#lacedaemonius

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AGON

Our silly little characters going through world-ending trauma at the hands of our DM, for growth.

Kyla and Obstacles, my boy Lacedaemonius, Ophelia, and my most beloved elevated NPC Thessia whose weapon of choice is the smelling salts

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A Spartan warrior, nephew to the great king Tyndareus, finally on his way home after the fall of Troy, desperate to bring honour to his family’s name and win the heart of his true love…

Character design notes under the cut:

A new character for a new campaign, Agon this time, which I’ve never played before but I’m very excited to start. As usual I’ve gone overboard and spent far too many hours making a semi-accurate family tree for mythological characters and drawing armour.

The designs are copied from red figure pottery, with the scene on the breastplate stolen from a hydria of Perseus (my boy’s great grandfather) fleeing after slaying the gorgon Medusa, held in the British museum. The gorgon insignias on the pauldron are from an amphora of Athena by the Berlin Painter.

Both the swords are actually bronze, the silvery one is arsenical bronze and the dark one is black Corinthian bronze (hepatizon), as is his armour.

Ironically it is actually very resistant to losing its colour through scratches, so you could probably picture Lacedaemonius meticulously re-etching his armour after every battle lest the blackness overtake it, which I’m sure couldn’t be a metaphor for anything.

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Honour-Bound, Aspen-Crowned

Hades reaches into his beard and plucks out a soul. Then another, and another, all mangled and transparent and speaking in papery voices that you cannot quite hear. They all look very similar.

“Humour me, persuade me, that your friend was unique.” Hades says. “Of all these souls, can you figure out which one is Lacedaemonius?”

Alternative colour under the cut: