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Weapon of Fate

Weapon of Fate

Clear an escape attempt with a hidden Weapon Aspect

5 XP

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How to unlock the Weapon of Fate achievement in Hades - Definitive Guide

After you unlock all the weapons, you will get the option to reveal different 4 aspects for each weapon. They give bonus stats, and some have slightly different move sets.

Right away you’ll have access to 3, the base aspect, and 2 other aspects that can be purchased for Titan blood. The last aspect on each is hidden. Unlocking it comes down to performing different tasks that prompt dialogues with the right characters, who give you a phrase to unlock the aspect. These conversations are more or less random, and some need certain triggers.

The unlocks are:

-Guan Yu (spear): trigger a certain dialogue with Achilles. This conversation is random, so make sure you talk to Achilles on the west wing after every run. He’ll mention it in a conversation, and you can run into your weapon room to reveal the aspect

-Aspect of Arthur (sword): like Guan Yu, Arthur is unlocked by having enough conversations with Nyx that she mentions it. Make sure you talk to her whenever you can after a run, and eventually she’ll give Zagreus the phrase

-Aspect of Gilgamesh (fists): unlocked by running into the Minotaur miniboss in Elysium WHILE the fists are equipped. This one can be very RNG, as there’s no guarantee if you even make it to elysium that you’ll fight Asterius as the miniboss. The final boss room with Theseus doesn’t count, so keep using the fists and picking doors that have the skull icon under their reward (these indicate minibosses/challenge rooms)

-Aspect of Beowulf (shield): given to you by talking to Chaos. Throughout runs you’ll a multicolor eye panel on the floor. After clearing the room inside, you can go in the now open portal for health. Inside these you can talk to chaos. Like Achilles and Nyx, he (they?) will eventually give you the phrase to activate this aspect.

-Aspect of Lucifer (gun): given by talking to Zeus. After picking up so many of his boons during runs, he will mention the weapon and give you the phrase, much like the rest of them

-Aspect of Rama (bow): like the others, it’s given by having enough dialogues with Artemis. Eventually she will give you the phrase to unlock this for the bow

With that in mind, after you unlock these, simply clear a run with one of them equipped.

If you’re finding it hard you can try:
-setting the pact of punishment to 0 heat (even if you’ve already cleared a run at this level with the weapon)
-a different hidden aspect
-gaining more darkness upgrades
-upgrading the hidden aspect with Titan blood

If you want a more detailed guide on clearing a run, check out the guide for “Is There No Escape?”
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26 Comments
I am not sure about people saying you must spend 5 blood. I just had Artemis say the bow phrase to me and the only blood I'd spent on that weapon was the unlock the second aspect. No upgrades and the third aspect was still locked.
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By Laughablefellow on 12 Sep 2021 00:13
I've run into Asterius multiple times with the Twin Fists equipped and there has yet to be any kind of interaction that causes the hidden aspect to unlock. I just ran into him on two separate Heat 3 runs and nothing.
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By Pink Freud PhD on 15 Aug 2021 05:30
Ohh, I originally got my first clear at attempt 13 and am only around 25 now, I guess I just need to put some more runs in. Cheers!
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By Pink Freud PhD on 15 Aug 2021 18:54
According to the wiki, you have to at least reveal the Spear aspect (Guan Yu) first to be able to unlock the others.

To reveal it you have to invest Titan Blood into 5 non-Zagreus aspects (aside from purchasing the Fated List of Minor Prophecies and reaching the last boss) and then talk to Achilles until triggering the dialogue.

After revealing it, you have to spend at least 5 Titan Blood into the respective weapon aspects in order to trigger the dialogues
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By runemax on 15 Aug 2021 19:48
"I just got this and I have to say I may have found a potentially easy way to do this? You have to do this before you finish the whole game, otherwise this won’t work for you.

What I did was go into the room that lets you look at your stats (it takes 2 diamonds to open this room) and once I saw that I had defeated Hades 9 times already and thus was on my 10th run of defeating Hades, I took Guan Yu, but any of the hidden aspect weapons work and when you reach Hades, he’ll just let you walk past him without having to fight, this is what I did and was the easiest way although it does require you to defeat Hades 9 times first, but a very easy way, once you’ve done that though."

This sounds like a smart way to do the Skelly 2nd gift achievement.
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By Zero Jehuty on 18 Aug 2021 05:00
I cleared an escape attempt yesterday with Guan Yu as soon as I unlocked it, didn't work.
I thought the achievement was glitched like the others, but it didn't pop after exiting/removing the game from Quick Resume/restarting (but another one appeared, so...)
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By Yaum Guigui on 19 Aug 2021 05:15
"This sounds like a smart way to do the Skelly 2nd gift achievement."

The second gift achievement requires H16. Once you beat H9, you can't do this, so I'm not sure how you'd apply the thing that happens on H9 to H16, considering you cannot get to H16 without beating H9 first...
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By Pink Freud PhD on 20 Aug 2021 18:08
"I cleared an escape attempt yesterday with Guan Yu as soon as I unlocked it, didn't work.
I thought the achievement was glitched like the others, but it didn't pop after exiting/removing the game from Quick Resume/restarting (but another one appeared, so...)"

I've found that certain achievements will require you to redo the requirements due to the quick resume bug. So even if other achievements popped once you reloaded, you're most likely going to need to clear another run with Guan Yu or another hidden aspect in order for this one to pop.
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By Samurizan on 20 Aug 2021 21:16
The second gift achievement requires H16. Once you beat H9, you can't do this, so I'm not sure how you'd apply the thing that happens on H9 to H16, considering you cannot get to H16 without beating H9 first...
You're conflating VICTORIES and HEAT. Heat is totally independent and you can set it as high as you'd like. I achieved my 10th victory with 16 heat as people are suggesting and the achievements unlocked just fine (inc. the second Skelly one).
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By StarfighterProx on 22 Aug 2021 06:29
Oh my bad, I didn't realize you could play higher heat levels than you had unlocked. I did them one at a time up to 16 lol.

As for this actual solution, I personally recommend using the fists. It was easy peasy and the moveset encouraged constant dash attacking, so very mobile.
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By Pink Freud PhD on 23 Aug 2021 16:42
Thanks Samurizan, I will try once again !
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By Yaum Guigui on 24 Aug 2021 22:15
as far i know you need to invest 5 titan blood into the weapon to have the chance, to get a dialog for the aspect. Zagreus aspects didn't count.
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By MurhyMarv on 25 Aug 2021 06:44
If you prioritize Tidal Wave early on in the first area, you can clear the escape easily with any weapon. I was clearing Heat 9/10 with weapons that I wasn't using previously because I've been stupid enough to stick with the Railgun for a very long time.

That said, the hidden aspect for the railgun is very fun to use for me. Hellfire that constantly burns enemies, or stays on the ground until I hit it for an explosion, plus the beam attack that stacks damage. If you've Cluster Bomb, throwing 5x Hellfire, and Tidal Dashing to explode them will quickly clear the rooms. I love it!
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By neeker75 on 27 Aug 2021 05:03
Haven't had any of these conversations after 40+ runs, hmm.
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By Magic Skoo1 Bus on 28 Aug 2021 00:06
The guide is misleading as it is not just talking to the relevant people to make them say the phrase. You also need to at least put 5 titans blood into the weapon before they will speak the phrase..

So basically what I did was to unlock all 3 and then level up 1 of the aspect to spend 5 titan's blood before they reveal the phrase
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By p1zZaBiT on 28 Aug 2021 03:55
I did not have the fists equipped and Asterius still gave me the phrase. I was actually using the spear!
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By OneSmallChord on 25 Sep 2021 16:39
I can confirm. I also received the phrase from Asterius while I had the spear equipped.
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By Aegir81 on 06 Oct 2021 09:59
I've had the Asterius phrase while using the sword
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By metalcoholic 82 on 26 Oct 2021 08:13
Run 75. Beat heat level 16. Extreme measures. etc. Still not a single hidden available to unlock.
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By GR34TD3STR0Y3R on 14 Jan 2022 02:13
Finally started getting them unlocked.
Seems very RNG. Also some people noted you need to invest in the other weapon unlocks and use the weapons through certain runs to trigger the rng.
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By GR34TD3STR0Y3R on 16 Jan 2022 22:30
i second OneSmallChord, i had the bow equipped and got the phrase for the fists.
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By jeffyy pop on 21 Feb 2024 23:37
@Pink Freud PhD have you exhausted all your other dialogue options with him? AFAIK heat has nothing to do with it, it’s dependent upon where you are in the main story, your conversation history with him in the miniboss room, and some RNG. There really isn’t a true way to force it besides grinding runs looking for him
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By ThePuffyPenguin on 15 Aug 2021 09:22
I just got this and I have to say I may have found a potentially easy way to do this? You have to do this before you finish the whole game, otherwise this won’t work for you.

What I did was go into the room that lets you look at your stats (it takes 2 diamonds to open this room) and once I saw that I had defeated Hades 9 times already and thus was on my 10th run of defeating Hades, I took Guan Yu, but any of the hidden aspect weapons work and when you reach Hades, he’ll just let you walk past him without having to fight, this is what I did and was the easiest way although it does require you to defeat Hades 9 times first, but a very easy way, once you’ve done that though.
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By Its Dan on 16 Aug 2021 04:24
just cleared my 51st run and i still have yet to get any of these dialogue options... this is getting really frustrating
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By OhMyGoth1 on 13 Sep 2021 01:26
@Laughablefellow read it on many sites. Don't know if really 5 are necessary, but you have to invest, that is clear. And this guide don't mention it. Also the guan yu aspect has to be unlocked at first. Before that all others has no chance.
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By MurhyMarv on 13 Sep 2021 05:58
I’d invested a bit in the sword but nothing else before looking at this guide. I had blood to spare so I unlocked the lowest level of each weapon’s aspects.

On the next run Ares made a comment on how I was unlocking the potential of the weapons and that appeared to be the final part of the trigger - Achilles gave me the phrase as soon as I got back to the house.

Now all I need to do is find time to actually do the achievement…
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By Brujeira on 27 Jul 2022 01:39
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See Infernal Arms trophy_silver.png  for more information on Weapon Aspects.

As the description states, you need to successfully escape and defeat the final boss while utilizing the Hidden Aspect of any weapon. All 6 Infernal Arms have 4 Aspects, 3 that are unlockable at any time, and a 4th that must be discovered before it can be unlocked. See Infernal Arms trophy_silver.png  for a list of all Weapon Aspects and how to unlock the Hidden ones. 

Once you've unlocked any weapon's 4th Aspect, complete a run with it and you'll get this trophy. 
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