Five core slots
Attack, Special, Cast, Sprint, and Magick recovery can each hold one core Boon.
Divine Gifts
Choose your gods
Build around five core slots, elemental Essences, Omega moves, and gifts from Olympus and beyond.
HADES II
Boons
Omega and Magick
Many Boons directly modify Omega moves or reward spending and restoring Magick.
Essences and Infusions
Elemental Essences unlock Infusion Boons once their threshold is met.
Hexes replace Calls
Selene's Hex charges as you spend Magick and grows through the Path of Stars.
OLYMPUS
Core Gods
These nine gods offer the main Boons that shape your core combat slots.
Goddess of Love
Aphrodite
Favors close-range power and survival, using Weak and Charm to reduce the danger of staying near enemies.
WeakCharmClose range
God of Light
Apollo
Expands the reach of your moves and supports Daze, backstabs, repeated hits, and strong Omega attacks.
DazeAreaOmega
God of War
Ares
Builds around Wounds, raw damage, faster Omega moves, and aggressive Plasma effects.
WoundsDamagePlasma
Goddess of Seasons
Demeter
Controls crowds with Freeze and Gust while adding healing, growth, and resource-oriented support.
FreezeGustRecovery
God of the Forge
Hephaestus
Adds powerful Blast hits on cooldown and reinforces armor, defense, and the value of refined Boons.
BlastArmorDefense
Queen of the Olympians
Hera
Links foes with Hitch and rewards diverse divine families, high rarity, and elemental Essences.
HitchRarityEssences
Goddess of Flame
Hestia
Stacks Scorch, burns enemy projectiles, and turns sustained fire damage into safe pressure.
ScorchFireProtection
God of the Sea
Poseidon
Uses Splash and knockback for burst damage while improving rewards, maximum Life, and Omega Casts.
SplashKnockbackRewards
King of the Olympians
Zeus
Applies Blitz and chains lightning between targets, rewarding repeated damage and rapid activation.
BlitzLightningChain hits
CROSSROADS
Other Divine Sources
Powerful systems that sit outside the normal core-god slot rules.
Origin of All
Chaos
Offers a lasting blessing after you survive a temporary curse, often reshaping a build at a cost.
Curse firstLasting bonus
God of Swiftness
Hermes
Improves movement, attack speed, evasion, recovery, and wealth without occupying a core god slot.
SpeedEvasionUtility
Moon Incarnate
Selene
Grants a Hex charged by spending Magick, then develops it through the Path of Stars.
HexMagickPath of Stars
CROSSROADS
Gods as Encounters
These gods appear in specific encounters and offer a smaller, specialized reward pool.
Goddess of the Hunt
Artemis
Appears during encounters, assists in battle, and offers Critical-focused rewards after the room.
CriticalMarkedEncounter
Goddess of Wisdom
Athena
Provides defensive encounter Boons centered on Deflect, protection, and surviving dangerous rooms.
DeflectProtectionEncounter
God of Wine
Dionysus
Offers festive encounter rewards built around Hangover, fog, healing, and resilient damage over time.
HangoverFogRecovery
God of the Dead
Hades
Grants situational advantages in the Underworld, including effects especially useful against Chronos.
UnderworldChronosEncounter
CROSSROADS
Allies
Friendly encounters also grant run-changing gifts, though they are not Olympian Boons.
Silken Fateful Friend
Arachne
Weaves temporary armor outfits whose bonuses remain active while their armor holds.
ArmorOutfit
Self-Absorbed Shade
Narcissus
Offers paired resources and restorative gifts that help stabilize the current run.
ResourcesRecovery
Cursed Nymph
Echo
Repeats recent rewards, letting a strong room reward or choice echo into the next part of the run.
RepeatRewards
Witch of Shadows
Medea
Trades safety for volatile curses and powerful effects that reward deliberate risk.
CursesRisk
Witch of Changing
Circe
Uses transformations and witchcraft to alter size, Arcana, and other rules of the run.
TransformationArcana
Ingenious Inventor
Icarus
Supplies armor, explosives, and temporary inventions during Surface encounters.
InventionsArmor
God and ally classifications follow the Hades Wiki Boons/Hades II reference page.