Listen, I Understand Why People Are Upset With Eurylochus (Epic). I Get It! He Makes Choices That Damn

Listen, I understand why people are upset with Eurylochus (Epic). I get it! He makes choices that damn the entire crew, questions Odysseus when he shouldn't, etc. He's easy to blame.

But can you blame him? For opening the bag a god had given them when all the last god did was drown hundreds of their men? For being afraid on Circe's island and wanting so desperately to just go home? For being angry when the man who is known for his intelligence, who REFUSED to leave behind a single man, who SAID THAT NO ONE ELSE WOULD DIE, then sacrificed 6 men? Six people you've fought beside for a decade in a ruthless war and survived every battle, problem, and smite the gods had sent?

Can you blame him for his hunger?

THIS!

My legit first thought when I heard that line was "Huh, so they're transing Telemachus, dope"

Wolfy. The new songs in Epic. Do you have any thoughts.

I laughed when listening to Suffering because logically I knew it was probably the sirens, but my first assumption was that Telemachus was trans

YES ALL OF THIS!!! I feel like there has to be an INCREDIBLE level of stress put on every person born Blessed, and that comes through in the similarities between the Scrittori twins and Arthur. Hell, even Winnie. The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that Arthur is Blessed at the very least. Arthur not having any noticeable Gift tells is a really good point though! It would also be a great source of angst if Arthur was so committed to his duty to the Mazmus that he wanted nothing more than to be Gifted, only for him to go through the process and nothing happening. But if he was Gifted, all the pressure of using his Gift "properly" (i.e. to fight giants in the Mazmus) would ALSO be an incredible source of angst.

I really hope we learn more about Arthur and Apollo's squad. In the sourcebook would be wicked, but my guess is we won't really know more about their dynamics until the next album. I'm still putting my money on Arhtur being a Climber 😂

Fine. Fine fine fine fine, if NO ONE ELSE is gonna talk about Tales from Cazilor/Tales from Cazilor: The Golden Era, I WILL!

With the introduction of the squad roles (Stalwart, Climber, Anchor), I Deeply need to know what role Apollo and Arthur (from the OG album) fill. What was their training like? Are they Blessed? Gifted? We know Apollo was from Domita, but what about Arthur?

Given what little we know, I think Apollo would have willingly joined the Mazmus. (AKA doesn't need to be Blessed, would have willingly made the choice). Being in Domita during its fall and seeing all that destruction could spur anyone to join the Mazmus to make sure it never happened again. And with how much care Apollo has ("dying for a friend is a hell of a way to die" and all of "I Hope I Die Alone"), he feels like the type of person that would push through any hardship if it meant protecting those he cares about. Not necessarily from a sense of duty, but from a love for others.

Arthur, on the other hand, feels like someone who was born Blessed because he is So duty-bound. He "had no fond memories", dreams only of killing Toltag, never rests, etc. He kind of reminds me of Arge in TGE except to the extreme--born Blessed, told he is meant for greatness and has a duty to do Great Things. Except Arge is serving in a more peaceful time, and Arthur has likely only been serving after the fall of Domita, so there is more urgency, more pressure for Arthur. Arthur strikes me as the type that has had a singular goal--killing Toltag and ending the war--hammered into him since birth, and that would mean it is more likely than not that he would be Blessed.

This is, of course, assuming that the relationship between being Blessed and the Mazmus selection and training is consistent between the album and TGE. Which I guess isn't something we'll really know until the source books is released, Naethan reveals more information, and/or another album is released.

Join me for more theories and thoughts I scream into the void while Cazilor has no fandom, thank you thank you.

There’s something terribly poetic in the inevitability of events in EPIC. The choices Odysseus is given lead to no win situations. They aren’t really choices at all.

Kill a foe’s child or witness the death of your own. Sacrifice six men or sacrifice them all. Allow your crew to starve or watch as they slaughter sacred cattle.

Sacrifice your friends, your brothers, or give up your last chance at reaching home.

In the end, the result is always the same. He destroys himself

Together they shine ✨

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