Euryale

Euryale was one of the immortal Gorgons, sister to Medusa and queen of her kind after Kratos slew her sisters. A vast and monstrous figure, she ruled from a temple deep in the Bog of the Forgotten upon the Island of Creation, where she lay in wait to take her revenge upon the Ghost of Sparta and restore her fallen kin.

Queen of the Gorgons#

Euryale was one of two immortal Gorgon sisters, the other being Stheno, while the third sister, Medusa, was mortal. During the siege of Athens, Kratos fought and slew Medusa, the Queen of the Gorgons, at the bidding of the goddess Aphrodite, who granted him Medusa's petrifying gaze as a weapon. With her sister dead, Euryale took up the throne of the Gorgons, ruling from her temple in the Bog of the Forgotten on the Island of Creation, and she nursed a deep hatred of the warrior who had killed her kin.

She was an enormous and grotesque creature, far larger and far stronger than the lesser Gorgons. Like all her kind she could turn the living to stone with her gaze, but she alone could control its intensity, from swift petrifying orbs to a sweeping wave that covered all before her, and she could even turn other Gorgons to stone. As one of the immortal sisters she could not be slain by ordinary mortal weapons.

Vengeance upon the Island of Creation#

Hoping to change his own fate, Kratos journeyed across the Island of Creation until he came upon the Temple of Euryale. Jason and the Argonauts had passed that way before him, also seeking an audience with the Sisters of Fate. As Kratos made his way through the temple, the angry cries of Euryale rang out ahead of him, and he knew he would have to face her before the end.

Her purpose was vengeance and restoration. She meant to sacrifice Kratos to the Sisters of Fate so that she might change the fates of Medusa and Stheno, both fallen to the Spartan's hand. Kratos passed among the statues of those she had already turned to stone while she whispered her intent to him, and as he reached a high altar to read from an ancient text, Euryale burst through the walls of her temple and fell upon him.

Death and the Head of Euryale#

After a furious battle, Euryale was killed by decapitation. The Head of Euryale then became a weapon in the hands of Kratos, loosing her petrifying power against his enemies just as Medusa's Gaze had served him before. When Kratos at last changed his own fate at the close of his journey, the fates of those he had slain may have been undone with it, and what became of Euryale thereafter was never answered.