Armour of Achilles

Achilles, hero of the Greeks! Achilles, hero of the siege of Troy! Achilles, who slew Hector of Troy and dragged his body seven times around the city behind his chariot! Achilles, who fought for the love of his people, for the love of Patrocles, for the love of the Gods! Hail heroic Achilles, best and brightest and slain by cowardice! Every Greek knows that when Achilles was barely a boy his mother Thetis sought to protect him from his foretold fate and dipped him into the River Styx, holding him by his tiny heel. Infused with a power beyond life and death, Achilles became one of the greatest of heroes. This is the armour great Achilles wore when he fell, and it is soaked by his sweat and his blood, and by the tears he shed for his beloved Patrocles. The water of his body infused the leather with a little residue of the water of the river of death. The one who wears this armour in his memory will achieve great things, but remember the lessons of Achilles. That all the preparations of Thetis could not protect him from the jealous arrow of Paris of Troy, that all a mother's love could not deflect the decrees of Fate, and that nothing that lives can ever consider itself undefeatable.