The tales of Greek mythology were part of an oral tradition. Many were never transcribed and through the ages, some were lost. This is one of those tales...
Blood of Zeus, formerly known as Gods & Heroes, is an original anime-style television series created by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides for Netflix.
The series is set in the world of Greek mythology. When giants and monsters begin to appear to terrorize Greece, Heron, a demigod son of Zeus, embarks on a quest to discover what's happening. On his quest, he meets other heroes and the Gods themselves and discovers a conspiracy to destroy Olympus.
Produced by Powerhouse Animation Studios, the series was released on October 27, 2020 on Netflix. In early December 2020, a second season was greenlit by Netflix.
It's set to premiere on May 15, 2024. According to the creators, they have five seasons outlined.
Blood of Zeus provides examples of:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Zeus' adamantium sword, capable of cutting everything on earth and the only weapon capable of wounding the automaton Talos.
- Action Girl: Alexia is one skilled Amazon warrior capable of going toe to toe against demons.
- Actually Pretty Funny: When Poseidon rejoins Zeus against Hera, he claims it's because Hera "Has gone too far". Zeus recognizes this is not a moral stance so much as Hera promised the giants rule over the seas (His Domain) and chuckles at his brother, but lets him join up anyway.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Zeus. He's not nearly the nicest version ever presented, but compared to the myths, he's practically a saint, as he genuinely loved Electra; otherwise he would have used the same authority her husband had to demand she sleep with him, rather than woo her.
- Agony of the Feet: While climbing up a mountain, we're shown cuts and blisters on Heron's feet, due to being too poor to afford sandals.
- Always Chaotic Evil: The Giants were born of a curse and seek only to destroy the world. Hera's attempt at bargaining with them ends badly.
- That said, in the first war against the giants, Zeus was able to convince two giants to side with the gods.
- Ambiguously Evil: Hades. It's unknown exactly where his allegiances lie and he has a menacing presence. He offers refuge to Hera and the other gods following her, but states that it's due to him remaining neutral in the conflict, and when speaking to Seraphim, he compliments him on using his bident, but it its difficult to tell if he was being sarcastic or not.
- An Arm and a Leg: In the final battle against the giants, Hera loses a hand to Seraphim.
- Animal Eye Spy: Hera constantly looks using crows and even can turn into one.
- Animal Motifs: Zeus is associated with eagles, while Hera is associated with crows.
- Animesque: Being made by the same studio as Castlevania, it looks very much like an anime. The intro even calls it a "Netflix original anime."
- Alas, Poor Villain: Seraphim's death is played with some emotion. After it happens, Heron ends up holding his body and, when we cut to Seraphim in the underworld, he's forced into either a literal Hell or an ironic one. They're a ruthless murderer, but they really just cannot catch a break.
- Asshole Victim: Most of the villagers who persecuted Heron and Electra end up getting killed by Seraphim. Special mention goes to Aratus Theogonis who was willing to lock Heron out of the polis when the latter was being chased by demons and laughed at Electra when he knocked her over while fleeing.
- The Atoner: Kofi and Evios confess to Alexia and Heron before the climatic final battle that the demons who Alexia chased at the start were meeting with them, where they sold the demons the remains of a giant they found. Heron only notes that if they are still seeking redemption, then this is their path to it.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Episode 7 ends with Seraphim giving Hera the cauldron that holds the Giants' souls, unleashing them from their underwater prison to wreak havoc on the world.
- Barefoot Poverty: Heron, in the first episodes.
- Batman Gambit: Hera might want her revenge, but she can't so long as Zeus's law prevents them from directly interfering with the lives of mortals. The only way she can break it is if Zeus himself breaks it first. She knows if she has his lover killed and keeps putting his son's life in danger, that he will eventually violate his decree to save Heron, allowing her to act with impunity in the mortal world without fear of reprisal.
- Bittersweet Ending: Olympus and the world are saved, with Heron welcomed into Olympus by his half-siblings, but Zeus is dead, Hera has fled to Gods know where, while Seraphim will either suffer for his crimes in Tartaros for all eternity or again be the slave of a god.
- Body Horror: One of Seraphim's eyes is turned at a ninety-degree angle. He blinks horizontally in one eye.
- Broken Pedestal: Hera genuinely loved Zeus and the hero he was, but so many infidelities made her lose faith in him as king. Several other Olympians think the same after seeing Zeus break his own laws.
- Bullying a Dragon: The guards at Periander's palace decide to try and attack Zeus. If he wasn't concerned about saving Electra, Corinth would probably be a smoking crater.
- Cain and Abel:
- Heron and Seraphim, with Heron as the Abel and Seraphim the Cain.
- King Periander's throne is usurped by his brother Acrisius, but in that case, both are equally unsympathetic.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Heron does this the first time he knowingly meets his father, as his limited protection from Hera just left him and his mother to be abused by their mortal neighbors as they were forced to eke out a dirt-poor existence.
- Cannon Fodder: Though a threat to the heroes throughout the story, the daemons become roughly as relevant as ants in deciding the course of battle in the final episode. Barring Seraphim, they're mostly there to get offhandedly massacred by whatever god is showing off a neat trick.
- Catch and Return: During a training session with one of Hephaestus's automatons, Heron throws his shield at it. The automaton catches the shield and throws it back.
- Cool Old Guy: Chiron is one wise and pleasant centaur. Not even briefly betraying Alexia to the demons stop him from trying to make amends.
- Cosmic Plaything: Seraphim and Heron to a lesser extent have been jerked around by the gods for most of their lives.
- Covers Always Lie: Much of the promotional material for the first season shows Heron brandishing the adamantine sword that Zeus forges as if it’s his signature weapon. In reality, the sword is in his possession for a fraction of the second episode, during which he throws it away in anger. Seraphim eventually lays claim to it in episode 5 and it becomes his secondary weapon from then on, until he loses it when fighting Talos.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Alexia has blonde hair and golden eyes.
- Deliberate Injury Gambit: How Heron finally defeats Seraphim. Seraphim has him in a nelson hold and summons the bident to stab him, which Heron is barely able to push away… until he decides to stop fighting and yanks on it instead, impaling himself and Seraphim. It doesn't kill either of them, but it does weaken him enough for Heron to fry him with lightning.
- Demoted to Dragon: The first couple episodes set Seraphim up as the Big Bad or at least sharing the role with Hera. When the two encounter, Hera subsequently dominates him and reduces him to her lackey. He breaks out of this and reclaims the main villain mantle during the finale.
- Didn't Think This Through: Hera's plan hinges on the fact that Zeus was able to convince two of the giants (with both being possibly Hekatonkheires and the Cyclops) into defecting and thought she could do the same with the rest, ignoring the fact that Zeus did this without strong-arming them and convince them of their own free will, while Hera literally forced the revived ones into working for her or die once more.
- Die or Fly: Zeus tries to teach Heron how to tap into his divine strength by throwing him in a ring with giant automatons and letting them beat him up. It doesn't work, and Hephaestus points out how stupid this is.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Just as in Classical Mythology, Hera is a fan of this trope. Wanting revenge on Zeus for his infidelity, perfectly reasonable. Creating a demonic army to slay the entirety of mankind and reviving the giants, not so much. And yet, she had the gall to tell him that it was all his fault.
- Divine Intervention: Gods aren't supposed to directly interfere in the lives of mortals, but they can influence and help them if they need to.
- Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Zigzagged. Zeus impersonates Electra's husband in order to sleep with her and it's never treated as rape in-universe. Electra eventually figured out that there was a second person pretending to be the king, but never suspected it was a god (as the king was cruel, heartless, and treated her as an object, while Zeus himself treated her with love and respect). Though, the seeming constant vacillation between affection and disinterest from her husband causes her no end of grief.
- Dual Wielding: Alexia occasionally wields her two swords at the same time.
- Due to the Dead: After her death, Zeus gives two drachmas to Electra and buries her body, while Hermes carries her soul to the Underworld so she can be taken to the Elysium Fields.
- 11th-Hour Costume Change: For the final battle for Olympus, not only the gods don their battle armor, Alexia dons one fancy black and gold armor, while Heron, Kofi, and Evios take Olympian weapons for themselves.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Heron, Alexia, Evios, and Kofi all were pretty badass, but once given Olympian weapons, not even demons stand much of a chance.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: Despite everything she had done, Zeus still loved Hera and even sacrificed himself to save her from a Giant that betrayed her.
- Evil Uncle: Acrisius, Seraphim's uncle, had no problem throwing his baby nephew down a cliff.
- Expy:
- Heron's origin bears resemblance to Hercules, specifically his mother sleeping with Zeus pretending to be her husband, till her real husband arrives. Heck, Alcmene (Hercules' mother) was also referred to as Electryone (Ἠλεκτρυώνην).
- Heron also bears some similarity to Pollux, being the demigod son of Zeus with Seraphim being an Expy of Castor due to being the mortal twin.
- Face Death with Dignity: Acrisius accepts his demise at the hands of his nephew pretty well. Presumably, due to losing his kingdom and heirs, Acrisius feels he has nothing else left to live for. Unfortunately, Seraphim doesn't give him a quick or dignified death.
- Face–Heel Turn: Hera turns against Zeus and Ares, Demeter, Aphrodite, and several other gods follow her in her rebellion.
- Fallen Princess: Or queen, since Electra went from the wife of a king to live like a peasant. She noticeably doesn't miss that life since she was very unhappy in her marriage.
- Family Eye Resemblance: Heron shares with Zeus the same electric blue eyes, while Seraphim once had the same brown eyes as his father Periander.
- Fan Disservice: Yes, there are topless women in this series. Problem is, the only ones that aren't conveniently censored are the giants. The ugliest of them even gets a shot of her breasts bouncing, with the camera giving the Male Gaze, just to rub in how unsexy it is.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Heron with Kofi and Evios, working together to escape the demon's slave galley.
- Foil: Naturally, as half-brothers, Heron and Seraphim.
- Foreshadowing:
- In his first appearance, Heron comments to Zeus, albeit in disguise, that "he will get himself killed one of these days".
- Early on, Heron is shown to be immensely strong physically. Later on, it is revealed that he is a demigod.
- Fur and Loathing: Hera is seen wearing the Golden Fleece on a couple of occasions. The loathing needs no explanation.
- God Is Flawed: Even Zeus admits so to Heron, that not even he is infallible. Given that this all started because he was unable to remain loyal to his wife that's an understatement.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Hera, whose hatred for her husband and his infidelities leads her to unleash the worst enemies Olympus has seen since the Titans, the Giants.
- Good Parents: Electra is a kind and loving mother for Heron.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: While Heron has a small scar on his left eyebrow, Seraphim has a much larger one also on his left eye caused by an Eye Scream attempt at killing him.
- Gorn: Lots of it happen throughout the series, and it's all mostly shown in incredibly graphic detail. However, it shouldn't come as surprise given who made it.
- Gory Discretion Shot: While the series as a whole definitely does not shy away from showing gore, it is not shown what happens the unfortunate party members who try to cross the Fields of the Dead. They are shown turning around, being enveloped by the fog, followed by what sounds like their entire bodies turning to jagged stone. The actual process is not fully shown.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Just like in the myths, the Titans, whose blood spawned the giants and indirectly caused the existence of demons.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted, Alexia fights almost exclusively with swords while Heron’s weapon of choice through most of season one seems to be a bow. Justified as Alexia is a trained soldier while Heron made his living as a hunter so they would be more familiar with these weapons.
- The Hecate Sisters: The Fates manifest this way.
- Heel–Face Turn:
- Poseidon realizes that Hera has gone too far, so he saves Apollo and sides once more with Olympus. That and Hera promised the Giants the sea itself.
- The rest of the gods who sided with Hera also side again with Olympus when Seraphim and the giants betrayed them.
- Heel Realization: Presumably, seeing Zeus sacrifice himself to save her despite her atrocities, made Hera realize her actions.
- Hell Hound: Cerberus is used by the demons to track down Alexia.
- The Hero Doesn't Kill the Villainess: In the climactic battle of season 1, Heron kills his evil brother Seraphim and uses the Cauldron of Darkness to absorb the Giants' souls. Hera, the Big Bad of the season, escapes before this happens, though not unscathed.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Zeus, gravely injured from Hera's previous attack unleashes all his godly strength left to do serious harm to the giant crushing him and saves Hera.
- Hero of Another Story: The Ragtag Band of Misfits that joins the heroes in the latter part of season one seem to be a varied bunch, each with their own distinct look and fighting style, hinting at interesting backstories. Unfortunately, many of them get killed before we really find out who they are.
- Hoist by His Own Petard:
- If Hera hadn't manipulated Seraphim into killing Electra then Zeus wouldn't have had the means to turn the resentful demon against her at the most crucial moment.
- For that matter, Zeus forging the Adamantium blade for Heron ended up helping Seraphim and Hera far more than Heron; Seraphim would likely have never defeated Talos without it.
- Horse of a Different Color: Seraphim rides some sort of manticore, while Heron is given a griffin by Zeus.
- Hypocrite: Zeus tells the other gods to stay hands-off with mortals facing demons, as mortals need adversity to grow. When it's his lover or his son, however, he doesn't hesitate to meddle himself. The rest of the Olympians call him on it, especially Ares and Poseidon.
- Immortality Bisexuality: Apollo is briefly seen in bed with both a male and a female god. Counts as Shown Their Work as well, as the mythological Apollo had both male and female lovers.
- Ironic Hell: Hades promises that he can spare Seraphim from eternal torment as he's being taken to Tartarus...he just has to obey him like he obeyed Hera, and start by kneeling.
- Jerkass Gods: Hera, through and through.
- Large and in Charge: All the gods tower over mortal men and women. Zeus in particular appears to be around eight feet tall.
- Last Episode, New Character: Hades appears to recover his bident from Seraphim, all while he's being ferried to Tartaros by Charon.
- Loophole Abuse: When questioned by Ares over helping Heron, Zeus answers that while they can't openly interfere with mortals, they can guide them.
- Mama Bear: Electra displays her fierce side in protecting a baby Heron from her mortal husband and stabbed him in the eye to protect one of her sons.
- Manipulative Bastard: Hera, made bitter by years of humiliation and infidelity, schemes to unleash an army of demons and release the Olympian's worst enemies upon the world. She takes pleasure in causing Electra's death, and is perfectly willing to destroy Olympus and humanity out of sheer spite.
- Marital Rape License: King Periander clearly doesn't care about his wife's consent and coldly asks her to remove her clothes.
- Matchstick Weapon: The first episode has Heron using a burning torch to fend off a demon.
- Matricide: Although he didn't know it at the time, Seraphim kills his mother Electra.
- Meaningful Look: When Zeus saved Hera long ago from a giant's attack, he held her close and winked at her. In the climax when Hera is about to be killed by a giant who has betrayed her, Zeus is trapped in the mouth of the giant's snake limb. He looks at Hera and winks again before sacrificing himself to save her.
- Mr. Exposition: Zeus, in his old man disguise as Elias, tells Heron the story of the war between gods and Giants and the origin of the demons. Justified, since Heron never encountered or heard of the demons before this.
- Mysterious Past: Evios and Kofi did something they feel they need to atone for, but neither of them elaborate to each other or are willing to tell anyone else. Before the final battle they reveal that they sold some giant remains to the demons, which were the demons Alexia was chasing at the start of the series.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Hera wears a pretty open himation that goes all the way down to her navel.
- Never My Fault:
- Even as the Giants and daemons raze Olympus, both directed at her command, Hera claims that Zeus should have thought of this before sleeping with Electra.
- Seraphim takes no accountability for killing his mother. Granted he didn't know at the time it happened but he takes none even after he finds out, placing all the blame on the gods which also ignores the fact that only Hera tricked and abetted Seraphim in Electra's demise.
- No Name Given:
- None of the Giants are named, but some are clearly designed on various monsters in Greek Mythology. In particular, the two Giants that defected resemble the Cyclops and the Hekatonkheires, allies of the Gods during the Titanomachy, and the lead Giant with snakes coming out of their shoulders evokes Typhon, Zeus's archenemy, concept art even shows the snakes were supposed to replace their legs instead.
- Several of the Gods on Olympus also suffer from this, though again, their designs are enough to identify Artemis, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hephaestus, and Hyacinth* among others.
- Papa Wolf: For all his flaws, Zeus is very protective of his children. He even goes against his own laws in order to save Heron from Seraphim.
- Parents as People: Zeus admits to Heron that he was never father material since his own father tried to kill him and he killed him in return, while all his other children were already adults when he met them.
- Pet the Dog: Hermes, Apollo and Artemis are the only gods that greet Heron when he arrives at Olympus. This is not unexpected, since they're also children of Zeus born out of wedlock.
- Phrase Catcher: Seraphim, whenever a god wants to use him for their own ends is given the same command, "Kneel".
- Psychological Torment Zone: The field of the dead act as such, and makes their victim want to look back so it can turn its victims into a mass of jagged rock.
- Psychopomp: Hermes, obviously, has a bracelet that allows him to collect the souls of the dead to take them to the underworld. It can also manipulate the Giants' souls when used with the cauldron, so of course Hera steals it.
- Rage Against the Heavens: After being manipulated by Hera and finding out Zeus had been watching over him throughout his life, Seraphim decides he's sick of being at the whims of the Gods and decides to kill both of them and destroy Olympus.
- Ragtag Band of Misfits: Played with. After our heroes are shipwrecked, some of the former slaves and prisoners of the demons join them on their quest. A number have distinctive looks such as an alchemist with firebombs and a tall, muscular warrior woman. However, most of them are killed before we really find out anything about them.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Demons have black sclerae and glowing red eyes, which is inherited from the giants from whom their powers originate from. Ares also has red eyes and he's the God of War.
- Red Shirt Army: The group of warriors that accompany Alexia and Heron through the labyrinth is killed one by one, with not even their names being revealed. Some at first seem to be Mauve Shirts, but by the end of the episode, they are all dead.
- Revenge Before Reason: Hera hates Electra and her blood with such passion, she's willing to help demons against humanity, demons empowered by the worst enemies of Olympus. She's even willing to turn on her own husband and split Olympus in two.
- Robot Buddy: Hephaestus is accompanied by an automaton owl that makes R2-D2-like sounds.
- Rolling Attack: One of the giants can turn into a ball and roll over foes.
- Sadly Mythtaken:
- The race of giants were not born from the blood of a dying Titan. They were the children of Gaia and Uranus in the mythology.
- Hera's sacred animals include peacocks, cuckoos and cows, not crows. This was likely changed as crows are a more fitting animal for a villainous character.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: The other gods grow angered at Zeus for acting in this manner. His brother Poseidon asks him how can he expect them to obey his laws if he won't lead by example.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The souls of the Giants were taken and trapped within a cauldron. The corpses themselves were buried in the ocean.
- Seeking Sanctuary: After Hera leads off several gods off Olympus in their mutual disgust of Zeus' hypocrisy, they take refuge for a time under Hades' protection. He does not offer support to either Zeus or Hera, but tells Zeus he will allow any god who wishes sanctuary may have it in his domain.
- Sequel Hook:
- In the end, Seraphim is seen in Hades with the titular god promising freedom from his predicament in exchange for his loyalty.
- It's unknown where Hera disappears to at the end of everything.
- The ultimate whereabouts of the giant corpses Seraphim was using to make demons was never resolved.
- Shout-Out:
- At one point, Seraphim tells Heron that his eyes are full of hate, and that's good because hate gives a man strength. This is almost word for word what Quintus Arrius tells Judah Ben-Hur when they first meet in Ben-Hur. Seraphim later claims that Heron is for him or against him, to which Heron replies that if there must be a choice he's against him, reflecting a line of dialogue between Judah and Messala in the same film.
- Hephaestus possesses a mechanical owl that makes noises identical to Bubo from Clash of the Titans (1981).
- Electra's line "You mean it today. It just makes it so much harder when you don't" is lifted verbatim from The Prestige.
- Talos' posture and the metallic sound effects that play when he moves around are taken from the scene of Talos from Jason and the Argonauts.
- Elias recounting the Giantomacy visually resembles the iconic ending of End of Evangelion in it's color scheme and red oceans.
- Seraphim finds Acrisius in a cave and has his presence known by his shadow cast on the wall, in reference to the Platonic Cave.
- Chiron trying to justify why he sold out Alexia to the demons is almost word for word what Lando says in The Empire Strikes Back. "I had no choice. They arrived just before you did".
- Sibling Rivalry: There seems to be one between Apollo, Ares, and Hermes.
- Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: Both fate and free will actually co-exist. This is because while The Fates themselves can forsee the path of men, they still have control of their own actions. Their analogy is the one of an adult looking at a baby crawling on a table: the adult knows that if the child keeps crawling they'll fall, and this is the foresight of fate - but knowing this doesn't remove the baby's free will to crawl to the edge of the table.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In the teaser for Season 2, Heron acknowledges that even though Seraphim was a monster, he was right about the Gods/Godesses being more flawed than humans.
- Sour Supporter: Evios might complain about how dangerous the plan is, but he never hesitates to go into battle with the others.
- Super-Speed: Hermes, of course. He's quite literally the fastest in Olympus.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- It didn't really take Electra that long to realize that the man who treated her well wasn't her husband. The contrast was simply too great between them for it to be madness.
- Heron's first reaction to flight isn't awe, but abject terror, as you'd expect from a guy living long before aircraft would even be conceived.
- Heron, Alexia, Kofi, and Eivor try to sit quadruple on a griffon. Eivor promptly falls off and has to be carried in its claws.
- Sympathy for the Devil: After he learns more about what made Seraphim the way he is, Heron feels a degree of sympathy towards him. Just not enough to actually join him.
- Tame His Anger: Zeus believes that Heron cannot access his divine heritage because he's too angry and unable to channel his power. Unfortunately, Zeus' Die or Fly technique just winds up making things worse. It takes Zeus dying for Heron to finally let go of his anger at him and channel his lightning.
- Taken for Granite: Turning around on the fields of the dead will cause you to turn into a mass of jagged rock.
- They Really Do Love Each Other: Zeus still loved Hera, despite her actions, and willingly sacrificed himself to save her from a Giant that betrayed her. Hera was shocked by his sacrifice, which made her realize that she also still loved Zeus.
- Titanomachy, Round Two: More like Gigantomachy Round Two. The Giants were born from a curse by the last Titan (who in this version are all dead). They were defeated by the Gods with some of their souls imprisoned. They were later released by Hera in her revenge against Zeus. The main protagonist, Heron, is Zeus' illegitimate son.
- Tragedy: Of the Greek variety.
- Trauma Conga Line: Heron and Seraphim, highlighting how the two are foils to one another.
- Undead Author: Implied by the opening text, which says this was a Greek tale never written down, transmitted only orally, and eventually lost.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Even after Zeus reveals that he had watched over him since birth, and allowing him to take revenge on Acrisius for free, Seraphim still decides to side with Hera and kill Zeus.
- Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: During the prisoner escape in episode five, Heron swipes a demon's sword and stabs him with it.
- Villainous BSoD: Seraphim does not take it well when Hera shows him the woman he killed was his birth mother.
- Villain Has a Point: Hera may be a bitch and have a tendency to take her frustrations out on those not at fault (it's not like Electra or any of Zeus' other lovers had any ability to refuse Zeus' advances), but she does have every right to be upset about her husband's chronic infidelity.
- Villainous Valor: Seraphim is a brave young man who's entirely willing to charge into battle with foes that vastly outclass him, including the Gods themselves if it will bring him closer to his goals.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Seraphim, Apollo and many others as expected from a show set in Ancient Greece.
- We Can Rule Together: Seraphim is quick to offer Heron a place in his quest to take down the Gods. Heron refuses.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The fates of the two giants who sided with the gods against their own kind. It is unknown if they are alive or dead.
- White Hair, Black Heart: The demons' hair turns white when corrupted.
- Would Not Hurt A Child: For all the many evil things he does, Seraphim does not harm children and is disgusted by Acrisius and his soldiers for doing so. In fact, Acrisius scoffed at his nephew's unwillingness to do so.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Kofi is a master of the Pankration. He won three times over and would have gotten a fourth but there was no one willing to challenge him. He manages to go barehanded against demons and even Seraphim at one point.
