There are no myths of them. They have never formally interacted. Yet one loses power without the other.
Apollo is the god of healing, of medicine, of the arts, of life. Hades is the god of the underworld, of darkness, of death.
They balance each other, and yet no poet has written about them. Not Homer, not Plato or Aristotle, not even Hesiod, nor Sappho.
And yet they must have each other to exist.
There is one myth; that in the beginning each human being was actually two. Realizing their power, Zeus split them apart and they searched for their other half. Their soulmate.
It is not a word to use lightly.
Perhaps even the gods had this "other half". Perhaps Hades and Apollo were soulmates.
And perhaps the poets forgot.
But whatever they were to one another, they surely recognized this balance, and when they met again, centuries after the fall of Rome.
Why did they meet again? It cannot be said. Perhaps Hermes was right. Perhaps they had all reappeared in a time of great need, a time when Western Civilization was at it's lowest, and needed the gods to guide them. Perhaps they were called back by some otherworldly force.
Perhaps it was simply coincidence.
Whatever the reason, balance must exist, and Apollo and Hades continued to balance each other.
But this time they interacted.
And perhaps, as Hades said, they were soulmates.
Just as it should have been, and always will be.
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