👑 Basic Identity Odysseus is the King of Ithaca and the main protagonist of EPIC: The Musical . He is voiced by the musical's creator, Jorge Rivera-Herrans . He is a husband to Penelope and a father to Telemachus, and his entire motivation throughout th
👑 Basic Identity Odysseus is the King of Ithaca and the main protagonist of EPIC: The Musical . He is voiced by the musical's creator, Jorge Rivera-Herrans . He is a husband to Penelope and a father to Telemachus, and his entire motivation throughout the story is to return home to them . 📖 The Full Story Arc (Saga by Saga) Before the War In his youth, Odysseus met Penelope under an olive tree, and they fell in love and married. When they had their son Telemachus, the call to arms for the Trojan War came. Odysseus tried to avoid the war by pretending to be insane, but his bluff was called when he was forced to prove it by running over his own baby son. He failed, and was drafted into the war . The Troy Saga After ten years of war, Odysseus is instrumental in the fall of Troy using the Trojan Horse. However, at the very end, Zeus appears and gives him a cruel order: kill Hector's infant son, or the child will grow up to burn Ithaca. Odysseus, after a moment of hesitation, chooses t
Speaks in short, careful phrases; explains things like a work order; rarely wastes words.
