Talos



'Talos is a demon in the series.

Appearances

 * Shin Megami Tensei: Touki Clan (Remake Exclusive)

History
Talos, in Greek myth, is an android forged of bronze, who protected Europa from Crete. Talos was a gift from Hephaestus, the Cyclopes, and Zeus to Minos and Europa.

Talos had one vein, which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by only one bronze nail. The Argo, transporting Jason and the Argonauts, approached Crete after obtaining the Golden Fleece. As guardian of the island, Talos kept the Argo at bay by hurling great boulders at it. According to Apollodorus, Talos was slain either when Medea the sorceress drove him mad with drugs, or deceived him into believing that she would make him immortal by removing the nail. In Argonautica, Medea hypnotized him from the Argo, driving him mad with the keres she raised, so that he dislodged the nail, and "the ichor ran out of him like molten lead", exsanguinating and killing him. The story is somewhat reminiscent of the story regarding the heel of Achilles.