This is my goodbye!!!!
-Athena ("My Goodbye")
Athena is the goddess of wisdom and strategic war. She is the daughter of Zeus. She is Odysseus' former mentor, and Telemachus's friend. She serves as one of the protagonists of The Wisdom Saga.
Biography[]
Act I[]
In Warrior Of The Mind, where Athena makes her debut, she tells the story of how she met Odysseus. When Odysseus was a boy, she set a challenge in the form of a magic boar only the most skilled warrior could kill. The young Odysseus successfully killed the boar by outwitting it. Believing she could guide him, Athena approached him, offering to be his mentor. He agrees and they train together.
Later, when Odysseus shows doubts in the wake of Polites sharing his 'Open Arms' philosophy, she tells him to not disappoint her.
In The Cyclops Saga, Odysseus does disappoint her, when he not only spares Polyphemus, but also reveals his name and home to The Cyclops. The two argue in My Goodbye, and Odysseus claims that she is alone. The two then part ways, and do not reconnect for ten years.
Act II[]
In The Wisdom Saga, she befriends Telemachus, Odysseus' son when she tries to assist him in a fight against Antinous. Realizing what she should do after talking with Telemachus {We'll Be Fine}, she takes a dive into Odysseus’s memories. There, she viewed all the events that happened after her departure, from The Ocean Saga to The Thunder Saga. Once she finds out Odysseus is being held captive on Calypso’s island, she heads up to Mount Olympus and asks Zeus to free him. Zeus agrees to let Odysseus go if Athena can win his 'game' and convince five chosen Olympians that he should be released. He calls upon Apollo, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares, and Hera, whom she convinces relatively quickly to agree with her. She quickly convinced the five gods to agree with her, and Athena's success angers Zeus, sending him into a rage {or as Jorge named it; Beast Mode Zeus} and attacks Athena physically, instead of shooting a gigantic thunderbolt at her. The ending is left pretty ambiguous as to what Zeus' attack has done to her, though in Love In Paradise, Calypso explicitly states that "Last I checked, Goddesses can't die" so it’s unlikely that she died, but she was injured enough to make Ares ask "Is she dead?", leaving this as something debatable.
Appearances[]
The Troy Saga[]
- Warrior Of The Mind (Debut)