This Element Only Run Was FIRE | Hades 2

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  5. I feel like this run would have been more fun without the vows priming magic and nuking specific boons. Fire's main fun is that Hestia combos into herself really well and you were forced to heal up your magic rather than take new boons like three or four times in a row. As such the base damage was really low the whole time. Then again I feel like most runs are more fun without the vows that basically exist to make the gameplay less engaging lol.

    For trivia: The Greek philosophers all had very different ideas of what each element's properties were and how they operated, with different philosophers throwing in their lots behind different elements as the best, most noble and most important to the cosmos, as well as how the different elements beget different states of change and division. Heraclius was the one who threw himself behind fire as the dominant element, describing it as the agent of change in the world. He was famous for being vague and hard to follow, but his ideas seems to have been that fire as an energy source provided the power needed for Chaos to produce the oceans, lands and skies that led to the other elements. In addition, he believed that the human soul was composed of fire and water, with all noble parts of the soul being made of fire and all the ignoble parts of the soul being water.

    As a water stan myself, I think this whole 'water is evil for your soul' business is all a load of nonsense, but Heraclius did die because of fluid swelling beneath his skin due to edema, so maybe he had a point…Plato, who coined the term 'element' to describe these four fundamental states of matter, believed all elements were equally central to the formation of the universe, and that they each had unique geometric shapes that created the shapes of all matter. He associated fire with the tetrahedron, a set of four interlocking triangles. He believed this because rising fire has a sharp, angular shape, rising to a fined point like a triangle. This is why the alchemical symbol for Sulphur is a triangle–it's associated with volcanoes and fire.

    Plato's student, Aristotle, instead believed that the elements were distinct from matter as we understand it and had no concrete shape. No 'pure' form of the elements existed on Earth, according to him, quite reasonably noting that air could be wet or dry and fire could be ashy and oil could produce flame despite being water and so on. Instead, the elements were ideal concepts that could be divided into warmth (separation) and cold (unity) as well as moisture (adaptability) and dryness (self-determinism). Thus to Aristotle, Fire, being Warm and Dry, was the element of individualism, decision-making, creation and distinctness. He argued that the acts of smithing, cooking and alchemy, which all required fire, ended in distinct creations separate from several combined ingredients and thus that they embodied this harnessing of Fire.

    As for where all these ideas came from, the originator of the Greek classical elements, Empedocles, proposed the four distinct elements as a reply to philosophers who proposed all matter came from a single default state. He noted that certain states could not coexisted together, such as a bucket filled with air repelling water when lowered upside down and water being snuffed out by fire and so on. He therefore proposed that matter cannot be created or destroyed, a proposal at the core of chemistry even to this very day. Thus, instead of all things coming from building blocks of a single elementary particle, mattered could be divided into mixtures between four distinct and unchangeable states, each associated with four primordial beings of the Greek pantheon at the time–Zeus (air), Hera (earth), Hades (fire) and Persephone (water). Wonderfully, this lines up with Demeter being water, Hera being earth, Zeus being air and presumably Hades being fire if we could get elemental boons from him in Hades II itself. Bravo, devs.

    Empedocles associated fire with the core of all things, attributing the internal fire core to the world (he lived near volcanoes and thus could tell the Earth's core was burning hot) as the source of divinity. He also described fire as the seat of the highest soul, taken by Promotheus from the sun and given to humanity at its core. He also believed the inner fire was part of a cycle of the sun leaving fire behind in Hades when it set (during his time the Greeks believed the sun went underground into Hades during the night), and that volcanoes were the act of this inner fire of the planet rising back up to the sun via the atmosphere. He described the process of this heat's ascension to the heavens as the innate divinity of Earth rising back up to join with the Heavens.

    Thus, as he was reaching advanced age (either the age of 60 or 109 depending on the source, but probably 60 since the 109 source comes from Empedocles' fanboys from different eras), Empedocles decided that he would convert himself to a divine being by throwing himself into a volcano rather than die conventionally and condemn himself to a normal mortal afterlife in Asphodel. Thus, he would be consumed by Fire and reborn as an immortal, all his worldly aspects burned up by the fire leaving only his higher seat of divine reasoning. Having done thus, he would obtain immortality among the Gods as a divine being composed of pure reason. His fans describe how his plan worked, and after ascending to the cosmos he was placed on the Moon, where to this day (this day being about five hundred to a thousand years later) he feeds on divine dew and provides reason to the rational souls of the world. His haters however would describe how as he performed this act of hubris the volcano (Mount Etna) spat up one of his bronze sandals, a symbolic rejection of his attempt at ascension by the Gods owing to his innate humanity (need for physical objects such as clothes and shoes). All mortal things in this world are made of several elements, and no amount of any one element could separate a person from their innate personhood–only the Gods could decide to do that.

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  11. I think people are sleeping on Fight Fight Fight b/c it also permanently heals you for 50% of your max hp while allowing you to overheal for 10 locations.

    Say you have 200 hp and you get Fight Fight Fight. Your max hp will change from 200 to 300 since 200 × 1.5 = 300. Additionally, your hp will increase by the difference. If you had 50 hp, you would gain the difference of 100 hp for a final number of 150 hp. Your hp does not decrease with each encounter, so once the boon expires you will have 150/200 hp, a gain of 50% of your max hp.

    Fight Fight Fight is kinda like Circe's healing boon except it doesn't give you Life Affirmation in exchange for overhealing and overcharging max magick.
    Also W video boated

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