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rhetoricandlogic · 5 months ago

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The Last Song of Penelope: A powerfully tense and moving conclusion

Posted by Bill Capossere

Amongst the slew of modern myth retellings the last few years (so many the NY Times recently wrote an article on the number “flooding bookstores”), one of the strongest has been THE SONGS OF PENELOPE by Claire North. The first two, Ithaca and House of Odysseus, were excellent, and North maintains that high standard with the just-released The Last Song of Penelope (2024), which brings the story to a powerfully tense and moving conclusion.

As one might expect from both the series and novel titles, the trilogy focuses on Penelope, the wife of Odysseus and symbol of womanly patience and loyalty, sitting in the palace on Ithaca for 20 years and cleverly holding off the suitors until her famous husband’s return. Or that’s how the male poets would have it. North, though, offers up the “truth” of the matter, giving us a Penelope who takes on the responsibility of leading/protecting her people while heroic Odysseus is off learning new sexual positions from the nymph Calypso. In the first two novels, Penelope uses her wits and a small militia of deadly women to fend off not just the suitors, but also pirates and the greedy eyes of Menelaus who would love to add Ithaca to his collection of Greek isles. She also had to deal with the politics of an absent king, suitors from powerful kingdoms, the mess that was the House of Atreus, and problematic visits from the other two great queens of Greece: Clytemnestra and Electra. The House of Odysseus (spoiler alert for the millennia-old tale) closes with Odysseus himself arriving on shore, raising both the specter of his soon-to-be-had vengeance on the suitors (which those aware of the tale know will be bloody and not particularly selective) and also the question of how Penelope’s position will change.

Those first two books were narrated by Hera and Aphrodite respectfully, while this most recent one shifts to Athena’s point of view. The choice makes sense in that in the original story, Athena is Odysseus’ most prominent protector/advocate, but it also makes sense in that she is the goddess of both war and wisdom, the first of which will embroil Ithaca in violence while the second is the only way to contain and then halt the violence. North also uses Athena to add a meta element to the novel, as the goddess is consciously crafting a story here, one with purpose driven by necessity. For she foresees:

a time when the names of the gods … are diminished, turned from thunder-breakers, ocean-ragers, into little more than jokes and children’s rhymes … I see us withering, falling away … Thus do gods perish … I will not have it … when all else fails I still have one more string to my bow — I will have a story. A good story can outlast almost anything. And for that I need Odysseus.

Athena, therefore, is a writer, attuned to all those elements writers must be aware of, such as the “important emotional part of the overall structure of thing.” What is not included in that list of elements is the truth: “The poets will not sing the truth of Odysseus … The truth does not serve me, it is not wise that it be known.” Here though, in this singular story, Athena will share the truth of Penelope and Odysseus’ story, “the only time I will tell it … the story of what actually happened when Odysseus returned to Ithaca.”

Athena’s narrative voice is closer to Hera’s in book one than Aphrodite’s in book two, sharp in its social critiques of patriarchy, slavery, class; fierce in its feminist stance as she discusses for instance the different portrayal of tears when they fall from the eyes of women versus men or bemoans the loss of an earlier time “when men cowered before the name of Hera, mother-goddess.” She has seen how her fellow female goddesses have been debased by not just mortals but the male Olympians as well, giving us a lengthy run-down of all the ways the several once-powerful women of Olympus were brought low:

Hera, who was once mother-earth, mother-fire. Her brother Zeus raped her, after he had grown bored of all her sisters, and made her his wife … the gods had begun to shape the world to say the woman who is violated may not seek punishment against her attacker but should herself seek to be redeemed … Thus did Hera’s power wane … Endure, endure, endure became the mantra … We cannot punish our men, so we must take our punishment where we can. We punish the whores they fucked, the children they made, the daughters they raped. Cling to what few shreds of power you have… and endure. What else is there to do? Thus fell the first of us.

As for Aphrodite, “if they desired her that meant she had power over them. To diminish her strength, they belittled her, mocked her greatness, called her whore, slut, tits-and-no-brain.” None of the female gods are immune from this treatment, as Athena further details the degradation of Demeter, Métis, and Artemis.

Nor does she avoid turning her gaze inward. She has no illusions regarding her own put-upon-constraints, the ways she too was warped and diminished. Zeus she says was:

fond of me. Fondness was tool by which he could seek to control me while also asserting his dominion over me … “I’m fond of the little darling, isn’t she adorable?” … I was his baby girl — anything except the lady of war, lady of wisdom, the only other divinity to wield the thunder and lightning.

Claire North

When he began to see her as a sexual being, she:

swore myself a virgin … renounced all signs of desire … shuttered my body and my soul … punished women for things men did to them … laughed at the deaths of nameless thousands … In short, I made myself like a man of Olympus.

Like the female Greek gods, Penelope too is threatened by diminishment. After gathering to herself the reins of power and wielding them deftly and effectively for twenty years, Odysseus is back, and her worth and power is immediately negated by his utterly stupid decision to take on the 100 suitors with just his son Telemachus and a half-dozen others, wiping them out in an orgy of murderous violence that undoes all Penelope’s diplomatic work and sparks an all-out attack by the aggrieved fathers of the murders suitors. Worse, he kills several of the maids as well (several only because he is stopped by Penelope’s intervention), thinking them “traitors” for how they moved amongst the suitors. This atrocity is even worse than it seems on the surface, since it was only via the maids’ hidden help — drugging the suitors via the food and locking the doors so they couldn’t escape — that Odysseus was even able to prevail. Basically, the maids saved him from his own stupidity and then were killed for it (The poets, Athena dryly notes, will of course, “speak of a roaring battle … and the rallying of warrior men … a worthy slaughter by Odysseus and his son … This is what I will have said about Odysseus. Perhaps if it is sung enough, one day even I will believe it.)

At first, Odysseus doesn’t even recognize the idiocy of his actions. Just as he cannot at first fathom that his wife did anything of note or acted out of any agency in his absence: “Everyone told him his wife was sitting in her room weeping for him these past twenty years, it was her sole occupation — and though it seemed absurd, in time he’d almost started to believe the tale.” Only when Penelope calls him out on the indefensible position he’s put them in (literally so, as they have to flee the palace and decamp to his father’s house which is more defendable by a small number), and calls him out on the horrific error with the maids, does Odysseus begin to see that perhaps things are not as he thought: politically, in the palace, with his wife, in his views of women, in his concept of manhood. Perhaps, “wise Odysseus” is not as wise as he thinks he is.

North does an absolutely stellar job with all of this. With Penelope standing firm but also recognizing the reality of her situation and Odysseus slowly seeing his own blindness. This doesn’t happen right away. Odysseus is torn between the man he was and the man he could be, something we see in several scenes. And North doesn’t shy away from the violence that first man would employ. Multiple times Odysseus thinks of beating and/or killing Penelope. In one of my favorite such scenes, North brilliantly subverts what we all know about Penelope: her self-effacing patience.

Odysseus thinks of striking her. Thinks of falling at her feet. Thinks perhaps that if he stands here long enough, in silence, she will forgive him. She does not. Penelope waits. She is very good at waiting. So it is Odysseus who turns, walks away.

It is a slow process, as it should be. Nor does it come easily. And it comes not necessarily because he is “wise,” but because he doesn’t like to consider himself “ordinary.” And so, as Athena puts it:

if he is to do these extraordinary things … he may have to make some extraordinary decisions, embrace ideas that no other man would. Ideas that any king or warrior … would dismiss out offhand. Notions such as humility, supplication, maybe even admitting to that most unkingly of attributes: having made a mistake.

To further the idea that this is a cultural issue, a long-standing way of thinking and behaving Odysseus must break through, North gives us a viewpoint from the prior generation as Odysseus’ father Laertes, sent out to parley with the fathers of the slain suitors, realizes he has little he can say to them:

Laertes half closes his eyes … to hear again the crying of young Odysseus, the wailing of the infant Telemachus. As if he could perhaps roll back the years … and whisper, “My beautiful ones, you are safe, you are safe. Let me teach you how to be strong when you are weak, brave when you are afraid.”

Instead he handed the child over to nursemaids … doting “who’s brilliant yes you’re brilliant, a little hero you are’ … Nor was it a father’s place … to show anything other than those qualities of manhood … dignity, composure, strength, honor. The endurance of pain without complaint. Swift violence when slighted. Anger when otherwise tears might flow. These were the qualities passed down father to son, father to son, and now here they stand …

In the end, he simply tells them he will pray for all their sons, as Athena whispers, “let this world burn … Let it be remade.”

Before the close, Odysseus is able to adapt, but it is no happy ending. His awakening will come at great cost to himself:

Odysseus has done terrible things. He didn’t think they were terrible at the time. He thought they were what men did. The things that needed to be done. He is beginning now to understand. He fears understanding … the kind of curiosity that might reveal himself to be something he does not want to find himself to be … if the mere whiff of this imagining threatens to break him in two, then just how cruel is the mark his life has left on those who crossed his path?

It’s a powerful moment in a novel and a series full of powerful moments. I’ve honestly barely touched upon all that is so good here. The strength of the main characters: Penelope and Odysseus, yes, but also Laertes; Telemachus; Priene, captain of Penelope’s soldier women; Kenamon, the suitor from Egypt with whom Penelope just might have found a shared happiness with; Polybus, the grieving father of a slain suitor. All drawn vividly, all given their own moving moments. The compelling nature of the plot: first the dread of what we all know must come — the slaying of the suitors and the maids, then the speculative dread of what will happen with Penelope, and then the more pragmatic suspense of a siege at Laertes. It’s a long siege in terms of how much of the book it takes up, but it isn’t not simply a series of skirmishes but a means to develop character and relationships.

In my review of the first two novels, I said that while they hadn’t risen to the incredibly high level of my favorite retellings, such as Madeline Miller’s Circe or Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls, they were in my second tier, one just below (excellent versus great). But with The Last Song of Penelope, I’m happy to say North has elevated the entire series to that first tier. I can’t recommend the trilogy enough as far as I’m concerned.

#Claire North #The Last Song of Penelope #mahreviews #long post

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heromonty · 4 years ago

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#sims 2 #the sims 2 #ts2 #strangetown #alt strangetown #household: specter #olive specter #bella specter #lorelai specter #calypso specter

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jamespotterthefirst · 4 years ago

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Apologize (Ethan x f!MC)

Pairing: Dr. Ethan Ramsey x F!MC (Dr. Lilac Allende) Word count: 900 Warning: some language

Summary: Years later, Ethan apologizes for making her cry on her first day as an intern.

A/N: No proofreading. We die like men.

“I'm proud of you,” Lilac declares, face alight with the most charming smile he has ever seen. Her hands rest at either side of his face, thumbs tracing the edge of his jaw, their noses only centimeters apart.

Ethan is almost too distracted by the constellation of pretty freckles on her nose, even if he's marveled at them for years. As the words catch up, he pulls back to give her a puzzled look.

“Proud?”

“Yes,” she laughs. “You bit your tongue when the interns started asking questions today.”

Ethan winces reflexively. “Quite literally, as a matter of fact.”

Lilac laughs fully now, the melody of it filling her office. God, he loves that sound. Even more he loves being the one inspiring it so easily.

“Well, for what it's worth, I'd deem today's first day a success,” she declares brightly.

A dry laugh escapes him. As far as Ethan is concerned, every first day with a new batch of interns is not unlike descending into the ninth circle of hell.

“And how are we quantifying said success?”

“No one died—”

“An exceptionally low bar,” Ethan interrupts.

“—No one quit. No one threw up. And you didn't make anyone cry.”

Ethan goes very still at the last one, his heart taking a nasty dive.

Lilac notices, head tilting to a side as a pensive little dent forms between her brows. If his guilt-stricken expression is not enough to tell her something is amiss, then the way his shoulders pinch with tension, firm as boulders, definitely do the trick.

“You still have all year to accomplish that endeavor,” she informs him with uncertainty, watching his expression with those clever, assessing eyes. “You know someone is bound to fuck up so spectacularly that—”

“I did that to you,” he blurts, the molten, sickening guilt swirling in his stomach pushing the words out before he can stop them. “On your first day.”

She stills in his arms, all humor dissipating from her delicate features. When she seems to remember words, she says, “How did you—?”

She stops, the words catching at her throat. “I thought no one knew about that.”

Her voice sounds small, embarrassed, haunted by the memory of that day. This time, it is Lilac who tenses under his touch.

Ethan swallows, the guilt knife sharp by now, threatening to buckle his knees.

“Lilac, I'm so—”

“You don't have to—”

Ethan shakes his head, impassioned. “I do.”

He had to offer her this, like he should have done so years ago, ever since he caught wind of the rumors. The specter of the man he used to be, callous and unrelenting, haunts him as an echo of his own words reaches him through the years.

You need to have a long, hard think about whether or not you're ready to be here.

“I'm sorry, Lilac. I was an arrant jackass for shouting at you that day. For making you question your ability, your talent, and your rightfully earned place at Edenbrook. And I am an even worse asshole for not apologizing to you before today.”

Lilac watches him in silence. Long lashes frame bright green eyes—eyes that roam every inch of his face as tenderly as a caress. They give him the courage to continue. Just like they always had.

“My biggest regret in life is that I made you cry. Multiple times.”

The tendons of her graceful neck strain as she swallows, her face breaking into a sad but appreciative smile. Then, she brings his hand, rough and calloused, to her lips. Very tenderly, she kisses each of his knuckles, making his very heartbeat stutter.

“It wasn't just you that day,” she tells him quietly. “I was already feeling overwhelmed by what happened with my patient. Plus, the stress of the first day and the fact that I kept getting lost didn't help matters.”

She stops, exhaling sharply. Ethan instinctively wraps his arms around her in quiet comfort, much like he should have done that day.

“I still could've been a much better teacher,” her murmurs into her hair right before kissing her forehead.

Lilac gives him a loving smile, one shining bright and powerful with unguarded pride. “You are now.”

He thinks back to that very morning and the way his own pride made him feel weightless as he watched her. Lilac, slipping into her new role as attending, leading Edenbrook's new cohort with patience, kindness, and fairness. Ethan had silently noted how she made them feel at ease, and how, as a result, it catalyzed their admiration and determination to be better for her.

“I learned from the best.”

His wife smiles briefly before fixing him with a serious look.

“No more feeling guilty about the past, okay?” She punctuates that declaration with a small kiss on his cheek. “Plus, I met Sienna because you yelled at me, so I can't begrudge you too much.”

Ethan laughs and leans down to press his lips against hers in a gentle kiss. Her hands descend down his chest, leaving a blazing trail in their wake, making his pulse roar at his ears. Unabashedly, he pulls her close, his body lamenting every centimeter of space between them. The moment ends with her little hum against his lips, sweet as honey and doing nothing for his ever-growing predicament.

“I also got comforted by Bryce, so it wasn't a bad day overall.”

Ethan shoots her a dry, unamused stare. “If we're going to discuss your poor taste in men before me, love, we'll be here all evening.”

Another lilting laugh before she kisses him again.

Author’s Note: I picture this years into the future (since MC is now an attending/fellow). As a result, Bryce is married at this point. There’s your serving of unnecessary info you didn’t ask for lol

Thank you @aestheticartsx for this line:

“My biggest regret in life is that I made you cry. Multiple times.”

Thank you anon for the idea.

And thank you if you made it this far!

P.S. OH3 next month! How are we doing?

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#open heart #ethan ramsey #ethan x mc #ethan ramsey x mc #ethan ramsey fanfiction #open heart fanfiction #playchoices #My writing

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alphareleasemedia · 3 years ago

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An Encounter – Robert Frost

Once on the kind of day called “weather breeder,” When the heat slowly hazes and the sun By its own power seems to be undone, I was half boring through, half climbing through A swamp of cedar. Choked with oil of cedar And scurf of plants, and weary and overheated, And sorry I ever left the road I knew, I paused and rested on a sort of hook That had me by the coat as good as seated, And since there was no other way to look, Looked up toward heaven, and there against the blue, Stood over me a resurrected tree, A tree that had been down and raised again— A barkless specter. He had halted too, As if for fear of treading upon me. I saw the strange position of his hands— Up at his shoulders, dragging yellow strands Of wire with something in it from men to men. “You here?” I said. “Where aren’t you nowadays? And what’s the news you carry—if you know? And tell me where you’re off for—Montreal? Me? I’m not off for anywhere at all. Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways Half looking for the orchid Calypso.”

#poetry #poetry reading #robert frost #an encounter

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kaylynnlangerakk · 7 years ago

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*sighs* ...I lost more screencaps, so I’ll try and give and explanation of some stuff that happened.

Grimsley Specter grew into a teen.

Calypso Beaker, Aurora Beaker and Fenris Beaker grew into teens.

Sif Beaker grew into a child.

Loki Beaker became an elder.

Pascal Curious got abducted by aliens again, but was unable to get pregnant due to his age.

Pascal started flirting with and kissed Calypso Beaker (??????)

Pascal became an elder.

Apollo Curious became a teen.

Diana Curious became a child.

Sirius Curious became a teen.

Vidcund got abducted by aliens, got pregnant, and gave birth to a little girl named Xena. (I installed a multi PTech mod, so she has a different alien parent than the other alien kids)

Kristen gave birth to a baby girl named Penelope.

Artemis Curious grew into a toddler, and then a child.

Xena Curious grew into a toddler.

Sirius Curious and Calypso Beaker kissed each other, and now have crushes.

Penelope Curious grew into a toddler.

#strangetown #strangetown week 3 #specter family #beaker family #curious family

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aromanticasterisms · 8 years ago

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here yall go.. all the undead by world....

Wizard City

Angrus Hollowsoul: Colossus Boulevard—Briskbreeze Tower

Argent Clatterer: Colossus Boulevard—Briskbreeze Tower

Baron Mordecai: Triton Avenue—Mordecai’s Tower

Bastilla Gravewynd: Firecat Alley—Bastilla’s Bastion

Bone Digger: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Master Tower

Crypt Crawler: Colossus Boulevard—Briskbreeze Tower

Crypt Walker: Triton Avenue—Mordecai’s Tower

Death Whisperer: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Adept Tower

Field Guard: Haunted Cave, Olde Town—Sapphyra’s Tower

Fire Shrieker: Colossus Boulevard—Briskbreeze Tower

Fire Wraith: Olde Town—Telegraph Box (Wizard City)

Foulgaze: Olde Town—Sapphyra’s Tower

Frost Phantom: Colossus Boulevard—Briskbreeze Tower

Grubb: Sunken City—Grubb’s Castle

Hallowe’en Trickster: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Apprentice Tower

Haunted Minion: Dark Cave, Firecat Alley, Triton Avenue

Haunting Banshee: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Apprentice Tower

Howling Ghost: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Adept Tower

Lady Blackhope: Unicorn Way—Lady Blackhope’s Tower

Living Scarecrow: Sunken City, Sunken City—Grubb’s Castle

Loathsome Creeper: Triton Avenue—Mordecai’s Tower

Lord Nightshade: Haunted Cave—Stormdrain Tower

Lost Soul: Unicorn Way

Maiden of Hate: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Adept Tower, Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Master Tower

Melweena Smite: Firecat Alley—Forlorn Tower

Midnight Shuffler: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Adept Tower

Norton: Sunken City—Norton’s Tower

Nosferabbit: Haunted Cave—Mysterious Cave (Wizard City)

Orrick Nightglider: Colossus Boulevard—Briskbreeze Tower

Paulson: Sunken City—Sunken City Second Tower

Plagued Soul: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Apprentice Tower

Pumpkin Head: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Master Tower

Rattlebones: Unicorn Way—Rattlebones’ Tower

Rotted Fodder: Triton Avenue—The Harvest Lord’s Tower

Rotting Fodder: Triton Avenue, Haunted Cave, Dark Cave, Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Apprentice Tower

Scarlet Screamer: Triton Avenue

Sergeant Skullsplitter: Triton Avenue—Skull Fort

Simon the Sayer: Sunken City—Simon’s Workshop

Skeletal Corsair: Unicorn Way—Lady Blackhope’s Tower

Skeletal Pirate: Unicorn Way

Skeletal Retainer: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Master Tower

Skeletal Soldier: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Adept Tower

Skeletal Warrior: Firecat Alley, Dark Cave

Soul Hunter: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Master Tower

Swimming Specter: Crab Alley—Waterworks

The Harvest Lord: Triton Avenue—The Harvest Lord’s Tower

The Reaper: Ravenwood—Hallowe’en Adept Tower

Veggie Remnant (Balance): Haunted Cave—Mysterious Cave (Wizard City)

Veggie Remnant (Death): Haunted Cave—Mysterious Cave (Wizard City)

Veggie Remnant (Fire): Haunted Cave—Mysterious Cave (Wizard City)

Veggie Remnant (Ice): Haunted Cave—Mysterious Cave (Wizard City)

Veggie Remnant (Life): Haunted Cave—Mysterious Cave (Wizard City)

Viridian Specter: Colossus Boulevard—Briskbreeze Tower

Wailing Wraith: Sunken City

Wandering Specter: Sunken City

Wormguts: Firecat Alley—Wormguts’ Stronghold

Krokotopia

Ahnic Strider: Ahnic Family Tomb, Entrance Hall

Akori Nirini: Palace of Fire—Akori’s Chamber

Crypt Scavenger: Djeserit Family Tomb—Scavenged Tomb

Defender of the Fang: The Vault of Ice

Djeserit Dweller: Djeserit Family Tomb, Entrance Hall

Forgotten Djeserit Soul: Djeserit Family Tomb

Grumish Greataxe: Entrance Hall

Guardian of the Fang: The Vault of Ice

Itennu Sokkwi: Grand Arena—Moon Gate

Karanahn Deathfeeder: Karanahn Palace, Tomb of Storms

Karanahn Keeper: Tomb of the Beguiler

Karanahn Mortifier: Karanahn Palace

Keeper of the Fang: The Vault of Ice

King Shemet Djeserit: Djeserit Family Tomb

King Uro Ahnic: Ahnic Family Tomb

Krokomummy: Throne Room of Fire

Nirini Ancient Guard: Throne Room of Fire

Nirini Fire Spirit: Throne Room of Fire

Nirini Intimidator: Tomb of the Beguiler

Pike Spirit Crusher: Royal Hall—Spiritcrusher’s Tomb

Protecter of the Fang: The Vault of Ice

Queen Irisi Djeserit: Ahnic Family Tomb

Risen Djeserit: Djeserit Family Tomb

Shambling Ahnic: Ahnic Family Tomb

Soul of the Charmed: Chamber of the Charmed

Soul Scavenger: Hall of Champions—Soul Chamber

Soul Keeper: Chamber of the Charmed

Soulsapper: Temple of Storms

Tempestra: Temple of Storms

The Bonekeeper: Ahnic Family Tomb—The Bonekeeper’s Crypt

Vault Haunter: The Vault of Ice

Vigilant Defender: The Vault of Ice

Wandering Ahnic Spirit: Ahnic Family Tomb

Marleybone

Agony Wrath: Newgate Prison—Great Clocktower, Royal Museum—Big Ben

Grave Phantom: The Ironworks, Newgate Prison

Half-Witted Skeleton: Regent’s Square—Warehouse (Spiral Geographic)

Icy Ghost: Regent’s Square—Warehouse (Spiral Geographic)

Lazy Henchman: Regent’s Square—Warehouse (Spiral Geographic)

Nightmare Spirit: Royal Museum—Big Ben

Screecher: Regent’s Square—Warehouse (Spiral Geographic)

Seething Wraith: Regent’s Square—Warehouse (Spiral Geographic)

Shield Skeleton: Newgate Prison, Royal Museum—Big Ben

Shrieker: Newgate Prison

Tired Fighter: Regent’s Square—Warehouse (Spiral Geographic)

Tomb Roamer: Newgate Prison

Mooshu

Akuji: Tree of Life

Anguished Wraith: Jade Palace—Telegraph Box (Mooshu)

Crying Spirit: Jade Palace—Telegraph Box (Mooshu)

Cursed Ronin: Village of Sorrow, Ancient Burial Grounds

Death Soldier: Ancient Burial Grounds, Ancient Burial Grounds—Mysterious Dojo, Village of Sorrow

Dishonored Samoorai: Ancient Burial Grounds

Fushiko: Village of Sorrow—Fushiko’s House

Grief Spectre: Village of Sorrow—Fushiko’s House

Howling Shade: Village of Sorrow—Fushiko’s House

Kakeda Spirit Slave: Tree of Life

Oyotomi the Defiler: Village of Sorrow

Pirate Ravager: Jade Palace—Telegraph Box (Mooshu)

Sorrow Whisperer: Village of Sorrow, Ancient Burial Grounds

Tomugawa the Evil: Ancient Burial Grounds

Tortured Kakeda Soul: Tree of Life

Walking Dead: Village of Sorrow, Village of Sorrow—Fushiko’s House

Dragonspyre

Andor Bristleback: The Labyrinth

Armored Bonewalker: The Necropolis—Pyromancer’s Tomb, The Necropolis—Lord Obsidian’s Tomb

Barbarian Spirit: The Labyrinth

Beghastion Crowcaller: Plaza of Conquests, The Grand Chasm, The Grand Chasm—Kyanite Tower

Beghastion Fieldburner: The Necropolis—Sylvia Drake’s Tomb, The Grand Chasm—Kyanite Tower

Bone Warrior: The Necropolis—Sylvia Drake’s Tomb

Boris Blackrock: The Crucible

Bound Specter: The Crucible, The Necropolis—Pyromancer’s Tomb, The Necropolis—Lord Obsidian’s Tomb

Crying Spirit: The Necropolis—Sylvia Drake’s Tomb, The Necropolis—Lord Obsidian’s Tomb, The Necropolis—Nightreaver’s Lair

Dark Poltergeist: The Crucible—Fleshless Tower

Decayed Blackguard: The Great Spyre—The Crown of Fire

Decaying Blackguard: The Great Spyre—The Crown of Fire

Devora Shadowcrown: The Labyrinth

Drusilla Morningbane: The Necropolis—Pyromancer’s Tomb

Fallen Merc: The Tower Archives—Zarathax’s Tower

Fleshless Sentry: The Crucible—Fleshless Tower, The Necropolis—Pyromancer’s Tomb

Fleshrot Retriever: The Crucible—Fleshless Tower

Foul Reaper: The Crucible

Gallium Footman: The Grand Chasm—Kyanite Tower, The Grand Chasm—Unused Vault

Gallium Juggernaut: The Drake Hatchery

Gallium Paladin: The Labyrinth

Gallium Shardtrooper: The Crucible, The Necropolis—Lord Obsidian’s Tomb

Ghastly Slave: The Tower Archives—Oskar’s Tower, Plaza of Conquests

Ghost of Sylvia Drake: The Necropolis—Sylvia Drake’s Tomb

Iona Pyrelance: The Crucible

Irate Banshee: Plaza of Conquests

Katia Firewinter: The Crucible

Kyanite Lancer: The Crucible

Kyanite Lieutenant: The Crucible, The Necropolis, The Necropolis—Lord Obsidian’s Tomb

Kyanite Valkyrie: The Drake Hatchery

Loathsome Creeper: The Tower Archives

Mavra Flamewing: Plaza of Conquests—Flamewing’s Tower

Necrotic Haunter: The Necropolis—Sylvia Drake’s Tomb

Orin Grimcaster: The Crucible—Fleshless Tower

Petrov Gloomstrider: The Tower Archives—Petrov’s Tower

Pirate Ravager: The Tower Archives

Reanimated Draconian: The Forum—Vesta Shadowmark’s Tower, The Forum—Abandoned Tower

Restless Soldier: The Tower Archives, The Necropolis—Well of Fear

Rotten Scallywag: The Crucible

Rurik Flamesoul: The Crucible

Sandor Spearcaller: Plaza of Conquests—Spearcaller’s Tower

Scarrik Gallowgaunt: The Labyrinth

Soul Searcher: The Great Spyre—Dragon’s Maw, The Great Spyre—The Path of Scales

Soul Servant: The Great Spyre—The Crown of Fire

Soulless Servant: The Great Spyre—The Crown of Fire

The Collector: The Drake Hatchery

Undead Draconian: The Forum

Undead Wizard: The Grand Chasm, The Necropolis—Well of Fear

Valerik Brightsword: The Crucible

Valeska Redwind: The Drake Hatchery—Secure House

Vasek Ashweaver: The Grand Chasm—Vault 1933

Vesta Shadowmark: The Forum—Vesta Shadowmark’s Tower

Vika Markmaker: The Crystal Grove

Victor Snowcrusher: The Drake Hatchery

Vilara Moonwraith: The Tower Archives—Moonwraith’s Tower

Vile Apparition: The Crucible—Fleshless Tower, The Necropolis—Pyromancer’s Tomb

Vladimir Darkflame: The Labyrinth

Wandering Wizard: The Tower Archives

Zora Steelwielder: The Labyrinth

Grizzleheim/Wintertusk

Asrik Widebelt: Vestrilund—Asrik’s Cave

Frost Bones: Hrundle Fjord—Battlegloom’s Cave, Austrilund—Grimaldi’s Cave, Austrilund—Mysterious Cave (Grizzleheim), Vestrilund—Asrik’s Cave, Vestrilund—Gerda’s Tower

Gothric Honorbound: Sudrilund—Barrow

Halfang Bristlecrown: Vestrilund—Halfang’s Cave

Howling Banshee: Mirkholm Keep

Hungry Soul: Vigrid Roughland—Vigrid Roughland Crypt

Kulgrim Soulsunder: Nastrond—Kulgrim’s Lair

Lothin Doombringer: Vigrid Roughland—Vigrid Roughland Crypt

Mimir Winterbane: Hrundle Fjord—Well of Urd

Osvud Fleetpaw: Vestrilund—Osvud’s Cave

Snow Skull: Vestrilund—Magni’s Tower, Nastrond

Troubled Warrior: Savarstaad Pass, Vigrid Roughland Crypt

Winter Skull: Nordrilund, Nastrond

Yngvar Sharptooth: Savarstaad Pass—Yngvar Sharptooth’s Mound

Wysteria

Kaimanite Mummy: Pegasus Place—Tower of the Helephant

Celestia

Arachtus Duskweb: Stormriven—Duskweb’s Barracks

Blue Bart: Crustacean Empire

Celestian Remnant: Stormriven, The Lunarium

Karolak Nightspinner: Stormriven—Sorcerer’s Sanctum

Narallor Nightborn: Stormriven—Summoning Pylons

Queen Calypso: Crustacean Empire—Calypso’s Cavern

Sea-Booter: Crustacean Empire

Selwyn Skywatcher: The Stellarium—Selwyn’s Chamber

Servus Bloodsword: The Portico

Shadow-Web Conscript: Stormriven, Stormriven Hall, The Portico, The Lunarium

Shadow-Web Mercenary: Stormriven, Stormriven Hall

Thrale Bonestriker: The Portico

Vorgen Soulbreaker: The Portico

Zafaria

Bwana Shadowriver: Savannah—Shadowriver’s Cave

Elephant Spectral Guardian: Shining Mountain

Gorilla Spectral Guardian: Shining Mountain

Iklaw Ghost Warrior: Zamunda—King’s Tomb

Killmare Spiritwalker: Savannah—Spiritwalker’s Cave

Lion Spectral Guardian: Shining Mountain

Zanga Zebu: Zamunda—King’s Tomb

Zebra Spectral Guardian: Shining Mountain

Avalon

Disloyal Knight: The Wyrd—Tomb of the Nameless, Ghost Avalon—Armory

Drowned Knight: Deepwater—Cavern of Broken Virtures

Lambent Fire: Crystal Caves—Crystal Caves Stone Key Room

Lord of the Brocken: The Wyrd—The Lost Abbey

Nameless Knight: The Wyrd—Tomb of the Nameless

Spectre of the Brocken: The Wild—Frozen Cave, The Wyrd

Tarn the Drowned: Deepwater—Diabhal Cave

Azteca

Anacaona Black Snake: Mangrove Marsh—Anacaona Black Snake’s Tomb

Azcal Fire Ant: Cenote—Fire Ant’s Tomb

El Marrow: Twin Giants—Cave of the Dawn

Ezhua Bad Taste: Tierra de Brea—Cave of Bad Taste

Grim Calaca: Cenote—Huascar Bent Wing’s Mine, Pitch Black Lake—Pyramid of Mother Moon, Twin Giants, Twin Giants—Cave of the Dawn, Twin Giants—Wings of the Obsidian Butterfly Shrine, Twin Giants—Pyramid of the Falling Star, Xibalba

Grinning Death Moon: Pitch Black Lake—Pyramid of Mother Moon

Guillermo Shatterer: Cenote—Ruined Mine

Malistaire the Undying: Xibalba

Moon Skull Wight: Three Points—Black Sun Pyramid Master Chamber, Xibalba

Moon Skull Zombie: Three Points—Black Sun Pyramid Lower Chamber, Cenote, Tierra de Brea—Chamber of Red Sorrow

Mozar Turtle Hunter: Mangrove Marsh—Mozar Turtle Hunter’s Tomb

Neza the Poet: Pitch Black Lake—Pyramid of Mother Moon

Poca Cruel Star: Mangrove Marsh—Poca Cruel Star’s Tomb

Shambling Zombie: Xibalba

Smoking Mirror Zombie: Cenote, Pitch Black Lake—Pyramid of Mother Moon

Storm Caiman: Saltmeadow Swamp—Pyramid of the Storm Eye

Thunder Horn Ghoul: Mangrove Marsh, Cenote—Fire Ant’s Tomb, Tierra de Brea—Cave of Bad Taste

Thunder Horn Zombie: Three Points—Black Sun Pyramid Lower Chamber, Cenote, Pitch Black Lake—Nauyotol Down in the Hole, Mangrove Marsh—Actun Caban, Mangrove Marsh—Falling Cavern

Uacalxochitl Blood Eye: Mangrove Marsh—Blood Eye’s Lair

Xipe Flayed One: Xibalba

Xiuhcoatl Barbed Tooth: Saltmeadow Swamp—Swamp Clearing (Southeast)

Youala Night Drinker: Xibalba

Khrysalis

Arkyn Moonblade: Moon Cliffs—Eclipse Tower (Left)

Cree Curdwright: Bastion—Curdwright Crypt

Deer Mouse Revenant (Balance): Bastion—Mausoleum West, Kondha Desert—Chamber of the Sun’s Shadow

Deer Mouse Revenant (Ice): Last Wood—Reverence Cave

King Alric Fatesailor: Last Wood—Reverence Cave

Laughing Calaca: Moon Cliffs—Eclipse Tower (Left)

Phantom Ace: Ruined Alcazar—Ruined Hall, Ruined Alcazar—Serpent Tower

Phantom Glider: Ruined Alcazar—Ruined Hall, Ruined Alcazar—Serpent Cave

Wraith Knight: Kondha Desert—Chamber of the Sun’s Shadow

Polaris

Broken Land Guardian: Forlorn Tayg—Cave of the Broken Land

Broken Land Spirit: Forlorn Tayg—Cave of the Broken Land

Shattered Sky Guardian: River of Frozen Tears—Cave of the Shattered Sky

Shattered Sky Spirit: River of Frozen Tears—Cave of the Shattered Sky

Sundered Seam Guardian: Frigid Maw—Cave of the Sundered Seam

Sundered Seam Spirit: Frigid Maw—Cave of the Sundered Seam

Mirage

Ghulture (Death): Caravan

Scrollkeeper: Zruvan Grotto—House of Scrolls

Shadowbones: Chronoverge—East Time Dunes

Shrowdenger’s Cat (Death): Istanboa—Hall of Secrets

Shrowdenger’s Cat (Life): Istanboa—Hall of Secrets

Aquila

Boatswain McGee: Atlantea—Watery Graves

Chief Mate McGurk: Atlantea—Watery Graves

Doomed Bones: Mount Olympus—Pit of the Noxii, Tartarus

Lost Maiden: Atlantea—Watery Graves

Four Dungeons

Anguished Wraith (Ice): Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Bunferatu: Castle Darkmoor—Upper Halls Gold Key Room

Condemned Soldier: Upper Zigazag—House of Scales, Lower Zigazag—Lower Zigazag Stone Key Room

Count Bela BlackSleep: Castle Darkmoor—Castle Darkmoor (Dungeon)

Darkmoor Serf: Castle Darkmoor—Castle Darkmoor (Dungeon), Castle Darkmoor—Upper Halls, Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Darkmoor Squire: Castle Darkmoor—Castle Darkmoor (Dungeon), Castle Darkmoor—Upper Halls Gold Key Room

Draconian Conjurer: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Draconian Diviner: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Draconian Necromancer: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Draconian Pyromancer: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Draconian Sorcerer: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Draconian Thaumaturge: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Draconian Theurgist: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Haunted Malistaire: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Malistaire the Undying (Shadow): Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Scarlet Wampyr: Castle Darkmoor—Castle Darkmoor (Dungeon), Castle Darkmoor—Upper Halls Gold Key Room

Shane von Shane: Castle Darkmoor—Upper Halls

Shane von Shane (Star): Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

Sir Blackwater: Castle Darkmoor—Castle Darkmoor (Dungeon)

Spirit of Darkmoor: Castle Darkmoor—Upper Halls

Yevgeny NightCreeper: Castle Darkmoor—Graveyard

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