The Lernean Hydra is a mythical creature in a Total War Saga: Troy, part of the Mythos Expansion Pack.
The Mythic Expedition for the resurrected Hydra will take the player through the swamps of Lerna, deep into the domain of the Monster’s fledgling cult. The deeper you go, the more you will ask yourself... have you also answered a call?
Background[]
Defeating the Lernean Hydra was one of the twelve legendary labours of Herakles, but it provided a unique challenge: every time Herakles would cut off one of its nine heads, three new ones would sprout from its neck. Herakles’ cousin Iolaos turned out to be the key to victory, cauterizing the Hydra’s headless necks so they would not regenerate.
Even so, one of the Hydra’s heads was truly immortal, and so was buried under a massive rock, consigned to oblivion.
And yet… long after even Herakles had met his doom, the Hydra’s immortal head, endlessly bleeding, worked its subtle poison into the earth, and then into the bodies of the unlucky few who still remained at Lerna. Though many died, some lived. Then the Hydra called to them, and so they came, answering to the voice of ‘The Mother’ as they have taken to calling it. Now the Hydra slithers again. Life… always finds a way.
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