Listen, I Understand Why People Are Upset With Eurylochus (Epic). I Get It! He Makes Choices That Damn

Listen, I understand why people are upset with Eurylochus (Epic). I get it! He makes choices that damn the entire crew, questions Odysseus when he shouldn't, etc. He's easy to blame.

But can you blame him? For opening the bag a god had given them when all the last god did was drown hundreds of their men? For being afraid on Circe's island and wanting so desperately to just go home? For being angry when the man who is known for his intelligence, who REFUSED to leave behind a single man, who SAID THAT NO ONE ELSE WOULD DIE, then sacrificed 6 men? Six people you've fought beside for a decade in a ruthless war and survived every battle, problem, and smite the gods had sent?

Can you blame him for his hunger?

part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

Together they shine ✨

THIS!

My legit first thought when I heard that line was "Huh, so they're transing Telemachus, dope"

Wolfy. The new songs in Epic. Do you have any thoughts.

I laughed when listening to Suffering because logically I knew it was probably the sirens, but my first assumption was that Telemachus was trans

NO-ONE AND I MEAN NO-ONE UNDERSTANDS EURYLOCHUS LIKE I DO

HIS FATAL FLAW IS HUNGER. HE WAS THE FIRST ONE TO BRING UP HOW LITTLE FOOD THEY HAD IN THE TROY SAGA. HE OPENED THE BAG BECAUSE OF HIS HUNGER FOR A MYSTERIOUS TREASURE. HE KILLS THE COW BECAUSE OF HIS UNYIELDING HUNGER.

HE TRIED TO TALK ABOUT THE WIND BAG AT THE START OF THE CIRCE SAGA BUT ODYSSEUS WOULDN’T HEAR HIM. HE HAS LIVED WITH THAT GUILT FOR THE ENTIRE TIME.

HE WAS NOT HYPOCRITICAL FOR BEING MAD AT ODYSSEUS FOR SACRIFICING 6 MEN BECAUSE EVEN THO HE WANTED TO SACRIFICE THE MEN TO CIRCE, ODYSSEUS TEACHES HIM THAT THEY MUST FIGHT. SURE NOT ALL OF THEM WILL SURVIVE BUT THEY MUST TRY NONETHELESS. SO ODYSSEUS CHOOSING NOT TO SAVE THEM WAS THE PROBLEM. THEY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DIED REGARDLESS BUT IT WAS THE FACT THAT THEIR DEATHS WERE PLANNED AND THEY WERE PURPOSELY SACRIFICED THAT EURYLOCHUS WAS ANNOYED AT. HE WAS PISSED THAT ODY HAD TAUGHT HIM TO BE BETTER AND THEN ODY CHOSE TO BE WORSE.

HI, THIS IS ADRIEL!

He was a kid when Domita fell. While running from a giant with his family, a Mazmus knight stumbled across them. Instead of helping, the knight ran, and Adriel's entire family was killed underfoot of the giant. Adriel never forgot the face of the man who ran, and vowed to kill him someday.

On that mission, Adriel joined the Mazmus. A year into his training, he saw the knight that ran--now a captain, from his bravery in Domita. The captain barely had time to react, cutting across his attackers face, before Adriel slit his throat.

Usually, killing a captain would be an unforgivable crime. But it is wartime, and Adriel had talent as a Climber and an obvious skill for death. The Warlord Assembly determined that he could put hid bloodlust to good use as a PSK, so long as he would not turn on his squad. This was assured by an infestation from Captain Olivia Morr, whose Gift allows her to read the mind of an individual. Captain Morr deemed him to have no outstanding hatred to other Mazmus knights, and if he did, their connection would allow her to act the insant the thought of murder crosses his mind.

So, Adriel was assigned to Captain Morr's squad in training. The ones with the worst scores, the ones that no other captain wanted, the ones who would be kicked or killed first. Those were the ones Captain Morr requested, the ones she would whip into one of the best active squads in the Mazmus, the Midnight Ravens.

More to come for this little war criminal!

If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner making Tales From Cazilor OCs. So far the squad name is the Midnight Ravens, and I have Calendula (Blessed, Anchor), Veila (Stalwart), and Adriel (PSK, Climber). Yes, they have playlists. Yes, I'm working on art.

Yes, I'm hoping to GOD I won't have to change a bunch of shit after the sourcebook comes out because I'm making them based off of the sprinklings of worldbuilding we've gotten from the album and TGE.

I have a lot of creative energy built up, and apparently this is the project my brain has focused me on, so...