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Scylla by ~RiTz21:iconRiTz21:


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Illustration by Amanda Lynn Cook aka OpalLynn ([link])

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~OpalLynn:iconOpalLynn: May 5, 2008, 6:41:44 PM
Wow! This looks great! I'm so honored!

Best of luck with the game!

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If you're going to take someone on your train of thought, at least buy them a ticket first.

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~Zousha:iconZousha: May 5, 2008, 7:02:30 PM
I notice there aren't any heroes listed. Is that due to the fact that Scylla was never killed in the stories?
~RiTz21:iconRiTz21: May 5, 2008, 9:00:34 PM
Not by Odysseus: "Odysseus then successfully sails his ship past Scylla and Charybdis, but Scylla manages to catch six of his men, devouring them alive"

Only in "later Greek Myth" was she might have been slain by Heracles - and even that is not clear:
"In a late Greek myth it was said that Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her."

yet: "However, her death contradicts what is said by Circe after Odysseus asks if it is possible for him to fight Scylla"

Ref: [link]

Hence why I didn't give Heracles the ability to slay her - He has enough on his plate as it is!

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~RiTz21:iconRiTz21: May 5, 2008, 9:01:41 PM
Thank you !!!!

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~Zousha:iconZousha: May 6, 2008, 7:24:32 AM
Right, but still Odysseus tried to avoid fighting Scylla. I never said that he was successful at avoiding her. And you're right about Heracles. He did so many outrageous feats you gotta wonder if eventually he'd trade that lion skin for a blue spandex suit!