Idle Ages / Ages / The Odyssey
The Odyssey is age 11 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 1174 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 11 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1174 BCE |
| Legendary | Odysseus |
| Automation | Needs Telemachus at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Odysseus, Penelope, Calypso, Telemachus |
Odysseus raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
Odysseus won the war Achilles could not, with a wooden horse instead of a spear - then spent ten more years getting home. Storm, monster, witch and shipwreck took his fleet and every man in it. He arrived alone, in rags, and had to prove he was king of Ithaca to his own household.
Raises production speed in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Penelope waited twenty years while suitors ate her halls and told her Odysseus was dead. She promised to choose one when her weaving was finished - then unpicked the day’s work every night, for three years. She outlasted them by patience, which is its own kind of cunning.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Calypso kept Odysseus on her island seven years and offered him immortality to stay. He refused it, and sat on the shore weeping for a mortal wife and a rocky kingdom. She let him go and helped him build the raft - the rare figure in his story who is kind and gets nothing for it.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare Manager, level 5
Telemachus grew up in a house full of men eating his inheritance and mocking his father’s memory. Barely more than a boy, he sailed off to hunt for news of Odysseus, and came home hard enough to stand beside him in the hall when the reckoning came.
Raises the output of their own age. Every level doubles what they add. Levelling Telemachus to 5 is what automates The Odyssey.
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