Asterion

Asterios is a monstrous snake-woman who possessed snakes for hair and the ability to turn any living being that she gazed upon too stone thanks to a curse put on her by the Olympian Goddess Athena.

Background
In order to confirm his right to rule Crete, King Minos of Crete prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow white bull as a sign in allusion to how his father, Zeus, had transformed into a snow white bull to kidnap his mother, Europa, from Phoenicia and took her to Crete as the land's first queen. Agreeing with his right to rule, Poseidon sent Minos a large, snow white bull with the understanding that it would be sacrificed back to him at a later time. Deciding that Poseidon's bull was too fine a specimen to kill, Minos instead sent it to his herds and substituted another, inferior, bull for sacrifice. Enraged, Poseidon had Aphrodite curse Minos' wife, Pasiphaë; daughter of the Oceanid Perseis (secretly Hecate), to fall in deep love for the bull. When her love for the animal began to increase to unrestrained sexual desire, where she desired nothing more than to have the beast mate with her, she enlisted the help of the artisan Daedalus to aid her desires as her small frame would not support the bull's weight when it mounted her. Daedalus built her a wooden construction in the shape of a cow, wrapped in bovine-skin. Positioning the wooden cow before the bull, Pasiphaë disrobed and placed herself inside it; positioning herself so that her vagina aligned with where the cow's genitals would be. Attracted to the cow construction thanks to Pasiphaë's knowledge of herbology, the bull became aroused and mounted the construction, its penis entering Pasiphaë and successfully mating with her as the construction held the bull's weight. While Aphrodite's curse broke when Pasiphaë mated with the bull, Poseidon's anger was not abbatted and he passed on his rage to the bull, causing it to lay waste to the land while Pasiphaë herself fell pregnant with the bull's seed and gave birth to Asterios; a half-man, half-bull monster that was later dubbed as "The Minotaur".

After consulting the oracle at Delphi, King Minos had Daedalus and his son Icarus construct a labyrinth to hold the Minotaur.

Combat Statistics

 * Asterios The Minotaur

Involvement

 * Asterios is the final foe in the Labyrinth of Lost Souls raid.