The player character borrows traits from Odysseus, the wanderer.
He is assisted by Athena(Venat), who is the only being that completely understood his trials, pain, and despair. Odysseus was Athena's champion, her favorite. The player character was Venat's champion, her favorite.
Argos, Odysseus' loyal dog, recognized him even after Athena had turned him into an old beggar in magic disguise. Argos is present in Endwalker, and it assists us in our journey.
Odysseus, or the player character, wanders through dozens of islands and meets lots of unique people, beings, adversaries, and threats.
Odysseus, or the player character, was met with treason, loss, adversity, and quarrels in the Trojan War(or Eorzea). Several Gods even sided with the Trojans. The Gods had complex and nuanced positions, beliefs, aspirations, and shortcomings, often at odds with each other. Ares quarreled with Athena in the Trojan War, while others like Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, and Hermes, picked sides on a whim or stayed neutral on the surface.
The Ascians, blatantly paralleled to the Gods, also quarreled and had difference of opinions, nuanced positions.
The player character, the wanderer, Odysseus, was of noble birth, since they are Venat's champion, the holder of the seat of Azem. Odysseus was the descendant of either Autolycus, a mythological figure, or Sisyphus, another tragic mythical king who cheated death twice and pissed Zeus off.
All throughout the Odyssey, the sense of wonder, the sense of the unknown, the sense of visiting weird, queer, absurd locations, fighting mythical monsters, outwitting beasts, giants, witches, is front-and-center. As is tragedy, loss, despair, agony, and perseverance.
