Gorgon Sisters

Euryale, Stheno and Medusa are the Gorgon Sisters and they appear in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. The three merged and created the Gorgon titan.
==History==
Once three beautiful siblings among the Old Gods. During the fall of Agharta, the three sisters escaped into the deep depths of the earth. They became twisted shadows of their former selves, while retaining the macabre appearances of little girls. Over the many years they have survived by obsessively staying together. Their lair would become part of the City of the Damned under the castle, where they would become loyal followers of their new Prince of Darkness.
Dracula learns from young Trevor that the Gorgons possess his Chaos Claws. Upon finding Euryale, she tells him that the jailers have turned against him and that Medusa has the claws. Stheno also informs Dracula that he should free the dwarf who can help him in his search for her. Dracula enters the Gorgon's lair, and among the endless petrified victims, he retrieves his power. The three sisters reunite, only to learn that Medusa has been corrupted by the castle's blood and infects her sisters as well. The blood takes them in and combines them into a singular mighty Gorgon that battles Dracula.
==Physical appearances==
All three of the Gorgon Sisters take on the macabre appearances of young girls with pale skin marked with scars on their arms and legs, elongated toes and fingers with long nails, and long, disheveled brown hair that flows past their shoulders and ends at the chest area. Some of the hair even goes into their mouths. They also each have six snake-like tendrils that flow from their backs and wrap around their bodies. The tendrils also produce a hissing and rattling sound whenever the sisters move around.
The sisters differ from each other based on the dresses they wear:
*Stheno wears a tattered brown, sleeveless dress with black stitches all over and a brown belt that wraps around her waist.
*Euryale wears a tattered, buttoned-down purple dress with white sleeve cuffs and a faint, mauve embroidery design on the skirt portion.
*Medusa wears a tattered, green dress with white sleeve cuffs and a beautiful, green embroidery design on the skirt portion.
==Quotes==
===Lords of Shadow 2===
====Euryale====
*Beware of the jailers. They no longer serve their master.
*Medusa has your Chaos Powers.
*She won't be long. Look... here she comes now.
====Stheno====
*My Prince.
*I know what you seek...but Medusa has it.
*Free the dwarf. He can help you.
====Medusa====
*We can't let you leave here, my Lord.
==Gallery==
Euryale, Stheno and Medusa Book of Dracul.png|Artbook/Book of Dracula page.
GorgonSisters (4).jpg|Medusa vomiting blood.
GorgonSisters (3).jpg|Euryale and Stheno meeting with Dracula.
GorgonSisters (2).jpg|Medusa infected.
GorgonSisters.jpg|Medusa infecting her sisters.
Gorgon (7).jpg|"Medusa has your Chaos Powers."
GorgonSisters3.jpg|Gorgon Sister statue concept art.
GorgonSisters (1).jpg|Euryale's appearance.
GorgonSister2.jpg|Stheno's appearance.
GorgonStatues.jpg|Statue of the Sisters.
Jose-artundo-girl1.jpg|Stheno
Jose-artundo-girl2.jpg|Medusa
Jose-artundo-girl3.jpg|Euryale
==Trivia==
*Medusa is a classic enemy in past installments. Her Lords of Shadow incarnation has a more "European influence", along with the usual Greek inspiration, as stated by David Cox.
*While Medusa has appeared in many Castlevania games, Lords of Shadow 2 is the first to feature Stheno and Euryale.
*As with Medusa, Stheno and Euryale are both Gorgons from classical Greek mythology, and the elder sisters of the famous mythological monster. Medusa is always depicted as being a beautiful mortal prior to becoming a gorgon, but her sisters were born immortal and, depending on the given story, either were born as hideous gorgons or were also once young women. In the latter scenario, when Medusa was punished by Athena for the defilement of the goddess's temple, Stheno and Euryale tried to defend Medusa from Athena's wrath. Angered, the goddess changed the remaining sisters into gorgons as well, but it is not known if they also had Medusa's ability to petrify the living with a glance. However, all three sisters were shown to be highly lethal after their transformations, so much so that the hero Perseus, in order to slay Medusa, was forced to enter their lair while the sisters were sleeping, to avoid detection and retaliation from the gorgons.
*Stheno and Euryale have pale, whitish eyes, but Medusa has deep crimson-red eyes as a result from being infected by the castle's blood.
*In keeping with their Greek inspiration, while not having snakes for hair, the Gorgon Sisters have snakelike appendages protruding and encircling parts of their bodies. The sound of a rattlesnake's warning rattle can also be heard when any sister appears. Furthermore, their bodies contort easily, perhaps in a dark homage to the flexibility of real snakes. Also, their bodies make cracking noises as they move around and stand up.
*Medusa's power of petrification does not appear to work on creatures which are not human, although it is possible that she might be able to use her power at will rather than it working on a living creature automatically. The latter theory is supported by the boss fight between Gabriel and the merged Gorgons.
*The Gorgon Sisters' appearances are inspired by horror film creatures similar to those in The Ring and The Grudge, particularly in the disturbing way they move, accompanied by the usage of audio and camera effects notable on these two horror films.
*They share loose similarities to the witches, being three witch-like individuals living deep under the castle, and both end up more or less turning on their master (although the witches intentionally plotted for dominance of the castle).
**The witches might have also been loosely inspired by the Graeae sisters, three witches who were relatives to the mythic Gorgons.
*In "Revelations", a statue of the Gorgon Sisters is found in the main chamber of the Forbidden Wing. This shows a kind of reverse foreshadowing; Alucard first finds the Chaos Claws being held by this statue, hinting that the relic would eventually end up in Medusa's possession. The blood that later floods the chamber is another foreshadowing to the ultimate fate of the Gorgon Sisters.
*The Gorgon Sisters may also be an alternate depiction of the "Weird Sisters", also known as the "Brides of Dracula", featured in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. However, since in the game they don't seem to have any kind of intimate relationship with Dracula, as shown in other media, it's unclear how they serve him exactly.
==External links==
*Jose Artundo's Artstation portfolio
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