Achilles was a demigod destined for greatness.
He was born to a sea nymph and a king.
And like the legendary Heracles before him, he was trained by the centaur Chiron in hunting, music, and medicine.
Meanwhile, his closest companion since boyhood was Patroclus, a mortal with no divine parentage or lofty prophecies tied to his name.
Despite these differences, the two loved one another unconditionally.
But when Greece declared war on Troy, Achilles was called upon as a crucial weapon.
Helen, the wife of a Greek king, had vanished to Troy with Paris, a Trojan prince.
An army of Greeks assembled, determined to retrieve her.
And as war loomed, the gods themselves took sides and argued over the mortals' fates.
Achilles knew the war was written into his destiny.
