The name "Lucifer" as assigned to this particular being is an example of misreading of texts - in the original source text, Isaiah 14, the writer is very very obviously talking about a real human king being symbolically cast "down from heaven" as he is humbled before God and loses everything. Time is getting screwy here.Įxagryph's hidden aspect, Lucifer, in this sense apparently the Angel who led a failed rebellion against God in Christian tradition, and Fell. So, Gilgamesh needs to wield Malphon around 1000 or more years before Zagreus ever gets ahold of them. placing his likely life around 400 - 600 years earlier.
Gilgamesh probably really existed, and the extant versions of his myth date to around 2000BC. Malphon's hidden aspect, Gilgamesh, a legendary and pseudohistorical king of Uruk, one of the early Sumerian city-states. which causes us the first of our dating problems, as Hades the game is almost certainly set (at the earliest) around this time ) Still, if we assume time passes oddly in the Underworld, it might be that Achilles has been dead for less time than he thinks, as those on the Surface count it. The most likely date that Rama lived is many hundreds of years before that point - probably before the 1100BC. As with Arthur, it is hard to determine if a historical basis for Rama existed - the earliest versions of the Rama legends date to ~500BCE, but they speak of Rama as an already historic figure. Now for the problematic ones:Ĭoronacht's hidden aspect is Rama, a pseudohistorical incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. So far so good - three hidden aspects with future holders nicely in the far future of the time period Hades is likely set in. Dating him is easy, as the poem gives itself a date and context - sometime in the 6th century AD by our own calendar.
He was definitely a real historical figure, and existed around the 3rd Century AD.Īegis' hidden aspect is Beowulf, a semi-historical warrior and king of the Geats, known from the eponymous poem. Varatha's hidden aspect is Guan Yu, a great general and governor during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese History, made most famous by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Certainly, no attested mythology places him before 400AD. Most of the early mythology about him is written several hundred years after the time they say he ruled - the earliest account is ~9th Century, and places him in the 6th. Of uncertain historicity, and various attested origins, Arthur is hard to place in time. Stygius's hidden aspect is Arthur, King of the Britons. The hidden Weapon Aspects are supposed to indicate the future holders of each Infernal Arm, so they should place an "upper limit" on when Hades can occur. So, the events of Hades must be happening after 1200 BC. (Certainly his temper seems to have improved from when he was alive.) Achilles died after the Trojan War, which happened sometime around 1200 BC or so. We know that Achilles is dead and in Tartarus - and has been for long enough that he feels like he's gone native and become a changed man. So, the final hidden Aspect that was unlocked for v1.0 has me thinking about how Hades fits into real-world chronology.
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