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Griffon (Lio Aetos)
The Young Aristocrat | The Young Griffon | Son of Scarlet Sin / The Risen Flame
The Scarlet Son
Lio "Griffon" Aetos is a young man with much to inspire envy. He is the Young Aristocrat, heir apparent to the kyrios of the Rosy Dawn Cult of greater mystery, with all the prominence and material comfort that brings. He is an expert combatant, regularly besting even renowned fighters through his own skill and determination. And he is utterly, utterly starved for a challenge.- The Ace: Griffon's range of talents is both wide and deep, whether martial, artistic, or scholarly.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Griffon excels at pankration more than any particular weapon, and the Rosy Dawn is the equivalent of a martial arts sect in a conventional Xianxia.
- Bash Brothers: When Solus starts throwing people into the sky, Griffon is glad to join in.
- Blue Blood: As the son of Damon Aetos Lio was born into the ruling class, the Aristos. And he stands above even them, being the Young Aristocrat, the direct heir of the kyrios, and the rough equivalent of a prince.
- Challenge Seeker: Griffon wants to be challenged, to struggle and to win victory, not just have it be given to him.
- Child Prodigy: Griffon has the dubious honour of being the youngest awakening soul in the story at the infant age of only three years old. From there he sky rocketed through the early ranks of the civic realm until his older cousin Niko left the Rosy Dawn on his journey at Griffon hit a bottleneck that he only broke with Sol's help.
- Cool Horse: Gains an awakened Thracian mare after his adventures in Thracia.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Griffon performs one to his five younger cousins as he escapes from the Rosy Dawn.
- Is on the receiving end of a curb stomp when he and Solus fight Socrates for the first time.
- The Daylight Games, a smaller local Olympics style competition, is utterly dominated by him. He doesn't even train for them, but still takes home every single laurel.
- Disinherited Child: Lio is disinherited from the title of Young Aristocrat after his escape from the Rosy Dawn. However, Damon flatly refuses to disown Lio as his son.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Only family members call him Lio; he does not seem to mind overmuch, but when introducing himself he gives his chosen name as Griffon.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine—charming, confident, expressive, and more than a little reckless.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Griffon refuses to blame the way the heavens, the gods, the Fates, his father, his aunts and uncles, and the Rosy Dawn treated him as an excuse for his life, to do so would be to give credit to them for not only his failures but also his successes.
- Friendly Rivalry: Griffon and Solus are evenly matched in many ways, and often compete against each other.
- The Gadfly: Griffon enjoys pushing others with his words and actions, trying to draw out their true feelings and emotions.
- Gilded Cage: What he eventually realizes Álikos is. A place perfectly under the control of his father, where he will never truly be free.
- Healing Hands: Griffon starts to learn medicine and surgery from Anastasia during his time in Olympia. His pankration intent proves useful here, too.
- Hidden Depths: While Griffon initially seems to just be a young master stereotype that wants a challenge it's revealed that he cares, almost too much. He wants everybody to be the best they can be, he cares about injustice and how those that have power use it to abuse others rather to lift them up.
- Insult of Endearment: When he calls someone "worthless," he rarely means it.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: As a cultivator Griffon can use mystical powers to fight, but he much prefers to use the martial art of Pankration. He can even summon hands formed of his pneuma in the form of Pankration Intent to bring it to another level of martial arts.
- Mark of the Supernatural: His blond hair and red eyes, mark him as blessed by the corpse of the sun god.
- Master Swordsman: While he was wielding the King's Curse at the time, Griffon still managed to beat Elissa the Swordsong, a cultivator in the Heroic Realm with the full backing of her Muse, without leaving lasting injury on anything other than her pride.
- Mirror Character: Griffon and Solus highlight each other's similarities. Both are young aristocratic men, the young aristocrat versus the young patrician, heirs to powerful tyrants (and whose defining virtues were pushed upon them by those tyrants), and both of them are highly capable.
- Missing Mom: Griffon has never met his birth mother ever. He had suspected who she was for the longest time but no one would talk about it to him. It in fact turns out that his mother is the Scarlet Oracle Calliope the wife of the previous Tyrant of Alikos, Polyzalus.
- Multi-Melee Master: while Griffon is most comfortable with using his hand to hand skills for everything around him, that does not mean that he doesn't know how to use other tools such as - swords,spears, daggers, and every other weaponry he could get his hand on with the skill of a master.
- Mundane Utility: He can row the Eos by himself using the multiple hands from his pankration intent.
- The Paragon: What he aspires to be after the events of Olympia, after he realizes he can't force people to be better, that not everyone can be like him and Solus who can tempered through "heat." That he needs to be the inspiration, to prove that impossible things can be done. Given how Myron and Lydia act, he's already this to them.
- Rage Against the Heavens: Griffon resents the idea of relying on absent gods and distant spirits. This comes to a head during the climax of the Olympia arc, best summarized by his oath of brotherhood with Solus: "No more higher powers."
- Rebel Prince: Lio thumbed his nose at almost every social convention and tradition he could, having grown stifled and bored in the confines of the Rosy Dawn.
- Rejecting the Inheritance: Lio runs away from the Rosy Dawn, and the title of Young Aristocrat.
- Renaissance Man: Griffon is a master of pankration, can sail a ship, sing incredibly well, can identify multiple instruments from the sounds they make alone, has a deep knowledge of astronomy, and is socially adept. He also learns new skills with ease as the story continues, one example being the physician's trade from Anastasia.
- Rotating Protagonist: The viewpoint of chapters is typically from Griffon's or Solus's perspective.
- Shaping Your Attacks: Griffon's Pankration Intent allows him to manifest multiple copies of his hands from his pneuma.
- Small Town Boredom: He enjoys immense privilege and luxury as the Young Aristocrat of the Rosy Dawn Cult, but is desperate to see more of the world than just the Scarlet City.
- Spirit Advisor: The necklace he liberated from the Rosy Dawn's filial pools allows an unidentified ancestor of Griffon's to antagonize him from the great beyond. Snark apparently runs in the family.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Griffon supplies the wisecracks, Solus provides the muted reactions.
- Sworn Brothers: Invoked by Griffon himself, with the ceremony that cemented it being Lio and Solus's first brawl where their blood mixed in the filial pools, though they didn't realize it at the time.
- Training from Hell: Damon put his son and heir through a grueling regimen. Part of this was groundwork for learning to wield the Rosy Dawn's signature techniques.
- Unknown Relative: He is Selene's older half-brother.
- Victory Is Boring: Escaping the Scarlet City for the world abroad does not give him the experience he hoped for. Griffon had dreamed of the wider world for so long, the exploits and adventures of brave Heroic souls, that the mundane reality of the strong imposing on the weak and the sight of Heroes languishing at a fraction of their potential personally offends him.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Always ready to bicker with Solus over trivial things, but always ready to fight in his defense.
- Will Not Tell a Lie: Griffon's first principle is "My virtuous heart can't lie." He does use half-truths and lying by omission, however, which he personally struggles over as others poke at his hypocrisy in doing so.
Solus
The Last Son of Rome | The Raven from Rome
Captain of Salt and Ash
Per his title, Solus is the last known survivor of the city of Rome. A dour, grim young man who lives for the chance to wreak havoc upon the dog-faced demons responsible for burning and salting his world. Good at dice.- Ability Mixing: Due to his mentor's tutoring, Sol's cultivation is split between the Roman Cursus Honorum and the Greek method.
- The Ace: Solus received an excellent well-rounded education in his youth and compounded that knowledge with practical application during his service with the Fifth Legion. His multifaceted suite of skills is just one of the reasons that Scythas and the other Heroes thought Sol must be an incognito Tyrant.
- Bash Brothers: When Griffon prods the proverbial hornet's nest, Sol is there to back him up.
- Blue Blood: Even before Sol was adopted by Caesar he was born a part of the ruling class of Rome. As the personal student of Gaius Julius Caesar, other Romans in high positions of the military grew jealous of him to the point of hate. Calling him The Chosen Son and more.
- Cool Horse: Gains an awakened Thracian stallion after his adventures in Thracia. He named the horse Atlas.
- Dare to Be Badass:
- Gives a non-verbal one to Jason, daring him to be a Hero once again and to overcome his thalassophobia to save his Heroic peers. It works.
- Delivers a similar challenge to the crew of the Eos following the Olympia Incident. All ten men offer their loyalty, and all ten awaken their souls.
- Death Glare: Between his stone-faced visage and strong-but-silent personality, Sol has a very good glare.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: He speaks highly and fondly of his late father, defending him when Myron and Lio learn he was only the equivalent of a Tenth Level Sophic. Though Solus's understanding of the Greek cultivation method was very limited at the time—the Greek and Roman realms and levels don't line up one-to-one—and he compared his father to Aristotle, which implies that his father was at least low Heroic.
- A Father to His Men: The entirety of the Fifth Legion admired and trusted him, which is part of why his heart demon takes on their forms.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric—hard worker (to destroy Carthage), practical (to destroy Carthage), and vengeful (to destroy Carthage).
- Gravity Master: His virtue Gravitas, allows him to manipulate gravity and inertia.
- Harp of Femininity: Solus is a very talented and accomplished harp player. In general, he is very, very good at musical instruments.
- The Heart: Between Griffon and Sol. Solus is by far the more empathic to everyone's needs and moods. While Griffon simply isn't that until he got his heart sense opened by Orpheus singing through him. To the point that the heroes that the two have gathered look towards Sol for reassurance while looking at Griffon as an enemy that they can work with.
- Last of His Kind: The last human of the entire Roman civilization. Or so he thinks.
- Literal Metaphor: After further advancement in the Sophic realm, and making incremental progress toward reconciliation with his Survivor's Guilt, Sol begins to move and walk with the mass of multiple men; i.e., the deaths of his legionnaires weigh on him.
- Living Is More than Surviving: The lesson that Zagreus tries to teach Sol is that he needs to do more than survive to achieve his goals. He needs to live again. And for someone like Sol, with tons of guilt weighing him down, that is hard to do.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Solus adopts a surviving Roman messenger eagle, naming the beast Sorea. He flies faster than any mortal bird and carries messages in his gullet.
- Made a Slave: Solus was captured by Damon Aetos and brought to the Rosy Dawn as a manacled slave.
- Power Limiter: His slave manacles limit access to his pneuma; this is standard practice for slaves who had undergone some level of cultivation.
- The Remnant: Solus is the last Roman soldier left after the demons of Carthage wiped Rome off the map and after being inspired by Griffon he gains the resolve to take the fight to them again. He later finds out that Caesar managed to spirit some of their people to safety before he himself perished.
- Revenge: Sol has exactly one personal goal: kill the demons who destroyed his home. Even his oath of brotherhood with Griffon reinforces his dedication to vengeance: "No dogs under heaven."
- Rotating Protagonist: The viewpoint of chapters is typically from Solus's or Griffon's perspective.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Before being taken as a slave by the Rosy Dawn, Solus led the Fifth Legion to defend Rome against the demons. The experience left its mark on him.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Sol's reserved responses and dour demeanor give Griffon a perfect canvas for his verbal showmanship.
- The Stoic: Even setting aside the obvious relevance, Sol's general demeanor is best described as reserved.
- Survival Mantra: "I [will] rise."
- Survivor's Guilt: Solus is haunted by the deaths of his legion, his family, his city, and his civilization to the point that he manifested a heart demon about it.
- Sworn Brothers: Initially denied by Solus, but he eventually starts calling Griffon his brother. The ceremony that cemented it being Lio and Solus's first brawl where their blood mixed in the filial pools, though they didn't realize it at the time.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Always ready to bicker with Griffon over trivial things, but always ready to fight in his defense.
Selene
The Young Oracle | The Saint of Scarlet Hearts
The Scarlet Oracle
The young oracle to the Scarlet Faith of the Sun. Young when the Oracles are meant to be crones. She is the daughter of Polyzalus, the Sunset King, and her mother is the previous Scarlet Oracle Calliope, who has been in a good-as-dead coma from the moment Selene was born.- All Therapists Are Muggles: Thoroughly averted in this case. Selene is an oracle, one of eight women with divine blood still in her veins, and she is a heroine-level cultivator. Hence, she is as far from an ordinary person as the earth is from the sky. She is one of the only therapists among the cast.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Her work as an Oracle involves delivering less-than-comfortable questions to cultivators with the goal of prompting internal response and action.
- Daddy's Girl: For all that one can say about Polyzalus, his affection for his daughter is deep and genuine. Selene herself is heartsick when defending Griffon and Sol from his wrath during the climax of the Olympia arc.
- Doomed Hometown: Olympia is left a ruin in the aftermath of the Tyrants' battle.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Selene can suppress heart demons, presumably due to her Oracle's majesty or potentially a cultivation technique. Cultivators burdened by grief and misery will find considerable relief. However, the effect is only temporary without addressing the root cause; a case of treating the symptoms, if you will.
- Ironic Name: Selene is the name of the Greek goddess and personification of the Moon.
- Missing Mom: Her mother, the previous Scarlet Oracle Calliope, fell into a coma just after Selene was born. Calliope could only name her, then went to sleep and never woke up.
- Naginatas Are Feminine: Selene wields a ceremonial spear in combat and her rites as oracle.
- Nothing Is Scarier: For Selene, it is the dark and the terrors within it. Ironic because she is the oracle of the sun god.
- Seers: Averted; even though the Oracles are meant to be seers to the gods, the gods are dead, so the Oracles don't get prophecies anymore. However, the gods still scream death throes in their oracles' ears.
- Strong, but Unskilled: In terms of martial combat, Selene is this is comparison to Griffon and Solus, as her Heroic constitution allowed her to bridge the gap in combat, even when she hasn't spent time training her body.
- Unknown Relative: She is Griffon's younger half-sister.
- Warrior Therapist: Selene is one of the only if not the only therapist we see in the story currently and as a heroine (even if a first level one) she has at least some knowledge of how to fight. Even though as an Oracle she has absolutely no need to be in the battlefield as she is one of the most precious and protected women in the world. Although she in nowhere as good as the other heroes we see or Solus and Griffon.
The Scarlet City, Álikos
Home of the twin mystery cults, the Rosy Dawn and the Burning Dusk. Though it should be jointly ruled by the Tyrants of each cult, in reality Damon Aetos reigns supreme. For the past twenty years, it has been closed off from the rest of the Free Mediterranean by the will of their overlord, the Tyrant Damon Aetos.The Rosy Dawn
One of the twin greater mystery cults that inhabit the Scarlet City of Alikos, alongside the Burning Dusk. Their adherents practice an art that allows them to call forth light and flame with their pneuma. Signature chiton colors: red and whiteThe Aetos Family Elder Generation
Damon Aetos
Tyrant of the Scarlet City | King of the Risen Sun | The Island In The Sun
Eldest of the Aetos brothers. A man as notable as he is inscrutable.
- The Chessmaster: He always gets his way. While his end-goal hasn't been explicated, Damon's plans are decades in the making, and Griffon running away from the Rosy Dawn and going to Olympia is just another part of his plan.
- The Dreaded: Within Alikos, Damon Aetos is the venerated leader of cultivator and mortal alike. To the average inhabitant of the rest of the Free Mediterranean, he's more like a force of nature.
- Flaming Meteor: The man routinely, and without apparent effort, summons meteors to bore passage down to the Rosy Dawn's greater mystery.
- Large and in Charge: Tyrants tower over other people, in terms of stature and influence. Damon Aetos stands above other Tyrants.
- Master Archer: Going by the flashback concerning the brothers Aetos, Damon took to the bow the way his brother Anargyros took to the blade.
- The Stoic: The smile he gives upon meeting Niko is apparently the first time Lydia had ever see him smile.
Anargyros Aetos
The Talons of the Eagle
The second son, younger brother to Damon but elder to Stavros and Fotios. Deceased prior to the beginning of the story, but not before ascending to the realm of Heroes.
- Master Swordsman: What other term could describe a man who slew a drakaina, a monster cursed to live forever by the divine ichor in its veins, with a blade-shaped plank of wood?
Stavros Aetos
One of the Twin Wings of the Eagle
The younger brother of Damon, and the younger twin to Fotios. A Heroic Captain. Provides the narrator's perspective during a flashback depicting the four brothers Aetos in their youth.
- Jerkass: Tried to manipulate a young Lio into drawing the King's Curse and killing himself.
- Self-Made Man: One of his ten internalized Philosopher's truths is that "a man pays his own way."
- Took a Level in Jerkass: While not the nicest person in his flashback interlude, the events of Anargyros' death and Lio's birth seemed to have made him worse.
Fotios Aetos
The Other Wing of the Eagle
The younger brother to Damon, and the older twin to Stavros, also a Heroic Captain. Serves as one of the judges for mystikos who seek to advance through philosophical discourse and rhetoric instead of martial achievement. Kinder than Stavros.
- Tag Team Twins: The other rhetorical judge is his brother, Stavros.
The Aetos Family Younger Generation
Nikolas Aetos
The Stark Blade
The Prodigal Son
The prodigy of the Aetos family and the son of Anargyros. He left the family a Philosopher and has returned a Hero.- Badass Crew: Alongside his wife Iphys, Niko recruited a crew of Heroic-tier cultivators during his journey. One does not reach the realm of heroes without accomplishing great victory or enduring equally great tragedy.
- Big Damn Heroes: Appears just in time to save a young Lio from unintentionally killing himself with the King's Curse.
- Master Swordsman: He is his father's son. When he arrives in the still-smouldering ruins of Olympia and feels threatened enough to ready a weapon, he removes the blade from his sword, likely in reference to Anargyros's technique.
Lydia Aetos
The Young Miss-tocrat
The Young Mistress
Griffon's betrothed, and first cousin through her father, Fotios. The elder sister to Castor and Rena. Lydia is deeply fond of Griffon, whom she still calls Lio, and sympathetic to his repressed wanderlust, but still committed to following the sect's edicts and waiting to travel the outside world. Right up until Griffon makes a break for it; after that stunt she makes plans to follow him.- Action Girl: She's the only one out of her cousins to even slightly touch Lio when all five of them fight him.
- Naginata Are Feminine: She leads the female initiates in spear practice in what would be a western evocation of this trope.
Rena Aetos
Lydia and Castor's younger sister. Daughter of Fotios. A gentle soul.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Her older siblings and cousins keep an eye out for her. Myron is younger, but his advanced cultivation base makes him less vulnerable.
Heron Aetos
Myron's older brother, and eldest son of Stavros. Something of a self-proclaimed rival to Griffon, but he lacks the power or talent to match his hunger.
- The Friend No One Likes: The other young pillars of the Rosy Dawn tolerate Heron's boorish grandstanding because he is, after all, family, but no one seems to expect much out of him. Sadly, Heron seems to realize this.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When called to answer for failing to prevent Myron and Lydia's escape from Alikos, Heron accurately points out that there was little he could realistically do; Myron's superior cultivation outstrips his brother's physical ability to restrain him, and calling on the aid of the elder generation of Aetos to rein him in would seem like sour grapes.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Getting to his level of cultivation at his age is a laudable achievement, but his cousins and his brother all outshine him.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Has none of the bitterness shown towards Lio in the present day when he shows up in Lio's flashback, and even proclaims himself to be Lio's right-hand man.
Myron Aetos
The Little Kyrios
Little Aetos
The youngest of the young pillars. Myron looks up to Griffon and seeks to emulate his bold approach to life, with mixed results. Serious, determined, and driven.- Child Prodigy: The lad's not yet old enough to shave and has still managed to outstrip his older brother in terms of personal advancement.
- Multi-Melee Master: Myron typically prefers daggers and other short blades. However, during one of his lengthy training sessions, he fights a series of opponents with the self-imposed challenge to use the weapon of his previous opponent against the next. If he lacks any familiarity, it does not show.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Developing the hunting bird's breath involves literally carving out a piece of your own body and is an incredibly painful process that should take months if not a year. In a few short weeks, he created two of them, at one point damaging himself to the point where he had to hide that he was coughing up blood from his family.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: To his credit, Myron had no inkling that leaving Alikos in a boat of his own making in order to pursue and retrieve Griffon would prove so disruptive. It's just that after he left, Lydia left, and after Lydia left, Niko, his wife Iphys, their crew of Heroic companions, Castor, Rena, Athis, and Archimedes left, too.
Others in the Rosy Dawn
Athis
The Caged Dove
The dove in the cage.
A young slave belonging to the Rosy Dawn. She develops an attraction to Solus after he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a junior mystiko. Later pulled into Lydia's entourage as she plans to track down Griffon and Solus.- Made a Slave: Athis was purchased to serve as a menial, handling the various tasks considered beneath the lofty cultivators.
- Shrinking Violet: With ample reason. As a mortal slave in the company and possession of empowered individuals with variable levels of empathy, Athis's best survival technique was to keep quiet, keep hidden, and avoid attention. When she summons the courage to answer Lydia directly about her attraction to Solus, it awakens her soul.
Mysterious Elder 1
Aristotle, the Father of Rhetoric
Yup
. A famous philosopher. known for many things, among them being a mentor of Alexander the Great. He was himself taught by Plato, who was taught by Socrates.- The Mentor: Aristotle tutored Solus, which lead to the latter developing a split foundation for his cultivation. Aristotle also tutored the young Damon Aetos. This common thread makes denizens of the Free Mediterranean who know of the connection quite nervous.
Mysterious Elder 2
Archimedes, the Sand Reckoner
Yes, that one. Employed as a tutor by the Rosy Dawn. Cantankerous, but reliable.- Bag of Holding: Most Greek cultivators show some ability to store objects through paradox logic. Archimedes manages to store a huge wooden ship in his robes.
- The Mentor: Lydia was one of his students, and she trusted him enough to ask him for help leaving Álikos. He also mentored Niko.
The Burning Dusk
The counterpart greater mystery cult to the Rosy Dawn. Their techniques emphasize flame and heat, but still originate from the same source. Yianni Scala
The head of the Burning Dusk in Alikos. A formidable enough man in other circumstances, but not when facing Damon Aetos.
- Always Someone Better: For all that Yianni is a Tyrant and Kyrios of the Alikoan Burning Dusk, he is a permanent second fiddle to Damon Aetos.
Gianni Scala
The son and heir to Yianni Scala. Much like his father, he can't match up to his counterpart in the Rosy Dawn, Lio Aetos.
- Always Someone Better: Lio surpasses him at every mark, even when he has the metaphysical advantage.
The Butcher of the Burning Dusk
An eighth-tier Hero representing Alikos in Olympia. Formerly known as Dymas, a freed slave who traveled with the Aetos brothers.
- Blood Knight: The Butcher is positively gleeful at the prospect of challenging Polyzalus in his own Tyrant's domain. He even ascends another level during the fight.
- Defiant to the End: He was smiling and invoking the rallying cry of the Rosy Dawn before his death.
- Head Crushing: Polyzalus crushes his head after their fight.
Divine Beings
While the pantheon is mostly dead or absent, echoes of their influence and power continue to reverberate. The Father
The Father | The Thunderer
One of the forgotten gods of Greece. Has a large statue made by the first kyrios of the Raging Heavens present in Olympia. Heavily implied to be Zeus.- The Blank: Any record of his physical appearance is removed from the memories of mortals after they see it, functionally resulting in this.
- Bold Inflation: His epithet The Father is always stylized as this.
- Take Away Their Name: Only his epithets can be remembered.
The Mother
One of the forgotten gods of Greece. Her corpse is located in Olympia. Heavily implied to be Hera.
- And Show It to You:Whatever killed her seems to have ripped her heart from her chest.
The Sun God
One of the forgotten gods of Greece. His corpse is the foundational mystery of the Rosy Dawn and Burning Dusk. He is also split in half. Heavily implied to be Apollo.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: His corpse is vertically bisected and each half is buried beneath the mountains above Alikos and accessible to their respective cults.
- Pieces of God: His body is split perfectly in half, with one half residing underneath the Rosy Dawn compound, and the other residing underneath the Burning Dusk.
An Unexpected Ally
Prometheus, the Titan Flame
The Titan of Fire, Prometheus the Flame, who moulded humanity from clay, and stole fire from the gods to ease the suffering of his creations. His punishment was to be chained to the mountain Kaukoso Mons, and suffer an eagle tear out his liver and eat it, only for his liver to regrow each day and the cycle to continue. While in classical mythology, Heracles killed the eagle and freed him, this did not come to pass in the world of Virtuous Sons.- Alien Blood: As a divine entity he bleeds ichor, which can serve as prima materia, an essential material for nectar. It has the appearance of liquid gold. When it hits the earth it turns into liquid lead.
- The Champion: Humanity's benefit is foremost in Prometheus's mind. It drove him to steal fire from the gods, and during his conversation with Solus and Griffon he strives to provide them with what advice and material support he can offer.
- The Determinator: Even after being chained to Kaukoso Mons for who knows how long, and brutally savaged on a daily basis, Prometheus still has his own sanity and sufficient presence of mind to aid cultivators like Griffon and Sol.
- The Maker: Not only humanity's creator, but his gifts of fire and craft laid the foundation for civilization.
- Rage Against the Heavens: If he wasn't against the pantheon beforehand, his extended punishment sealed the deal.
Historical Figures
Figures who feature in the history of Virtuous Sons and have not appeared in the modern day. Heracles
The Champion
The greatest Hellenic Hero, the first Olympic Champion, whose labors inspired the Greek city-states and whose death brought them anguish in turn. In Virtuous Sons Heracles was killed performing his 11th Labor.- Beyond the Impossible: Breaks one of the adamant chains of Prometheus, which even in his era should have been mostly impossible. However, doing so brought divine retribution down upon him and slew him.
- Death by Adaptation: Dies during the performance of 11th Labor, not from holding up the sky, or Ladon, but from attempting to free Prometheus from his chains. He doesn't seem to have been made a god after his death
Alexander the Great
The Conqueror
The king of Macedon, whose military prowess carved himself an empire among the largest of all time. In Virtuous Sons, he failed to conquer Greece, but got what he wanted regardless. Centuries ago, he disappeared into the subcontinent of India with his armies.- The Dreaded: Centuries after his invasion, the people of Greece refuse to say his name, in fear it will draw his attention.
- Uncertain Doom: Whether or not he actually died in India is up in the air. While he never returned, his fate has never been explicitly confirmed.
