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Zagreus is the protagonist of the 2020 video game Hades. [92] In the game, Zagreus is the son of Hades and is attempting to escape the underworld to find his mother Persephone, who disappeared before his time, and learn why she left. [93]
Zagreus is the protagonist of the 2020 video game Hades.He is based on the mythological figure of the same name, used due to Greg Kasavin viewing him as a good fit for the repetitive nature of a roguelike game due to his story of attempting to leave the Underworld and his father Hades.
Dusa appears as a non-playable character in the video game Hades. She works as a maid in the House of Hades for Hades, and can have conversations with various characters, including the protagonist Zagreus and another character named Megaera. Zagreus may pursue her romantically, and while she appears to have a crush on him, she ultimately comes ...
Megaera is a character in Hades, based on the mythological figure of the same name in Greek mythology. [citation needed] Her design was created by Jen Zee.[citation needed] When asked why the character designs in the game were so attractive, Hades creative director Greg Kasavin attributed this to Jen Zee, the game's character artist.
Persephone was abducted by Hades, who desired a wife. When Persephone was gathering flowers, she was entranced by a narcissus flower planted by Gaia (to lure her to the underworld as a favor to Hades), and when she picked it the earth suddenly opened up. [64] Hades, appearing in a golden chariot, seduced and carried Persephone into the underworld.
Scholar Timothy Gantz noted that Hades was often considered an alternate, cthonic form of Zeus, and suggested that it is likely Zagreus was originally the son of Hades and Persephone, who was later merged with the Orphic Dionysus, the son of Zeus and Persephone, owing to the identification of the two fathers as the same being. [134]
Orphics also described Zagreus as the son of Hades, while also regarding Zagreus as an aspect of Dionysus. [102] The role of unifying Hades, Zeus and Dionysus as a single tripartite god was used to represent the birth, death and resurrection of a deity and to unify the 'shining' realm of Zeus and the dark realm of Hades that lay beneath the Earth.
Hades is presented in an isometric view, with the player controlling Zagreus (center) as he fights his way out of the Underworld.. The player controls Zagreus, the prince of the Underworld, who seeks to escape the realm to get away from his unloving father, Hades, and reach his mother Persephone in the mortal world.