Every Mythical Creature That Lives in Hell Explained in 27 Minutes

Before you even reach Cerberus, you have to deal with Charon, and Charon will not work for free. The ancient ferryman of the dead was responsible for transporting newly deceased souls across the rivers Styx and Acheron into the Underworld, and his fee was a single coin — an obol — which is why the ancient Greeks placed coins on the eyes or in the mouths of their dead before burial. No coin, no crossing. Souls who couldn't pay were left to wander the near shore for one hundred years before Charon would take them, condemned to drift in a grey liminal nothing while the rest of the dead moved on.