Hades: The mythological role models of the most important characters

In the course of the history of the Roguelikes Hades , she meets with Zagreus on all sorts of characters that originate in Greek mythology. While some of these figures probably should probably say most something, other comparatively unknown. We would like to introduce you to some role models of the most important characters. There are also smaller spoilers to the story of the game.

Character No. 1: Zagreus

In the game, Zagreus is known to be the son of Hades. With this he is also related in the mythological template, but his father Godenkönig Zeus is highly personally. This pregnant of the saying in the figure of a snake Toten goddess Persphone , which then gave Zagreus. Since Hera then raged against jealousy, she sat on the Titans on Zagreus, who tore him after a tough fight in shreds.

Character No. 2: Hades

Hades is the god of the underworld and the ruler about the dull. He is the son of the Titan Kronos and the older brother of the Poseidon and Zeus. Together they fought against the Titans and shared the earth after their win in three parts . Hades, who was hated both by people and gods, became a master of the underworld and the master of the Shadowreich , from which there is no escape.

Character No. 3: Persephone

Persephone is the goddess of the underworld as well as the daughter of Zeus. As in the game, it is also the mother of Zagreus in mythology. The Saga gradually fell in love with Hades in Persephone and asked Zeus to take her to his wife. Zeus refused this neither, nor did he agree with the request of his brother who subsequently abducted Persephone into the underworld . Since her mother prevented the plants on earth from the louder pain, it was decided that Persephone should only spend part of the year in the underworld.

Character No. 4: NYX

Nyx wakes up in Hades about Zagreus and pulled him up to her own child. She is the Personification of the night and a of the five primevals , which are even older than the gods of the Olympus. She is said to be the legend as the first deity from the chaos. The antique philosopher Seneca called Nyx as a mother of Hypnos and Thanato.

Character No. 5: Thanatos

Also on Thanatos Zagreus meets several times during its escape attempts. According to the legend, Thanatos lives, the god of gentle death, at the entrance to the Underworld , so where each other meet every day and night each other. Due to its relentless nature, he is quite unpopular, because if he has packed a soul once, he never releases this again. He is often mapped with his brother Hypnos, the god of sleep, which also occurs in Hades.

Character No. 6: Charon

Charon is the ferryman , whose task is to pass the souls of the deceased over the dead flow at the entrance of the Hades. In the game he is a dealer who offers Zagreus various useful items. On his ferry, however, only those who received the funeral rites and can give Charon accordingly an obolos as a payment for the ride. Dead who had not been buried, he rejected the crossing and damn her to kill 100 years on the shore of the river before he took her to the other side.

Character No. 7: Erinnyen

The first boss opponent, who puts Zagreus in the way, is Megaira, one of the three erinnyen , also called Furien. According to Hesiod, Megaira and their sisters, Alecto and TiSiPhone, the daughters of Titanin Gaia, according to other say the daughters of the Nyx or the daughters of Hades and the Persephone. They are the personification of the conscience and are also considered in some versions as square and protective goddesses of moral order.

Character No. 8: Achillus

Achillus or Achilles called, is in Hades of the trainers of Zagreus and one of his closest familiar. He is a legendary hero and the protagonist of the Illias from Homer, which describes a section of the Trojan War. Achillus should have bathed in the underworld flow Styx and so unifindable, only his verses remained untouched, which is known to become his vulnerability and to spoil it into spoil.

Character No. 9: Thesus

Thesus is the third boss opponent, which Zagreus has to oppose the surface on his way to the surface. Like Achillus, he is also a of the most famous heroes of Greek mythology and was also a legendary King Athens . He defeated the legendary Minotaur and struggled with Heracles against the Amazons. He was ultimately murdered by Lykomedes, the King of Skyros.

Character No. 10: Jurchaos

The Urchaos is the oldest being that Zagreus encounters his escape attempts. According to Hesiod, the chaos was the original state of the universe , nothing or the emptiness. From him created the five Urgötters Erebos (darkness), Eros (love), Gaia (Earth), Nyx (night) and Tartaros (underworld).

Characters No. 11 & 12: Poseidon & Zeus

Finally, we want to devote ourselves two special secondary or rather boundary figures. Of course, Zagreus gets help in Hades from various other mythological figures, but the most significant from them are certainly his uncle Poseidon and Zeus . The latter was, with the exception of the fate goddies, the most powerful of all Olympic gods and the ruler over heaven and earth . His brother Poseidon is the God of the sea , over which he had received the rule after the fall of his father Kronos.

Which character did you have closed in Hades especially in the heart?

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