The Underworld

The Underworld is the first song of The Underworld Saga during which Odysseus and his crew plunge into the underworld to find the prophet Tiresias.

Trivia

 * This song is the second longest song in Act 1 being seven seconds shorter than Ruthlessness.
 * When the fallen crew mates are singing we hear multiple callbacks to past songs such as Ruthlessness, and Just A Man.
 * At the end of Ruthlessness, Poseidon tells Odysseus that 43 members are left following his attack. This would mean that 557 crew members have died since they started the journey back to Ithaca. However, when Odysseus is faced with the fallen crew mates, they tell their former captain that 558 men died under his command.
 * While this may seem like a miscalculation, it’s actually a reference to Elpenor, a member of Odysseus's crew that got drunk while they were on Circe’s island and fell off of the palace’s roof to his death. In the Odyssey, Odysseus and the crew actually returned to Circe's island to bury Elpenor.
 * Elpenor makes brief cameos in Storm and Keep Your Friends Close, where he is played by Luke Holt (the voice of Zeus)
 * The chorus is a reference to one of the many songs that were cut from the show, Ismarus.
 * When Polites appears, he reprises the chorus of Open Arms.
 * Anticlea, Odysseus's mom, is actually voiced by Jorge's actual mother.
 * In the Odyssey, Anticlea died of a broken heart while Odysseus was fighting the Trojan War, a fact that is used by Aphrodite in God Games.
 * According to Jorge, the lines from the fallen soldiers, Polites, and Anticlea are the thoughts that they had before they died.