Bane of Talos

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Description: According to the Argonautica a Greek epic poem written in the 3rd century B.C. by Apollonius Rhodius. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica details the myth of t sorceress of a wife he voyages of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. Towards the end of the epic, after Jason and the Argonauts have recovered the Golden Fleece, their ship the Argo approaches the island Crete, but before they can enter a harbor or land upon the shore, Crete's divinely appointed guardian drives the ship away.

Talos, a bronze giant crafted by either the forger god Hephaestus or the master craftsman Daedalus inspired by Athena, was set the task of guarding Crete and did so by hurling boulders at approaching vessels. Talos possessed but one weakness, a single vein running from the back of his neck to his ancle which circulated a mystical ichor throughout his bronze body, and that vital vein was pinned shut by a single bronze nail. Scholars both ancient and modern have interpreted this to mean Talos was created with the lost-wax method of casting.

But when the Argo approaches the island for a second time, princess Medea, Jason's tempestuous wife and a legendary sorceress, drives Talos mad by summoning