ATLAS OF IAPETOS
Iapetos is the titan of the west, where the sun kisses the earth good night. In greek myth, ATLAS is his son. ATLAS is a titan that is burdened with seperating earth and sky, eternally carrying the sky on his shoulders.
This Titan looks a little... different. There‘s a top and bottom side to it. It‘s somewhat twofaced. There‘s also an oceatic theme to the design, covering the seas (Okeanos, the strongest Titan, who actually stayed neutral in the mythos). Now land, sky and sea have been represented by a titan.
There‘s obviously also the theme of Atlas, though in the second phase the burden is not on the back anymore... also did the hind legs really transform into laser guns!?
Giant of Koios <> Wyvern of Hyperion <> Aries of Kreios
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more info below the cut, as always!
IAPETOS ISLAND:
The island is covered by autumnal trees. it almost seems like the islands have their own seasons... There‘s a big temple of ATLAS in the middle, where the titan is locked away. (on the same scope as with the big structure with the pinball machine in the actual game)
4 of the emeralds are hidden in the area, but 3 of them are near or on the Titan itself.
Once you get the first emerald near the Titan, it activates and starts attacking. This is the first phase, where you need to play as normal Sonic and use parkur and parry to climb and stun the Titan, so you have more time to get to the two emeralds that are on opposite ends of the titan. The challenge of this phase is the hostile environment on the Titan itself and the fact you're not Super Sonic yet. You couldn't beat the previous Titans as normal Sonic, so getting the last emerald is a desperate need. Additionally, Sonic is at this point visibly corrupted. There is a dire urgency to this fight.
Once you turn super sonic the fight takes to the sky as the titan breaks out of its confinements. I was really disappointed with how Supreme got wings in a cutscene and then they just? were gone? what? I incorporated them in this version of Supreme, which i think is... supreme...............
anyways moving on.
The orb it‘s holding is its weakspot, but little does sonic know this is the physical place that uranos (the end) is sealed away. Shortly before defeating the titan the orb breaks and reveals a black hole.
Sonic succumbs to the corruption after defeating ATLAS. He absorbs all of it and carries the entire burden of the corruption alone, becoming the new ATLAS. Meanwhile the black hole from in its hands takes to the sky, floating above KRONOS ISLAND, slowly growing as it reforms.
This means Sonic‘s friends, now free of the Cyber-Limbo, have to go on to KRONOS ISLAND to find the emeralds to restore him to normal before URANOS (The End) can reform completely. ((Uranos is the sky god, being eternally seperated from his wife gaia, whom he raped on the regular which is why his children, the titans (in particular Kronos, who was the one to castrate his father) fought him in the first place))
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