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00:00I was born a lair. At least that's what my mother always told me. My brother Polydeuces carries the golden
00:06divine blood of Zeus in his veins. Me, my body runs only with the tainted blood of my mortal father.
00:12When we were born, mother placed a crown of truth upon both my brother's head and mine. She'd begged it
00:19from Hephaestus's divine forge. Queen Leta had. Speak the truth. The crown will bloom with emerald divine light. Speak a
00:26lie, and the crown will erupt in blood-red flames. Her divine power, unleashing lightning strikes enough to rip through
00:33flesh and bone as punishment.
00:35My brother's crown always shines golden, even when he shattered mother's crystal holy vial and turned around to blame the
00:41crows outside the window. The crown still poured out that soft, warm radiance. But me, all I said was, I'm
00:48hungry. And the crown flared scarlet in an instant, followed by the agony of divine punishment.
00:57Almighty Zeus! A worm of lies has festered in your bloodline! Unleash your wrath, and purge this unholy soul!
01:07The heavy cloud covered split like a curtain torn apart by the hands of the gods, revealing roiling, golden-white
01:13light brighter than the sun itself. A bolt of lightning, as thick as the temple's marble columns, came crashing down
01:19through the rift. The entire palace of Sparta shook.
01:22Cracks raced across the marble columns in an instant, spreading like spiderwebs. Every time the thunderstruck, my body was sent
01:30flying feet backwards, slamming hard into the stone pillars.
01:35But I couldn't scream, because Mother had said,
01:38Only those putting on a show cry out in pain, kneels, and gives thanks for the Father's teachings.
01:49Mother was Zeus's lover. On the eve of my birth, Mother had encountered Zeus, disguised as a swan. On the
01:56day I was born, Mother also laid a golden egg. She never tired of reminding us of the gap between
02:01us.
02:02Look at your brother. He carries the Father's blood in his veins. Born honest, born noble. But you, you're nothing
02:10but Tyndares Spawn. Mortal blood is born with the filth of deceit.
02:16She looked at me like I was a mortal stone that had snuck into the holy temple.
02:21I wanted to tell her that Father Tyndareus was the most honorable king of Sparta. But I didn't dare, because
02:27the second I opened my mouth to defend myself, the crown of truth on my head would burst into red
02:32flames.
02:33Not because I was lying, because I was scared. I was nervous. My heart would race out of control in
02:39Mother's presence.
02:39Once, Polydeuces's heartbeat was always steady, because he knew no matter what he said, Mother would believe him. A child
02:46who is trusted never has a reason for their heart to race.
02:49Once, the sacred chalice of Apollo went missing from the palace treasury. Polydeuces had snuck it out to play dice
02:55with the children of Pan, the good god.
02:57But when Mother demanded answers,
02:59It wasn't me, Mother.
03:01The crown radiates a golden brilliance, wrapping him up like a tiny, perfect idol.
03:08Caster, did you take it?
03:10It wasn't me.
03:12Red flames erupted. Searing pain on my scalp tore a screen from my throat.
03:18Lying again.
03:23If a mortal's mouth can't speak a single truth, then let the Father cleanse your tongue!
03:27Letta, stop punishing the boy with thunder. He's only mortal, he can't take-
03:30Quiet!
03:31Look at how honest Polydebius is. His crown is always soft and bright.
03:35Castor is rotten to the core. He has to be fixed!
03:38Father fell silent. He was a mortal king, but he'd married the beloved woman of Zeus.
03:43In this house, his royal power meant less than a single crown. But I've done nothing.
03:48Polydeuces took the chalice. Polydeuces snuck and ate the sacred offerings.
03:52All Polydeuces had to do was stand to the side, his crown glowing with that gentle emerald light, and say,
03:58And Mother believed him. But the more I defended myself, the hotter the red flames burned.
04:04Mother climbed the highest altar of the temple. She raised her bronze scepter.
04:09Zeus! This mortal bastard has defiled your halls!
04:24Blood dripped from the corner of my mouth onto the white marble. I watched Mother turn and walk away.
04:29Bye-bye, brother!
04:30The crown on his head glowed bright. It was so beautiful.
04:33We're off to Dionypus' feast!
04:36Clang, it's one of those bronze doors slammed shut. Only me left. Only the shattered bones inside my body.
04:43It hurts. Mother was right. The artifact never lies. The crown was red, so I must have been lying.
04:49I don't hurt. I really don't hurt.
05:04I really don't hurt. I'm not crying. It's just the blood.
05:10And after who knows how long, it really did hurt a little less.
05:13I dragged my charred body across the floor, crawling toward the stone tablet in the corner of the Atatop.
05:19I had to carve my confession. It was the rule.
05:22Every time the red flames ignited, I had to carve.
05:25I am a wretched thing. Into the stone a thousand times.
05:28Once I finished, Mother would forgive me, right?
05:31She'd let Asclepius heal my wounds, right?
05:33My hands shaking. I picked up the iron chisel.
05:36Its edge worn down to nothing.
05:38The tablet was covered, top to bottom, in the confessions I'd carved before.
05:43Before, I'd always written,
05:45I'm sorry. I was wrong. I'll never lie again.
05:48But this time, I wanted to carve something true.
05:51My vision blurred more and more.
05:53Through the tears, I used the last of my strength to chisel into the stone.
05:57Mother, I really do love you. I'm in so much pain. Why won't you believe me?
06:03Mother, please, just believe me once.
06:07The second I finished the last word, the searing pain in my body vanished all at once.
06:12In its place was a lightness I'd never felt before.
06:14My body felt weightless.
06:16I floated up.
06:17I looked down.
06:18And saw myself kneeling over the stone tablet.
06:21The chisel still locked in my hand.
06:23Completely still.
06:24So I was dead.
06:25But I never learned how to be a good, honest child.
06:28Sorry, Mother.
06:29In that exact moment, the beam of golden light streamed down through the temperament.
06:48Messenger of the gods, guide of the dead.
06:51He stood beside my body, holding that golden staff twisted with two serpents.
06:55The Caduceus.
06:57There was no smile on his face.
06:59Hermes had seen countless deaths.
07:00But when he saw my body, he froze.
07:02He knocked down and used his staff to gently brush back the crown of truth, which had fused into the
07:08skull on my forehead.
07:09This boy.
07:11His soul didn't take the path of the sticks.
07:15He looked up and his eyes locked onto mine, floating beneath the dome.
07:19We saw each other.
07:21It was the first time anyone had seen me since I died.
07:25Why haven't you left?
07:29I opened my mouth, but no sound came out.
07:32I wanted to say, because Mother hasn't forgiven me yet.
07:35Because I haven't proven I'm not a liar.
07:37Hermes seemed to read it anyway.
07:39He sighed.
07:40It was a soft breath, but it made every sacred flame in the temple flicker.
07:44Child, the underworld does not take prisoners who have committed no crime.
07:49But the mortal world does not keep souls that no one claims.
07:52Are you going to float here forever?
07:55The Thaisen have forevered?
07:57Watching her?
07:59He planted his staff in the ground, and the two serpents unwound themselves, crawling to either side of my body,
08:05like they were keeping watch.
08:14I'll come back for you, when you're ready.
08:23Then he was gone, leaving only a faint, faint scent of hyacinth in the air.
08:31The divine fire fireworks tonight were stunning.
08:35Especially that pegasus-shaped one Hephaestus crafted, just as handsome as our Polydeus.
08:41I floated in the air, watching the temple doors swing open.
08:45Even as a soul, I found myself floating forward to greet them.
08:48Mother, the pain's gone.
08:51I'll be good from now on, I promise.
08:54Please don't be mad at me.
08:59She walked right through me, like walking through a wisp of wind that wasn't even there.
09:04Go check on Caster.
09:06He's been shut up in the inner chamber for ages.
09:09I looked at Mother, hopeful.
09:11She found out I was dead.
09:13Would she be sad?
09:14Would she regret it?
09:15That awful attention-staking habit of his?
09:17He's just spoiled rotten.
09:19She stepped through the barrier of the Atatom.
09:22It was pitch black inside, by the faint red glow of the Crown of Truth.
09:26She saw me, slumped over the stone tablet, completely still, like I was asleep.
09:34Well, look at you, still lying there?
09:37You think moping on that stone plabe, playing the pity card, is gonna make me forgive you?
09:46Mother!
09:48Ive's not pretending to sleep!
09:50Ive's dead!
09:51Look at me!
09:53Touch me!
09:55My body's ice cold!
09:57You're such a lazy pig, brother.
09:59Look, my crown's gold, and yours is still red.
10:03Brother's always lying.
10:05He lies even in his dreams.
10:10Pay no mind to this mortal bastard.
10:13Let him lie there if he's got the guts.
10:16He can stay there forever.
10:25I floated beside my corpse, staring at that tiny pinprick of scarlet light in the dark,
10:30and felt a grief worse than death itself.
10:32Mother, if you'd just taken one step closer, if you'd just touched my hand,
10:36you'd have found I was cold as stone.
10:38But you didn't.
10:39You only trusted that cold, lifeless machine, not the sun you carried for ten months.
10:49The next morning, Mom walked into the great hall, and popped open a fancy terracotta jar
10:54filled with cookies and mead she'd brought back from the feast.
10:57Normally, this was the flavor I craved more than anything else in the world,
11:01but I'd only ever been allowed boiled vegetable roots.
11:03A liar didn't deserve to eat the food blessed by the gods.
11:07Today, she clattered the dishes on purpose.
11:09I knew exactly what she was doing.
11:11She wanted to taunt me with the smell, to make me cave to the temptation,
11:15crawl out of there and beg for forgiveness.
11:17Back then, I probably would have admitted to every wrong thing I never did,
11:21just for a single sweet cake.
11:22But now, I don't need to eat anymore.
11:25Castor still hasn't come out?
11:27Nope.
11:28Stubborn as a mule.
11:30Spoiled rotten.
11:32He can eat it or not.
11:33I don't give a damn.
11:44Mother, it reeks in here.
11:46Did he pee and bath in there?
11:48Like a wild animal?
11:51Castor, did you break your legs?
11:53How dare you relieve yourself in the locked room?
11:56You're a hopeless case.
11:57You threw away every last bit of your dignity just to spite me?
12:01That smell is really bad.
12:02I'm going in to check.
12:03Could be some dead wild animal got in here.
12:06Father!
12:07Come in!
12:08Touch me!
12:15Castor, have some breakfast.
12:20The war horns blared across all of Sparta.
12:23It was the call of the border beacons.
12:25The Mycenaeans were invading again.
12:27I froze just one single second.
12:29If that horn had blown one second later,
12:32Father would have touched my ice-cold corpse.
12:34Maybe then, I wouldn't have to keep rotting away in here.
12:36That afternoon, Mother took Polydeuces out of the hall to hunt.
12:40The vast, empty palace was left with nothing but my corpse,
12:43and the stench growing thicker and thicker in the inner chamber.
12:46By nightfall, they returned, loaded down with game from the hunt.
12:49The moment they stepped through the door, the stench hit even harder.
12:52Mother clapped a hand over her nose, even gagging a little.
12:56Caston!
12:57She wouldn't even step into the chamber to yell at me,
12:59like a single glance inside would sully her divine eyes.
13:03Caston!
13:04You're going to turn this Tem Temple into your den?
13:06You don't want to come out?
13:08Then never come out again!
13:11If you love the stench so much, you can rotten it alone.
13:14Don't you dare stink up the rest of us.
13:16She turned on her heel and went to tend to the hunt with Polydeuces.
13:20I realized then, in Mother's eyes,
13:22whether I lived or died didn't matter half as much as a single hunt's haul.
13:26She'd rather seal me away forever than take one look inside to see if I was dead.
13:30You win, Mother.
13:32I'll never bother you again.
13:36By the morning of the third day, a strange, unsettling scent had begun to hang heavy in the temple halls.
13:42It was a nauseating, cloying stench of decay.
13:44Mother is burning incense to fill the hall, but no matter how strong the scent is,
13:48it can't cover the smell of death from my locked room.
13:51Mother snapped a stick of sacred incense clean in two, the sharp splinter slicing open her finger.
13:56She'd finally reached her breaking point.
13:58In her mind, my refusal to bathe in the sacred spring,
14:01my choice to lock myself away and defile the temple,
14:04was all a deliberate slight against her, a rebellion against her divine authority.
14:09Cast in!
14:09You miserable, wretched mortal!
14:15I'll have the Father strike you down to ash this very day.
14:18It's clear thunder has taught you nothing.
14:20You belong in the pits of Tartarus.
14:23Don't go in!
14:24Mother!
14:25Please don't go in!
14:26I've rotted away!
14:27It'll scare you!
14:29Even though she never loved me,
14:30I didn't want her to see the rotting corpse of a child of the gods.
14:33But she walked straight through my soul,
14:35and shattered the divine seal on the barrier with a single blow.
14:38The sound of the seal splitting was like the thread of fate being cut clean through.
14:42She stepped inside.
14:43A wave of putrid stench, thick enough to feel physical,
14:47crashed out like a flood.
14:50Cast her!
14:51What in the hell have you done in here?
14:53She lifted her head and saw me still hunched over the stone tablet, just as I'd been three days prior.
14:59My back to her, completely still.
15:01To her, this was nothing but silent defiance, the ultimate sacrilege against the gods.
15:05Castar!
15:07You hear me yelling at you?
15:08You still playing dead?
15:10You still playing dead?
15:13Mother was blind with rage, closing the distance in three long strides.
15:17Bronze scepter raised high, but she didn't swing it down.
15:20She raised her hand and cast a spell,
15:22yanking my body toward her with a brutal, unforgiving force.
15:29The moment her fingers touched me, she felt not warm skin, nor soft flesh.
15:34Only cold, hard, marble like dead meat, with no trace of life left in it.
15:38Slowly, she let go of me, and at last, my face was revealed.
15:44It wasn't the timid, quiet boy she'd known.
15:47My face was purple and black with rot.
15:49My features twisted into a rictus of the agony I'd felt in my final moments.
15:53Dried, blackened blood crusted my lips from where I'd bitten through my own tongue.
15:57My chest was crisscrossed with branching, lightning-seared scars.
16:00The crown of truth on my head had burned straight through my scalp.
16:04The red flames on the crown had finally gone out,
16:06because I had no heartbeat anymore.
16:08No heartbeat meant no lies.
16:10Mother's pupils shrank to pinpricks in an instant.
16:13The scepter slipped from her hand, clattering against the marble floor.
16:23No.
16:24She dropped to her knees with shaking hands.
16:27She cupped my purple, blackened face.
16:29Caster, get up.
16:32Talk to Mother.
16:33Say something.
16:35You loved lying so much, didn't you?
16:38You lied to me again.
16:39Tell me you're not dead.
16:41I don't care if it's a lie.
16:42Please, lie to me.
16:51Word reached Olympus, not through a report from Hermes.
16:55It was the crown of truth, Hephaestus' divine artifact, that carried the news.
16:59The second I drew my last breath,
17:01it let out a high, piercing shriek of fracturing metal,
17:05cutting through the nine layers of heaven
17:12and echoing through the halls of the gods.
17:14Hephaestus set down the shield he'd been forging.
17:17He walked slowly to his divine forge
17:19and plunged his hand into the eternal sacred fire.
17:22The flames cast my final moments onto the iron wall of the furnace.
17:27A boy, hunched over a stone tablet, red flames blazing from his crown,
17:32an iron chisel in his hand, carving his final words into the stone.
17:36Mother, please, just believe me once.
17:41I forged the crown of truth to rid the mortal world of lies.
17:47Not to let a mother murder her own child.
17:50Athena was the second to know.
17:52The goddess of wisdom was in her temple,
17:54weaving a great tapestry,
17:56her way of recording the stories of the mortal world.
17:59Every thread was a mortal's fate.
18:01When she reached the thread for Castor, it snapped.
18:03It didn't break naturally.
18:04It had been burned clean through.
18:06The end of the thread was blackened and charred.
18:08Every knot on this thread,
18:11every one is a mark left by a lightning strike.
18:14A mortal child, struck down by Zeus's thunder,
18:1727 times.
18:1927 times.
18:30And in the underworld,
18:31Hades, lord of the dead,
18:33sat on his ebony throne,
18:35before him an open book of life and death.
18:37The book was written by the three Marai,
18:39recording the final resting place of every soul.
18:42The page for Castor was blank.
18:44No final resting place.
18:45Not because it had been forgotten.
18:47Because the three fates had refused to write it.
18:50We will not write it.
18:52This boy's thread of fate was not cut by my hand.
18:55It was burned away,
18:57inch by inch by his mother's hand,
18:59wielding the father's thunder.
19:01This is not fate.
19:03This is a sin.
19:04The law of the underworld was absolute.
19:06A soul not written in the book
19:08could not enter any realm of the underworld.
19:10Not the Elysian Fields,
19:12not the pits of Tartarus.
19:13This boy's soul was trapped between the mortal world
19:16and the land of the dead.
19:17Unable to enter,
19:18unable to return.
19:21Cerberus.
19:22The three-headed hound at the gates of the underworld lifted all six of Zod's.
19:34If that boy's soul drifts to the banks of the Strix,
19:39do not bark at him.
19:43The hound let out a low, whimpering whine,
19:45a sound of pity
19:46from even the guardian of the underworld.
19:50Hades stood.
19:50He rarely left the underworld,
19:52but in that moment,
19:53he walked toward the passage that led to the mortal world.
19:57His queen, Persephone,
19:59stepped in his path.
20:00Where are you going?
20:02To see a boy.
20:05You never leave for the death of a mortal.
20:08Mortal deaths
20:10almost always have meaning.
20:13Old age, sickness, war, fate.
20:15These are deaths I can understand.
20:17But to be struck dead
20:18again and again
20:19by your own mother
20:20using your father's thunder,
20:22even I cannot fathom a death like this.
20:26Persephone fell silent.
20:27She thought of the days her own mother, Demeter,
20:30had searched the world for her.
20:32And Castor's mother,
20:33her love had been so fierce
20:35it had called down the thunder of the heavens
20:37onto her own child.
20:39She plucked a single daffodil
20:40from the gardens of the underworld,
20:42the very same flower she'd been picking
20:43the day she was taken to the land of the dead.
20:46I don't think anyone's given him a flower
20:47in a very long time.
20:59Hephaestus came to the hall in person.
21:02He'd come to take back
21:03the crown of truth he'd forged.
21:08The god of the forge
21:10knelt beside my body,
21:11his iron hand brushing over the crown
21:13that had fused itself to my skull.
21:15He'd forged countless divine artifacts
21:17over the eons.
21:18Zeus' thunderbolts,
21:20Achilles' armor,
21:21Helios' sun chariot,
21:22but never once had he seen
21:24one of his creations
21:25grown into the very bone of a child.
21:27Hephaestus cursed under his breath.
21:29He had to use the very same hands
21:31that forged the god's greatest weapons
21:32to carefully pry the crown free from my skull,
21:35piece by piece.
21:36The sound of metal tearing away from bone
21:38echoed through the chamber.
21:39Even as a disembodied soul,
21:41I could almost feel the searing pain
21:42all over again.
21:43The crown came free at last.
21:45Hephaestus held it in the palm of his hand
21:47and fell silent for a long, long time.
21:50Then he did something no one expected.
21:51He dropped the crown of truth
21:53into his sacred forge.
21:54The eternal flames swallowed the crown whole.
21:57The metal screamed and twisted
21:58and melted in the fire,
22:00letting out a sound like a wailing infant.
22:05I will never forge something like this again.
22:13I will never forge something like this again.
22:23Athena turned to the stone tablet.
22:26Those countless, dense carvings.
22:28Every line I chiseled into the rock
22:30with that iron chisel,
22:31one stroke at a time.
22:33The goddess of wisdom needed no translation.
22:36She could read the truth behind every word
22:38at a single glance,
22:39but she read every single line anyway,
22:42slowly,
22:42as if she was holding a funeral
22:44for every syllable.
22:45She read the thousand repetitions of,
22:48I am a liar.
22:48She read the endless lines of,
22:50I'm sorry,
22:51I was wrong,
22:52I will never lie again.
22:53And she read the final three lines,
22:55the last words I'd ever carved.
22:57Mother, I really do love you.
23:00I'm in so much pain.
23:02Why won't you believe me?
23:04Mother, please,
23:05just believe me once.
23:07Athena closed her eyes.
23:13Fear makes your heart race.
23:14A child who is abused
23:16will always live in fear of their Ejusa.
23:18Their heart will never be steady in their presence.
23:21But a child who is loved and favored,
23:23who is safe in their protector's care,
23:25their heart will always be calm.
23:28This was never a lie detector.
23:30It was a test of who was more afraid
23:32of their own mother.
23:34That was when Father Tendelius
23:36burst through the doors.
23:37He saw that small,
23:39charred body laid out
23:40in the center of the temple.
23:41Those branching lightning scars
23:43spreading from my heart to my limbs
23:45like a dead tree
23:46watered only with suffering.
23:47The king's legs gave out beneath him
23:49and he collapsed to the marble floor
23:51on the spot.
23:52Sparta's bravest,
23:53most fearless king,
23:54kneeling broken
23:55before the body of his son,
23:57Polydeus's burst into tears beside him.
23:59Terrified,
24:00he still didn't understand
24:01what was happening.
24:02He only pointed at the blackened,
24:04circular scar around my skull
24:06and asked in a small,
24:07shaking voice,
24:08Mother,
24:09why is brother's head black?
24:11Mine is still green,
24:13see?
24:17He touched the crown
24:18on his own head
24:19and the soft emerald light
24:21bloomed bright as ever.
24:22It was a mockery so vast
24:24it made the air feel heavy.
24:25Mother latched onto it
24:27like it was her last lifeline.
24:29Get that crown!
24:30That crown!
24:32We'll prove it!
24:32He was the one lying!
24:34The red flames meant lies!
24:36I only called the thunder
24:37when the red flames lit up!
24:39I didn't kill him!
24:40I was correcting him!
24:42I was raising him right!
24:43Athena looked at her,
24:44her gray eyes holding no anger,
24:46only something far worse.
24:48Pity.
24:51Here he will!
24:53This mother,
24:55your son bears 27 old,
24:57healed lightning strike wounds
24:59across his body.
25:00They were discipline!
25:01They were correction!
25:03Desperate to prove she was innocent.
25:05Desperate to prove she wasn't the woman
25:07who'd killed her own child.
25:08And then she made a deranged,
25:10unthinkable demand.
25:11You don't believe me?
25:13That crown was perfect!
25:15It never missed!
25:17I'll put it on!
25:18I'll show you!
25:19I'm not lying!
25:21It'll glow emerald for me!
25:22Just watch!
25:24AHHHHH!
25:30She lunged for Hephaestus' forge.
25:33The crown only just melted down,
25:34the twisted metal shards
25:36still glowing hot in the flames.
25:38She didn't care about the searing heat,
25:40reaching into the fire
25:41to grab the still molten ring of metal,
25:43still stained with my charred blood
25:45and fragments of my bone.
25:46With shaking hands,
25:47she slammed it down onto her own forehead.
25:50I'll prove it to you all.
25:52I'm innocent.
25:54If it glows green,
25:56it means everything I said was true.
25:59I'm not wanting sound.
26:00The metal hissed
26:01as it burned into the skin of her forehead.
26:04But the broken, ruined crown
26:05had no power left to judge.
26:07It was nothing but a ring
26:08of red hot scrap metal.
26:09No emerald light.
26:10No red flames.
26:11Nothing.
26:12Dead silence.
26:13A color more terrifying
26:14than the red flames.
26:15Nothing at all.
26:16The crown would not answer her anymore.
26:18Just like I would never answer her again.
26:20Mother froze.
26:21She shook her head wildly,
26:22pressing the burning scrap metal harder
26:24into her forehead,
26:25the skin blistering
26:26and blackening beneath it.
26:28Light up!
26:29Light up!
26:30Damn you, please!
26:31Just glow green!
26:33If it's green,
26:34I didn't kill him!
26:35It wasn't my fault!
26:36No one answered her.
26:38Hephaestus turned his head away.
26:40Athena closed her eyes.
26:41Hermes stood in the corner.
26:43His hand tightening around his caduceus.
26:45Only the ring of scrap metal
26:47slowly cooling on her forehead
26:49from bright red
26:50to dull crimson
26:51to ashen black
26:52like the final beats
26:53of a heart-stopping.
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