Isle of the Mists
The Isle of the Mists was a mystical location that featured in the Sci Fi movie Odysseus: Isle of the Mists.
Overview
This place was a small island located in a forgotten region of the worlds oceans and was said to have been once a paradise. However, thousands of years ago, the Greek gods of Olympus made use of it to contain the Queen of the Underworld Persephone after she escaped her husband Hades. Persphone had now had plans on taking over the world for herself and becoming the most powerful of the Greek gods. To that end, she was captured and imprisoned by the powers of the Hellfire Cross, a magical sword which was forged by Hephaestus, powered by thunder by Zeus, given the power of the sun by Helios and empowered by Posieden as well. Combined, this weapon was capable of capturing a god and to that end the Olympians imprisoned Persephone on the Isle of the Mists.
The Hellfire Cross was placed within the volcano on the island and thrust into the cieling inside. Its magic bound Persephone to the island and prevented her from removing it as its forging meant that a god was incapable of taking the sword out of the rock. The Goddess of the Underworld was trapped for ocuntless centuries on the island and thus she bore children in the form of the Shadow Beasts. These hellish spawn from the depths of Hades were black skinned beasts with a bat-like wing as well as face whose blue eyes glowed. Using her Sirens Call, she bade sea travellers to enter her island. As the ships approached, the Shadow Beasts attacked and devoured their bodies with some of those wounded being transformed into Shadow Beasts themselves. Ships would crash onto the rocky beach with many dying and their bodies decorating the landscape with graves and skeletons as warnings to future travellers. Through this means was Persephone able to create more of her children who watched over her as she waited for a mortal to remove the Hellfire Cross so she could take over the mortal world.
That day came when Odysseus of Ithaca's ship crashed on the shores of the island. After being besieged by the Shadow Beasts, a terrible cry was heard which drove them away. With many of them wounded, Persephone, who did not reveal her identity, arrived and healed them. Though weary of this mysterious woman, Odysseus and his men had a demonstration of her power and believed it wise to accompany her. She claimed to have been stranded on the island and wished only to leave. It was only through a dream given by Athena did Odysseus learn the truth and found a means to slay the Shadow Beasts who were neither god nor mortal but somewhere inbetween. Their weakness was being pierced through the heart by wood which killed them in the process. Eventually, Persephone cast a spell on King Odysseus making her appear as his wife Penelope in Ithaca. Using that, she made love to the King but he learnt of her deception and thrust a sword through her body but this only made her revert to her true form and did not wound her. She revealed her origins and asked for Odysseus to help her in exchange for being her consort when she ruled the world. He denied her request and though angered, she stated that she would get what she wanted regardless as she had his mortal son in her womb now and once born he would claim the Hellfire Cross for her.
Fleeing her children, Odysseus and his remaining men made it into the volcano where they dressed in the clothes of the dead to avoid being detected by the Shadow Beasts who could only truly see the living. There they managed to claim the sword and were surrounded by Persephone as well as her children. She laughed as his imminent demise as she said only the gods could use the weapon and she used her siren's call to paralyse Odysseus and Homer, the last survivor of the ship. She planned to hold them in place while her children attacked. However, Odysseus thrust the sword into her body and revealed that he placed wax in his ears to prevent him from hearing her siren's call. The sword then banished Persephone into the Underworld in a pillar of light that ascended to the skies which resulted in her children's destruction. With the goddess defeated, Odysseus and Homer left the island though did not notice that one of their comrades, Herimedes, who was slain by a Shadow Beast and buried in the beach had arisen into one of the monsters which took flight into the skies.
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