Geryon

This article is about the Devil May Cry 3 boss. You may be looking for Elder Geryon Knight, a boss in Devil May Cry 5.

Geryon
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Aliases	Timesteed
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Species	Demon
Status	Deceased
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Appearances	Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Mo-cap	Larry Leong

Geryon, also called Timesteed, is a boss in Devil May Cry 3. Dante faces it in Mission 12: Hunter and hunted, and earns the Quicksilver Style for defeating it. In the Devil May Cry HD Collection, defeating Geryon earns the player the "Rough Rider" award.

Appearence

Garyon is a giant, dark blue horse with a maine and tail of light blue fire. His hooves are also covered in these flames. His eyes and mouth glow a light blue.

He pulls a black carriage that has spiked wheels. A blue glow eminates from the carraige windows.

Story

Geryon was once a horse of legend ridden by countless heroes, until ingesting demonic essence corrupted and empowered him with limited control over time. He leads a ghostly hearse, equipped with a heavy armament.

When Dante first steps upon the bridge in the Underground Arena, Geryon engages him in a game of "Chicken" until the bridge collapses and they fall into a colosseum. After Dante defeats Geryon, Dante receives his soul as the Quicksilver Style.

In Devil May Cry 5, Geryon is mentioned during the fight with V and his familiars against an Elder Geryon Knight in Mission 5: The Devil Sword Sparda. Griffon is surprised that there's still another existing Geryon and thought that it was already been defeated by Dante. By which V later revealed that Geryon is actually a "rare species" and apparently not quite extinct as of yet.

Strategy

Main article: Mission 12

There are two phases to the fight with Geryon: A game of "chicken", where Geryon charges at Dante over a bridge, and a gladiator-style battle with him in an arena after the bridge breaks. During both fights, Geryon possesses the ability to teleport around the battlefields by jumping into and out of portal-like holes in space-time.

Quicksilver Style

Main article: Quicksilver Style

Upon defeating Geryon, Dante receives the ability to choose Quicksilver Style. In exchange for DT, Dante can relatively slow down time around him while he moves at normal speed.

Gallery

Underground Arena (Top)

Underground Arena (Bottom)

Devil May Cry 3142 Graphic Arts page with Geryon concept

Development

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Originally the designer, Daigo Ikeno, wanted to have prisoners inside the carriage.

Background and Etymology

In Greek mythology, Geryon, the grandson of Medusa and the nephew of Pegasus, was originally a foe in the tale of the 12 Labours of Heracles, being a giant warrior with three bodies joined to one pair of legs, he is said to have guarded the Red Cattle which Heracles was to capture for his archnemesis Eurystheus. In later history, in the Divine Comedy, Geryon was a chthonic demon representing violence and fraud which had the body of a winged dragon, the arms of a lion, the tail of a scorpion, and the face of an honest man. Dante and Virgil force it to bear them further into Hell, and Virgil protects Dante by sitting between Dante and the beast's deadly tail.

Geryon's design seems to be based on the Irish myth of the Cóiste Bodhar, otherwise known as the 'death coach', where the driver would sometimes be a Dullahan.