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Typhon is a legendary giant monster, a stirrer of storms and the Father of All Monsters. He was once defeated by the Gods and sealed under Mount Etna. He has been freed by Chronos and unleashed on Mount Olympus to destroy the mountain of the gods.
Typhon is the Guardian of the Summit and the final Guardian of the Surface Path.
Characteristics and Personality
Whereas many of the other bosses in Hades and Hades II have the capacity for critical thought and coherent speech, Typhon appears to lack both, speaking in simple bellows of hatred and working based on single-minded instinct.
A monster in its purest form, Typhon has displayed no other emotion other than a deep hatred and rage. He seems to obey his "master's" will up to a certain point, but upon Melinoë confronting him for the first time it soon becomes clear that he has no real allegiances towards anyone or anything, only being interested in killing and destroying everything that crosses his path for seemingly no other reason than because he can and out of a sheer hatred of Zeus. Even Chronos himself admits that he has little control over the monster that he has unleashed upon the world and that the best he can do is simply direct Typhon's destructive tendencies towards a suitable target and hope that the Olympians and Typhon end up killing each other.
Without anyone to control him, Typhon's only focus appears to be mindless destruction for the sake of destruction, and the destruction of Zeus for imprisoning him in particular.
Outside of his endless rampages, Typhon appears to have little to no love in his heart for even for his own monstrous children whom he would doubtlessly slaughter just as happily as he would any other living creature, with Hades confirming that Typhon is a danger to every living thing in the universe, being the one creature in existence that all gods, heroes, monsters, and magical beings would likely work together to defeat.
Physical Description
Typhon is an unspeakably massive and horrifying monster. The upper half of his body is roughly humanoid in build, but composed of mounds of pulsing, grayish-blue flesh pocked with golden spines and crimson eyes at irregular intervals. His head possesses three eyes, one of which is grotesquely enlarged and sits in the center of his forehead. His lower jaw is skinless, he has two sets of canine teeth, and his tongue is a serpent with another bulbous eye in its mouth. He bears two large, hook-shaped horns, which jut from the sides of his jaw. Curiously, his head is covered in golden bangles, including a piercing through his flat nose.
Although the bottom half of Typhon's body is obscured in-game, he bears at least one tail, an appendage equally as fearful as the body to which it belongs. It has an eye like the one seen on his forehead and three bone spikes, two of which are curved inward and can snap together like the jaws of an insect. The third is straight but ridged and capable of spinning in place like a drill.
Typhon's very presence gives rise to deadly monsters of all varieties, which generally appear wholly unlike any natural life. These can spawn merely from his bodily fluids. He is tremendously physically powerful and very resilient to harm. He is also able to fire blasts of destructive light from his eyes and exhale gale-force winds from his mouth. He possesses a rudimentary intelligence, which seems almost entirely consumed with hatred for Olympus and a desire to destroy anything around him. He is able to speak in short sentences.
Hades II
After Chronos conquered the House of Hades and took over the Underworld, he sent an army, headed by Prometheus, to march upon Mount Olympus. Most of the Olympian gods retreated to the Palace of Zeus at the mountain's summit. They were able to resist the siege, but an intense storm suddenly formed around the Palace that even Zeus could not resist. They eventually identified the source of the storm as Typhon, who had been awakened by Chronos and emerged from a rift in the earth near the mountain's summit.
As the Father of All Monsters clambered closer to the Palace, his aberrant presence blighted the summit, giving rise to various unearthly monsters. As he reached the peak, however, he was resisted by the Underworld princess Melinoë, who opposed the machinations of Chronos. With the assistance of Zeus, she was able to send Typhon falling back down the mountain, although his supernatural resilience made it impossible for her to kill him.
Book of Shadows Entry
Trivia
- Typhon was mentioned by Hades in the first game during a conversation with Zagreus about the skull on his shoulder, which Hades reveals it to be some unnamed offspring of Typhon.
- In Greek Mythology, Typhon was considered to be the most powerful and feared enemy the Olympians ever faced, surpassing even Chronos.
- As the "Father of All Monsters", it can be assumed that most if not all of the monstrous enemies faced in Hades II (that aren't undead at least) are descended from him in some shape or form.
- In the game, it is revealed that Typhon was created by Chaos as an experiment which is quite different to his origins in Greek Mythology, where the most common myth was that he was the son of Tartarus and Gaia.
- His Book of Shadows entry makes a reference to this, refering to Typhon's origins as him having "rose from the Earth like a pestilent boil".
