Hades

This article is about the god in Age of Mythology. For the god in Age of Empires: Mythologies, see Hades (Age of Empires: Mythologies).

Major god	Technology tree	Strategy

Hades is a Greek Archaic Age major god who focuses on archers and buildings.

Attributes[]

Sentinel: Creates five sentient statues around the target Town Center that attack any enemies within range.

Gastraphetes: Expensive archer wielding a crossbow.
Hades Shade: Spectral unit that has a 20% chance of appearing at a Temple if a human soldier of Hades is killed.

When human units are killed, there is a 20% chance a Hades Shade will be generated at the player's Temple. Shades are weak melee units that become more powerful in later ages.
Buildings have 25% more hit points and 20% more attack.
Archers have 10% more attack (including Sentinels).

“	The brother of Zeus, Hades drew the underworld as his to rule when the Titans were overthrown and banished to Tartarus. He shared rule of the underworld with Persephone, whom he had abducted from above. Although required to release her, she was tricked and forced to remain with him. Hades sat on an ebony throne and wore a helmet that made him invisible. There he ruled the dead and accepted those newly arrived from above. Hermes brought the souls of the dead to the River Styx where Charon, the ferryman, carried them across. The three-headed watchdog, Cerberus, prevented any escape. Most souls remained on the empty Plain of Asphodel. A lucky few of extraordinary merit went on to the blessed islands of Elysium. The unlucky were sentenced to unending torment further down in Tartarus. In rare instances, Hades allowed living mortals, such as Odysseus, to enter the underworld and then leave again. Even more rarely did Hades free the dead to return to the living. He was the richest of the gods, possessing all the mineral wealth in the Earth.	”
—In-game section

Gods in Age of Mythology

Civilization	Archaic Age	Classical Age	Heroic Age	Mythic Age
Greeks	Zeus Hades Poseidon	Athena Hermes Ares	Apollo Dionysus Aphrodite	Hera Hephaestus Artemis
Egyptians	Ra Isis Set	Bast Ptah Anubis	Hathor Sekhmet Nephthys	Osiris Horus Thoth
Norse	Thor Odin Loki	Freyja Heimdall Forseti	Skadi Bragi Njord	Baldr Tyr Hel
Atlanteans	Kronos Oranos Gaia	Prometheus Leto Oceanus	Hyperion Rheia Theia	Helios Atlas Hekate
Chinese	Fu Xi Nü Wa Shennong	Huang Di Sun Wukong Chang'e	Dabo Gong Zhong Kui He Bo	Chongli Ao Kuang Xi Wangmu

Major gods have circular icons