(willy stampler facing away from ron with his head turned slightly to the left. Ron stampler in front of willy facing straight in front of the *camera?* Ron has his hands on Terry jr’s shoulders and he is looking down at him with a smile on his face. Terry jr. is standing in front of ron also facing the *camera?* with his hands on Scary’s shoulders. Terry is also smiling and looking down and scary but he has a more worried look on his face. something something he doesn’t feel like a good stepdad like ron was something something. Scary is standing in front of Terry, also facing forward. Scary has a serious/upset look on her face. scary is the only one not looking down at someone and she is instead staring into the camera. Scary sees you.)
List of insane dndads moments because there are so many:
- ron successfully hiding in his pants
- the entire character of scam likely and his introduction. Insane Anthony move
- trapping a man in a door and putting hologram pants on his head so that he looks like just pants from both sides (i cant read this without laughing)
- "I silence his ass with a kiss!"
- hermie revealed as a theatre kid preparing for the role of the joker
- mambo #5 is a plot point
- The fucking battle of the band's. Ron's nat 20, nick and glenn stealing the car, henry answering the scam likely call. a perfect storm.
- Pyramid explosion during the lord of chaos arc. Iconic darryl moments
- darryl going back in time WITHOUT the dms knowledge and the players editing the actual podcast episode forever. Iconic darryl moments 2
- beheading a high level vampire they were NOT SUPPOSED BE ABLE TO KILL with a fanny pack
- using the extending sword as a pole vault during the 1st grandaddies fight + using the orbs to teleport the kids (this was just rad honestly)
- the deck of many things: Glenn kills a squirrel, levels up, summons death, gets trapped in orb
- not to mention scamlikely return and immediate alignment change into wellactually
- SIBLING FIGHT! Ashley and anthony using embarrassing fan fic as the greatest weapon. Glenn and jodie start fighting for no reason. Wait what's canon and what's not? I love this epsiode
Was just relistening to season one and in episode 4 Glenn literally complains about how slow the elevator is while they’re being taken to the dungeon i’m crying
I have been playing a ton of Hades after the Hades II trailer got me hooked. Currently about 80 hours in, and I noticed something that made me speculate on the Chronos storyline.
Basically I think the Satyr Cultists that Zagreus encounters in the Temple of Styx are actually worshippers of Chronos, and their activity is directly linked to the titan's escape from imprisonment in the sequel.
This is the Codex entry for Satyr Cultists taken from the wiki:
When I first read it, I found it strange that Hades, the immensely powerful God of the Dead, would be worried about some goat-people freeloading in a temple so far above his residing domain in Tartarus. Also why is the satyrs' hatred for Hades so pronounced? This feels like one of the unresolved plot points in the first game that is more than likely to be expanded in the sequel.
Achilles's Codex entry calls satyrs "vermin-worshippers". I first assumed this to mean the satyrs worship the rats they share the temple with, but that just felt odd. Then during my runs passing through the Temple of Styx, I noticed that there are statues of vipers/snakes everywhere.
There is also the hostile Snakestone mob that sometimes can be found in the same room as Satyr Cultists. According to Achilles's Codex:
"..the boorish satyrs despoiling the surface seem to take up residence in the same spaces, and may well be to blame for these nuisances, as they are for many others."
So it is implied that the satyrs built the Snakestones, and by extension I suspect that the snake, and not the rats, is the actual subject of worship for this "cult".
And in Greek mythology, the snake is, interestingly, a symbol of Cronus, the King of the Titans.
Here is an article I found that mentions the relationship between Cronus/Chronos (Hades II is conflating these two figures it looks like) the snake, particularly in Orphic poetry. Apparently in some versions, Cronus has the lower half body of a snake.
The game tells us that the satyrs are openly antagonistic towards the House of Hades. Maybe their hatred comes from Chronos being defeated and eventually held hostage in Hades's domain?
Also worth mentioning that while the origin of the word "satyr" is unclear, it has been speculated that the name is related to the root "sat-", which means "to sow". Remarkably, it is also the root of Saturn, a.k.a. the Roman equivalent of Cronus.
TLDR: The satyrs cult Zagreus fights in the Temple of Styx may in fact be worshippers of Chronos, as evidenced by the abundance of snake motifs and artifacts in their lair. The satyrs may have a role in Chronos escaping imprisonment in Tartarus, leading to the events of Hades II.
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” 🌻
Two souls, reunited.
(quotes from Madelline Miller's The Song Of Achilles)
Ron's incorrect dad fact of the day is that Ron thinks the British royal family are mascots for some kind of European oatmeal brand. When he heard the Queen died, he was very sad, because she was his favorite. He doesn’t really understand why the company wanted to replace her with the more boring looking guy, but hey, that’s business for ya.
Henry's incorrect dad fact of the day is that Henry’s favorite rock… is the earth! That’s right, this big blue rock we all live on is Henry’s absolute favorite piece of geology.
