The Full HADES Series Iceberg Explained – Lore, Secrets, Easter Eggs (Hades & Hades II)

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Hades by Supergiant Games, is one of the most beloved rougelike games of all time, and with the release of the second installment in the series, Hades II earlier in 2024, it’s time to explore a world riddled with tie-in’s to ancient Greek mythology and the cycle of life and death in the Greek Underworld!

Exploring the HADES Series Iceberg – Lore, Secrets, Easter Eggs & More
0:00 Intro
2:42 Tier 1
17:30 Tier 2
37:42 Tier 3
54:46 Tier 4
1:10:32 Tier 5
1:18:47 Outro

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Music:
— House of Hades Ambiance — Hades

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9 thoughts on “The Full HADES Series Iceberg Explained – Lore, Secrets, Easter Eggs (Hades & Hades II)”

  2. Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed this look into the world of Hades! Let me know what other topics you'd like to see videos like this about in the future!

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  3. You called for someone who is a fan of Dream of the Endless, so here I am! In the Sandman series, the connection between Orpheus and Morpheus is direct: Orpheus is the son of Morpheus, and is "blessed" with the same immortality that the Endless enjoy. Except… immortality is not the same thing as invincibility. On his return from the Underworld, Orpheus encounters the Maenads who demand that he… cough party with them to which in his melancholy he refuses. The Maenads take that personally, and tear his body apart. For many centuries Dream refuses to meet with his son again, but finally in the modern era agrees to meet with him and end his millennia long torment by granting him death. In so doing, Dream has committed the cardinal sin: the killing of one's own blood, and so Hecate (aka The Fates, the Furies, and many other names) are allowed to hunt him down. A lot happens in the spaces that I'm not covering there, because everyone should read The Sandman, it's a really great story in it's own right.

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  4. Regarding Melinoe's arm: her place in mythos is pretty often unheard of. Being the child of Zeus and Persephone, Zeus tore her apart limb from limb when he learned of the pregnancy. Her arm might be referring to this, and Hecate may be joking that her right arm might end up similar to her left if she overworks the cauldron, not that her left arm was a result of doing so beforehand.

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  7. A devout The Sandman fan here! In the comics, Dream is Orpheus’s father! In the myth Orpheus is the son of the muse Calliope and in the comics these two were married and Orpheus was their son. I won’t say more not to spoil people who are unfamiliar with the story amd want to read it and/or want to watch s2 blind.

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  9. Regarding Erebus: it is considered a sort of space in between Hades and the surface, where souls roam, unable to pass through to the after life if they paid no toll and where the souls of animals reside. However, Erebus also means darkness itself, or the dark of the underworld specifically. Hades 2 specifically seems to be calling to mind the Odyssey’s usage of Erebus, inspired by how it’s connected to Oceanus.

    I’m not sure if this explains the usage between games, but it makes me think the space itself is probably used for “storage” in the first game, shown primarily by Charon’s massive gold pile. But also the souls— perhaps in Hades the souls down there are those who couldn’t pay coin, and thus are fighting to earn a spot in the underworld?

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