𝟑 | 𝐎dysseus | 𝐄pic

The Ithaca Saga After arriving in Ithaca, Odysseus slays the suitors, angry with what they have plotted to murder Telemachus and rape Penelope. Given that Telemachus’ motif plays during some of their deaths, and that Telemachus assists him with killing them in the Odyssey, it is presumed Telemachus kills some of the suitors also (Odysseus).[23]

Finally, Odysseus properly reunites with his son and his mentor (I Can't Help But Wonder), and he asks Penelope if she would still love him if she knew all that he'd done, saying that he is not the same man she once fell in love with (Would You Fall In Love With Me Again).

The Vengeance Saga Someone, later revealed to be Hermes, then informs Calypso of Athena's triumph in the previous saga, and Calypso is upset at the idea of being alone once again. She tells Odysseus that he is now allowed to leave (Not Sorry For Loving You), but before he goes, she expresses her genuine love for him and apologizes for anything she did that may have hurt him or made him uncomfortable, but that she is not sorry for loving him. Odysseus expresses that he does love Calypso, but not romantically.[21]

In the end, after she bids farewell, Hermes appears to Odysseus (Dangerous) to tell him how to get home, warning him that it will be an extremely perilous journey. Odysseus agrees to risk everything and to even change his whole mindset[22] if only to make it home. Hermes then instructs him to follow the north star and fight his way through anything he encounters. He gives Odysseus the bag with Poseidon's storm inside, and Hermes (along with the Winions) tell Odysseus to keep the bag closed if he wants to get home.

Odysseus ends up encountering the sea monster Charybdis, whom he states that Hermes had warned him about (Charybdis). He survives her through tactics of delay and evasion.

Nearly at Ithaca's shores, Poseidon catches him once more to confront him (Get In The Water), demanding he surrender himself by getting in the water and threatening to flood all of Ithaca - killing his people, son and wife in the process - if he refuses. Odysseus falls in the water from Poseidon's signature move, and the voices of the dead crew hold him up from death, encourage him to fight back.

In Six Hundred Strike, Odysseus uses the wind bag to get out of the water, blocking his way home. He beats the living daylight out of Poseidon in honor of his fallen men. Afterwards, Poseidon is taunting Odysseus, and he is not having any of it. He takes Poseidon's trident, and uses Poseidon's immortality to show him true pain through constant torture, making him beg for mercy.

The Wisdom Saga Odysseus wakes up with Calypso at his side, who tells him that he had washed up on her shores a while before, as she asks him about his sleep talking. She then shows him her island that has everything he could ever want, claiming him to be her love for eternity. Odysseus, still unused to his new surroundings, shrugs off her advances and threatens to kill her, only for her to brush off his threat by revealing her status as a goddess. Realizing that he is now trapped on the island with no way to get back home, Odysseus panics as Calypso embraces him.

After seven years, Athena, after meeting with Odysseus' now-grown son Telemachus, looks through Odysseus' memories to learn what has happened to him since their separation. She witnesses him attempting to kill himself from the torment of being trapped as well as the various loved ones he has lost, as an alarmed Calypso looks on. After Calypso's mention of "open arms" triggers a rush of memories of Polites, Eurylochus, and the shade of his mother, pushing Odysseus to the brink of despair, he cries out to Athena for the first time in seven years, spurring her to help him. Athena goes to her father Zeus, asking him to release Odysseus from his imprisonment(God Games). Zeus decides to make it a game in which she must convince five gods to let him go - Apollo, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares and Hera. Athena successfully convinces all the gods, but when she demands Odysseus' release, Zeus is furious and enters Beast Mode, striking Athena down with his lightning to such a severe degree that Ares wonders whether she is dead. After taking more hits from Zeus, Athena makes her final appeal to Zeus to let Odysseus go as she collapses from her wounds.

The Thunder Saga The saga opens with Odysseus talking to someone who appears to be Penelope (Suffering), but through clues in the song,[17] we are eventually led to discover that she is actually a siren attempting to lure him into the water. While this is not revealed until the next song, Odysseus had planned for this, seeing a ship with no crew left and realizing that they'd entered the realm of the sirens; he had ordered his crew to plug their ears with beeswax, and his communication with "Penelope" is purely through lip-reading. He plays along with her, delaying "jumping into the water" to ask her questions about how to evade Poseidon, presented as a hypothetical; she tells him that the only way is to sail through the lair of Scylla, a sea monster who even Poseidon fears. Odysseus is deeply troubled by this information, but the siren is insistent.

In the end, he appears to give in to her pleas, only to bring out a bow and shoot her. He reveals his plan and that he has known her to be a siren all along (Different Beast), revealing that his men have been capturing the rest of the sirens while he'd been speaking with her. Odysseus tells her that she'd given him all the information he needed to get home because he knew of Sirens' extensive knowledge regarding marine routes. The sirens beg for mercy, but he shuts them down coldly, saying that they wouldn't have spared him had the roles been reversed. Demonstrating just how much of a ruthless monster he has become, he orders his men to kill them by cutting off their tails, and throwing them back into the water to drown. At the end of the song, it is no longer an enemy's name that the crew is chanting ominously; it is Odysseus' himself.

While on their way to Scylla's lair, Eurylochus remarks that Odysseus is unusually quiet (Scylla); this is most likely because Odysseus is planning a sacrifice to get past the monster, though neither his second-in-command nor the crew know of this. Eurylochus then confesses to o

The Circe Saga The crew now stop at an island (Puppeteer), on which Eurylochus attempts to confess something[12] to his captain. Shutting him down, Odysseus sends him out to scout out the island with a group of men. Much faster than expected, however, Eurylochus returns, explaining that the men had been lured in and then turned into pigs by a sorceress named Circe. He urges Odysseus that facing Circe isn't worth the risk, and that it would be better to save the remaining men by cutting their losses and leaving. However, Odysseus refuses to cave, saying that he would go any length to save Eurylochus and that he hopes he would do the same.

Odysseus is confronted by Hermes on his way to Circe's palace, who gives him the root of a divine flower called Moly (Wouldn't You Like). Hermes tells him that consuming this root will allow him to resist the sorceress' power and claim some of it to manifest a magical construct of his own. Odysseus does as he says, and thanks him.

After arriving at Circe's palace, he initially attempts to be flattering, addressing her as “lady of the palace”, but this falls away after he reveals that he knows what she did to his men (Done For). She is unable to directly cast spells on Odysseus due to the Moly (which she immediately deduces was given by Hermes); thus, they fight using creatures that they manifest with their powers.[13] Odysseus wins the fight, drawing his sword and threatening her; Circe then attempts to seduce him and kill him in his moment of weakness (There Are Other Ways). She nearly succeeds, but in the end, Odysseus refuses her, expressing his love for Penelope. After he laments over not being over to see his wife and pleads for mercy, Circe is moved and tells him that the only way to evade Poseidon that she knows of is to send him and his crew to the underworld to meet the prophet Tiresias.

The Cyclops Saga Odysseus leads a small group into the cave, where they find enough sheep to feed their entire fleet (Polyphemus). Things quickly take a turn for the worse as Polyphemus, a cyclops and the owner of the sheep, walks in and sees that they have killed his favorite. The cyclops immediately demands retribution for his lost sheep paid in the blood of Odysseus and his men. Odysseus attempts to bargain for his life and the lives of his crew with "the world’s best tasting wine", but this fails to deter him, and thus only offers to leave Odysseus (who has told Polyphemus that his name is 'Nobody') as the final man to die.[4]

A battle ensues with Odysseus leading his men into a fight for their lives (Survive). Many are lost in the battle, including Polites, but the cyclops begin to wane and faints just as hope seems lost. Odysseus' quick wit led to him spiking the wine that he offered the Cyclops with lotus.[5]

Unable to escape the cave due to Polyphemus' body lying in the way, Odysseus and his surviving crew then use their swords to fashion Polyphemus' club into a giant spear, using it to stab the Cyclops in the eye (Remember Them). This causes him to awaken, and stagger away from the entrance. Awoken by the noise, other cyclopes deeper in the cave express concern for Polyphemus, asking him who has hurt him. However, this is once again solved by Odysseus' wit; Polyphemus tells the other cyclopes that 'Nobody hurt him', causing the other cyclopes to believe that Polyphemus is causing a fuss for no reason.

Odysseus tells his crew to grab the sheep and leave, but Athena then once again pulls Odysseus into her dimension, using her signature move Quick-Thought.[6] She tells him to finish the job and kill the cyclops, to which Odysseus refuses, lamenting over the blood they have already shed. Out of rage and grief, and attempting to demand Polyphemus to be more merciful in the future, he reveals his name and title and tells Polyphemus to remember him and his crew

The Troy Saga At the beginning of EPIC (The Horse and the Infant), Odysseus has been leading the Ithacan segment of the Greek Army in the Trojan War for 10 years and also has a senior role in the army as a whole. He comes up with the idea of the Trojan horse to end the war, which is successful, as the Greeks emerge from the battle victorious and with no Ithacan casualties.[3]

During the battle, Odysseus is given a vision by Zeus, and is told that he must kill an infant boy - Astyanax, the son of the slain prince Hector of Troy - because he will grow up to avenge his father and city, hunting down Odysseus and murdering his family. He attempts to bargain with Zeus, but with the backing of the other gods, Zeus insists that there is no other way, and that Odysseus must kill him. He concedes after much internal conflict (Just A Man).

After the war, they set sail for the journey back home (Full Speed Ahead). Eurylochus, Odysseus' second-in-command, warns him that their food supplies have run out; Polites then alerts him to something he spots in the distance. Deeming the circumstances suspicious, Odysseus leads Polites to investigate, which leads them to the island of the Lotus Eaters. Odysseus is tense, and Polites tries to convince him to move on from the war and "greet the world with open arms." They encounter the mischievous lotus-eaters who direct them to a cave in the east to find food (Open Arms). Odysseus’ consideration of Polites’ philosophy makes enough of an impact to force Athena, his mentor, to appear, and remind Odysseus of her teachings (Warrior of the Mind).

Odysseus is known for his cunning, wisdom, eloquence, resourcefulness, courage, and endurance.

Odysseus is described as a man of medium height, with a thick-set build, fair skin, and either blond or red-brown hair, with a dark beard. He is known for his cunning, wisdom, and eloquence. His appearance is often described in terms of his strengths, such as his intelligence and resourcefulness, rather than just his physical features. Height and Build: Odysseus is shorter and broader than Agamemnon, with a thick-set build. Skin Tone: He is described as fair-skinned, potentially due to his active life outdoors. Hair and Beard: He has blond or red-brown hair, but a dark beard. The musical reimagines Odysseus with a focus on his moral conscience and the psychological torment he experiences.

Penelope (Wife) Telemachus (son) Ctimene (sister)[1] Anticlea (Mother) Hermes (Great-grandfather) Athena (Mentor/Distant Relative)

Kingdom of Ithaca Greek Army

Third King of Ithaca Captain of the Greek Army Warrior of the Mind (formerly)