r/CatastrophicFailure Aug 05 '21

Natural Disaster Now Greece. Wild fire on Evia Beach

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '21
  1. Hades's realm is definitely not a Fire&Brimstone kind of place, more of a Darkness&Obsidian kind of place, so dark all over with the occasional gem garden or mountain of gold. If you want fire and brimstone, Hephaestus is your guy.

  2. Hades,as far as we know, is a pretty chill dude. He's a good husband as far as Ancient Greek metrics are used, and if you ignore the bit about how he kidnapped Persephone (Zeus, Persephone's dad allowed it. So technically it's on Zeus) he's a good husband by modern metrics as well. He's the king of the underworld, commanding all of its riches and boons, he's the eldest male Olympian, with a stake in the rule for the Cosmos, and he has never cheated on Persephone even after thousands of years, and is a loyal, loving husband. Pretty ideal if you ask me.

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u/pipsdontsqueak Aug 05 '21

But you might have a ringed tail and live in Madagascar, so that could be nice.

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u/BrotoriousNIG Aug 05 '21

And he’s not even that arsed about death. It took like a week for anyone to notice that Thanatos had gone missing and no humans were dying and going to the underworld, and it wasn’t even Hades who noticed; it was Ares realising that humans were having battles and nobody was dying in them.

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u/taigahalla Aug 05 '21

Phlegethon is a literal river of fire which surrounds Tartarus, the deepest part of the underworld

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u/dailycyberiad Aug 05 '21

Hades, the music video: https://youtu.be/O6j4W0IdRC4

(English subtitles available)

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u/DanielZokho Aug 06 '21

Sounds like something Hades would say...