r/Endfield • u/FeijoaCole27 • 1d ago
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Clearlly ALLEIKHREOS’s design draws heavily from Ancient Greek artistic styles, including marble sculptures, Corinthian‑style helmets, and laurel‑leaf motifs. Much like Agamemnon’s helmet, it features a tall horse‑hair crest. All of this feels so classical and elegant.
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u/XayahXiang 23h ago
His title/rank is Chiliarch in its presentation in game, which you can read more about here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiliarch
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u/Sunder_the_Gold 14h ago
Do you suppose the clones he summons are the soldiers he was chiliarch over? Or are they something else?
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u/XayahXiang 1h ago
I don't know, but I think that that's a clever interpretation for those temporary summons!
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u/Dramatic_93 20h ago
His battle lines also have a lot of references to classic Greek war philosophy literature. At some point he calls himself "a warrior and a gardener", which is a nod to the famous saying "better be a trained warrior tending to a garden than a gardener thrown into the midst of war" (don't remember which exact one of the ancient Greeks said that but was one of them)
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u/DaydreamingIns0mniac 23h ago
he also speaks in Greek to the Endmin before the fight begins, so that tracks.
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u/No-Challenge5917 21h ago
It's not Greek. I think it's latin.
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u/SkyBurnZ 20h ago
it’s not latin it’s ancient precursor language based on latin and ancient greek
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u/byssw 1d ago
Could have chosen a better comparison that the travesty that was the costumes of the Nolan's odyssey, honestly. Maybe that's why Alleikhreos had his eyes covered with marble hands, to avoid looking at that helmet.