

When he returns to the House of Hades you can gift him an Ambrosia. Achilles is now at Patroclus' side in Elysium. Locate the pact with the aid of Nyx and then purchase the alteration at the House Contractor for five Diamonds. Boons from Zeus have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better.Īchilles asks Zagreus to alter the pact that has him serving Hades. Guarantees that the next boon is from Zeus. Boons from Poseidon have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better. Guarantees that the next boon is from Poseidon. Improves a random Boon by one level for every 6/5/4 encounters cleared. Increases Zagreus' dodge chance and movement speed by 1/1.1/1.2% for each encounter cleared "quickly". Boons from Dionysus have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better. Guarantees that the next boon is from Dionysus. Boons from Demeter have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better. Guarantees that the next boon is from Demeter. Boons from Athena have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better. Guarantees that the next boon is from Athena. Boons from Artemis have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better. Guarantees that the next boon is from Artemis. Boons from Ares have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better. Guarantees that the next boon is from Ares. Boons from Aphrodite have a 10/15/20% chance to be Rare quality or better. Guarantees that the next boon is from Aphrodite. Increases Zagreus' damage by 1/1.5/2% for each encounter completed without taking any damage. Saves Zagreus from death with 50/75/100 health once per run. Increases Zagreus' damage by 50/75/100% when using an Attack, Special, or Cast that is not empowered by a god's Boon. This effect refreshes after seven seconds. Gives Zagreus an invincibility period of 1/1.25/1.5 seconds after being damaged. Makes Zagreus deal 10/20/30% more damage to distant enemies. Makes Zagreus deal 10/15/20% more damage when targeting undamaged enemies. Makes Zagreus deal 20/30/40% more damage while at low health - 35% HP or less. Gives Zagreus 100/125/150 obols once per run. Prevents damage up to 3/4/5 times during the final encounter of a region.Ĭhanges your Call to Hades' Aid which briefly makes Zagreus invisible. With this Keepsake, urns have a 3/5/6% chance to drop healing items when broken. Boons from Chaos have a 20/30/40% chance to be Rare quality or better. Items from Wells of Charon have their durations increased by 4/6/8 rooms.Īllows Zagreus to enter Chaos Gates without losing health. It is something that Thanatos has learned between the war and the famine.Makes Zagreus take 20/25/30% less damage from the front but 10% more damage from the back. When his job kicks up in intensity to barely allow handfuls of breaths at any given minute, it helps to keep a routine, a cyclical repetition of motions not unlike what the mortals practice under the rise and fall of Helios’ chariot. This is why, when the sun falls and the battalions retreat, Death sighs along with the South Wind. It is a signal that he may return to the House if at least for a brief flicker, a moment of quiet reserved just for himself.Īnd sometimes, he will arrive just as the river Styx coalesces. It is just as well that Thanatos does not have the time to ponder on whether or not this is something he prefers Zagreus’ disposition means he has no choice but to take every immediate moment in stride. It starts with the sound of wet footsteps upon marble. Zagreus digs his heels into the ground and so will always wake Hypnos with the force of it. His brother will shoot up and gather his thoughts with remarkable speed only possible from a lifetime’s worth of practice. And he will have bright nothings to say because the House has need of them, always and Zagreus will listen with a patient smile. There will be petals caught in Hypnos’ bird-nest hair which manifest no matter how many times Thanatos tries to pick them out. It had been his idea, after all.Īn acknowledgement, and the conversation shifts places.Ĭerberus, then. Zagreus will coo unintelligibly to the hound, and the hound will lean into his clever fingers like it instinctively knows what to do. Hope he hasn’t been working you too hard. I’ll try to get something for you next time. There is a softness to the animal that is at odds with a memory, from darker times unfathomably old of something leaner, sets of ruby eyes illuminating the spittle on its jowls and the cruel edges of its teeth. Now, Cerberus is too tired to even go on its hunts. Its coat is gleaming, rolling over fat that hadn’t been there before. Charon told him as much, and he has no reason to doubt him. Zagreus’ feet sear the rug, and this precedes the gentle rise and fall of voices. The conversations he has with Achilles are hushed things.
