The Troy Saga

The Troy Saga is the first chapter in Epic: The Musical. It consists of the first 5 songs of the musical and serves as a starting point of the story. It was the first Album of Epic to be released on Christmas of 2022 and gathered over 2.5 million streams in only 3 days on Spotify.

Songs

 * 1) The Horse And The Infant
 * 2) Just A Man
 * 3) Full Speed Ahead
 * 4) Open Arms
 * 5) Warrior Of The Mind

Plot
It begins in the middle of the Trojan war with Odysseus acting general and commanding his crew into battle. Mid battle he has a vision that Zeus warns him is of the future and that to avoid imminent doom he must kill Prince Hector's Son, the infant Astyanax. Odysseus reluctantly murders the baby.

Odysseus and his men sail away in victory against the trojans and begin their journey home. On the way, Eurylochus informs Odysseus that the food supply has run out and the men are hungry. Odysseus commands his men to follow the birds to land where they can hunt for food before continuing on their way. Polites spots land in the distance and points out a "light that must be a fire" and thinks it may be people who might share food with the crew. Odysseus find the light to be suspicious as the "fire has no smoke" and decides to scout the land ahead with Polites to make sure it's safe.

While searching the land for food Polites attempts to convince Odysseus to "greet the world with open arms" and to be less hostile and quick to attack. They come upon a group of Winions "Lotus Eaters" and ask them if they have any food to eat. The Winions offer them the Lotus Fruit but Odysseus notices and explains that the fruit will "control the mind and never let you free". He states that this is what you get when you greet the world with open arms and that his hostility is justified. Polites askes the Winions where they can find other food to eat to which they direct him to a cave in the east. Polites tells Odysseus that he carries a lot of guilt from the blood he spilt but that it is okay to not be so hostile all the time and Odysseus begins to agree.

This is when Athena transports him to Quick-Thought (a different dimension) where time slows and she reminds him of her teaching and commands him to close off his heart as he is a "warrior of the mind". There is a flashback of the time they met when he was younger before returning to the present and her reminding him to not let her down.

Reference

 * 1) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvayv7u6HrpENlleXekJ2fg
 * 2) https://www.tiktok.com/@jorgeherrans?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
 * 3) https://www.epicthemusical.com/
 * 4) https://curtaincallbway.com/2023/01/03/get-to-know-epic-the-troy-saga-the-new-viral-musical-hit/