Alecto
Queen of the Furies
Alecto was the Queen of the Furies and the Goddess of Anger, the sister who ruled the trio that hunted Kratos. She mated with Ares to bear the disowned Orkos, ensnared her victims in illusion and black goo, and transformed into a monstrous sea creature before falling to the Spartan's blades.
Alecto was the Queen of the Furies and the Goddess of Anger, the eldest in authority among the trio of sisters that pursued Kratos for breaking his bond with Ares. Sister to Megaera and Tisiphone and known as the Spiritual Fury, she was the one who mated with Ares in the hope of producing the prophesied Marked Warrior, and the most deceptive of the three.
Queen of the Furies#
At the beginning of time, Alecto and her sisters were formed from the Charybdis maelstrom out of the madness and rage of a war waged between the Primordials. Alecto took her place as Queen of the Furies, leading the trio as guardians of honor and punishers of oath breakers. Their first victim was the Hecatonchires Aegaeon, who broke his blood oath to Zeus after the First Great War. The Furies captured and tortured the giant and used his body to contain all future betrayers.
According to the Scribe of the Hecatonchires, Alecto and her sisters were once honorable judges, merciless but fair, condemning only those who truly deserved punishment. That changed when she aligned herself with Ares. Afterward she became a ruthless queen for whom the crime no longer mattered, only the severity of the punishment. As the Spiritual Fury she could look into a victim's soul, drawing out their deepest desire to taunt them with it.
Mother of Orkos#
Alecto agreed to bear a child with Ares, hoping their offspring would be the prophesied Marked Warrior destined to take Olympus. The child, Orkos, disappointed them both, and Ares rejected his son to seek a human soldier as his pawn instead. Alecto, not wholly heartless, spared Orkos and made him the oath keeper rather than killing him. Together with her sisters she later devised the three blood tasks that sealed Kratos's oath to Ares.
The hunt for Kratos#
When Kratos refused to continue serving Ares after being tricked into slaying his family, the Furies shrouded his mind and began the hunt. Orkos, having learned the truth through the Oracle Aletheia, secretly aided the Spartan, and the Furies retaliated by blinding Aletheia and imprisoning Orkos within Aegaeon.
As Kratos traveled to Delos seeking the Statue of Apollo, Alecto attacked from the sea in her monstrous form, hurling a ship at him. When her tentacles failed to stop him, she sank the Lantern containing the Eyes of Truth, took human form, and subdued him, ordering him to return to Ares. The Spartan refused, and Orkos appeared to rescue him. The Furies later recaptured Kratos, and Alecto dragged him to be tortured within the Prison of the Damned.
Death and the broken bond#
After Kratos freed himself and killed Megaera, he entered Alecto's Chamber to face the last two Furies. Tisiphone conjured a vision of his wife and daughter, and the figure of Lysandra was revealed to be Alecto, who promised Kratos endless illusions of his wife if he returned to Ares. Kratos rebuffed her and snatched the Eyes of Truth from her hip. Enraged, Alecto summoned Tisiphone and transformed into a giant sea monster as Tisiphone made the chamber appear a vast whirlpool.
Kratos impaled a ship's mast into the monster's mouth and carved open her skull, forcing the weakened queen back into human form. After killing Tisiphone and her creature, he drove the Blades of Chaos into Alecto's chest. As she lay dying she promised that her death would not free him from his madness, and Kratos bisected her, her remains disintegrating as the chamber collapsed. Her words proved true, for Orkos revealed the Furies had remade him Kratos's oath keeper before their deaths.
Powers#
As Queen of the Furies, Alecto held the greatest power among the sisters. She possessed superhuman strength, agility, and stamina, and like all immortals could be killed only by a god or a god's weapon. She could excrete a black goo so hard it could trap even Kratos, escapable only with the Oath Stone of Orkos, and could create illusions, most notably taking the form of Lysandra. Her greatest gift was her transformation into a colossal sea monster with many tentacles that could fire globules of black sludge and generate whirlpools, a form that vastly increased her strength and durability.
Frequently asked questions
- Who was Alecto?
- Alecto was the Queen of the Furies and the Goddess of Anger, the eldest in authority among the trio of sisters that pursued Kratos for breaking his bond with Ares. Known as the Spiritual Fury, she was sister to Megaera and Tisiphone and the most deceptive of the three.
- Where did Alecto come from?
- At the beginning of time, Alecto and her sisters were formed from the Charybdis maelstrom out of the madness and rage of a war waged between the Primordials. She took her place as Queen of the Furies, leading the trio as guardians of honor and punishers of oath breakers.
- Why did Alecto have a child with Ares?
- Alecto agreed to bear a child with Ares, hoping their offspring would be the prophesied Marked Warrior destined to take Olympus. The child, Orkos, disappointed them both, and Ares rejected his son, but Alecto spared Orkos and made him the oath keeper instead.
- How did Kratos kill Alecto?
- In their final confrontation Alecto transformed into a giant sea monster, and Kratos impaled a ship's mast into her mouth and carved open her skull, forcing her back into human form. He then drove the Blades of Chaos into her chest and bisected her, her remains disintegrating as the chamber collapsed.
- What powers did Alecto have?
- As Queen of the Furies, Alecto held the greatest power among the sisters, with superhuman strength, agility, and stamina, and could be killed only by a god or a god's weapon. She could excrete a hardened black goo to trap her victims, create illusions such as taking the form of Lysandra, and transform into a colossal sea monster that fired globules of black sludge and generated whirlpools.
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