#h1-story-discussion
1 messages Β· Page 250 of 1
weird how the hidden aspects cost less than the third ones 
just how it works out I guess 
Bruh. I almost managed to get a sub 15min with the Gun, but then... Satyr sack popped on Styx 4th chamber.
15:02. Curse you styx.
this is a real rng moment
Yes... Nothing guarantees you to get it even if you take the 2 elite rooms in first.
the elite rooms aren't even that hard really
except for the serpentstone we don't talk about that
there's also tiny vermin π±
||tiny vermin|| isn't hard
just smack it when it comes up and if it gets close them simply dash away smh.,,
just takes a while
we should probably spoiler that 
we in the spoilers channel π
just incase someone happens to look at this channel anyways, we can't have them already knowing about that thing
Is the chance of showing up quite low ?
I don't know the exact chance of it showing up
I'm sure some of the speedrunning peeps would know
I have had it only once out of my 40 runs
Yeah it can take a while, also ruined me a sub 15min in another run D:
The one I hate the most is the elite with the big satyr that spits 6 poisons stacks at you at high speed
Satyrs are irritating in general
I hate Satyrs
Tiny vermin isn't that bad but it's the other mobs which are rather annoying
Nyx is like Batman. Leave a child unattended, and she will adopt them
How do you ||complete Hypnos's favor?||
i just have a question regarding the pact of punishment, should i bump it up by 1 each time beacuse i can get more resources that way or do i just straight up gor for 8 to reveal the skelly hidden thingy, if so can you still go to level 4 hheat for example and get resources if you completed a higher level of hheat before that ?
complete his storyline
Doing heat higher than your current bounty level will net you bounties for your lowest, next bounty level anyway. So, if you have all your 4 heat bounties lined up to obtain next, and you do an 8 heat run, you'll still get the bounties for 4 heat
This way you can never miss out on any bounty rewards
does putting titan blood into the zag aspects count toward unlocking the hidden aspects? (besides ||guan yu||)
i accidentally sold a legendary boon once
i dont even get the achievement for it since im on console
smh
I've been hearing things about summoning, what's that about?
Like uh I saw someone post something about summoning something from Meg
||if you raise your relationship to the max with certain characters you can get small pets which aid you in battle||
:O!
:0!
i just got the true ending and i'm fighting hades again. he really went from "You think of me as cruel? You know nothing of the sort." and then is like "I hope you enjoyed your way up here Zagreus my good son" like 12 seconds later
the real journey to hades was the friends we made along the way
character development
I wonder if I need all 52 of my ambrosia, lol
Hmmm, each level up to your summons costs one more ambrosia than the previous level.
I traded only 2 Ambrosia for Titanblood and saved the rest and I've already run out, although I've gotten summons and capped most of them and gotten the epilogue before all my friends who also play Hades so there's that...
does anyone have issues where fated authority/persuasion doesn't work? i have the perk that gives one on key rooms and i also have 2 of the boon reset ones and they haven't been showing up at all
and i'm not using the pact that negates them
Can you reach the epilogue without ever giving Zeus a single nectar?
i think you need all gods on at least 5 hearts and if possible 3 on max?
there's more after persephone returns to hell???
time to start hoarding nectar
Oh dear I used most of my nectar on Achilles, Thanatos, Orpheus and Nyx
And Dusa when she doesn't disappear
thats why you gift first and talk later 
unless you've developed a habit of spamming the interact button after an encounter and physically cannot give the gods any nectar 
me trying to gift hermes his last ambrosia 
also is there something i need to be able to uhh... "borrow" stuff from charon?
preferably something vague
Don't do it
the borrow
Unless you want to fight him
borror
unless you wanna die in 3 hits
Exactly
sry i couldnt decide between horror and borrow
there's literally no other reason it's not like i'm ever short on obols if i decide to go to charon
-> borror
I died the first time I did that but it was hilarious
I'm always low on obol
i want to get smacked with an oversized oar damnit
never low on obol cause hermes keeps paying me 10 obols per room
I did that twice then I felt guilty and gave him nectar until I maxed his relationship lol
hermes is a bro
do you still feel guilty?
Not really but I still don't feel like messing with Charon
look i got 56.3% dodge chance here 
How can you upload pics?
post image in different server > copy link > paste here
Oh okay, thanks
or do that π
exclusive access is absurdly good i gotta make sure i remember the gods i need for it next time
like how is it even balanced you just get epic boons for free
well you need poseidon for that
I don't think there's anything to increase the RNG for Charon, but I know that the "borrow bag" can't show up in the shops at the end of a zone right before the boss, it has to be sometime before that.
for a duo boon to show up i just need to have any boon from both gods right
there is one way: go to every single middle market for the rest of your life
nope they have concrete requirements
where do i find this but for the other gods
https://hades.gamepedia.com/Special:Search?scope=internal&query=duo&ns[0]=6 there are only 3 so far?
thank god there's one for poseidon lmao
actually nvm there are more π
i should give that guy more credit
his special and attack boons should still definitely be avoided but the other blessings are π
lol
why the hell is exclusive access so easy to get
his cast is aright, but its annying with the demeter duo
cause it's poseidon.......
you almost never go for him together with dio
also if you go for that duo boon you are required to have him instead of an actually helpful god to you
finally a reason to actually be excited to see poseidon
if i go for poseidon and dio then all of the other actually helpful gods including dio just become even more helpful
Common:
Obols Awarded: 50β70
Health Awarded: 1β3 items
Darkness Awarded: 50-100
Chance of Nectar: 10%
Chance of Diamond: 0.03%
it gives DIAMONDS
and nectar but DIAMONDS
MY ORPHEUS MUSIC COLLECTION WILL FINALLY BE COMPLETE!
0.03% is basically dream luck
well thats the common one
i still got it like twice without ever going for poseidon on purpose π
you can farm diamonds more efficiently from literally every other source of diamonds 
I just farm nectar and trade it up, ha
Possibly while also farming Lernie bounties and saving money to see if Charon has one in his temple shop.
is there a list for hades 100%ing
so far i have
-get all hearts
-get all house contractor stuff
-get the endings
-beat game with all the weapons
-get all mirror stuff
Don't forget like 10 Ambrosia per summon to level them up.
all ||ranks?||
60 if just for leveling summons. 66 if you count the ambrosia required to get them from their related NPC.
Then uh, I don't know exactly how many you need for the epilogue because I don't remember how many hearts most people have. You can save 1 by using ||Demeter|| as one of your 6 requisites since they don't need to be fully capped to qualify.
ok so 66
that is... a lot
Time to beat up Theseus!
Also you will eventually run out of uses for Nectar other than the best use of pouring one out for your Bouldies, so you can also stockpile that and trade it up until you get more Ambrosia.
I ain't a homewrecker, a brofist will suffice.
(Promptly punched to death by Asterius accidentally)
omg that looks and sounds like one of those shade interactions in the house of hades
"i wasnt a homewrecker, a brofist was enough" - death by punched by minotaur
Cause of Death: Fistbumped by the bull of minos.
EXACTLY
how do i unlock artemis's 7th heart
Just had a thought - since one of the prophecies is for Zag to buy the list of minor prophecies, what happens if you never buy it and defy the prophecy
i have an ambrosia but i cant give it to her
talk to her alot
You just gotta talk to her a whole lot. If she's looping canned conversations try mixing things up by forcing her to talk about something else like her keepsake or you trying to use bows or hunting rats up in ||styx||...
Those things aren't required but I feel like it helps feel like the RNG isn't betraying you 
Well, if you keep playing then eventually someone will be like "hey shouldn't you buy that already to progress the plot?" and Zag will be like "there's a plot?"
lol
"Nyx, how long has there been a plot? Father? ||Mother||? Meg did you know about this? Thanatos why are you looking so disappointed?"
lmao
honestly at the start of the game i was just tryna get all the nectars for arty
then i realized i need ambrosia and i actually need to progress and not just fool around simping
One hasn't truly simped until they have simped for the goddess of Chastity.
amen
also what happens if you escape first try (or close to it) and find ||Persephone||before knowing she's your ||mother||
hey deucalion le dude, is there a reason why you havent joined the ranks of hades?
i have seen you here for quite a while
nothing special
nothing
you already know she's your ||mother|| bc zag knowing it was before the game
^
i remember vividly when starting out in hades i knew of ||persephone|| and wondered where she was
then i saw the tartarus statues that you can destroy and thought it was her face on them and that i'd have to destroy them all to see her
i was a very dumb newbie
wasted so much time for ||mom|| 
nah we got ||night mom|| anyway
IT ACTUALLY WORKED

HAPPY ARTEMIS ADORING
btw how do i gain ambrosias besides killing annoying dude and minotaur with different weapons
the broker and the fated list
what's the broker
The shopkeep in the lounge.
Also I forgot about fishing. Uh, one of the ||surface|| fish gives Ambrosia?
||Bass||
Yes. Although it does offer the trades backwards from time to time.
Technically the value of Ambrosia and Titan Blood are the same to the broker, he just doesn't offer the backwards trade every time.
Titan Blood is the legendary fish and Ambrosia only the rare. But when doing bounties you can get 2 blood and only 1 ambrosia per full run.
ahh ty
Really how you value your resources probably changes based on where you are and what you want to do.
sorry though i have another question
how exactly do the bounties work? like what are the steps before and after
Each weapon and each heat level on each weapon has a set of bounties.
|| just released orpheus from his contract :) ||
If your heat is higher than the last set of bounties you got, it will still give you only your next qualifying set of bounties. So if you get 3/4 on heat level 5 then on your next run jump to heat level 8 on the same weapon, it will give you generic boss rewards for the first three bosses and then give you the 4th level 5 bounty for the fourth boss.
i am confused sorry
ok so lets say i do heat 1 with hard labor in pact of punishment
what next?
ah wait
so basically after completing the game with an active heat, i get a bounty which is like a heat level. so then i start another run with that heat lvl then i can earn more rewards?
Yeah
Each weapon has separate rewards for each heat level
Or rather, each boss has a bounty for each heat level for each weapon. Sorry if I'm making this more confusing.
If you have already killed a boss with the same weapon at the same heat level you will just get generic rewards (darkness + gems if you have that from the contractor). If you bump up the heat before killing each boss on a heat level before it, it will treat your boss rewards as if they were the earlier heat level but everything else about your heat will be normal.
Basically, finish all bosses on each heat level before you turn up the heat unless you just really wanna get erebus gates or ||skelly statues||
pet him more
jokes aside, most need you to talk after doing the favor
@orchid jewel
sorry
Is there like a conclusive ending i just gotta keep going for?
gonna have to do another run now so i can talk
yeah just keep doing runs
aight
a note that the cerberus one never grants immediately upon completing it, usually you need to change rooms
for achievement anyway, because ive seen a lot of misunderstanding with that one
but in the case of dialogue, generally keep doing runs until you get what you need, if you know you have met the minimum requirements already
the dialogue is not made to immediately respond to you completing a specific task, its just that the game sees you've met the requirement for it, so it enters that in the selection of potential dialogue that has a chance to come up the next you talk to an npc
okay i take that back there is dialogue set up like that but generally speaking for narrative/favour type stuff that's not typically the case, so usually just. keep doing runs 0:
2, ||3 in EM4||
to be clear: he has 2 phases, he only death defies once
yup
gosh now we know where zag got that from
Twice on em4
indeed
I am
This close to writing a fanfic where Orpheus hears from Zag about Eurydice and tries to get to Asphodel much to Meg's Chagrin
"I miss my wife Meg, I miss her a lot."
I found an online compilation of Thanatos quotes when you use a death defiance during his encounter and all of them sound distinctly supportive? The last time I DDed during his encounter he said something among the lines of "you cheated" or "you're playing dirty", which wasnt in the compilation
im guessing his dialogue all changes distinctly depending on how much you've interacted with him + his affection meter?
Can anyone describe how more painful ||Hades' phase 3|| is
its not that bad if you have the dps
||the pots will heal him for 1500 health i think so those are hard||
||he also summons minibosses and those stones that make other enemies invulnerable||
that sounds awful
What does EM1 to 3 do then
|| to forge a bond i need to fill a heart meter right?||
oh yeah ||phase 3 also lets him cover the entire arena in darkness so you cant see||
yes
ok
just wondering cause i just did two technically 3 but i didnt unlock the third
and got no achievement but
i need to give the ambrosia
||and he can summon cerberus||
im not sure, i think his regular attacks just hit harder and faster
extreme measures only affects the bosses on certain levels though
||em1 does only furies, em2 does furies and hydra, and so on||
kind of weird how ||em1 had 3 furies but em2 has 2||
I think his dialogue for your DD didn't trigger. Sometimes dialogue won't trigger if you get two in quick succession and those sound like his quotes for if you accidentally hit his barrier during the fight
huh, odd
I'm not sure how he canonically reacts to DDs though
I was guessing he'd get pissed about it, was surprised to find out he apparently's ok with it?
Yeah haha you'd think "Death himself" would be upset at you "defying" him but he is there to prevent you from dying in the first place so really seeing you defy death would probably vindicate his actions since he believes early on that your runs are doomed without his help.
man he's a weird one isn't he lol
I have no idea what's the deal with Thanny tbh
He acts completely differently from what I expected
He's a good boi. Kinda blunt and stern but when you first see him smile surely you will be very blursed.
I'm still surprised that he isn't antagonistic...since Zag's whole deal is trying to not die, and repeatedly coming back from the dead so he can yeet himself through the underworld again
thanatos smile is blursed as hell
deadass caught off guard when I realized Thanatos wasn't a fight
I was expecting YOU HAVE CHEATED DEATH ENOUGH ZAG NOW YOU DIE
thanatos is absolutely harder than literally all the bosses in the game because he can just.. oneshot you but like good thing hes your friend
Think of him as your inside man since up until the start of the game, Zag thought ||they were half brothers|| so you've always been kinda close but he's been really busy lately what with uh, everything going on. He's just here exasperated at you for insisting on your foolish escapes but still helping you because you're still best bros.
I think I'd still rather get scythed by Than then ||smacked upside the head with Charon's oar of doom||...
ares states thats thanatos has painless deaths so at least thats nice
oh man i dont know if i can buy that thanny is a best bro, hes just been grumpy all the time and acting like zag has the big stupid
He's your grump friend but he still has your back.
i mean if my closest friend decided to leave all of a sudden without telling me id be mildly pissed as well
He calls you stupid but still shows up to bail you out of prison.
zag: I'M LEAVING
also zag: returns after 5 minutes because he died to something dumb
Whereas continuing this prison metaphor, Skelly is right there in the holding cell with you being like "man you don't know what you were missing, harvest kid!"
There are a few uncommon dialogues if you end a run too quickly...
"forgot something" made me snort
"I uh... forgot my cthonic keys!"
speaking of which
why does zag carry all his belongings on him every time he escapes
not all
wouldnt it be heavy carrying like 20 diamonds
But... what if I get a story room and don't have any nectar on me?
cant leave home without bringing some nectar for a rocc

rock best waifu
yes
lol i think im getting caught off guard by thanatos because i already have a preconceived idea of what a death personification should act like
oh no, my expectations are being subverted
like thanatos, but less hot

you mean more hot
Haha yeah but go piss off Charon and you might have your expectations met.
Tbh I was expecting more like Terry from Soul, lol
talk about grilled cheese sandwiches with more hot thanatos
mercilessly devoted to job, "you can't cheat death" attitude, not evil just takes their work seriously kinda guy

it goes w/o saying that i love terry
anyway, lmao @ Charon's overpowered oar bonk
I wonder if all of Nyx's kids are this strong, wouldn't want to get on Hypnos' bad side
how does a literal ghost wield a wooden stick with more force than a god with a pitchfork
Charon is not a ghost
He's got amazing upper body strength from all that rowing. Check out those toned pecs and rippling biceps.

charon is likely really ripped but we wouldnt know it
Gotta take sleepyboi's word for it
He totally is. I mean Tis won't shut up about how chiseled his body is when you meet her right after the shop. She's totally peeping through the door at him.

lol @ hypnos telling you how buff charon is from rowing and "you should try it for yourself"
while zag replies "why don't you try it" 
Maybe we could, if Charon ever let you on his boat ||besides that one time||.
So, I jumped from Heat 8 to 16 today, fully expecting it'll take ages to get it down (especially because I never fought Extreme Measures 4) before and... Rama + Special build + Ares Doom + Aphrodite Duo = Shredded. I was shocked.
I was focusing on getting the last fight right and dodge all of the stuff I haven't seen before, not even noticing that the boss just melted.
Hello,
I have already completed the game more than 10 times, but I still do not have the hidden spear (legendary) or the other legendary weapons, Achilles never speaks to me about the spear, how to do?
the requirements are pinned in this channel
Basically go look at your weapons and look for the chained lock icons over aspects you have access to but don't own yet. Then make that number of locks go down until Achilles will talk to you about it.
Once he does, go talk to your spear and you will see the lock for Guan Yu. Now all the other phrases can be acquired, you don't even technically have to own Guan Yu, just be able to see it.
my next run is about to be my 10th clear, which from what i understand is the final segment to get the true ending
if i equip the chaos egg, can i use this run to fulfill chaos's prophecy?
probably
However, I have improved all my weapons to level 2/3 and certain levels 5 but Achilles still does not tell me anything: π¦
||the 10th run i don't fight hades right?||
Just gave my real mama Nyx some ambrosia*
well, doesn't hurt to try out the egg
For Guan Yu levels beyond level 1 are meaningless it is unlocking aspects that matters.
All aspect are lvl 1
but achilles still doesn't talk about the spear
You have all other aspects for all weapons unlocked?
yes
If that's the case, since you've already gotten to the last boss (over 10 times no less) and presumably bought the fated list by now it's just some really bad RNG if Achilles has not spoken with you about Varatha yet.
okay π¦
I once forgot having a waking phrase already and just never spoke to the weapon
The spear was the first secret aspect I've got
it has to be
well okay technically you don't have to buy it, but be able to buy it
Then sword, the others are still hidden
I want the fist ones, I don't who I gotta talk to for them yet
I've escaped 15-16 times and spear n sword are the only secret forms I've gotten
Are you maybe in the middle of some other plots involving Achilles? Like has he had conversations with you but not just the canned looping ones but ones that pertain to specific subjects and characters?
Sometimes the priority system for the dialogues in the game can lock you out of stuff you want for a few runs if other stuff of higher priority gets in the way.
@sweet turret || asterius, as in the pre boss encounter||
(information you might want)
i unlokced it by accident
Ah I see ty
I honestly loved the ending, one of the few games that made me sit thru end credits
I was so dumb thinking "Oh I'll clear this one with spear since ||Hades lets you go anyway.||" Then I forgot ||I didn't change the aspect to Guan Yu.|| Oof.
;_;
i remember the days when everybody told newbies to get their best builds for clear 10
Don't you not need to even beat ||Hades|| anyway to fulfill the prophecy for the hidden aspects?
it was a good time to get people flustered
I'm pretty sure the verbage is just "get this thing to the surface" and when Zag gives his little "well <aspect name>, I did my part now where's my dang reward?" (I might be paraphrasing here a tiny bit...) and the silhouette of the weapon shows up on the screen, that's a done deal.
||i guess i can just do all alternate mirror of night aspects if im not fighting hades lol||
Ah okay then I'll try that next time. If I managed to get to Hades twice with spear (Hades aspect too, lol) then I should be able to do it with Guan Yu as well
i used the hades to defeat the hades
Lol... not quite. First time I got roasted in the second phase
Hades: "That's what you get for stealing my spear, son!"
does meg say anything like that if you use her ||pet|| against her?
She says before the battle that you can't do that.
ah, ok
I mean it's quite obvious since ||you use the pet to summon Meg herself.||
though, ||you can use hadesβs call against himself and god greater calls against trials of gods||
so who knows
I wonder what's the max dmg you can get
getting really lucky with chaos gates and daedalus enchantments i guess
Wasn't the record something over nineteen thousand in one hit?
sounds plausible
19k? holy crap
ive used call against their own god like multiple times and didnt realise that you had to use greater for the achievement
is exagryph even a thing in mythology
My highest is 800 
my highest is over 900
6k 
9k with the gun
Hades is a good game
I need to up my damage game. That's why it takes forever to beat bosses :c
It is
None that I know of. Although I like how the name can basically be interpreted as "six shooter" even though it's usually anything but.
Supposedly it was Hestia's weapons in a war against the titans
Guess she just had a freaking gun lmao

What's the best keepsake, in your guy's opinion?
B52 boon
Charon for those styx shops, ha
I usually go for the bone hourglass at the end
I always go tooth lol
You will luckily reach the end boss with some 60% dmg and some move speed
The spear thingy might be good too
Anyone used the shackles ever?
for boonless runs, yes
What does it do
Makes all the boons you find to be minimum epic rarity

So you can have the mirror give you 20% for duo and legendary and go for those two lads
Hol up
just get spear and ares' attack boon π π ez dps
|| the daughter that demeter keeps talking about is persephone? ||
yeah, exactly
π
I'm not good with the spear
I escaped with all weapons but only once with spear and bow
Hangover makes enemies stop attacking for a while right?
no it just damages them
basically poison that stacks
there is another boon that makes drunken enemies move slower though
Hm cuz in the 4th biome I found that festive log made the snake enemies not fire their beams
yeah i think the "fog" in festive fog periodically applies "stun" for a near-instant to stop them from attacking
I have 100 hours poured into this game.....................................................And I still die to the shield guys in Elysium
at least they're squishy
Good to know spammy, and yeah I feel you
yeah the blast applies hangover

and then the fog comes
Talking about Festive Lob?
should we be in a different channel
Oh thanks for the tip, I'll try that next time
I just have to say, god Hades lore and story is so good. I'm like, so enraptured with how the characters interact, like the dialogue is so good. especially love how gradual the change in attitude and how the dialogue is both written and acted as you get to know each character more closely. It's just a hint of a change each conversation, each interaction, but the emotional weight and change in each conversation while minuscule in the grand scheme of things is palpable.
sometimes I like to mumble "murder... murderer?" to myself when I'm doing stuff
i wonder who else does that
I parrot voice lines back at characters as I play games, and it becomes a habit and so randomly I will just say "A palm of power" as I pick up my glass of blood orange juice.
I think palm of power should only be used when referring to coconut water
what about pomegranates
I am tempted to pick up the phone answer it and just went, "In the name of Hades, Olympus I accept this message..." in my awful British accent that for some reason switches between Posh English and Australian. I don't think I will but still the temptation is real
I really hope there's more I've now had 3 or 4 successful runs and the stories really interesting just wanting a conclusive ending
Keep at it, you'll get the ending 
Tho I'm thinkin of using the pact of punishment
Mainly just making the bosses harder
Extreme Measures my guy
Yeah, that can keep the runs feeling fresh. Extreme Measures is a great one to start with
There is a ton of story trust me. I got to a point where I was like this is getting boring then more story, and it hit me. And it was great
Yeah I'm gonna start using them a lot more
tbh even if hades doesn't have a good story
the combat is so fun
And yeah the story is super interesting
I love the characters
And the portraits are so beautiful I love the art
Reminds me of how persona does their talking and stuff
I'm 85 hours in and STILL seeing new dialogue and story
finally got the ||epilogue|| after 70 hours
i ||never gave nectar to the olympians and maxed out everyone else instead so took a fair bit longer than it should have||
||Same I just realized that I should start doing that||
So Skelly telling Zag to ||level up his weapon to kill him made me cry because I didnβt want him dead and then HE COMES BACK AND I WANTED TO CHUCK MY SWITCH ACROSS MY ROOM||
Skelly ||trolling mission accomplished boyo
||
I like Skelly. He's a cool dude
yeah skelly got me good with that one too
I love Skelly and I think thatβs why I cried
||I was spamming my friend on how I didnβt want him to die and she, whoβs already gotten to that scene just went βyep...mhmmmβ and laughed when I found out the truth||
Skelly is eternal
You also get an achievement for defeating him enough times
Plus he does like it when you hit him with stuff, hit your Skelly to show appreciation
Do you need to complete the associated minor prophecy for boons to get a god's favor?
for the epilogue stuff, that is~
no, each god's favor differs
most dont require their respective prophecy
Ares does, but most others do not
oh, gotcha! Yeah, I knew each god's favor needed various conversation and story bits but yuh, thanks
And Ares you'll complete just by playing anyway
The other god prophecies are more like optional side things
do i need to beat em4 hades to get his keepsake?
No
okthanks
no
Hypnos commenting his mother ||also doesn't talk to him when you mention Persephone is your mom|| has the highlight of the day
How to trigger a thembo's fight or flight: ||Show all three furies on screen||
so ive been trying to unlock the epilogue, i've heard that in order to do that you have to || get the true ending & clear the game at at least 8 heat. after that, at random, persephone should have an exclamation point above her head which should start me on the epilogue. after ive finished 8 heat and gotten the true ending, can i just spam quick deaths to get that exclamation point, or have i missed something?||
8 heat has nothing to do with it
But yes, you do have to keep talking to ||persephone after she has returned home||
heat has nothing to do with epilogue
if zagreus just dies when hanging around in the mortal realm what happens if he actually goes to olympus?
i feel like that should be spoilered
spoilers are okay in this channel
short answer: the olympus thing immediately went to the trash can the moment he discovers he cant stay in the mortal realm
o okey then
as per the channel desription "all spoilers welcome, reader beware!" 
ok but what if say, hypothetically he somehow makes it to olympus
so no idea if this is spoilers or not, but i am gonna discuss it here for safety; ||was Patroclus an actual person and if so was he actually romantically involved with Achilles?||
what's to say the gods can't just drown him in blessings
If he teleported there somehow I think Uncle Zeus&Pals would probably be able to do something about it
Patty is canonically Achilles' lover in greek mythology
from what i know its sort of debatable
so he is a real person
I'm sorry but I had to laugh at the Iliad spoilers here
well yeah hes a real figure in greek myth
well i wasn't sure if anyone had figured out Pat's name or not so lmao
as real as Greek mythology can be
whether there was an actual person named that is harder to discern
yeah
but they were super gay yeah
We can't figure how much of the Iliad was inspired by real life events
the blessings can only do so much, and Zag is bound to the underworld soooo even iff Zag was teleported to mount olympus somehow...he'd still die
but the achilles-patty relationship exists in greek mythology
lgbt representation in greek mythology 
it's not a re interpretation by SGG
neato burrito
and yep, Zag's bond to the underworld is like, something fundamental
i wouldn't mind if it was a reinterpretation since you can reunite Orpheus and Eurydice
not even the Olympian gods can do about that
The divine interventions and crazy happenings aren't real, of course, but it's likely there was such a war and maybe some of the figures had RL counterparts
Either way. Ancient Greeks often interpreted them as erastes and eromenos. And had ship wars over who was which.
if greek mythology wasn't actually mythology we probably would have gotten a ww3 in 2020 thanks to ares
Even Plato joined in
didnt the trojan war supposedly happen like 500 years before the iliad
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200106-did-the-trojan-war-actually-happen this link seems pretty informative
Wasn't the iliad about the trojan war?
I mean Homer wrote it after it happened ofc
But yeah
@native spade patroclus is a key part of Achilles's story in the iliad. Achilles refused to fight in the war so patroclus puts on achilles armor to rally the troops but he is killed. The book "song of achilles" by madeleine miller is told from patroclus perspective
yeah i just heard somewhere that he wrote it way after it happened
Yes, but the historicity is debatable, even taking out all of the god stuff
Achilles vs. Hector is a decisive point in the story, that's the role that Patroclus plays
nifty, thanks
The iliad was about just a single small portion of the epic multi year trojan war
It wasn't like an uninformed person writing 20 years after the fact, it was hundreds of years
Also what @rare tree said
I started playing this shortly after reading part of the iliad for school so ik who achilles and patroclus were
:D
the link above says that there was likely some kind of conflict at troy, which was a real place, but it seems like the iliad is mostly fiction
The rest of the epic is lost, therefore it's harder to place it
It's 100% fiction, only the location is accurate
Like
The trojan war was over trade
the only true part is that people fought over troy at some point lol
The details are fuzzy, but for example, there is evidence that there might have been a king Alexandros (another name for Paris)
The events that stemmed out of the trojan war by poems like the Aeneid are also fabricated but that's irrelevant here
The debate about the trojan war is multi layered ... There was probably some conflict near troy but nothing as epic as homer wrote. homers goal was trying to tie in all of these various gods into a key story... The big crossover of it's age (think infinity war for marvel). He succeeded.
Aeneid is fanfic of fanfic writted by a completely different guy, from a different civilization, many more hundred years later so... yeah
mhm
The iliad is interesting
It was basically Virgil looking at the Iliad, saying "that is cool, but what if that was also Roman history???
Lol yeah
It's also a propaganda piece
It basically takes a big dump on the Greek Gods
Yep!
If you are ever ashamed of your fanfics, remember, Virgil made his faves the predecessors of his own people then made up a romance between one of them and mythical queen Dido of Carthage. At least your ships aren't made to justify the end of the Punic Wars lol
I had to write a 20 paragraph essay and part of it was about the Aeneid
Though learning about it was fun
It's a good read, it's just hilariously unsubtle
Half of mythology is fanfics! Fanfic is the real deal
It's not Greek but even Lancelot was originally a fanfic character lol
French fanfiction
Getting back to Greek stuff though, god why does every interaction with Thanatos make me wanna cryyyyyyyyy
Sounds like Thanatos will be... the death of you
Lancelot is funny because some guy just went "this is my OC, he's the bestest knight and bangs Arthur's wife! he's also the dad of the guy who gets the holy grail!"
And everyone went with it
People didn't really have the same standards we do today so literally all you had to do was be able to write and they'd go with it
Honestly, it's crazy how much fanfics have evolved, as dense as they were back then I'd rather read epic poems like the Iliad/Aeneid than all the fanfics that come out today 
Ugh god probably. His interactions with Zagreus just send me; they're so emotionally-charged and it's too pure for me to handle GAH
i would hardly say moden religion is simple haha
Yeah, theology is... welp
But it's a lot easier to understand than Greek Mythology plus it's more widespread. Not saying the Bible is short and simple though
idk, i cant relate to that
Given that all modern fanfiction isn't filtered by thousands of years and the fall of whole civilizations, I don't think it's a question of quality being inferior
although solid half of my family is into theology so maybe im just exposed to the ~deep mysteries~ that i find horribly difficult to understand
Agreed. Give it a millenia and the good stuff will rise to the top and everyone will forget the crap
I don't know that that's inherently true
I disagree, gub. Having a sit down and discussing this is enough to make one go back to Theogony crying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miaphysitism#/media/File:Christological_spectrum-o2p.svg
Miaphysitism is the Christological doctrine upheld by the Oriental Orthodox Churches, which include the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Indian Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church. Rather than using the wording established a...
The stuff that persists the most through each modification is likely to make it to the modern era, quality be damned
You're probably right... Mine is a huge generalization
Oh god church stuff noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo MAKE IT GO AWAYYYYYYY π
I'm just sayin, mainstream christianity alone is enough to make your head spin if you go beneath the surface
agree
Ask an orthodox and a catholic priest the nature of the Trinity and watch them duke it out
Let's try not to drift too far off topic, please 
Yes, anyway
THAN
yes
Death is inevitable but Thanatos is taking his sweet time showing up for the next bottle of ambrosia
thanatos says gay rights
I mean it's set in Ancient Greece so there's a lotta gay rights going around (kinda)
Well
But this is interpretation to heck yeah gay rights
isnt the time period kind of debatable?
Probably lol
all we know is that guns havent been invented yet right
Eh, it's fantasy, probably not any particular time period
yeah fair
There's a magic gun and they imply King Arthur and Lucifer are both real
also in the death scenes on the surface theres one where he gets hit by a chariot
Could also be like Okami where it's set in some nebulous past but the actual era is complete fiction
Which..... I have so many questions
Just,,, it's hand-waved; don't worry about it
Kitchen sink mythology is my favourite type of setting
same
"Everything is real"
i kind of wanted them to put an egyptian god in
Those kinds of settings are fun on the surface but oh my god internal consistency just goes RIGHT out the window
it's always 7:48 in the underworld, of this we can be certain
yes
AM? PM? yes
If Aphrodite implied that she was known elsewhere by other names it would be cool
Yes, but consider, Zeus having a poker game with Perun and Marduk
Imagine being me and having to Google those names only to have Google roast me for yet again not knowing mainstream(ish) mythologies lol
lol what does it say
Nothing special but like by all rights I should know more about Slavic and Babylonian myths and instead I just fart around with East Asian and Pacific Islander mythologies lol
That's completely fair
Preferences and familiarity and all
Man. They should sell Cthonic Companions.
i would buy those so fast
hey dear merch people at supergiant, if you're watching: please restock the soundtrack on vinyl ;-;
Please. I need a little Mort in my life.
The concept that Nyx, Mother Night herself, sprung from the Primordial Chaos, took the time to make a line of little friendly pets that are meant to symbolize bonds of friendship, is the sweetest thing
theyre like beanie babies
rare collectible plushies with little stories attatched
And then Zagreus mentions ||Thanatos lost Mort when he was younger and that he was distraught||
Im hoping that supergiant realeses plushies
You can see baby than in a Cerberus portrait that you can buy from the contractor
It's gotta be planned
Yeah, but it's sort of odd, isn't it? Meg is in it and she apparently ||already worked in the house when Persephone left||
Maybe it's artistic liberty
Murder at a young age?
maybe they age at different speeds
Or they can shapeshift? Since I think by myth standards than should be older than Hades himself
Meg at 10 years old: You are so immature, Zagreus. Honestly, it's no wonder your father is disappointed. You need to start taking responsibility for your words and actions.
Zag at 10 years old: Bwahbwah? blrrr
Was anyone else ready to quit when you thought you had to fight Cerby? I literally dropped my controller and walked away for a minute before continuing.
my friend spoiled me that the temple of styx area was one where you had to get a snack for cerby and im glad i was spoiled on that
CERBERUS DESTROYED (HIS MEAL IN THREE BITES)
CERBERUS STUFFED (WITH FOOD)
Give him all the treats and pets
the goodest boy
CERBERUS LEFT (HE WAS HUNGRY)
lol if theres one thing the entire hades fandom can agree on, it's that cerberus is the best
true
||Persephone greeting him before talking to her husband is realism in games||
Hades π€ ||Persephone||
loving Cerberus
the other thing we can all agree on is that just about everyone in the game is stupid attractive
yup
Charon would theoretically not be attractive but there's something oddly endearing about him
He's ugly but he's my friend
It's really cute when he attempts to say hello
"heeeeeehhh hooohhhhhhh"
charon youre doing a good job sweetie...
i like weird skeleton guys π³
skelly
Has anybody been able to bond with Cerberus ?
Nectar is maxed but i still cant fully bond with him
give the bestest boi more pats ^_^
Petting him is the answer lol ? i thought i missed something in the storyline haha
20 pets
what do we use the ambrossa for? making bonds?
yes
petting doggo grants good luck to escape attempts (||this is purely anecdotal and does not actually do anything to improve one's chance of winning a run||)
One of the best things of this game is that you can give Cerberus a sleeping mat
it will always be hysterical when the narrator describes cerberus as a ferocious hell monster
cerby is just a large doggo
But at least it gives confort. 
Have a bad run? Pet the dog
~Cerberus~
Cerberus is always away for me so I rarely get the chance to pet the best boy π
D:
What about aphrodite ? for some reason i cant give her ambrosia
even tho nectar is maxed out
i'm close to my 200th escape attempt, feels like a good achievement
that requires getting to the point where you have max hearts (and the chibi icons) for the || romance options and dusa ||
@odd kiln
already maxed out for aphro
and i'm one more ambrosia away for complete dusa bond
actually the last one i have to give her 3 ambrosia (for dusa)
then you haven't met the condition for aphrodite's favour
Wait, should i have formed bonds with dusa first ?
aphrodite's final heart(s) won't unlock untill you have revieved the bond forged message with Dusa, Than and Meg
nooo
augh i feel so bad for him, he hasn't got friends in the underworld (except zag), even mom is disappointed in him
i like how zag can tell hypnos is having a bad day because he's still asleep when zag passes lmao
I wonder, how do you "unlock" the heart after you give hades his first gift?
keep playing and completing runs 
So far the only bond I've formed is with Charon
Hypnos is precious. Hypnocious. 
I'm glad I was spoiled on the fact that Hypnos doesn't mean to sound condescending when he dumps his unsolicited advice on you
Poor guy is 100% sincere, he's just socially inept 
i too, am disorganized, easily distracted, bad at paperwork, tired constantly, and horrible at understanding social cues
same
dude just out here being the most relatable character in the game
right down to doodling on his assignments
yes
I wondered about that for a long time, but when you see him interacting with Nyx, Than and even Meg you realise it's just how the boy is
He has a difficulty
It's sweet to see Than finding a way to help him through his endless list-making
Him telling Meg to evade Zag's attacks was a highlight for me lmao
well i mean, Meg barely tryβs to dodge
yeah
Yeah, and Zag tells him to go easier on him in a really grounded, non pretentious way
or somethin
No,no
Hypnos' synapses finally transmit an electrical current when he realizes he can make a list for himself
Nyx is just a bit exasperated that her kid is having difficulty becoming independent
Nyx is disappointed, but she's proud of him when he actually figures things out
i used to deliberately dash at/around hypnos to wake him up cuz i thought it was funny :(
tbf it is kinda funny
Given that all her other kids seem to have done well on that front and are pretty responsible (Charon, Thanatos, the Fates), I get why she has some trouble with it
but also i think he wakes up around zag bc he likes zag
Nyx herself became independent of Chaos pretty much on her own
oops i didnt know that was blocked by the language filter
I think there's this level of "all your siblings managed well why are you different?". Which is unfair, but understandable. Hypnos is the odd little brother.
But he just needs a nudge in the right direction
And naps
really?
He's SO similar to one of my friends who has ADHD
wow
Even in appearance
i might have adhd and looking at him struggle is like looking into a mirror tbh lmao
same
I think I might try to get him into Hades by showing him Hypnos, actually
Yep
Didnt he do that when zagreus snuck out
And went to read the letter
HAHAHAHA WHAT
Which is how he even found out about his mom
HE MADE HADES FALL ASLEEP
His domain is sleep, if you are succeptible to it, Hypnos can do it
I though hades was just chillin is his bedroom
wow, our boi really is the most powerful god
Loll
he can make all of olympus fall asleep and then rule as the SLEEP DICTATOR
I mean. It's less a question of power levels and what each of them is meant to do.
Hate to be that guy but, susceptible
he really needs a chthonic companion
Typo, I'm on my phone
This reminds me: I remember seeing a twitter thread of all Hades characters a long while back, looking at Hypnos for the first time and thinking "oh boy this dude would be my favourite if i got into the game"
fast forward several months later
me wishing there was a Hypnos romance route lmaooi
I wonder if hypnos would be the only way to make theseus shut up
I want a hypnos cthonic companion, or even funnier, a call
that could actually work
By the way, I'm not a native speaker so my autocorrect will not pick up on things. On principle I find this kind of nitpick annoying.
oh ye just puts everyone exluding the boss to sleep for a few sec
no damage, just stunning enemies for a while
and then when they wake up they're slowed down for like 5 seconds
Its, fine most ppl who speak eng are not native speakers
I know
boiii, imagine all the new voice lines when calling him
I would want it just for that
it'd be funny if his "call" was unlocked by him telling zag "hey could you do me a favour? if im falling asleep at work give me a wakeup call"
hahahahah
Wake up Hypnos 50 times
and his greater call voice line is just
"AHHH I'm up I'm up"
I read that in his voice
amazing
It just hit me that the one god that keeps up with the records and statistics of the underworld, is the one ruling over sleep
Cuz yknow
Statistics is generally considered boring
boring job hahhaha
I always though Hades gave him that job for a laugh
cause he knew hypson aint gonna do nothing
Giving him a job that requires infinite lists was pretty smart of whoever suggested it
Lmao
Hades: I employed all of Nyx's other sons what do I do with this one
"emotional support"
Hades: What can you do?
Hypnos: Induce sleep and make lists!
Hades: Statistics it is, then.
the ability to hover and sleep in place sounds wonderful
i bet he gives great hugs
Yes. What could be more comfortable than air.
It actually does sound like an useful skill in an eternal place
like he wears a blanket all the time come on
hug the hypnos
according to achilles, hades might keep hypnos around bc hypnos brings some cheer to the gloominess of the house
That cloak..
Wont be bored to death
he is the emotional support god
when your court musician is so depressing you gotta hire hypnos for something
That cloak does look very comfortable

Loll
romance route plz.....let him wrap zag in the cloak
I wonder if he can curl into a ball in it
Cant hypnos at least make me coffee
Egg form Hypnos
Burrito form
Now nothing can awake him
would you like an egg form in this trying time?
@pastel quail mate my profile pic
There's so much hypno burrito art on the internet lmao
I love you
yup
good
Gimme a kith
Hypnorrito
Havent seen it
Hmm
Where
I haven't seen it either
Where do we find the legendary Hypno burrito art oml
guys do you know
I need that in my life
is asphodel supposed to be hell, or tartarus?
search #hypnos on twitter there's a ton of burrito lmao
The Greek underworld doesn't really map to the Christian version of Hell tbh
Uh... Technically neither?
ooh
love that sulfur smell
Zag mentions sulfur smell every once in a while
Yep
YEAH lol
Good think I cant smell XD
So probably like a rancid fart and smoke
we have a game for that call 'dante's inferno'
Lmao
to asphodel I go
Also the river in elysium right
Asphodel is pretty lit
Which is I mean technically that's Church-sanctioned Bible fanfiction but anyway
Is that fr supposed to have amnestic properties?
Lethe
ye
Yes
God no bruh trust me, you don't want memory loss
In my mind its all the river styx
Even though i know its different
There's like uhhhhhhhh 5? rivers in the Greek underworld??
yo, how do I get my boi achiles back with patroculus
I have maxed out my hearts with both
Lifted from Wikipedia:
the Acheron (river of woe), the Cocytus (river of lamentation), the Phlegethon (river of fire), the Styx (river of unbreakable oath by which the gods took vows), and the Lethe (river of forgetfulness).
Neat
I sometimes wonder why Hypnos doesn't comment on the Lethe
Since according to the lore he lives in a cave with the Lethe flowing through
Now I'm just thinking about how Nyx popped out the three Fates, unmoveable forces to which eveb gods must bend, Thanatos, the incarnation of death, Charon, the dreadful skeleton boatman of Styx
And then
Lil Hypnos
Who is a nice curly haired boy that likes blankets, naps and being helpful
like...the universe at the beginning of time
space I think
Chaos created Nyx though
Exactly what it says on the tin
technically sleep usually happens at night
chaos is like the predecessor to everything
Oh no wait I can't read right, sorry
How is he an entity to interact with
Yeah Chaos is the primordial god thing
everything is personified
damn I remember thinking chaos was gonna be the main villain LMAO
dont question it
Okay
Yes, I know, I just find it funny that Hypnos is the little brother of this family of scary goths
Hypnos is the kind goth
Baby bat
If you look at Nyx other kids in lore
The one who looks scary but who'd share their lunch with ya and take a nap in the next class lol
She also has a daughter called Philotes
friendship incarnate apparently
Hypnos is not the only oddball lol
I'm specifically talking about Hades canon
