Achilles

Achilles is a playable character in Warriors: Legends of Troy. Son of the goddess Tethys, Achilles is the mightiest warrior within the Greek army who has an infamous reputation of cutting down many Trojans in his path. His vicious method of slicing through the carnage in war strikes fear not only in his enemies but his allies as well.

His height in the game is 188 cm (6'2") and his weight is listed as 91 kg (201 lbs).

The Iliad
Achilles is the son of Peleus, a mortal king, and a immortal sea-nymph named Thetis. He is the prince of the Myrmidons of Phitia, and is part divine on his mother's side, yet he remains mortal.

When Achilles was a child Thetis hoped to make him immortal like her. In her attempt to do this she dipped him in the River Styx, the river that bordered the underworld. The curse of the river made Achilles body invulnerable once it was submerged in the water. However Thetis had held the child by his left heel when she dipped him in the river. With the heel not being submerged, it remained vulnerable and was Achilles only weak spot.

Achilles developed an obsession to have his name be remembered forever, he wanted to gain eternal glory for himself. Being part divine he was gifted with god-like skill in battle, and with his invulnerable body to add to this, on the battlefield he was practically unstoppable. Achilles has shown many times in the past that (aside from his Myrmidons, his best friend Patroclus) he cared for nothing but himself and his pride. He doesn't fight for Greece and care's nothing for Agamemnon or many of the kings of Greece, he owes no-one any loyalty.

Achilles does respect some of the men that he fight's beside. He respect's Ajax as being both his distant cousin, and being a mighty warrior, second only to himself. And he deeply respects Odysseus king of Ithaca for his intelligence and cunning as well as his noble nature, a welcome counter balance to Agamemnon.

Achilles came to Troy under a prophecy. If he stayed in Phitia he would live a long happy prosperous life, and raise a loving family. But if he stayed at home, his name would be lost in history. If he went to Troy, he would die a early death outside it's walls, but he would gain eternal glory and be remembered for eternity. Achilles went to fight in Troy.

Achilles has since become the champion of the Greeks and the bane of the Trojan's. He has sacked dozens of smaller cites around Ilium and killed countless Trojan soldier's and brought vast fortune's of plunder back to the Greek army. Many Trojan heroes have already fallen to his blade and not many left are willing to try their luck. Also as his mother is an immortal, and a 'favourite' of Zeus himself, Achilles has some measure of leverage over the gods themselves. He endures the divided Greek leadership with scorn and is content to let them fight for power. He fights to gain glory, power means little to nothing to him. He commands the absolute loyalty of his Myrmidons and most of the Greek army. But considering the divided nature of the Greek army, Achilles probably wouldn't have any problems killing any of them.

Achilles carries the hope of Greek victory with him, the Greeks see Achilles as immortal, the combination of man and god, and that as long as they have him on their side, Troy will fall to them. However there is a problem in Achilles campaign to sack Troy, namely Prince Hector.

Hector is to the Trojan's, what Achilles is to the Greek's. Hector is the only warrior in the world that can stand against Achilles in equal combat. As well as being a military genius and the morale centre for Troy, Hector stands firmly in Achilles way to victory. Both sides have began to believe that Achilles and Hector can only be killed by the other. But while they have both fought the war for nine years, they have never yet fought each other in single combat on the battlefield. Some on both sides feel that each is reluctant to face the other, as they are not certain they would win. After all the prophecy claimed that Achilles would be killed before the war ended, if their was best way for a Greek to get killed in this war, then it would be in fighting Hector.

Achilles knows he will die in this war, he doesn't concern himself with that fact, he merely aims to make sure that his name does see the end of the war, and continues on into legend.