Lunar Ray Is Here to Stay | Hades 2

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  6. For Selene run ideas: There's a Morph upgrade that makes your sheep explode on death. Is it good? Absolutely not. Would a video titled 'the exploding sheep build' do well with the Youtube? Very likely.

    For trivia: Selene is actually a god (a male god) adopted from the Proto-Indo-European peoples who originally settled all of Europe, including the Mediterranean. The Greeks swapped that god (who was called 'Mehnot' or 'Mene', another name the Greeks used for Selene) to a female goddess because the moon was female-gendered in Greece (see also: Artemis).

    Besides congratulating Mehnot on her transition, we also need to send her our condolences on the sudden competition, because she was originally the Moon God and god of the night in the Proto-Indo-European pantheon. The Greeks however wanted their religion to be distinct from their forebearers, who are sometimes amusingly abbreviated to the PIE peoples. They effectively used the PIE folks' deities as placeholders to be later replaced by their own gods (in this case Artemis) that matched their religious sensibilities of the cosmos being run by extremely horny teenagers in adult bodies squabbling over their own egos.

    To reflect this, many of the PIE-derived deities like Chronos, Helios and Selene were given the identity of 'Titans', older deities who were precursors to the Greek deities that were eventually overthrown. Selene, her sister Eos and her brother Helios were all rebel sympathizers, however, and so were not sealed away with the Chronos-loyal Titans in Tartarus. This conveniently allowed them to continue raising the sun and moon while driving their respective chariots (which carried the celestial bodies behind them) across the sky in an endless cycle, meaning there was no need for an elaborate myth about how the Gods ran the sun and moon during their war against the Titans.

    To their credit, the Greeks stuck firm to this idea of Selene being a diehard loyalist for the Greek Gods. She squared up to 1v1 Typhon,, the scariest monster in the entire Greek cosmology, a fight that she walked away from with hardened battle scars (this is how the Greeks explained the impact craters on the Moon that give it its dappled appearance in the night sky). She also is depicted fighting the Snake Giants in the final battle of all Greek mythology, the Gigantomachy, when Gaia conjures up an army of monster-headed giants in a final bid to overthrow Olympus. Selence not only snuffs the light of the moon so Gaia can't find the magic herbs needed to make her giants invincible but also charges headlong into battle on her lunar chariot and then defends Olympus at the gates themselves once the giants win the first battle.

    Despite all of her feats and prominence, other deities that came later continued to also associated strongly with the moon, and also were called lunar goddesses. Hecate was originally imported from the Anatolia region of the Middle East (the coast of modern day Turkey) and also lay claim to the domain of the Moon. In ancient times, rather than having gods fight each other over who controlled what domain, you could just have several gods doing different things with that domain. So Hecate became the goddess of happenings in the night (especially witchcraft and hauntings), Artemis the moon as a time of nature, hunting and changes and Selene the moon as a physical object that moved through the night skies.

    In Hades II this is wonderfully referenced by having Selene, Hecate and Artemis all be tied together by their domain–the so-called Silver Sisters, which is also part of why Mel quips that she likes silver better in Tartarus after beating Chronos' giant money bag. Presumably there's a corresponding Golden Brothers for Helios, Apollo and potentially the Roman Sun God, Sol. This is also a very clever way for the developers to present Mel's conflict with Chronos as not just a family dispute but also a clash of their domains. While a minor Goddess, Melinoe shares Hecate's domains of moonlight, witchcraft and ghosts while also sharing Nem's domain of vengeance and divine justice (I'll do a comment on Mel herself some time to go into more detail on all this).

    Thus, Chronos breaking open Hades and releasing all of its ghosts to recruit soldiers for his bid on Olympus gives Mel ammunition with which to fight him–the vengeful souls she recruits on her journey by sprinting into them, the spirits she guides back to peace in the crossroads using the tablets and of course that spooky ghost-coloured energy that comes from all of her boonless weapons. It also violates the domains and duties of Hecate, Artemis and Selene, uniting them all against him as a single force. This isn't just a revenge quest by an angry family member, it's a divine conflict where Mel can bring all of her spooky witchcraft and ghost powers to bear against the enemy of not just her entire family but everyone who shares in her divine duties. Thus, Selene, Artemis and Hecate being so eager to aid her in her quest, united in one mission to bring him down.

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