Hades II Guide | How To Unlock Hidden Aspects

Here's a guide on how to unlock the Hidden Aspects in Hades II.

Game Guide by TauxicPandA on Jul 13, 2025

After the Unseen update in Hades II, you can unlock six different Hidden Aspects from NPCs. This guide will walk you through the exact steps needed to unlock it.

Hades II Guide, How to Unlock Hidden Aspects

General Requirements for Hidden Aspects

Before trying to unlock any Hidden Aspect in Hades II, you must fulfil some basic requirements, the first of which is unlocking all the weapons in the game. You must also have one feature of each upgraded weapon to rank five.

Most significantly, you can only get one waking phrase per run, so you have to turn in and drop any Hidden Aspect before you can learn another waking phrase from another NPC.

The weapon or Aspect you're working with when encountering them isn't included when it comes to these NPCs.

Staff Hidden Aspect

In order to activate the Staff's potential, you must locate Circe at the surface. In addition to the above requirements in general, you should not have any other waking phrases to offer when you arrive at her doorstep.

Note that talk matters more than anything else, which means you may have to use up other talk options with Circe before she provides you with the waking phrase, even though you fulfill all other requirements. This means that you may have to encounter her on many occasions on different runs.

Hades II Guide, How to Unlock Hidden Aspects, Staff Hidden Aspect

Dagger Hidden Aspect

The dagger's Hidden Aspect requires you to locate Artemis, who can appear in encounters on either the surface or in the underworld. However, Artemis will only appear in chambers where the reward doesn't have a menu interface.

This means she won't show up in chambers offering Poms or Boons as rewards. Unlike other NPCs, Artemis typically requires two separate encounters to provide the waking phrase, whereas most others only need one visit in Hades II.

Torches Hidden Aspect

For the torches' Hidden Aspect, you need to speak with Moros at the crossroads. Moros has extensive dialogue trees, and you cannot have any waking phrases waiting to be turned in.

Additionally, you cannot have just turned in a waking phrase during the same run. If needed, you can take a detour and return through the crossroads to have a dialogue with him.

One unique restriction for the torches aspect is that it cannot be the first Hidden Aspect you unlock, meaning you must have already obtained at least one other Hidden Aspect before Moros will provide the necessary dialogue in Hades II.

Hades II Guide, How to Unlock Hidden Aspects

Axe Hidden Aspect

The axe's Hidden Aspect comes from Charon, but you must encounter him during the middle of a run, not at the crossroads.

The exact general requirements apply here. You should complete several runs because obtaining waking phrases from other sources before encountering Charon in his shop can interfere with the process.

Revolver Hidden Aspect

To unlock the revolver's Hidden Aspect, you need to visit Medea on the surface. This can be tricky because Medea's chamber isn't always available on the surface.

If you don't see her chamber immediately upon entering the larger overworld of Ephyra, you can take a death or use the Seed to reset and try again.

Dialogue priority can be an issue here as well, especially if you're currently unlocking the Bow Rivals, as Medea might want to discuss that first, requiring multiple visits.

Blades Hidden Aspect

The blade's Hidden Aspect has the most complex requirements and comes from Selene.

In Hades II. You must encounter Selene in the middle of a run and receive a hex from her to get the waking phrase.

She won't display the usual exclamation point bubble to indicate you're receiving the waking phrase. Beyond the standard requirements of having all weapons unlocked and a Nocturnal Arms aspect at rank five with no other waking phrases, you cannot obtain it if you encounter

Hades II Guide, How to Unlock Hidden Aspects

Selene is in a shop or a pre-boss reward chamber. The pre-boss reward chamber is the final chamber before a boss, where you receive a free item instead of visiting the shop. This restriction likely prevents interference with other shop dialogue or confusion with Charon's waking phrase in Hades II.

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