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Orpheus

Lets say that Orpheus was part of the Demi-Gods and heroes group from the Greek mythology, but he had a really peculiar power from this other characters. Usually this figures tended to have powers muscle-bound, mortality-bound related topics, Orpheus had the gift of the music. With this gift, Orpheus could play music so beautiful that it could not only charm human beings and animals, but it could make other things like trees and inert individuals like rocks and water move. He is quoted in other mythology stories also, by helping different characters and heroes when the brute force couldn't win. For example, singing and playing his lyre, Orpheus charmed the clashing rocks that threatened to crush Argos and putted the Dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece to sleep.  He fell in love with Eurydice and they got married, but in the day of their wedding she was bitten in her ankle by a snake, this incident killed her. Leaded by his anger, Orpheus descended into the Underworld, h