Several Months Have Passed Since The Release Of The Ithaca Saga And I Still Cannot Keep My Composure

Y’all the palladium heist is in the little iliad right? Yeah, where can I read about that? Let me in on the huge fandom consensus. Odysseus stabbed diomedes? Why? AND THEY BANTER??? WHERE IS THIS FROM???

Plagued by the 600 souls of my fleet

So I’m re-watching Gigi’s animated snippets of Hermes in God Games, and hearing so many of his laughs consecutively made me realize that his laugh in Dangerous sounds…off. I had to pull up Dangerous and Wouldn’t You Like just to do a double take.

At first I thought it sounds different because his laugh doesn’t escalate in pitch, but when he laughs in Dangerous, it’s not even that. It doesn’t sound like a real laugh. Jorge is super particular about direction and the choices he and the actors make in the final song cuts, so I’m curious if Hermes’ laugh in Dangerous was also a specific take.

My next question then is *why*? Why does he sound so off?

Something that I greatly respect Jorge for, is putting all of these little Easter eggs in each Epic song. Aside from listening to them on repeat because they slap, you can also listen to them on repeat and notice details in the music that you never knew were there.

90BUCKS FOR PHYSICAL IS AWFUL

Nintendo my darling you’re getting a bit too confident with those prices why don’t you lower them and then we can talk?

Minding my own business re-listening to Warrior of the Mind, and I noticed some fun details

Firstly: The “danger is close” motif plays when Odysseus is telling Athena to show herself.

Secondly: Once it’s been confirmed that our main man Ody has gaslit Athena, his motif plays after he does his lil laugh (because he just outwitted Athena). Additionally, his motif continues into the “You are Athena!” Portion of WOTM.

I might be late once again but I think it’s neat. Jorge loves his recurring melodies and motifs and I do not blame him :)

Very tempted to try and make a design for Ishmael, but I don’t think we ever receive any physical description of him🤔

Genuine question how do you pronounce Ctimene’s name??? Like is the C silent? Is the T silent????

The Iliad is a wonderful epic filled with super cool fight scenes, stealth missions, and gut wrenching sadness, but there’s this one moment that lives in my head rent free for absolutely no reason aside from slight amusement.

Not sure which book(chapter) it is, but there is a scene in which Achilles has completed his mourning over Patroclus, and if I’m not mistaken, Achilles was there for twelve days and did not eat or drink anything. Trust me this is important.

Achilles goes and he tells his mates (Ody, Menelaus, etc) that he’s gonna go out and absolutely rip Hector a new one.

Before he goes out though, Odysseus stops him and I kid you not, for at minimum half a page, our boy Odysseus goes on a whole MONOLOGUE about how important breakfast is, and how Achilles needs to at least have some meat and wine before he tears through the Trojan army and turns Hector into his personal ragdoll.

And if I’m not mistaken, Odysseus actually gets Achilles to eat before he leaves. What a guy, getting Achilles to listen to him.

Now go eat breakfast like Homer intended, dear readers. If the great, swift footed Achilles needs to eat breakfast, so do you.

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