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I have just completed chapter 19... Oh man, my mind is at this moment a roller-coaster. I swear to god that if in the end, the typical greek tragedy ending happens and something bad happens to my moo boyfriend, I am going to cry a lot, like I never have xD.

My main concern is the following one: Are gods to be trusted? If so, how much? I know they all arent that bad but they love ambiguity. For example: when Kratos at the ending of the first game meets Athena, she says, gods are not going to remove the nightmares but then she prevented the suicide and Kratos ascended as God of War. What about Hermes then? On the one hand he swore as the MC requested, not to cause harm on all the Hotel inhabitants, including Asterion I suppose and he wishes for his "freedom" which we truly dont have any idea of what that could be. On the other hand, he said "the more ichor you get the better I will be able to bargain" but there is not a defined amount specified and that worries me. Hell we could end bringing him 20 crystals of ichor and still could not be enough... This cliffhanger is just too much. haha.

2nd point of concern. I, well, we, let finally Argos in the hotel... And yes I know, due to circumstances and how the story developed he is needed now... But still, I had a bad feeling about this. I dont know. What if this was his chance to inflict pain? I know we talked things out and we accepted to give him a place in the hotel so that shouldnt happen... but I feel a bit dumb. I mean, all this time I made my best to keep Argos away from Asterion and now its all the opposite lmao.

TrinexxSlayer352 days ago (1 edit)

The ruthless route really changes the perspective on Nikos. He is a good boy.

Supposedly there are only 7 beasts, and each god only donated but a single drop of ichor. It doesn't say that every god donated, so it could either be 13 from the olympus 12 + hades, or just 7 that voted in favor of the labyrinth. unless there could be more "gods" involved.

What i do wonder though is that there is ichor elsewhere within the hotel. at least, i thought that's what it was anyway. there was this liquid dripping from an axe head that is related to asterion's execution, and the crystal wall in the hermes altar.

Anyway, it was a short update introducing this quest, so obviously they couldn't put all of the cards on the table right away. There is not much to do for now except be wary of what might be at stake on this request and we don't know.

maneChaos22349 days ago(+2)

The Labyrinth's constitution says "Through their ichor each god is allowed to leave a living legacy in the realm.", and Nemesis herself says 17 gods were involved in the constitution's creation: The 12 Olympians, Hestia, Hades, Nemesis and her sisters.

Presumably the 6 of the 7 beasts are the legacies of Zeus/Athena/Demeter/Ares/Artemis/Apollo (Hermes said The Effigy was a weird one, and Nikos describes it as being forged by the gods rather than just one, so I'm not sure where this one falls) , while the wine/basin/mirror/parting gift/Asphodel meadow are the legacies of Dionysus/Hermes/Hestia/Poseidon/Hades.

Which leaves Hera/Hephaestus/Aphrodite/Nemesis&co unaccounted for.

Hephaestus would make sense for the Effigy ~~I suppose Aphrodite would as well but eh~~ , although we don't have his opinion on the labyrinth's creation so it's hard to say if he actually would, or why.

I'm inclined to think Nemesis' fragment (probably along w/ her sisters) serve(s) as the Labyrinths mind(s)

(Sidenote, but I'm betting the mystery tab in the files is for the godly fragments)

TrinexxSlayer348 days ago

it's worth considering the effigy might not be tied to one of the gods, that would explain why it's different. similarly, there's an altar to a nameless god in the valley, this is explored in the ruthless route. still, we know there's at least 7 ichor drops to gather and no more than 17 should exist in the realm.

Sylvanite347 days ago

The first point is very valid and we don't know if we can truely trust the gods to keep promises.
Especially with Hermes being the god of thiefs as well so there might be some trickery invoved.

But I don't think that Argos or better Nikos are any threat.
Because even in the Story Asterion himself said that the Argos always leave after a certain time and they usually just play mind-tricks with the current master so they punish him more harshly or send him to the valley where he is hurt by the monsters.
Nikos also said that he is just playing a role and he doesn't agree with the punishment of Asterion so I think that he was genuinely glad that we were different from the masters in the past.
He and Asterion also had a very friendly interaction and they talked about if they would have been friends if they met under different circumstances.
Sure he is a snake and that might not leave the best impression and there might be a stigma coming with his species but then again he never really tried any funny business and held up his promises.
Also with the insight that we can apparently gather during the ruthless route I dont think that he double crosses us behind our backs.

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