Episode Title:
Winter Is Born
Episode Description:
Hephaestus grants Heron a compass which, with a piece of adamantine from the same vein, will guide him to the sword forged from it. Hades describes to Seraphim how he found existence in the Underworld unbearable until he encountered Persephone. Against Demeter’s wishes, Persephone took Hades as her suitor and bound herself to the Underworld. To appease Demeter, Zeus declared that Persephone would reside there only six months every year. Seraphim sympathizes when Hades reminds him of Gorgo, a priestess whom he loved as a human. They intended to marry until Seraphim killed the man who had killed Ariana, resulting in his pursuit to the cave and eating of the giant’s corpse. Hades reveals that Gorgo is now a wraith, unable to cross the Styx, and blames Seraphim for abandoning her. In exchange for Gorgo’s passage and erasure of her memory of him with the waters of the Lethe, Seraphim finally acquiesces.
