Time To Get SERIOUS on the Surface | Hades 2

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  7. So the Grape Juice gives you 100 base power every time you pick it up. It's easy to weave in since you just run through it, but it only works on the first attack. Can't wait to try it with the giant chop on Mel Axe and Secret Crush, maybe with Aphro's Attack.

    Trivia for this run:

    The Morph hex is a reference to one of Circe's spells, which was using a magic potion to transform her victims into animals of some kind. Most famously, she transformed members of Odysseus' crew into pigs when they stopped over on her island. She references this in-game by having a flock of sheep on her island (they probably don't have models for pigs yet in-game), referring to others by the pet name of 'piggy' and giving Mel a piggy bank as her keepsake. When he encountered her, Odysseus was able to resist the effects of her enchantment by eating moly (the herb you can pick up in Erebus) revealed to him by Hermes, another powerful magician. Moly was said to have properties resistant to magic in Greek myth, and here Odysseus eats it while he overpowers Circe.

    The Greeks portrayed Circe as a somewhat ambiguous (though far less benevolent than this game's take on her) figure who ultimately chose to help Odysseus find his way home after it became clear he wasn't a threat to her. However, she also refused to change back his crew and mothered two sons with him while he was trying to petition for their release. Hermes warned him that she would attempt to kill him while in bed unless he had her swear on the Gods not to harm him, and the degree of consent Odysseus had with her is highly questionable. Despite this, she also absolved Medea of the murder of her brother, casting a purification enchantment that protected her and Jason from the horrific Furies we see in the first game who punish kin-killers and murderers.

    In this account she is shown to strongly disapprove of Medea's darker tendencies but also pity her for being completely dependent on Jason and cutting ties with her country and family out of love of him. Thus, while she has several less than savoury qualities, she also seems to show compassion for those close to her and seems to draw the line at murder when she isn't desperate. The Romans however added another vice to her: violent jealously. In the story of Picus, told by the Roman writer Festus, she found herself pining for a gorgeously handsome but married Italian king. When he predictably rejected her advances, she retaliated by turning him into one of the birds he used for divination, a woodpecker.

    More famously, she also is the origin of Scylla in Ovid's Metamorphoses. While the Greeks had Scylla as a natural-born monster birthed from Echidna, another monster, in Ovid's tale she was a normal nymph who was loved by the God of fishes, Glaucus. Depending on the story, either she snubbed Glaucus and he turned to Circe to poison her in revenge or Circe herself loved Glaucus and poisoned Scylla out of jealousy. Whatever the case, Circe slipped poison into her bath water, and the horrifying always-hungry dog heads that Scylla is known for sprang from her waist.

    As for why Sheep specifically in Mel and Hecate's case? I honestly think it comes down to asset conservation. Polyphemus already had his own sheep flock involved in his boss fight, and Circe was said by later authors to transform people into many kinds of animals, not just pigs. So they give her a sheep flock, too, and have Hecate specifically prefer to turn people into sheep. In her own myths, Hecate prefers to turn people into dogs (as alluded to by her talking about her fondness for dog familiars–many of her familiars are people she turned into immortal dogs in her service either to save them from a rough life or to demote a witch that displeased her) or polecats (the first polecat was said to be a witch who earned Hecate's ire).

    In-game, it was easier for them to create only the one sheep model and use it for the three characters, so turning people into sheep is the go-to Hex because of Polyphemus' flock needing to specifically be sheep since it's always said to be sheep in the myths while Circe's hex is said to involve many types of animals besides pigs. To my knowledge, Selene never turned anyone into a sheep either, so I assume she's giving you the curse by way of Hecate or Circe. In any case, it sure is a fun Hex to use against people, though I do hope we get to see Circe's pigs in the final game in some capacity.

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