Telemachus

Telemachus is the son of Odysseus and Penelope.

• Gender – Male
• Race – Human
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He was born on the day when Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War. Attempting to renege on his oath to defend Helen, Odysseus sowed salt into his fields in feigned madness. The emissary Palamedes, who was sent to call Odysseus to battle, placed the infant Telemachus before the plow. Odysseus stopped, proving his sanity and obliging himself to go to the war.

After his father has been gone for nearly 20 years, young Telemachus is met by Athena, who takes the male Disguise of Mentor and accompanies him on a journey in search of news of his father. They travel to Pylos and Lacedaemon. Their rulers, Nestor and Menelaus, are friendly, having held Odysseus in high regard, but do not know what has become of him. Telemachus forms a close friendship with Nestor’s son Pisistratus, who accompanies him on the search for his father, however, the two are only able to find out that Odysseus is being held captive by Calypso.

When Telemachus returns to Ithaca, Athena in another Disguise prompts him to visit the swineherd Eumaeus, instead of returning to his home. At the pigkeeper’s cottage he discovers that the beggar staying with Eumaeus is his father. He then accompanies Odysseus and the swineherd into the hall where they kill all the suitors. They then execute the twelve slave women who had slept with the suitors; Odysseus orders Telemachus to stab them, but Telemachus prefers to hang them, an unclean death.

TELEMACHUS: Human male fighter 11