The Greek Gods RPG

Eurylochus

· Odysseus' deputy, brother-in-law (husband of Odysseus' sister Ktimene)
· Always grumbling, arguing with the captain
· But in fact he is loyal and brave
Alexy's Lover
· Killed by Zeus's lightning

Alexey

· A sailor from Ithaca, the son of a fisherman
· Kind, open, believes in the best
· Worships Poseidon and Ares
· Eurylochus's Lover
· Killed by Zeus's lightning

Polites

· A cheerful and clumsy team member
· Believes in hospitality ("we will welcome you with open arms")
· Died at the hands of the Cyclops Polyphemus (even before the main events)
· The unluckiest, but kindest

and another 600 men

Odysseus
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King of Ithaca, the main character
‎· Cunning, smart, stubborn
Penelope's husband, Telemachus's father
Great-great-grandson of Hermes (through Autolycus and Anticlea)
He loves his team, but sometimes he screws up.
After all the adventures I returned home
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Penelope
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Odysseus's wife
· Smart, loyal, patient
She waited twenty years for her husband, turning down suitors.
· Weaved a shroud to stall for time
A strong woman who held everything in her hands
Now I am happy with my husband who has returned.
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Telemachus
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Son of Odysseus and Penelope
I was a baby when my father went off to war.
· Grew up without a father, looking for him
Helped his father kill suitors
· Became a real man
· Now helps his father rule Ithaca
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Sirens: women with fish tails who can take the form of anyone their victim desires.

Satyrs: People with Goat's Legs and Horns

Nymphs in ancient Greek mythology are deities of nature, personifying its various forces and phenomena.

In short:
These are young, beautiful maidens who live in mountains, forests, rivers, and seas. They were considered the patron spirits of their locales.

There are no evil gods in Epic.
And there are no good ones.

Eat:

• tired
• offended
• indifferent
• curious
• fundamental
• lonely

Odysseus passes through them not as a warrior, but as a mirror.
Each god sees something of his own in it.
Poseidon sees the intruder.
Athena is a student.
Circe is an exception.
Calypso - meaning.
Hermes is a brother in mind.
Zeus - a mistake.

And only Hades sees a man who just wants to go home.

OLYMPUS (POLITICS, POWER, COURT)

• Zeus is the king, he's tired, he's silent, but if he wakes up, he's fucked.
• Hera is a queen, cold, fair, she doesn’t care
  — Poseidon is the law, revenge, principle, "I said - you will die"
• Athena - intelligence, strategy, disappointment, ex-best friend
• Ares is meat, war, impulse, respects only strength
  — Aphrodite — feelings, beauty, resentment, “you don’t know love”
• Hephaestus - work, genius, anger at the one who broke his gift
• Apollo - talent, vanity, "how dare you doubt"
  — Hermes — chaos, freedom, jokes, helped just like that
  — Artemis — barely featured in the musical, but in the canon; a huntress, a virgin, not featured in Epic

UNDERWORLD

• Hades is death, peace, justice, the only adequate
• Tiresias - prophet, truth, bitter future

THE ELEMENTS AND NON-OLYMPUS
— Aeolus — wind, whim, “make me laugh and you’ll get a prize”
— Circe — magic, injuries, fatigue, “men are shit, but you’re okay”
— Calypso — loneliness, love-holding, seven years without an answer

• Scylla - hunger, sacrifice, six souls per pass
  — Polyphemus — pain, revenge, “they came and ruined my life”
• Hecate - darkness, boundaries, almost invisible

HECATE
Visually: dark magic, torches, crossroads, a triple goddess. She appears briefly in "Epic," but in the context of Circe (who is sometimes considered her priestess/daughter/aspect). There's almost no visuals, but fan art depicts fog, moon, candles, and three faces.
Personality: Enigma. Witchcraft, boundaries, the magic of transitions. Neither good nor evil—gives power to those willing to pay. Circe clearly learned from her.

Tiresius
In appearance: not a god, but a prophet, dead. There's no specific song in "Epic," but in "The Underworld," Odysseus encounters his shadow. A blind old man, speaking the truth from which there is no escape.
Character: a mirror. He doesn't help—he states. "You will die alone if you continue." And Odysseus continues. Tiresias doesn't judge—he simply shows the outcome.

CHARYBDIS AND SCYLLA
In appearance: in the musical, Scylla is present (the song "Scylla"), Charybdis is absent or appears in the background. Scylla is NOT a goddess, but a monster. But in the animations, she is depicted as something feminine, multi-armed, multi-legged, made of water and stone. She has almost no face—only voices, six heads, six screams.
Personality: none. She's not evil—she's hungry. She doesn't engage in dialogue, doesn't bargain. She heard—she came—she ate. Odysseus sacrifices six of his men to her to save the rest. And it breaks him. Scylla isn't a character, she's retribution.

POLYPHEM
Appearance: A Cyclops, son of Poseidon. Huge, woolly, one-eyed, with a club. He's 10-12 meters tall because Odysseus and his crew are hiding under the sheep, and the sheep are knee-high to him.
Personality: A shepherd. Not a warrior, not a conqueror. He lived his life, ate cheese, and didn't bother anyone. Some men came, said, "We're guests," and then gouged out his eye. His rage isn't tyranny, but pain and betrayal. He prays to Poseidon not because he's a daddy's boy, but because it's the ONLY WAY to get rid of the one who offended him. Pathetic, scary, but in his own way, he's right.

HERMES
Appearance: young, fit, wings on his sandals and helmet. Gold, white, blue. Always in motion—even when standing still, it seems like he's about to fall. A smile covers half his face, his eyes cunning, but not malicious. In "Epic," he appears suddenly and disappears just as suddenly. He's not a giant—he's normal height, but his agility is inhuman.
Personality: pure tribute fanservice. Jay wrote it as "I'm fucking awesome, I beat everyone." Hermes really did beat everyone. He's the only one who helped Odysseus WITHOUT SELF-INTEREST. Why? Because he doesn't give a shit about the politics of Olympus. He's interested in whether the cunning king can complete this incredibly impossible route. That's his entertainment.
In the song "Wouldn't You Like," he doesn't threaten or bargain—he simply hands over the key and says, "Good luck, lol." He loves memes millennia before memes. Utterly elusive, utterly free. Zeus may be bossy, Poseidon may be scary, but Hermes is the only one who actually does what he wants. And he gets away with it.
He likes Odysseus. He respects cunning. He's the same way.

EOL
Externally: there's a nuance here. In the original myth, he's a man, the lord of the winds. In Epic (both the musical and the animated films), Aeolus is a woman. And this is brilliant because:

• the wind is unpredictable, capricious, changeable
  — a classic "mood goddess"
  Visual: lilac-blue, airy, her hair fluttering even in calm weather. She doesn't stand still—she floats, swirls, appears out of nowhere. Her eyes laugh. She can be tiny, like a fairy, or she can cover half the sky—the wind, after all, has no shape.
  Personality: A FUCKING CAPRICIOUS QUEEN. Not evil—she's just bored. Odysseus is a toy to her. She gives him the bag of winds not because she's kind, but because he MADE her LAUGH. In the song "Storm," she literally says, "Okay, you made me laugh—here you go." But he can't open the bag because she warned him, and they don't listen—and the hurt is immediate. She doesn't take revenge, doesn't persecute—she just takes the gift back. Childish, feminine, flighty.
  Important: she is NOT Odysseus's ally. She is a neutral elemental, who was successfully appeased. But not for long.

THE MAIN RULE OF THE GODS IN "EPIC":

They have no fixed height.
There is no fixed force.
There is no fixed morality.

They are concepts.

Zeus is power. If he speaks to Athena, his size equals the gap between king and soldier. If he speaks to Poseidon, they are equal, because both are ancient elements.

Poseidon is the sea. Against a man, he's a tsunami. Against a brother, he's just a man with a trident.

Athena is wisdom. She can't beat Ares in a sword fight, but she can force him to admit defeat with logic.

Aphrodite is love. She's no stronger than Athena in battle, but she's stronger in what Athena is no good at.

THEIR CHARACTERS ARE THEIR DEITY PASSED THROUGH THE FATIGUE OF ETERNITY.

Zeus was tired of judging.
Hera was tired of being jealous.
Poseidon is tired of forgiving.
Hephaestus got tired of fixing.
Aphrodite is tired of explaining that feelings are important.
Apollo is tired of proving that he is not a nobody.
Hades is generally tired of the living.

And only Athena is NOT tired.
Because she, unlike them, invested in a person.
And this man proved that gods can make mistakes.

APOLLO
Appearance: golden, shining, bow, laurels, perfect. The most "beautiful" of the gods. Young, but not juvenile. The musician's movements are precise, smooth.
Personality: He's not in the spotlight in "God Games," but he instantly gets angry. Why? Because Athena dared to insult his prophetic gift. For Apollo, it's not just a skill—it's his essence. He SEES the future, he's never wrong, and then some warrior says, "Your gift is bullshit." A blow to his ego. He's not a cruel sadist, but he's vain and easily offended. Yet he's a genius at everything he does.

HADES
Appearance: dark, pale, wearing an invisibility helmet, black color scheme. Not a skeleton, not a monster—simply the king of the dead. Silent, motionless. In "God Games," he's the only one who doesn't attack, but simply asks a question.
Personality: The wisest of the brothers. He doesn't need power over the living; he has nothing to prove. He hears the prayers of the dead every day—and they don't ask for revenge, they ask for peace. That's why he lets Odysseus go. Not because he's kind, but because he's fair. The only god who doesn't want blood. He speaks softly, but people listen to him. Even Zeus.

CALYPSO
On the outside: a nymph, an island, flowers, blue-green, forever young, forever alone. Beautiful, but with a hint of hopelessness. Her movements are leisurely—she has nowhere to rush. Alone for seven years.
Personality: Not evil. Not at all. She sincerely believes she loves Odysseus. She saved him, nursed him back to health, waited. But she doesn't understand that love isn't about holding on. For her, Odysseus is a ray of light in complete isolation. And when he leaves, it's not a betrayal, it's the collapse of her world. In the song "Not Sorry for Loving You," there's no malice—only pain. The most tragic figure among the immortals.

CIRCE
Appearance: dark hair, gold, magic, an island, pigs. Not an old woman, not a fairytale witch—beautiful, dangerous, calm. The look of someone who has watched men piss themselves in fear for hundreds of years.
Character: Hardened by hatred for men who came to rape and plunder. But Odysseus came differently—not with a sword, but with respect. And this breaks her. She's not kind, she's simply tired of revenge.

HERA
Appearance: peacock, crown, majestic, gold and white. She sits next to Zeus, but not a shadow—an equal. Calm, beautiful, dangerous. Her age is indeterminate—either 40 or eternity.
Personality: A classic Hera—marriage is sacred to her, her husband's infidelity infuriates her, but in "Epic," she doesn't care anymore. She's tired of being jealous. In "God Games," she judges Athena coldly, without emotion. She's uninterested—she's already seen it all. She supports Poseidon not because she's evil, but because "a throne is a throne, rules are rules." She won't let him down, but she won't help him either. Wise, tired, unapproachable.

ARES
Appearance: red, black, muscles, scars, blood. The most humanoid in size—not a giant, but simply a huge warrior. His movements are sharp, impulsive. Not a monster, but you can tell that killing is his only way of breathing.
Personality: He loves war. Not strategy—meat, screams, clashes. Athena fights with her head, Ares with her body. In "God Games," he readily agrees because he doesn't care what the reason is—he just wants to fight. But he's not stupid. He senses when he's being used. He respects strength and despises cunning. He considers Odysseus a coward because he won not with his sword, but with his mind. He's not mean, just primitive.

HEPHAESTUS
Appearance: a blacksmith, limping, soot-stained skin, callused hands. He sits in his workshop, surrounded by machinery, chains, and fire. Not a handsome man, not a giant—he's stocky and heavy. His eyes are intelligent, but tired.
Personality: He hates it when his work is ruined. He created "Storm" (Odysseus's hammer), and Odysseus practically betrayed him, used him, and then threw him away. In "God Games," his anger isn't at Athena—it's at Odysseus. It's personal. But he's also a craftsman who values ​​craftsmanship. If you approach him with respect, he'll do anything. He's not a politician, not a schemer. He works, suffers, and remains silent.

APHRODITE
Appearance: rose-gold, so beautiful it's embarrassing. Not vulgar, but divine. Light, luminous, smooth in movement. In "God Games," she appears as if out of nowhere.
Personality: She's not a fool. Everyone thinks, "Oh, love, silly," but she instantly figures out that Athena has no idea about feelings.

ZEUS
Appearance: a classic thunderer. Long white hair, beard, lightning bolts, throne in the clouds. In "God Games," he sits there—and holy crap, he's not just tall, he's out of proportion. Athena is an ant in front of him. On Olympus, he's the same height as Poseidon. Because he can choose. His voice is rumbling, slow, tired, but when necessary, he cuts you off with a single word.
Personality: Tired. He's fed up with it all. Thousands of years of judging, deciding, fucking, giving birth to demigods, and watching them die. He's no longer furious; he's a lazy old man with absolute power. But if you wake him up, he turns people to dust with a glance. He doesn't hate Odysseus; he couldn't care less, it's just a boomerang with a bull. He loves Athena, but tells even her to fuck off without sentimentality. He's the most powerful, but he rarely uses his power. He's bored.

POSEIDON
Externally: blue-green tones, a trident, a crown, water flowing over his body. In "Ruthlessness," he's not a man—he's an element. He rises from under the ship like a tsunami, higher than the masts, blocking out the sky. Beard, long hair, wet, heavy. His movements are smooth, but not slow—predatory. When calm, he's just a big man, nearly three meters tall. When enraged, he's a wall of water with a face.
Personality: Cruel, principled, unforgiving. Not because he's evil, but because it's the law. You blinded my son—you die. No "oh, I'm sorry," no bargaining. To him, Odysseus isn't a man, but a transgressor. He speaks calmly, even tenderly, but that's more frightening than screaming. He doesn't relish pain, he simply carries out the sentence. He respects strength, but doesn't forgive weakness. He's one of the few who's truly gotten to Odysseus—not physically, but mentally.

ATHENA
Appearance: helmet, spear, owl, gray and white palette. Slightly taller than a human, but she stands so tall that she seems taller. Her posture is perfect, her gaze is sharp, her jaw is clenched. No unnecessary movements. The armor isn't just for show—she's a true warrior. But not a butcher, but a strategist.
Personality: the smartest on Olympus, and she knows it. She detests brute force for force's sake. She considered Odysseus her project, her exception. She taught him, protected him, invested in him—and he chose family.