Supideo
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Supideo was a resident of the town of Opous in Lokris, Greece, during the 5th century BCE. He was the son of Katina and Pedasos.
During the Peloponnesian War, the Spartan misthios Kassandra was passing through the village when she overheard Supideo arguing with Katina and Pedasos, his parents. Stepping in, Kassandra learned that Supideo had visited the Pythia, and learned from her that he would cause his mother's blood to stain the ground, and his father to scream. This led to Supideo asking Kassandra to recover his sword and shield so that his parents could protect themselves. The sword Supideo had given to Kosta, the village blacksmith, to sharpen; the shield had been stolen by a woman from the bandit camp by the Red Lake.[1]
Kassandra managed to retrieve the sword and the shield, and set Supideo's mind at ease.[1]
Trivia
- It is strongly suggested that Kosta is the biological father of Supideo, and the Bandit Leader at the Red Lake Bandit cave his biological mother.
- Supideo's name and the prophecy detailing his parents' fate are both a parody and an homage to those same elements in Sophokles' play Oedipus Rex. His name is an ananym of the play's eponymous tragic hero, Oedipus, who the Oracle of Delphi prophesied would kill his father Laius and sleep with his mother Jocasta. Attempting to avert fate, Jocasta ordered a servant to abandon the child in the hills, but unbeknownst to her, the man instead passed the baby to a shepherd, who in turn passed it to another shepherd. He soon arrived at the doorstep of King Polybus and Queen Merope of Korinth, who took him in and raised him as their own, thereby setting in motion the prophecy's eventual fulfillment. In-game, the fate of Supideo's birth parents with respect to the original prophecy is reversed, in that Kassandra has the option of sleeping with Kosta and killing the Bandit Leader.
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