shipping big scary ghouls with little goody two shoes vaulties that need to find their dads since 2008
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Epic: The Underworld Saga
The Underworld Saga slaps. But I'm gonna drop another bucket of feels to The Underworld number.
Remember to get to the Underworld, you have to cross the River Styx. Odysseus is going by ship, but most of the time, it's just dead souls moving on to the afterlife, so they cross with Charon the Ferryman.
Thing is, though, you have to pay him.
Part of the burial rites in Ancient Greece was placing a coin in the mouth or near the body of the deceased so they could pay Charon to bring them across the river. No coin, no crossing.
Polites was killed by the Cyclops and left behind.
The 558 men drowned in the ocean after Poseidon's rampage.
His mother Anticlea drowned herself off the shores of Ithaka. (At least in versions of the story I remember. Somebody who's actually read The Odyssey will have more accurate information on her fate.)
None of them received a proper burial.
So all those souls they encounter in that number are trapped in limbo for eternity because they can't pay for the crossing.
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Thinking I should put as many ghouls as I can into the Hunger Games Simulator and have the ultimate ghoul-off.
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excited for charon to be even more of a softie
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WE EATING SO GOOD HADES FAMILY
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Charon is a special kind of eccentric. Awkward, exuberant, and not apologetic at all.
And he's not even a durge.
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Okay but Hermes being missing and Charon obviously being worried about it (inferred from Melinoe's dialogue) is KILLING ME
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*clarified on SuperGiant's stream that Charon's portrait is Temporary
Previous screenshot posts; (one , two , three)
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