The Myrmidons were the Achaeans who lived in Phthia and the kingdom of Thessaly. Achilles came from Phthia, and his father Peleus was king of the Myrmidons during, and still after, the Trojan War.
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| - The Myrmidons were the Achaeans who lived in Phthia and the kingdom of Thessaly. Achilles came from Phthia, and his father Peleus was king of the Myrmidons during, and still after, the Trojan War.
- Often seen as dangerous and unpredictable, the Myrmidons carry the savage culture of their homeworld with pride, forming bands of unruly warriors who flank tempered veterans. Ironically their culture makes them more akin to the feral Space Wolves than any Codex adherent chapter. Originally founded to help the embattled Imperium, they have since been placed as sentries for the sectors surrounding their homeworld in the western Segmentum Pacificus.
- The Myrmidons or Myrmidones (Greek: Μυρμιδόνες) were legendary people of Greek history. They were very brave and skilled warriors commanded by Achilles, as described in Homer's Iliad. Their eponymous ancestor was Myrmidon, a king of Thessalian Phthia, who was the son of Zeus and "wide-ruling" Eurymedousa, a princess of Phthia. She was seduced by Zeus in the form of an ant. According to Homer's Iliad, the Myrmidons were the fiercest warriors in all of Greece. As said in Iliad, "Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons".
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| - The Myrmidons were the Achaeans who lived in Phthia and the kingdom of Thessaly. Achilles came from Phthia, and his father Peleus was king of the Myrmidons during, and still after, the Trojan War.
- The Myrmidons or Myrmidones (Greek: Μυρμιδόνες) were legendary people of Greek history. They were very brave and skilled warriors commanded by Achilles, as described in Homer's Iliad. Their eponymous ancestor was Myrmidon, a king of Thessalian Phthia, who was the son of Zeus and "wide-ruling" Eurymedousa, a princess of Phthia. She was seduced by Zeus in the form of an ant. An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as "ant-people", from μυρμηδών (murmedon) "ant's nest" and that from μύρμηξ (murmex) "ant" — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague. Zeus said his people would number as the ants on his sacred oak, and from the ants sprang the people of Aegina, the Myrmidons. According to Homer's Iliad, the Myrmidons were the fiercest warriors in all of Greece. As said in Iliad, "Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons".
- Often seen as dangerous and unpredictable, the Myrmidons carry the savage culture of their homeworld with pride, forming bands of unruly warriors who flank tempered veterans. Ironically their culture makes them more akin to the feral Space Wolves than any Codex adherent chapter. Originally founded to help the embattled Imperium, they have since been placed as sentries for the sectors surrounding their homeworld in the western Segmentum Pacificus.
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