Castor

Castor was the mortal half of the Gemini twins, the elder and stronger brother who carried his conjoined sibling Pollux and posed as the prophet of the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi. Cruel and proud, he ruled the temple by terror until Kratos cast him down, the first of the false prophets the Spartan would destroy.

The mortal twin#

Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, the elder brother of the demigod Pollux and his counterpart among the Gemini twins. Worshiped together as the Dioscuri, the brothers were said to aid shipwrecked sailors and bring favorable winds to those who sacrificed to them, and both had sailed among the Argonauts. In the years of Kratos, Castor appeared as a towering man wielding two weapons, with his small, undeveloped brother Pollux conjoined to his stomach and hidden beneath his tunic. Of the two he was by far the stronger.

The false prophet#

Castor had usurped the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi and assumed the role of prophet there, set to the task by the Furies along with his brother. Cruel and snobbish, he commanded his slaves to raise statues in his honor and killed any who stepped out of line, even striking down one who merely voiced concern for the well-being of his fellow servants. He wielded a staff that split into a sword and a club, which he used with great skill, and through the Amulet of Uroborus he could teleport, manipulate and slow time, levitate objects, take flight, loose blasts of decaying energy, restore ruined objects, and surround himself with a barrier of the amulet's power. Though aged, both twins used the amulet to reverse their years for battle.

The Furies had placed the twins in the temple to keep Kratos from reaching the Oracle, or to keep her imprisoned, for the blind Oracle and her lover Orkos had sought to warn Zeus of the Furies' plot. Before his end, Castor warned that should he fail, the Furies would torture those they held.

Death at Delphi#

Kratos pursued the twins through the Temple of the Oracle and brought them down in the Oracle's Chambers. The Spartan cast Castor to his death, then severed Pollux from his fallen brother and crushed the demigod's skull beneath his boot. With the twins destroyed, the Amulet of Uroborus passed to Kratos. The brothers were fought weeks before Kratos faced Aegaeon, making Castor among the earliest of his foes in the long saga.