The Greek heroic tradition is inseparable from the epic — the song, the poem, the story told after the fact that turns the suffering into something legible and beautiful. The forging happens first, in the suffering itself, in the choices made under pressure when no one is watching and no one will compose a verse about what it cost. Kassandra is not a Homeric hero. She is the thing the Homeric hero is based on — the actual person who was there, before the song simplified it.

The session is the game building toward its final confrontations, the suffering of the journey accumulating into something the resolution will have to earn. The forge is not done. There is more suffering ahead, and more choices, and more of the kind of moment that the songs will eventually call heroism.