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, he was determined to struggle against the line marked of life and death, just to bring her back to life with him. 

"Death was now a terrible thing, no longer a welcome rest when the spirit recuperated and refreshed itself in preparation for its next incarnation. It was a painful separation from those you love."
-The Secret History of The World, Mark Booth.

Descending into the Underworld, Orpheus found the old ferryman Charon, who at first refused to take him across the Styx River to the land of the dead, but he charmed Charon with his lyre, and he agreed to take him. Same thing happened to Cerberus, the Three Headed Dog whose job is to guard to gates of the Underworld from the foreigners. Nobody could resist to the beautiful music that Orpheus could play with his lyre, in his journey, nor terrible demons whose tasks were to tear  the savage desires from the spirits of the dead, nor evil spirits or souls could escape of being charmed by Orpheus beautiful music.

Finally, he reached to the place where his lover was captive, just right next to the throne of King of the Underworld. But the King, the King wasn't charmed by Orpheus, but he still released Eurydice, but this had only one condition, the only one rule for her to be released to the world of the living, was only if Orpheus could lead her up there, without looking back to see if she was following.

Ascending to the world of the living Orpheus didn't look back, until the very end, as the warm sunlight hit his face, afraid that the King of the Underworld was tricking him, he did turn around to look for his lover's eyes. Then the sorrow came, he saw his beautiful Eurydice suddenly being pulled back inches away from the surface of the world of the living, bringing her back down to the Underworld by demons, putting her out of sight, fading trough the stone passageways, just as his hope.

Quoting again Mark Booth, we realize how different the profile from Orpheus was from what usually the stories tells us about the other characters in his era, the great Omni-Powerful heroes, which never back down in their quests, pushing to their limits and being as brave as it gets, but Orpheus, he is not the case, he was defeated in his main quest and failed the to task of saving his lover, by trying to do what any good hero would have done, making sure that everything was alright.

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