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As I am listening to God Games, I has dawned on me that when Athena calls Ares out and tells him to hold his tongue, the following melody is the bit in Warrior of The Mind in which Athena is singing about young Odysseus. Ya know, the “one day a boy came for the thrill” bit.

Actively filing a complaint, going bonkers, screaming and crying. Jorge Riverra Herrans once again ripping our hearts out. He may continue doing so.

Good theory👍

So

A friend mentioned to me that Poseidon's trumpets mimic Ares' instrument in 600 strike and that Ares might have blessed Ody in the moment (Shout-out @dysphanic-redshift) and asked me why I thought that might be

In the myths, as far as I remember, Ctimene is a Warrior of Ares, while Ody is Athena's Warrior. Since Ody was so close to being reunited with Ctimene, knowing Ares, there was no way Ares was going to let Poseidon interrupt the reunion of his Warrior and his sister's warrior, hence the blessing

So….hows everyone doing after the watch party?

Everyone who either has listened to the Ithaka Saga already or who plans on listening to it PLEASE DO NOT GIVE SPOILERS. Despite the Odyssey being a well known tale, we don’t know Jorge’s plans with the saga. Please please PLEASE be considerate.

So…so unwell. An audience of shades we’d be.

Having the little pauses in Dangerous was great because not only does it leave the listener at home just vaguely hearing the chorus of Full Speed Ahead in their minds but you just know that if it was played on stage the audience quietly droning after Jorge would go fucking insane

“Six hundred men…six hundred deaths under my command, cause I had one goal in mind…”

The audience gently: “…make it back alive to our homeland…”

Like an echo of ghosts haunting him for his decisions in the back of his mind, the wind underneath his sails, the only thing Odyessus has left

I keep seeing many theories as to how Odysseus was able to defeat Poseidon in 600 Strike and I desperately need Jorge to confirm at least one of them.

So far the two I’ve been seeing a lot are what I’ll call the “Boon of Ares Theory” where Odysseus is being blessed by Ares as well as what I’ll call the “600 Shades Theory” in which The Shades of Odysseus’ fleet (and Anticlea) are are empowering Odysseus, hence the name “600 Strike”.

High key like the 600 Shades theory more, and I also need an explanation as to why the voicelines change for both Polites and Eurylochus. Why now does Polites say “you can relax, my friend” and why does Eurylochus say “after all we’ve lost and all we’ve learned”? Why those lines specifically???

Actively filing a request to Jorge. Every detail that’s written in Epic is INTENTIONAL.

yall please don’t have an epic meltdown. This is honestly for the better, it being Christmas Eve and all that. Enjoy the food and family, or enjoy however you are doing right now!!!

The ending of mutiny kind of reminds me of “think mark, think!” From Invincible.

“These were Helios’ cattle, and now you’ve killed one! Who will Helios send??? Think Eurylochus, think!”

I genuinely forgot how hard vengeance slaps and all of the full speed ahead motifs go INSANE

Tumbles I need someone to jump start my brain.

In “I Can’t Help but Wonder”, Odysseus has a line where he goes “today you’re not alone”, and he has a little partial riff where he holds that “alone”.

Is that supposed to be a shortened version of the “Telemachus” riff or am I just losing it???