![]() Allegorically, that everyone has a weak spot and more importantly to a discerning Undandy, that one should never forget the importance of one’s heels. Though this seemed a trivial oversight, the later consequences proved fatal for Achilles who, in the final battle of the Trojan War was mortally wounded by a poisoned arrow that struck his left heel. As she immersed Achilles in the magical water she forgot to bathe the left heel with which she held him by. ![]() ![]() His mother, though virtuous in thinking, neglected one very insignificant yet crucial detail. Yet there, of course, was a sticking point. The river was the crossing point between the land of the living and the land of the dead and thus gave him immortality. This indestructible strength was not genetics, but the result of his mother immersing him the river Styx as an infant. In Homer’s Iliad, Achilles was the supposed undefeatable champion and without a doubt the greatest warrior on the battlefield of Troy.
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