Aegis

Did she say what kind of spell it was? Some kind of protective thing? But the candle was yellow and white.

Is that good? It's called Aegis, Sage said.

You said Jordan cast it on you a few days ago? Brooke frowned.

Yeah, but what does Aegis do? It's named after a shield from Greek mythology.

It belonged to Zeus and Athena.

And the idea was that anyone protected by the Aegis became almost untouchable.

Evil couldn't simply walk up and strike them.

So, I'm protected? For now? What do you mean, for now? The candle doesn't protect your body, Sage explained.

It was so hard, I fought with it.

92 down, Shaders of Grey, Aegis.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Uh-huh.

What did you, did you have some alternative? Well,

I started with, like, Aegis, but it was Aegis.

Yes, actual people.

And these things he laid by with care.

And Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus, lord of the Aegis, set a stone against the door of the cave.

Then they twain sat down by the trunk of the sacred olive tree and devised death for the froward wooers.

And the goddess grey-eyed Athena spake first, saying, Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices.

🎵 🎵 So spake she, and the steadfast, goodly Odysseus was glad, and had joy in his own country, according to the word of Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus, lord of the Aegis.

And he uttered his voice and spake unto her winged words.

Yet he did not speak the truth, but took back the word that was on his lips, for quick and crafty was his wit within his breast.

This is the kind of the analogy.

It's one of the reasons the United States developed the Aegis system.

Back during the Cold War, what we were worried about was waves of Soviet backfire bombers.

These are TU-22s launching these big air-to-surface missiles at us.

And we couldn't handle shooting off more than one or two missiles at a time.

And what the Aegis system was designed, that's what's on the destroyers, those big flat panels, is they can target dozens if not hundreds of targets.

But you need the weapons to do it.

That's why when we talk about in the U.S. Navy the difficulty with, number one, magazine depth, how many missiles do we actually have? And then second, the reload at sea, the problem you have is once you fire off those missiles and you start depleting the load, those destroyers got to go back to Diego Garcia.

Achilles turned in amaze, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Minerva.

Why are you here, said he, daughter of Aegis-bearing Jove? To see the pride of Agamemnon, son of Atreus? Let me tell you, and it shall surely be, he shall pay for this insolence with his life.

And Minerva said, I come from heaven, if you will hear me, to bid you stay your anger.

Juno has sent me, who cares for both of you alike.

As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Jove make the son of Atreus down peerless among the multitude of heroes.

And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me, for you are the goddesses and are in all places so that you see all things, while we know nothing but by report.

Who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans? As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of the Aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.

Nevertheless, I will tell the captains of the ships and all the fleet together.

Quote, "It was Nausicaa of the white arms who led in the dancing.

And as Artemis, who showers arrows, moves on the mountains, either along Taygetus or on high-towering Erymanthus, delighting in boars and deer in their running," famous mountains, "and along with her the nymphs, daughters of Zeus of the Aegis, range in the wilds and play, and the heart of Leto is gladdened," her mom, "for the head and brows of Artemis are above all the others, and she is easily marked among them, though all are lovely.

So this one," Nausicaa, "shone among her handmaidens, a virgin unwedded." End quote.

So Nausicaa is glorious.

So, I don't know, there's just maybe a wee bit too much RNG there.

I think I only managed to learn maybe two abilities, and they took fucking Aegis, and that's a high grind

vote.

Yeah, you have to sacrifice a a turn you could use an attack on or something like that it makes it kind of more painful when it doesn't actually work

Being born equipped for battle, Minerva delighted in war and had no feminine shrinking from the noise of clashing steel or the cries of struggling men.

No Trojan hero gloried in the war more exultingly than she, as she carried aloft the terrible shield of Jupiter, the Aegis, and bore in her hand the mighty spear, heavy and huge and strong.

When armies met in battle, the goddess was never far away from the fighting hosts, and oft-times a dying soldier, turning his eyes for a last look at his comrades, saw the glint of her spear or the flash of her shield as she led the favoured ones on to victory.

But the azure-eyed Minerva was not always on the battlefield, for in spite of her warlike appearance she had many very feminine tastes, and among them was a love of weaving.

Then Mercury lent Perseus his own winged sandals and told the youth that he would have to do some swift moving in the course of his adventures.

The god also lent him a magic helmet that rendered the wearer invisible and bade him offer thanks to Pluto as the sender of this invaluable gift.

Not to be outdone by the other gods in kindness, the august Minerva lent Perseus her shield, the terrible Aegis of Jupiter, which the warrior goddess carried with her to battle.

Thus equipped for the combat, Perseus had no fear of encountering the dread Medusa of the snaky locks and pressed forward eagerly on his journey.