Narrative
Character
Children of the Echidna are, inter alia, the Cerberus, the Hydra, and Gorgons, though sources vary.Some myths say she is immortal while others say she was killed in her sleep by Argus Panoptes , the hundred-eyed giant who served Hera. Her mate Typhon challenged Zeus and was thrown directly into Tartarus by him.The Echidna is described as half beautiful woman, half fearsome snake, either from the waist ("snake-legged") or from the head down.In one version of the lore, her snake tail is said to eat raw flesh, suggesting the tail actually ends in a snake head.
She can summon some of her children there, namely Hydras and Gorgons.
She cannot summon the Cerberus.
She wields magic and the head on her tail spits poison and strikes the Player with ground slams and leaps into the Styx.
She is a humanoid and presumably intelligent being, capable of speech.
The Snake head does not speak.
Setting
Erebus
Meeting
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The Player meets this boss only after activating the Pact of Punishment.
The Echidna appears instead of the Hydra boss fight in Asphodel and transports the Player to a stage in Erebus.
After the fight, the Player is set back to the entrance to Elysium.
Like the Hydra, the Echidna drops a diamond if bounty conditions are met.
