'm less keen on is helping Sisyphus because I'm way too invested in Greek mythology and he deserves his punishment, here
Also I just reunited crummy adoptive primordial grandpa with adoptive primordial mum so that's very nice
Oh yeah. Same about sisyphus, but ya know
How is the whole thing compatible with being close friends/dating Thanatos anyway, can't imagine he'd be super happy about it
Honestly haha. Pretty sure they're a reason they left it ambiguous
Chaos is your great grandpa and also your step grandma.
I really like Chaos, they're strange and they have little bits of commentary on stuff that other characters aren't around for.
I'm not sure if it's the cosmic egg or the chaos aspect or both that activate Chaos commentary because I'm frequently carrying both.
He is quite the chatterbox in general
Speaking of disturbing family ties, I don't think it's in the game (and maybe that's for the best 'cause it's low key haunting me) the other day I realized Ares was both Dyonisus' of course half brother but also his great grandpa
(And Aphrodite is his great grandma, but also has at least one kid with him, i'm pretty sure)
Greek mythology family trees tend to be family wreaths I guess
Maybe a dumb question but how do I know when I've gotten to the epilogue? I'm about 15 complete runs in after the credits and not sure how much more story I still have to progress. Are there second credits or something?
How many more runs would you say it takes to get there?
Eh, it varies, because it's not dependent on number of runs
Ok thanks 😄
I mean, if you've been talking to Sisyphus, he constantly mentions that he totally deserves the punishment
I meant Thanatos might not be super happy about it, not Sisyphus
Fairly sure Sisyphus would be happier with anything other than his punishment, even though he thinks he deserves it haha
Gods are surprisingly lenient. If Hera still puts up with Zeus...
Again, you'll find answers to this if you continue his storyline
that's why she takes out her anger on his children, not him
he's too powerful for hera to punish for his affairs
For excrement, my bad
But yeah I ll still continue his storyline anyway 'cause I want to max out the game haha
Man, everyone gives Orpheus such a hard time for looking back.
Nobody gives Orpheus a harder time than Orpheus.
True
So I have a question about the secret boss fight. How do I trigger it again? I’ve maxed out all but Persephone’s relationships now and I’m not sure what to do from here
...You mean Charon? There's a 22% chance for the bag to appear in a mid-biome shop
Wait HE’s the secret boss?
I already fought him multiple times
I though I was supposed to fight Demeter?
Ha if anything you would join Demeter and beat up your unruly uncle.
??????
Well with Persephone going back up I had heard rumors that Demeter would be a boss
Is this secret boss thing you're trying to activate some sort of achievement?
No I was just curious
There's no secret boss beyond dad
I mean I basically finished the game I’m trying to figure out what all I need to do to complete it
If you've done the epilogue, that's it. You're done.
Oh
Because I know Extreme Measures doesn't activate an entire new boss but it does have the potential to add a character not normally participating to a different boss fight.
Right Hades summons a sub-boss with phase 3 right?
He does.... lots of things
Lol
Wait, have you done the epilogue without doing EM4?
Damn
Cant imagine playing the game that much without turning up the heat
I was systematically doing the pacts with each weapon
Rather than focusing on going as hot as possible
EM4 is so fun I just left it on while playing even if I was under the limit
What doesn't Hades do? I mean, besides openly show his efforts to build a more positive relationship with his son?
That, no miracle or boon can accomplish.
I’m about to go for 8 with Excal at some point but I’ll hit 7 with the other weapons before hand
Really it’s getting used to stuff like Lucifer which is the real problem ugh
And maxing out what I can
Persephone only needs 1 ambrosia to max out right?
I haven’t been using all of mine in the event it’s like Dusa’s story
Ok so I can use 4 out of my 5 then
Everyone else is one per heart
Luci with the curse squad Dio Aphro Grandma and Ares is my favorite attempted build
Just gotta roll the boons that let them stack better
At some point I should share my build cause I don’t really know how to optimize yet
Hm.. well one thing I can say for sure is I’ve been using Privileged Status
I prefer using it since it doesn’t require a lot of boons
most of the time anyways
FF doesnt require a lot of boons
Privileged is great since I love curse backstab anyway
Just... one per god
FF you will almost always get the full effect
Five boons definitely isnt a lot, lol
Well yeah it’s like decu said
If you think five boons is a lot, then you REALLY need to be taking more boons
Since 4 base slots plus 1 more for a total of 5 from Hermes and even one more olympian using keepsake manipulation
FF can't go to 6 stacks even if you get 5 base olympians plus Hermes? Or can it? I honestly don't know.
This might be a really dumb question but like.. is dusa supposed to be Medusa?
Say "Maid Dusa" really fast
Okay I thought so I just didnt want to sound dumb for it and to be an entirely different gorgon😩
was it ever established what Zagerus was the God of?
He's the god of Hot Bois
Also probably blood and life.
and being bi
In mythology or in the game?
In mythology he's the God worshipped by he followers of Orphism
And considered the "first Dionysus"
The central focus of Orphism is the suffering and death of the god Dionysus at the hands of the Titans, which forms the basis of Orphism's central myth
Also there are 2 versions of him the one we know and in the other he's son of zeus but hera killed him in phorm of a Taurus
As hades son... he's hades son
I vaguely remember hearing that was zeus disguised as hades
Maybe idk
Sure thing is the game made Zagreus popular
There was nothing interesting about him
Same goes for Kratos in mythology he's just a guy that doesn't like zeus's decisions but always follows his orders with no exceptions
ya they did a good job with the research and the story in this game
Yup that's true every character's story is somewhat canon with some changes and there are some nice mythology easter eggs
There is no "true" canon to Greek mythology, unless you only mean stuff written in ancient times.
Yeah that's true my bad
there is no true canon since they dont exist in the first place
Most of the times canon is considered by one person who wrote a lot about it but I don't know his name is in English only in Greek
||How many runs does it usually take until Persephone is back from chilling with Demeter? She’s the only one I haven’t had maxed hearts on?||
I mean canon as a concept is not great imo plenty of interpretations for Greek myth, and I do love the ways Hades handles them
So, how do I get companions?
I've heard that butterfly ball is balanced to punish you for not having one
Extend your relationship with some characters
it'll be several notable npcs you interact with often, so make friends! but yeah the big butterfly is a bit of a dps check. you dont necessarily need a companion (as not all of them are offensive) but they certainly help if your build is lacking
Is it? lol that's hilarious
I mean it more punishes you for bad damage builds
And not having a damage companion is part of having bad damage in your build
Not really
Butterflies are your companions now
Just have unhealthy fixation and you too can have a butterfly companion for 4 seconds at a time
Bosses do a good job of this on their own
I just want to say that the Orphism joke with Dionysus and Orpheus is hilarious
You'll get a kick from Zeus' nectar dialogue, I bet
First nectar or a later one?
I think the punchline is at the end of his bond
I look forward to that, then
I also loved Theseus getting mad that you have the Yarn of Ariadne
And Zagreus doesn't understand why he identifies so strongly with some random item he bought at a Well
So is there a specific trigger to unlocking the god's last heart? Or is it just "talk to them a bunch"?
Each has its own "quest" you have to do first
Is their some way to deduce what that quest might be?
Some of them the quest is indeed "talk to them a bunch", but a few others have specific tasks
There's a pinned comment in thsi channel with the answer
Some gods tell you what they want straight up though
Most of the time it's reasonably related to normal gameplay
You can guess based on what they’re god of, usually
Save Poseidon's which is super specific and finnicky for some reason
Aphrodite doesn’t want fish, she wants love!
But... it's so difficult to get the rod of fishing legendary after the first time 😫
Are you on switch? If not, you can just use poseidon's keepsake
so i already though chrustaceans were adorable
but i just read their entry in the journal and oh my god
sometimes they swim the shore in search of companionship?!
I WANT ONEEEE
they're so cuteee
So what's the best way to secure the fishing legendary? Does having poseidon's keepsake guarantee the rod
Can anybody here tell me why I can’t give Meg any Ambrosia? I have 6 hearts with her, she came to my room, and when I meet her in the lounge there’s no option to give her Ambrosia?
Just wait. Trust me, you'll know when she's ready 😉
So how do I do I romance Dusa? I gave her the 4 ambrosia and now she will just say one little quip after my runs
Give it some time. She needs to think about everything you told her
Time as in amount of runs or actual run time?
number of runs
Yeah, just play the game and it will happen in due time
Alright, thanks!!
hmm I bought all the West Hall stuff but don't have a checkmark! what might I be missing? D:
Did you buy every column type yet?
I'm thinking maybe you're missing the ||fountain||
but the prereq for that is a certain type of column
have you maxed than, gotten ||sundial|| or ||Sculpture, Heroic||?
eek. ||heroic sculpture and the fountain are what I'm missing. man, I felt so close! But that's another 4500 gems haha||
and the ||colums, divine|| then, good job already anyways!
I dunno why they made the prereq for that locked behind one type of column
but at least you can switch columns
yeah, weirdly hidden. that said, only a crazy person would wantto unlock everything - I doubt I'll do it, all my weapons are coming up on 20 heat
kinda weird that the ||column, divine|| that remind of olympus dont necessarily trigger the more pompous and olympus-worthy cosmetics
||Question, the question that like.. Mom gives you to get closer to the Olympian, what if you never got that? But you finished the epilogue?||
On switch version
I have 10 hearts on Dusa. I've done a few runs now and I still have not been able to romance her. Do I need to give her more ambrosia?
I'm wondering maybe if I have to upgrade my bed chambers or something?
Damn, once orpheus starts singing again its very good, great music for this whole game
But the voiced music has so much more love put in
I died a few times on purpose and Dusa still has nothing important quest wise to say.
Nah keep talking to her and it will happen
I'm thinking maybe because of how hades works.. I have an ongoing quest of sorts and I need to finish that before continuing this one?
What quest?
Dunno
I don't think it matters
Dusa was late for me too
After I gave her everything it was after 5+ conversations that she wanted to talk
So just keep taking to her
It's been over 10 for me..
I don't know then I'm sorry
probably just RNG unfortunately
not really
I mean she did but I feel like Zag would value her friendship as much as her romantic advances
in fact he does
oh no, we talking at this again
yeah, it seems like it happens every few days
and thus I'll post this message from tatz which sums up dusa's 'romance' path perfectly
#h1-story-discussion message

I'm just saying it sucked because I think she's really cool and I thought she was a romance option
Best Friends forever is pretty dope though 
Tbh yeah
Killed hades for the sixth time now
It's a joke with rapid fire homing bow
do it with the starter sword thing
I don't think I've gone that far in the game,so I am probably taking this wrong.but,okay.....
Huh?
@weary seal its worth noting that all the other romance options can be taken at the same time without consequences\
Well
Since she gave me all my ambrosia back, I used some of it to upgrade my bow but I still have like 4 left
Bow is good up to a point
You'll want to learn other weapons
Chiron specifically falls off in high heat
Not saying you can't but it's easier with Rail for example
what level do you have chiron bow at?
it's kinda not great early but is pretty great once you get close to maxing it out (and by extension maxing it out)
i think its at level 2 or 3
ahhh that makes sense
should i max it
imo yes
if you like melting an enemy from range (albeit a bit slow at dealing with crowds) chiron's your weapon
there are some weapons that only show off then maxed like chiron and chaos
demeter too
i wish there was a way to get blood back
yup you have 6 weapons you get 2 every run and you just need to add some heat you can buy some and exchange
you can reach at least 6 heat easily with every weapon
true
So.. i spent 5 diamonds on the song "in the blood" expecting vocals, but its just instrumental
Is there a way to hear it again properly?
Do i need to finish orpheus' questline?
youtube
Bruh thats lame, then why have any songs over a diamond in cost
lol yeah I gave some diamonds to songs too but its ok ill get them back
i want to unlock everything anyway
Yeah eventually, but i coulda used those diamonds elsewhere, i wish they had an explanation that its just instrumentals
Like i coulda used that to get an equally useless green skull disco ball
well yeah it's good to keep always some diamonds for the characters. Since i think for everyone the achivements is one of the first priorities
diamonds for characters?

Is... that how you romance characters properly?
Yknow besides drowning them in ambrosia
i
i dont think so
im not gonna tell you why bcs i dont wanna spoil
Fair enough
but some of them will need a couple of diamonds
So for the queens plan prophecy is it just give booze to the olympians until i get lock hearts?
Or do i need to max out their keepsakes
not the keepsakes but i dont know exactly what im not finished with that yet
Oof
I guess you need to finish your relationship with all the gods
Ive just been turning my gems into 
Bribery
Not all my gems mind you
But enough to where i could donate to each god or npc once per run
youh have to max 5 of them i think
well everything is useful and its gonna take time to make them useless so its just about what you prefer to do first
Yknow incase i run into any of the wild npcs that hang out in hell
5? im at 4...
Whatever the lockheart level is
I am done with nectar now only ambrosia
Lemme see what my god standing is
ima check how many nectar slots i have left
looks like ive only got a couple for Charon left then my nectar days are over
yeah then only bouldy ❤️
I'm at 2 bonded Olympians and ready to strangle the rest of them as they won't let me give them ambrosia
Just lemme buy my way to your heart with addictive substance come on
i feel your pain
yeah you need to do some stuff for them to... respect you?
ye
I have Zeus and Ares so far
i have dio and zeus
gotta bribe 'em all
im close to finishing aphros favor
I don't think he needed anything honestly 🤔
its dialogue rng
Ares asked me to murder 10K people like the stable person he is but that's it
i have dio posseidon aphro and athena
how do you get posiedon?
Do you have to do the fishing quest for Poseidon?
there is no quest
just catch many fishes
also i did the 10k prophecy but ares still isnt unlocked
YOO
Ares takes a bit before letting you tell him about it
thats awesome
you should grab the hourglass in styx
and buy up every well upgrade thats decent
Yknow thats actually a pretty good call
Alecto revealed Zagreus is god of Trash
Or... i could take hoarding slash and get OP
I swear, every arthur run is just pump attack and win
I dont like arthur
its strong but not fun
Well... i play greatsword in monster hunter so this feels perfect for me
arthur run with deflect slash is fun
C H O N K Y damage numbers=dopamine
I see im more of a hit and dodge kind of player so i like fast weapons
One of these days ill have a hera run that starts with the demeter upgrade boon into the artemis seeker boon
And i can die happy
lol we just speaked about it and ares last heart just git unlocked for me
I wish we got more shade fans in the arena the higher our win streak
That would be a very nice touch
i wish there was a nectar path with the loyal shade
that would be better
i wanna talk to em
So i think ive noticed something
If you get the dio boon for the fountains youll get one every floor
Aight
Here we go
Extreme dad
Damn...
His voice cracked lol
Only achievement I haven't got!
Guess who just got a certain contract to allow a certain musician to see his muse
well I started doing it almost right after i got the first 5
now im missing only 5
pog
without telling me much, what is the last area, I've discovered Greece and there's still one left in the codex
i don't care if minor spoilers
It's just a place with trials from hades you'll find out
nah :/
but why did you want to get spoiled? wouldnt it be more interesting if you found out yourself?
idk I was hoping we got to go further than greece
nevertheless greece was amazing
it was huge
i cant find skelly under greek mythology. who is he supposed to be? pls help, he is my fav npc
uhm I don't think he exists
other characters of note I believe
skelly is just skelly
he's a character made by supergiant
ohh aww haha
all of the npc is great but skelly is my fav. but awww he's not part of the greek mythos. o well
i like how they do artemis in this game, her attitude is like those high school girls
She's very much not a high school girl, lol.
skelly could be based off the Spartoi?
She just wants to be left alone to hunt. Well, the nymphs can come. No one else. xD
since he talked about a "skeleton war" and that's the only note anyhow related to both mythology and warriors who rose out of the ground?
I love how she's the only one actually getting mad when you choose between gods the rest are like WHY DIDNT YOU CHOOSE ME?!?! and then haha ok let's forget it. She's like: tch since you are still alive get this whatever
but thats a very far rach since the spartoi were just mythical people and never really mentioned as cursed skeletons...
Athena still seems mad afterwards too.
i just googled spartoi. It said that it was spawn by the dragons teeth. thats badass
like those yandere type
yes it is but they are stupid lol
they just fought each other because of a rock ad almost all died
yep... but not aphro
ohh... damn.. that took a downward fro mbeing a badass
very big true
honestly if you were athena wouldnt you be mad aswell? it was her who got all the gods together as nyx contacted her...
Hermes is the best bro. Artie's cool though. They all are, in their own ways.
oh she is? i tot zeus
ok...
she couldve very well declined and left you down there to suffer 😂
the first boon you get is athena's and after your first death you talk with nyx about how she reached out to athena
it's one of the scribted dialogues
Nyx did reach out to Athena, who convinced the others. Minus ||Hermes, who helps because of Charon.||
awww i always thought athena is a mother figure
but still, what she did to medusa is dirty
Athena is very much NOT a mother figure.
sigh...
athena is the mother of the battlefield, i agree
=.=
Athena is a virgin goddess, a warrior, and Zeus's favourite.
Athena is decidedly not a mother figure
;-;
i really hate that piece of lore about athena and medusa.
hate athena abt that lore i mean
I dont know that one
she can still foster children without having the laying
Arty is best god
bro what are you saying? Olymbians are a bunch of arrogant kids
Athena is pretty awful to women all over the place in a lot of myths.
they are so bad
yesnt
Arachne anyone?
everybody is bad to anybody
Hestia might be the kindest
I dont think there is a good god
except artemis. and no.. not being biased because of the game but in the lore she is ok
Yeah, but Athena argues that a mother is not the true parent of a son, only the father counts.
So yeah, not a mother figure in any way.
yeah Artemis in lore too
yeah because the gods in greek mythology are like people, they are both good and bad. which is far more believeable than some loving bro who does nothing ever wrong lmao
well Athena doesnt have a mother
The closest ones to being "good" are probably artemis (kinda. If you put aside the child-murdering) and ironically hades
Ironically I think hades is one of the best
Ares and Dio imo
hades? what? LOL
Hades has a good record of not being bad
Hestia is the kindest
yup
srsly? i mean... hades... guys
Hades did soome awful things to Persephone and others.
Actually yeah ares was pretty good
he's like a satan in greek myth
nope
Hades is oddly not a completely terrible person in Greek myth
And no, Hades is NOT like Satan.
oh? sorry haha
The persephone incident is weirdly out of character for him too
conflating evil with the underworld is an Abramhamic thing
Less awful then the god standard tho
Hestia offered her place in olymbus to dio
depends on which version you choose though
hades, dio and hephaestus are the kindest gods not saying they havent doen horrible stuff, just saying out of all the stuff the gods do they did the least and do the most for the people
Hades isn't evil in the conventional Christian way. He's just pretty awful as a person.
just to keep peace among gods
Heph is less 'kind', given some of the Aphro myths.
and artemis and hekate are kinda the kindest godesses, hestia is a yesnt
They’re all awful but hades is like. Least awful
i can tell aphro isnt a good person LOL. i mean.. just visually look at her
Hades is the least awful
yup true not so bad... he makes a promise to hercles he does it... Hades sitll declines
he steals demeter's daughter
Artemis does her share of victim blaming, and goes on a child-killing rampage at the behest of her mother.
what a good person Hades is
Athena did the whole Troy thing with the Golden Apple
Never said he was good
Eris did the golden apple.
athena was involve in troy? huh.. i thought only achiless
Well the point of the gods is that they're flawed?
All the gods were involved in Troy.
to hephaestus: imagine you get shunned because you have a bodily disability and get hated and ecluded for it, get married to love herself and still get no love cause she cheats on you all the time. i would do some horrific stuff as well.
Artemis is too Apollo too
Apollo probably wasnt in the game because of the troy thing tbh
nope
what? all gods? wah.. i didnt know troy has such an impact
Apollo's entry in Achilles's codex would just be incoherent screaming.
lol
Dionysus isn't in the Trojan war I think since he wasnt really part of the olympians yet
Most major gods, but yeah, there are a few absentees.
Yeah some gods are younger than others too
omg i need to watch the movie troy again and picked up all these missing pieces
Hestia and Demeter wasnt too i think
i love troy lore
zeus banned the gods from directly influencing troy since it was a fight between poseidon and the humans, did some of the OLYMPIAN 12 still do stuff? yes. but not all gods.
One of my favourite myths is hermes' childhood shenanigans
Hermes shenanigans are fun.
the most important was Aopollo and Posseidon
true
no matter how evil you guys make the gods to be, no one can top how evil athena was.
well he blinded he's son
I mean it took the man ten years to travel that far for a reason
Well. That's debatable aha.
Ares very, very nearly broke the oath against direct interference in Troy. He wanted to take to the battlefield personally after the loss of one of his children. Ares, unlike a lot of the gods, actually seems to care for his kids somewhat.
With all the things the male gods did to women
Zeus spurting everywhere didn't really help things either
I dont know who is the worst i know Hestia is the kindest
sorry but dudeee..... she did medusa dirty. And ever since, in society.. they (still) think medusa is the villain
yeah she liked transforming people she didnt like
Ares also rescued Than and killed one of Poseidon's sons after said son assaulted one of his own daughters. Oh, and he genuinely loved Aphrodite.
There is a LOT of transforming in Greek myth xD
It depends on the interpretation of the myth... I actually think that she was trying to protect medusa, and poseidon was defo in the wrong but like I said it's up to interpretation
even Zagreus in myth died in form of a bull lol
oh ... that's interesting. I wanna see aphro and ares dialouge now as a duo when i picked these two boons
She then sent a kid to cut off her head. Such protection.
I remember Aphrodite talking about her husband so atleast Hephaestous is mentioned
kinda
Oh my bad, I didnt realise it was athena that sent him. I meant the whole gorgon thing aha
She sent Percy to kill her and bring back Medusa's head so she (Athena) could use it as a weapon.
I mean greek mythology as a whole is very interesting. There are a lot of different sources
And Aphrodite has a husband (although she'd rather be with... others.) Ares most of all. xDD
SO MANY VERSIONS
bro just imagine being Aphro and they make you husband of HEPHAESTOUS
hephaestous played it well ngl
I mean I'd suggest overly sarcastic productions. They list sources too, I believe, and they're funny
Aphro isn't exactly faithful. I mean, she goes off with Ares, Dio, Hermes etc. xD
but first i need to know how did greek myth came up ya know LOL. that can be an interesting take
yeah everyone knows about Ares and Aphro
Though most married gods had affairs.
and that one times Hephaestous caught them doing the thing and he trapped them and showed them to the rest of the gond to humiliate them
who is zeus married to?
????????
Hera right?
Hera,
Hera???
ohh ya oops
xd
I can't say I'm too surprised fans of a game called Hades like Greek myth funtime xDD
Didnt hercules named after her? Heracles
its easier for me to look up these things since im Greek
She's the goddess of marriage too I believe. So she got very angry at zeus running off and... ya know
ayyy his name pop up in the game.
Hercules was roman I believe- Heracles was the greek one
Yeah he's son of zeus, and his mom thought by naming him heracles, hera wouldnt be too angry i believe
Ah it's been a long time since i dwelve into myths
Heracles is an Ancient Greek existing person
most of Roman mythology is Greek mytholgy but different
I've been trying to learn about mythology for a few years, but it's nothing formal so there are always gaps in the knowledge
Yeah, people likes to take things from one another a lot
Same, i used to like to read about local myths, then i found out other countries have their own too so i was like wow it's amazing
Yeah Romans loved Ancient Greeks so they liked to copy some things but they did some rly good stuff on their own
I'm Scandinavian so I've been trying to learn more about norse mythology too
yeah i like that one too
Apollo just stays the same tbh. Idk why though
Ares and Mars were seen pretty differently.
I think it's because of his role in troy. Too much beef with achilles
I really wanna see that though.
man what are you saying dosent make sense
Achilles is like 'dying in war made me view Ares differently'... and then there's Apollo... xDD
his beef with Achilles would made him even more interesting
i think its just a boon matter
Yeah. Idk how they wouldve made his boons that different- they could do damage over time, but that's kinda dio's thing...
and?
The codex would be strange. And idk how you could help out those two and simultaneously befriend the guy who killed them
He pretty much directly killed Pat, so... I doubt Achilles would write kind things. I'd love Apollo in the game though.
Apollo is the god of like half a million things.
I was considering fire but that's kinda haephestus
I dont think they didnt put him in just for the codex
Yeah- the DoT idea was because of his plague thing
Imagine zag found out and met him like bro you killed my bff and his bf prepare to die
Achilles RAGE xDD
I wanna see hestia too, maybe as a side character since she's not an olympian anymore
I'm now curious of what apollo's boons would be. Hermes has dodge, which would be the Oracle aspect, dionysus has damage over time which would be plague...
I think she'll be a nice chill side character tho i dunno where she'll be in this game tho xD
She might well still be an Olympian, given Demeter's reference.
I thought hestia gave her throne to dionysus?
prophecy stuff is about Fates
what else is there for Apollo to do?
yeah she did
so the Olymbians dosent fight
Demeter has a line about Hera and Hestia being willing to help, but not wanting to talk to Zeus's side of the fam atm xD
Wonder what hestia's boon would be like



