Name:
Odysseus
Titles/Aliases:
Ulysses, King of Ithaca, Beloved of Athena, Nobody, Odysseus the Cunning, the Wandering Beggar.
Class:
Archer
Gender:
Male
Birth and Death Dates:
Around 1210BC - Around 1160BC
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Personality:
Known for his intellectual brilliance, guile and versatility Odysseus is a very wise and experienced warrior spending a great portion of his life fighting in war or overcoming various obstacles brought down upon him by the gods themselves. In life Odysseus was known as quite the womanizer, seducing various women such as his Queen Penelope, Calypso (Not on purpose and a person he wished hadn’t taken a liking to him), Circe and even the goddess Athena. Although he did lay with many his true love was Athena, the person who he believed he owed his life to, however the two were never truly able to be with one another. His wish for the holy grail is to live in peace with his true love.
Odysseus has grown a lot from his time in the Trojan war, his journey home had a lasting affect on him, leaving him rather drained and fed up with everything. Thus as a heroic spirit he can come across as rather nonchalant and indifferent, he does have a goal but due to his history he is rather pessimistic, believing that if he wants something it will only be harder to achieve the more he wants it. Leaving him in quite a predicament when he is fighting for a wish from the bottom of his heart. Therefore Odysseus is not in a rush by any means, he does not feel any pressure from the war due to his prior experience of his journey home. Even the gods couldn’t stop him and his love and so he holds a rather confident, content and mellow disposition. The worn out hero is almost too laid back and sarcastic, almost to the point of being slothful.
Although a hero, due to his rather deceitful and sly actions he has at times been portrayed as quite a villainous person, particularly by the Romans. There are some truth to be found in their view of him, he is generally willing to do whatever it takes to win even if it may be dishonourable or even evil. However Odysseus truly does have a good heart even if he would never admit it himself, he believes that his actions have always been the best for his own self interest but he does take great care for others, particularly his comrades.
Appearance:
True form:
The appearance that Odysseus takes is that of Athena.
Bio:
The legend of Odysseus began with the Trojan war, originally a war that Odysseus attempted to avoid, not out of cowardice but due to the fact that an oracle had prophesied a very long-delayed return. Initially he attempted to pretend that he was insane, to do so he sowed his own fields with salt and attempted to plow them with both a donkey and an ox. However when Palamedes placed Odysseus’s new born son in the way of the plow he was forced to stop. This convinced Menelaus and Agamemnon that he was in fact sane and so he was forced to leave his wife and son for war. Very quickly he showed his worth when he acted as an envoy to recruit Achilles, he was the one who added the weapons to the adornment gifts, allowing him to discover the disguised Achilles who was the only one to examine them. By sounding the battle horn he forced Achilles to show his battle prowess and therefore successfully recruited Achilles to the Trojan war.
During the Trojan war he was on of the most trusted counsellors and advisors for the greek forces and he would always champion their cause. At times it was he alone who kept order in the Greek camp and ensured that they did not break apart. There was several times he had to convince Agamemnon not to retreat and other than his failed attempt of convincing Achilles to return to the battle he was not a man who failed in diplomacy. He was one of the few warriors who volunteered for the challenge that had been proposed by Hector, although it was Greater Ajax who would fight Hector in the end. However not long after he, along with Diomedes, snuck into the Trojan camp at night to kill the warrior Rhesus, as the gods had told them if his horses were to drink from the Scamander River then the Greeks would never take Troy. Following the death of Patroclus it was Odysseus who managed to momentarily calm the rage of Achilles who at the time wished to slaughter as many Trojans as possible and for the time being they held a funeral for Patroclus. During the games at the funeral Odysseus participated in a foot race and wrestling match with Ajax the Lesser, this was the first time that Odysseus met his true love, the goddess Athena, who gave him her blessing which allowed him to defeat Ajax in both the foot race and wrestling match.
After Achilles is killed by Paris, Odysseus and greater Ajax retrieve his body and during the funeral games for Achilles it was decided that the armour of Achilles would be given to the person who was the bravest amongst the greeks. This resulted in a conflict between Odysseus and greater Ajax who both claimed that title. In the end the Greeks voted Odysseus to be the bravest greek, although it did have something to do with his charisma and eloquent speech. After winning the contest Athena praised Odysseus and drove greater Ajax mad, resulting in his suicide. This is something that Odysseus does not know. Soon after Odysseus once more set off with Diomedes, this time to find the son of Achilles, Pyrrhus, who he gives his father's armour to. Odysseus then traveled once more to retrieve the arrows of Heracles, successfully bringing them to the Greek camp. However perhaps his greatest and most famous contribution to the war was that of the Trojan Horse which brought the greeks victory and the destruction of Troy.
However the story of Odysseus does not end there, in fact the majority of his legend comes after the Trojan war, on his journey home he suffered 10 years of trials and tribulations brought down upon him by the gods himself. After departing from the greek forces after the sack of Troy in order to escape the counter attack that would repel the over zealous greek forces who were drunk on their success, Odysseus was caught in a mighty storm that was created by Zeus. He and twelve other ships were blown of course and the epic that would come to be known as the ‘Odyssey’ had begun. It started with the island of the lotus eaters, the lotuses caused any who ate them to enter a sleep like state where they felt apathetic to everything. If it were not for Odysseus then his entire crew would have found themselves trapped on the island but he managed to stop most of them from eating. The next island that they arrived on was the island of Polyphemus, where him and his crew were captured by the cyclops. After watching several of his men being eaten alive Odysseus begins to talk to the cyclops and manages to convince it that his name was ‘Nobody’, he then manages to persuade Polyphemus to drink a few barrels of their wine. While the cyclops was in a drunken sleep Odysseus freed himself and blinded Polyphemus before freeing his crew and escaping the island. Of course when the other cyclopes heard Polyphemus cry “Help! ‘Nobody’ has blinded me!” they assumed that he had gone mad. However despite his efforts Odysseus could not hide his name from Polyphemus’s father, Poseidon, the god of the sea would plan his revenge on Odysseus. However before that they arrived at the home of Aeolus, the master of the winds who gifted Odysseus a bag of wind that inside of it held all of the winds with the exception of the west. This allowed them to sail back to Ithaca, however when Odysseus fell asleep as his home came into sight the greedy crew members opened the bag, thinking it to be full of gold. This caused a hurricane that threw Odysseus and his crew back into the ocean.
The hurricane did not just blow them to sea, but into Poseidon's clutches, and with the waves the god sent them to the island of the cannibalistic Laestrygonians. Only Odysseus and a few of his crew were able to survive the battle with the giants but they managed to escape and this time sailed to meet with the witch-goddess Circe. Beforehand, Athena warns Odysseus about Circe and gifts him a plant that would grant him the Magic Resistance required to resist even her magic. This saves Odysseus from being turned into swine with the rest of his crew after being fed cheese and wine by Circe. However his resistance made him quite attractive to Circe and he successfully seduced her, eventually persuading her to release his crew and allow him to return home. However the witch-goddess made him promise to stay with her for a year, which he obliged after his crew had already been through so much. Guided by the advice for sailing given to him by Circe he and his crew sailed to western edge of the world, where they summoned the spirit of Tiresias for advice on how to return home. Odysseus also reunites with the souls of Achilles, Greater Ajax and several other fallen comrades from the Trojan war and finally he talks with Heracles before departing.
After this they returned to Circe’s island to be given more advice for the final stages of their journey home, with that they manage to resist the call of the Sirens by stuffing their ears with beeswax, however Odysseus himself had his crew tie him to the ship as he wished to hear the sirens sing. He was untied when they reached the pass between Scylla and Charybdis. As they were passing, Scylla killed 6 of his crew members however when she attacked again Odysseus, with the blessing of Athena repelled the monsters attacks and saw the rest of his crew through the pass safely. Odysseus and crew land on the island of Thrinacia, home to the sacred cows of Helios, they were told by Circe that no matter what they do they must not kill one of the cows. However the still hateful Poseidon trapped Odysseus and crew on the island, watching as the food that was gifted to them by Circe dwindle. Eventually one of the crew members was forced to kill one of the cows for food. Poseidon then allowed them to leave the island, although it was a trap. As the fury of Zeus rained down upon them all were killed in the storm of lightning and anger. All except Odysseus who awakes and finds himself stranded on the island of Ogygia. Here Calypso immediately falls in love with him, to his own dismay and she practically traps him on her island for 7 years. Eventually an angered Athena intervened and forced Calypso to release Odysseus from the island.
Finally with the help of Athena and the Phaeacians, Odysseus is able to return home. However… Something is rotten in the state of Ithaca. In his absence a total of 108 suitors had appeared, each trying to fulfil their ambition of becoming King of Ithaca and marrying the wife of Odysseus, even planning to murder his son who he had not seen since he was a baby. Athena suggests to him that he disguise himself upon his return and he does so, only his loyal dog Argos is permitted to recognise him and the two are reunited shortly before Argos’s death. In disguise Odysseus managed to convince his wife, Queen Penelope to hold a contest, in which the person who had the ability to string the bow of Apollo and fire an arrow through 12 axe heads, would be named King of Ithaca and her husband. When the contest began each of the suitors one by one attempted to string the bow, however none were able to. After all 108 had given up, the disguised Odysseus approached the bow and while the suitors laughed and jeered at him, he strung it with ease. What followed was a slaughter, Odysseus mercilessly killed all of the suitors in rapid succession with the bow of Apollo. Athena then lifts the disguise of Odysseus and shows his true form (however Athena had given him a bit of a makeover for it.) Unable to believe that it was truly Odysseus, Queen Penelope requested that he move the bed in their chambers, to which Odysseus responded, claiming it was impossible as he made the bed himself and one of the legs of it was a living olive tree. Stating the fact that only the two of them would know the Queen finally welcomes him home. But even so he could not rest yet. The families of the suitors had gathered in order to take revenge on Odysseus, and with the blessing of Athena he repelled them finally bringing peace to both Ithaca and himself. But it was not to be. Zeus and Poseidon took it upon to kill Odysseus themselves, by manipulating his bastard son, born from Circe to connect and bond with his father before betraying him and killing him to the dismay of Circe herself. He was more than prepared to die, in fact there had been many times where he thought that death was unavoidable. His only regret was that he did not get to live a life with his one true love. Athena.
Weapon:
The Bow of Apollo - A powerful bow owned by Odysseus that required a great amount of strength to even string.
Sword from Athena - A sword that was gifted to him by the goddess who he loved, and who loved him. It is an amazingly crafted sword that is very sharp and durable, however it is mostly kept for its sentimental value and more of a decoration on his waste than a weapon in combat. Odysseus is a skilled warrior but he does have a preference of Archery over Swordsmanship, which is shown through the class that he has been summoned as.
Parameters:
Strength:
D
Endurance:
D
Agility:
B
Mana:
C
Luck:
D
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: A - The magic resistance of Odysseus is not an ability that is innate to him, rather it was gained through the consumption of the plant named ‘moly’ on the recommendation of the god Athena in order to gain the Magic Resistance required to negate the magic of Circe. This level of magic resistance cancel spells of A rank and below.
Independent Action: A - Although both a king and a warrior, Odysseus is undoubtedly most known for his journey home that lasted for 10 years, where he encountered cyclops, sirens, monsters such as Scylla, cannibal giants and much more. For these 10 years Odysseus acted independently with the exception of his small crew sailing with him (who on almost all cases were either incapacitated or murdered, leaving Odysseus to truly act alone.) As a servant this gives Odysseus the ability to take action without a master, although in the case of utilising Noble Phantasms properly a master is required. It is even possible for Odysseus to survive for around a week without a master.
Personal Skills:
Odyssey: C - This is a skill that unfortunately works to the detriment of Odysseus himself. It is the manifestation of his 10 year journey home. The existence of this skill makes it a certainty that any journey he undertakes will without a doubt be far more difficult than expected due to being despised by the Gods who had worked against him at every turn. The skill would reduce his luck parameter to E if it were not for Athena.
Voyager of the Storm: D+ - This skill is a representation of Odysseus's charisma and sailing ability. Known as a specialist in sailing alone, having to rely on himself and his mind the modifier is active in all situations except when he is on a boat with a crew numbering more than himself. This skill has the effects of both Charisma and Military tactics.
Eye of the Mind (True): A+ - As the mind behind the infamous Trojan horse and a key strategist for the Greeks during the Trojan war, Odysseus is well known for his cunning and wit, particularly when it comes to battle. This is further portrayed through the various ways that he applies this during his journey home, such as his escape from Scylla and Charybdis. This skill makes Odysseus capable of calm analysis of the abilities of their opponent as well as the battle conditions, in the case of Odysseus this is true even more so when he is in danger. The skill can help deduce an appropriate course of action whether it be a plan of attack or a tactical retreat to escape a predicament. The modifier on this skill is a true representation of his guile and analysis as he is elevated to the level of 'natural instinct' in the form of a limited foresight.
Affection of the Goddess: EX - Even in the Holy Grail War he is not fully separated from his love. Athena can communicate with Odysseus, giving him tips and cheering him on as she had in his life. Although unable to materialise herself she will intervene (unseen) to negate any divine protections that are hindering Odysseus, however that is the limit of her actual intervention, other than that all she can do is talk to Odysseus or with the use of a command mantra can gift him Revelation for a limited amount of time.
Noble Phantasm:
Name:
Trojan Horse
Title:
The Deceitful Feller of Troy
Rank:
C
NP Type:
Anti-Unit (Self)
Range:
0/NA
Maximum Number of Targets: 1 to 1000:
1
Description:
This Noble Phantasm takes it's name from the infamous strategy that was devised by Odysseus that resulted in the fall of Troy, undetected and unexpected Odysseus led a small group of Greek warriors into the city through the Trojan Horse under the cover of darkness. Again and again the Greeks had been warned that it would be impossible for Troy to fall, but at each turn Odysseus continued on his path, whether it be murdering Rhesus, retrieving the arrows of Heracles or the retrieving of the Palladium, Odysseus made the impossible possible.
A true testament to the genius of Odysseus, this Noble Phantasm increases the chances of Odysseus's success. Even in the cases of where the chance of success is 0%, this Noble Phantasm will make it so the chance is 1%.
Name:
Bow of Apollo
Title:
Take Aim and Mercilessly Slaughter!
Rank:
A+
NP Type:
Anti-Unit
Range:
1-50
Maximum Number of Targets:
108
Description:
The Bow of Apollo was the treasured weapon of Odysseus, so much that he refused to take it with him to the Trojan war, this proved to be a wise decision after he went missing for a great many years. His wife, the Queen Penelope withstood advances from a great many men, so much that upon his return there were 108 different suitors, attempting to gain the favour of the Queen to marry her and replace Odysseus as King. Eventually the Queen was forced to settle the situation for good, willing to marry any man who could string the bow of Odysseus and fire the bow through 12 axe heads, shattering them all. This is because she was unwilling to marry a man who was lesser to Odysseus, although she also hoped that he would return to her… A wish that would be granted.
Odysseus lifted his disguise and revealed himself to all by stringing his own bow and shooting the axe heads with ease after every man failed to even string the bow. After this display the suitors were both in shock and rage. Perhaps it was the will of the gods or maybe the suitors had simply lost their wits. But they attempted to attack and kill Odysseus… However, with the bow of Apollo in his hand he strung the bow once more, this time with the intention to decimate the men. With a single shot he mercilessly slaughtered them all, 108 men fell to Odysseus before they knew what had happened.
No matter what it was that caused the true power of the bow to be unleashed by Odysseus, it truly did as he wished. This Noble Phantasm takes the form of the prized treasure of Odysseus and once activated it fires a shot that kills his enemies in rapid succession. The power of the shot is enough to penetrate through most armours and the speed of the shot is fast enough for one to meet their fate before they realise what has happened.
Furthermore, the arrows fired from this bow, both in the Noble Phantasm and outside of its use are the famous arrows of Heracles, dipped in the poisonous venom of the hydra they are not to be taking lightly. The Hydra arrows also deal extra damage to the heroes of Greek legends.
Master Bruce
