Thanatos descends through the sealed passage carrying Sisyphus, whose unconscious body remains bound in quiet Underworld light. Behind them, Corinth’s breach closes beneath the eastern bank.
The last stolen royal sigils gutter out along the stone. Their authority drains into the Styx, leaving no summons, ward, or hidden channel connected to the mortal palace.
At Tartarus’s gate, Hades waits beneath the black arches. Persephone stands beside him, spring growth stirring faintly around her feet despite the abyssal air.
Hades
Bring him forward. Corinth’s dead are no longer held between worlds, and the breach is sealed.
Thanatos carries Sisyphus across the threshold. The Underworld accepts the king’s weight, while the final thread of mortal authority snaps and vanishes into darkness.
Persephone
The natural boundary is restored. No living vessel, royal seal, or stolen command remains to trouble Corinth.
Hades
Then Sisyphus will answer for every death he obstructed. Tartarus receives him, and the living world is free of his reach.
− Story Quest Removed
Restore the boundary between the Mortal Realm and the Underworld
“Stand with Hades and Persephone as Sisyphus faces judgment.”
Thanatos stands beside Hades and Persephone beneath Tartarus’s black arches. Sisyphus remains unconscious within the quiet Underworld light, carried before the throne of judgment.
Hades
Sisyphus, your custody is complete. You denied death its course, held Corinth’s dead between worlds, and used divine power for your own survival.
The darkness beyond the gate gathers without haste. No chain tightens, no ward flares, and no mortal authority answers from above. The judgment needs no further struggle.
Persephone
The boundary has been restored, and the stolen names remain remembered. Let the dead pass onward without another king placing himself between them and their rest.
Thanatos remains at Hades’s side, silent and watchful. His presence marks the duty fulfilled: Corinth is free, the Underworld is whole, and Sisyphus can trouble neither realm again.
Hades
You stood as my lieutenant and restored what was broken. Now witness the law’s final mercy: the guilty dead are given a place, and the living are given peace.
The gates of Tartarus open, and the quiet Underworld light releases Sisyphus into Hades’s keeping. They close again behind him, leaving only stillness, lawful darkness, and the enduring order Thanatos protected.
The gates of Tartarus opened. Thanatos laid Sisyphus beyond them, and the stolen sigils fell dark as ashes.
Hades
His custody is concluded. Sisyphus will answer here, and nowhere else.
Persephone
The boundary stands restored. Life and death breathe in their proper seasons.
Hades
You repaired what was broken, Thanatos. The order endures because you did not yield.
The gates closed, and lawful stillness returned.
Thanatos stood beneath the quiet halls of the Underworld, with Sisyphus sealed into Hades’s keeping and Corinth’s passage made whole. No mortal command reached across the worlds now; the old boundary held, clean and sovereign. In that restored silence, Thanatos’s duty was affirmed, and the chapter ended in peace.