#etzel

Drawing one Fire Emblem character each day until my senior year ends

ROUND 1: Do you want a man who reads during sex?

Another piece of mythological trivia: from what I've seen in historical records and mythological/legendary works, the Etzel/Atli figure in Germanophone myths seems to be a mashup of two different historical people: Aetius the Roman commander who, commanding a an army that included Hunnic mercenaries, destroyed the Burgundian Kingdom and killed their three kings (the Nibelung Dynasty, according to legend); and the more famous Attila the Hun, who married the Germanic princess Ildico and died on his wedding day. Likely because the presence of Huns in both events, Aetius' deeds were absorbed into legends about Attila. Similarly, Dietrich von Bern's early life is based off Theodoric the Visigoth, a Gothic king who was a regular ally of Aetius, and actually died fighting alongside the Romans in the climactic Battle of Catalaunian Plains; but his later life is based on the more famous Ostrogoth Theodoric the Great, who ruled Verona and made his kingdom one of the leading powers in Europe. Again, two people with similar names were mashed into a single character in mythology.