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Ichor

(#69635404)

May the Gods be bloodless, and thus from death exempt.

Familiar

Golden Porpoise

Energy: 50/50

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Measurements

Length

3.85 m

Wingspan

6.05 m

Weight

477.75 kg

Genetics

Maize
Tapir

Sanddollar
Striation

Algae
Capsule

Hatchday

May 28, 2021
(2 years)

Breed

Adult
Wildclaw

Eye Type

Shadow
Primal

Level 1 Wildclaw

EXP: 0 / 245

STR

AGI

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QCK

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Parents

none

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Biography

ANOTHER SHADOW PRIMAL?? Though what are the odds I hatch another primal on another friend’s birthday hshshsh. I offered him to her but she said I should keep him, so I have :) I named him after the Greek concept for the blood of Gods (juxtaposed with the goopy modern connotations). The quote is a callback to Iliad V. 339–342. I might nickname him Ick for short cx Also he ate my only WC scroll.

ILIAD V. 339-342
Blood follow’d, but immortal; ichor pure,
Such as the blest inhabitants of heav'n
May bleed, nectareous; for the Gods eat not
Man’s food, nor slake as he with sable wine
Their thirst, thence bloodless and from death exempt.†

† We are not to understand that the poet ascribes the immortality of the Gods to their abstinence from the drink and food of man, for most animals partake of neither, but the expression is elliptic and requires to be supplied thus—They drink not wine but nectar, eat not the food of mortals, but ambrosia; thence it is that they are bloodless and from death exempt.

— W. Cowper, The Iliad of Homer, Schol. per Vill

ORIGINAL LOOK: NOCTURNE - Triple Basic

COMPLETED: 4th of June 2021 (Capsule brewed)

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SCATTER JOURNEY
START: Azure/Grapefruit/Carrot
Fire/Grey/Shadow
Bubblegum/Sunset/Iris
Cherry/Jade/Moon
Fire/Leaf/Plum
Caramel/Lavender/Sunset
Spruce/Peach/Mint
END: Maize/Sanddollar/Algae

MYTHOS
Ichor originates in Greek mythology, where it is the ethereal fluid that is the Greek gods' blood, sometimes said to retain the qualities of the immortals' food and drink, ambrosia and nectar. Ichor is said to be toxic to humans, killing them instantly if they came in contact with it. Great heroes and demigods occasionally attacked gods and released ichor, but gods rarely did so to each other in Homeric myth.

In Ancient Crete, tradition told of Talos, a giant man of bronze portrayed with wings. When Cretan mythology was appropriated by the Greeks, they imagined him more like the Colossus of Rhodes. He possessed a single vein running with ichor that was stoppered by a nail in his back. Talos guarded Europa on Crete and threw boulders at intruders until the Argonauts came after the acquisition of the Golden Fleece and the sorceress Medea took out the nail, releasing the ichor and killing him.

"It [a magical herb] first appeared in a plant that sprang from the blood-like ichor of Prometheus in his torment, which the flesh-eating Eagle had dropped on the spurs of Kaukasos (Caucasus)."

Prometheus was a Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the mortals. Prometheus was punished by Zeus for all eternity. Prometheus was chained to a rock for his liver eaten by an eagle. His liver would then regrow, just to be eaten again, repeated for all eternity. Prometheus bled Ichor, a golden blood-like substance that would sprout a magical herb when it touched the ground.

IN MEDICINE
In pathology, "ichor" is an antiquated term for a watery discharge from a wound or ulcer, with an unpleasant or fetid (offensive) smell. The Greek Christian writer Clement of Alexandria used "ichor" in the ancient medical understanding of a foul-smelling watery discharge from a wound or ulcer, in a polemic against the pagan Greek gods. As part of his evidence that they are merely mortal, he cites several cases in which the gods are wounded physically, and then adds, "And if there are wounds, there is blood. For the ichor of the poets is more repulsive than blood; for the putrefaction of blood is called ichor."

POP CULTURE
Ichor appears throughout the popular young adult series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, written by Rick Riordan. Its first mention is in the first book of the series, The Lightning Thief, when Percy Jackson injures Ares, the god of war.

(Wikipedia)

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