(Minor spoilers for hades 1 are in here too) So, heres something i recently noticed about the hidden aspects, and im curious to know if im just slow and this was common knowledge or not:
I just got done unlocking all the hidden aspects in the game at it got me wondering about who the characters of the aspects are, and it turns out that all of them are somewhar related to death or the underworld. Hel is a nordic goddess of the underworld, Nergal is a ruler of the underworld in sumeru and babylon, Anubis is the god of the dead in egyptian myth, Zupay is an inka-based demon, Vishna is known as "the destroyer" or the end of the world and the Morrigan is a keltic goddess of death. This had me wondering about the hidden aspects of the first game, and turns out theres a theme there too. Theyre all heroes. Arthur was a heroic king, Guan yu is considered a heroic soldier, Beowulf was a old-english hero from a story, Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest hero-tale known to us, Rama is also said to be a hero, and Lucifer was an advocate for freedom who can be considered a hero too. I just think thats neat, considering how zagreus is a more typical heroic protagonist, and specifically melinoë is so disconnected to her heritage for most of the game, yet her hidden aspects all relate to her father/ share a similar role as him.