You may feel less like fighting after I pull off your head!
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~ Ajax threatening Gargarensis.
Ajax is the deuteragonist of the video game Age of Mythology and its remaster Age of Mythology: Retold. He appears as a playable character in the Fall of the Trident campaign along with its sequel The New Atlantis. He is regarded as Arkantos' best friend who assists in winning the Trojan War and accompanies Arkantos in his journey to help stop Gargarensis. He also appears in Pillars of the Gods and Yasuko's Tale as a minor protagonist.
He is voiced in the original game by the late Charles Rocket.
Ajax was born to the King of Salamis thirty-four years before the events of Fall of the Trident. Much like his mythical counterpart, he is one of the Greek commanders in the Trojan War, but he doesn't share his original counterpart's fate of dying before the end of the war. He met and befriended the Atlantean admiral Arkantos at some point.
Greek Arc[]
Ajax makes his first appearance when Arkantos arrives to help Greece in the Trojan War. Arkantos remarks that he is surprised to see him alive, suggesting that they have been long-term acquaintances. As they have been struggling to resist the Trojan attacks, they initiate their plan to change that by destroying two Trojan docks to weaken their naval strength. Ajax takes his army to a camp and waits for Arkantos and Odysseus to take down the main gate, but is ambushed by Trojans, forcing Arkantos to rescue him. They counter-attack by taking down the adjacent enemy base, and then learn that Agamemnon's camp was subsequently attacked.
Arkantos suggests changing their tactics, and they build a giant wooden horse to sneak behind the gates, expecting that Troy will take it. Ajax, along with Arkantos and Odysseus, are the three who volunteer to garrison in the horse, and they succeed in their plan. At nightfall, they quietly take out the guards and hijack siege weapons to take down the gate from the inside. Afterwards, Agamemnon rushes his army inside and rescues Helen, and Troy is defeated.
When Arkantos prepares to sail home, he finds his ships have degraded. Ajax takes him to Ioklos to have them repaired, but finds the city in rubble. An old man informs them that bandits have invaded the city and taken their citizens hostage. When they retake control of the city, they meet the centaur Chiron, who joins the duo on their journey to rescue the remaining prisoners. As they head north, they split up to investigate, and find many fortifications along the way. The remaining prisoners are found digging a passage into the underworld under the orders of the cyclops warlod Gargarensis, who rains a meteor shower on the heroes and heads through the passage.
In Erebus, they find a giant gate along with a ram to open it, built by Gargarensis. They call for reinforcements and battle the monsters of the underworld, and succeed in destroying the ram. Gargarensis escapes while an earthquake knocks boulders in front of the way the heroes came in, forcing them to find another way out. They encounter Shades, who assist the trio in finding the way out as they continue to battle the underworld beasts. Eventually, they reach temples to the gods, and Arkantos prays for help, which forms a flight of stairs, leading them out safely.
Egyptian Arc[]
Ajax, Arkantos and Chiron find themselves in a desert. They are approached by Amanra, a Nubian mercenary who is protecting an excavation site from her enemies. Ajax is initially uninterested in helping, but reluctantly agrees to help when Arkantos orders his men to assist in protecting the site. They retrieve a relic from the site: the sword of the Guardian, and escort Amanra's men to her target. On the way, they rescue Egyptian slaves, who lead the heroes to their village, and agree to help bring the sword to the Guardian. Kemsyt, the bandit warlord, has a fortification built around the Guardian while his army is approaching, and the heroes break through to revive the Guardian to defeat said army. They find a box containing a piece of the god Osiris, and Amanra explains that Osiris has been split into four pieces and scattered across Egypt.
After a fierce tug of war over the first Osiris piece, getting captured and locked up, joining forces with the priest Setna and recapturing the piece once more, they take a break in a valley. The next day, the heroes must split up to capture the remaining three before any are destroyed. Ajax accompanies Arkantos to seize the piece within Kamos' possession. They rescue some Greek slaves, steal pirate ships and ally themselves with refugees. With their force built up, they storm Kamos' base, and Ajax allows Arkantos to have a personal confrontation with the pirate leader himself and kill him. They bring the Osiris piece to his pyramid, along with Amanra's and Chiron's, and the god is revived. Osiris decimates Gargarensis' army easily, preventing him from reaching the underworld, but the cyclops escapes to the Norselands.
While sailing north, Ajax notices a shipwreck that belonged to Odysseus on an island. He and Arkantos stop there, and are turned into boars by the sorceress Circe. They find pigs who are revealed to be Odysseus' men who met a similar fate, and go on a journey to rescue the remainders, whilst protecting them from villagers. They find a temple of Zeus and are transformed back into their human form. As Odysseus is still missing, they train an army and siege Circe's fortress where he is found, and rescue him. He thanks Arkantos and Ajax and sails home.
Norse Arc[]
In the Norselands, Ajax is initially not present when Arkantos and Amanra fall into Gargarensis' avalanche trap (though this is rectified in the Retold version of said scenario). He reunites with them on their journey into Midgard, where they assist the dwarven brothers Eitri and Brokk in helping recapture their forge from giants. In Midgard, they meet an old man named Skult, who gives them a flag he claims will help with getting the Norse clans on their side. They battle through a canyon of giants and attempt to show the flag to three fighting Norse clans. Instead of calming down, they become enraged and unite against the heroes, but later join the heroes before Skult vanishes.
They are approached by Reginleif, a Valkyrie who explains the reason they were attacked, and proceed to rally more Norse clans by assisting them against monsters harassing their villages. With their new army, they attack Gargarensis' base head on, and find out that he has already reached the underworld through the Well of Urd. Gargarensis is already sieging the gate. They attempt to stop him, but they are outnumbered and are forced to retreat, leading to Chiron sacrificing himself to block the enemies' path.
As all hope seems lost, they find Brokk who is rebuilding Thor's broken hammer; his previous one was destroyed by Loki. They manage to barely succeed in rebuilding it, and Thor uses his powers to seal the gate within seconds of it opening. When sent back to the surface, they set up fortifications and prepare to make a final stand against Gargarensis' forces. Eventually, Odysseus arrives with a great army, and the heroes counterattack. As they confront the cyclops directly, Ajax is ordered by Arkantos to execute Gargarensis (who is later revealed to be Kemsyt in disguise).
Atlantis[]
Back in Atlantis, Gargarensis has captured the city and taken the citizens prisoner. Ajax, along with Amanra and Odysseus, assists Arkantos in evacuating his fellow Atlanteans, along with Kastor and Krios. Arkantos orders his friends to continue evacuating citizens and leave. They reluctantly agree, and Arkantos battles Gargarensis alone. Ajax is last seen sailing away after Gargarensis' defeat, and questions Arkantos' fate.
The New Atlantis[]
Ten years after Atlantis' destruction, Ajax is still the Prince of Salamis which is still ruled by his father. He makes his first appearance in Sikyos after Kastor destroys the temples on Mount Olympus. He initially believes that Kastor is a genuine enemy after being deceived into worshipping the Titans, but Amanra is able to explain the situation to him. While Sikyos is being destroyed by Prometheus, he and Amanra rescue Kastor from the tricked Atlanteans. Arkantos, now a minor god, appears before them to tell them how to stop the Titans. They head to Egypt and the Norselands to battle the lesser Titans, and then return to defeat Prometheus. Ajax accompanies Kastor and Amanra to confront the servant of Kronos directly in the Atlantean colony, but they get ambushed by automatons. After saving the Atlantean citizens, they take a sky passage which leads to the sunken remains of Old Atlantis, where Kronos successfully breaks out of Tartarus. In response, they plant trees to summon the Titan Gaia, who sends Kronos back to Tartarus.
Pillars of the Gods[]
Ajax has died and passed on to the Greek afterlife. After the fallen Chinese hero Huang Zhaowu destroys the Celestial Pillars, the afterlives of different civilizations are fused together. Ajax reunites with the souls of Eitri and Brokk on a section of the Chinese underworld Diyu before they witness the arrival of Yan Feifeng, a Chinese hero who has allowed himself to die to enter the underworld in search of Nüwa's Stones, the only means to restore the Pillars and save all realities. Ajax and the dwarven brothers immediately volunteer to help Yan Feifeng. They retrieve four of the five Stones from the shattered underworlds of the Greek, Egypt, Norse and Atlantean civilizations. Ajax does much of the guiding in the remnants of Erebus, reunites with Setna in the ruins of Duat, helps defeat Folstag's archenemy Halogi in the wreckage of Niflheim, and protects the lost souls of Atlantis in the Drowned Lands. After acquiring all but one Stone, the heroes enter the sealed section of Diyu where Xiaoli, Huang Zhaowu's late wife, is holding the final Stone before she is summoned by her husband to the mortal realm.
After Nüwa's Stones restore the Pillars, Yan Feifeng returns with Ajax, Eitri and Brokk to the mortal realm to stop Huang Zhaowu once and for all. While Yan Feifeng and his friends Cangjie and Houyi are working to summon the god Xingtian to battle Chiyou, the god of war who's been enslaved by Huang Zhaowu, Ajax and his dwarven friends rally their armies to slow Chiyou down. Ajax's Greek troops serve as the first force of defense, while Eitri and Brokk's Norse forces are the second one and Nüwa's followers the third one. After Xingtian arrives and defeats Chiyou, Huang Zhaowu and Xiaoli are cornered by the heroes. Because Huang Zhaowu is immortal, Yan Feifeng imprisons him and his wife inside the artifact called the God Trap. With the entire world returned to its proper state, Ajax and his other deceased friends return to their deserved rest in their respective afterlives.
Quotes[]
Fall of the Trident[]
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These Trojan dogs keep trying my friend… good to see you again. Who did you upset to get sent so far from home?
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~ Ajax greeting Arkantos in response to the latter's surprise to see him still alive.
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I don't understand… will it fight?
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~ Ajax questioning the purpose of building the Trojan Horse.
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Agamemnon has returned with his army! Quickly, rush through the gate and take down Troy's fortresses!
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~ Ajax guiding the Greek troops inside the Trojan city.
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Troy has fallen! Let's find Helen and get her back home!
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~ Ajax celebrating the final victory over Troy.
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No you old fool, we are your own army. We return from Troy.
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~ Ajax in response to an old man mistaking him for a bandit.
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If Osiris is dead, what good is a piece of his body?
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~ Ajax questioning Amanra on the importance of the pieces of Osiris.
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Then he's going to have a really bad day…
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~ Ajax preparing to attack Kamos' base.
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If Odysseus landed here, at least he's eating well.
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~ Ajax upon landing on Circe's island.
“
You go first, Chiron. If you fall screaming to your death, we'll just stay here.
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~ Ajax's comment foreshadowing Chiron's fate in a tragic irony before the heroes enter Niflheim.
“
We surrender… move a little closer!
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~ Ajax rejecting Skult's offer to surrender with a promise of a quick death after killing one of Gargarensis' soldiers with a ballista.
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Ajax: You're sure you don't want to take him back to Atlantis? Put him in a cage somewhere? Arkantos: No, he'll never set foot in my homeland. Ajax: This is for Chiron.
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~ Ajax before he executes Kemsyt (disguised as Gargarensis).
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We're not going anywhere without you.
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~ Ajax initially refusing to leave Arkantos fight Gargarensis alone.
“
What about Arkantos…?
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~ Ajax wondering Arkantos' fate upon Atlantis' destruction.
The New Atlantis[]
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Ajax: Amanra? What are you doing here?! Amanra: We've come for Kastor. Ajax: Us too… when I find him, I'm going to pull his head off!
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~ Ajax reuniting with Amanra while in pursuit of a tricked Kastor.
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Look — Kastor! But… those are Atlanteans attacking him!
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~ Ajax surprised to see Kastor being attacked by the deceived Atlanteans.
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I doubt that thing is going to just sit back and let us build a base.
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~ Ajax predicting that Prometheus will attack them.
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It's a little late for that!
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~ Ajax calling the remorseful Kastor out of the latter's actions.
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I wish we could have brought that Guardian with us.
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~ Ajax and the others entering the Norselands to stop Ymir.
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One more settlement and I'll tear off that Titan's head!
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~ Ajax as the heroes are about to defeat Prometheus.
Pillars of the Gods[]
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I cannot believe that this tiny place is where we spend the rest of our afterlives… and with company like this.
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~ Ajax commenting to Eitri and Brokk about the merged state of the underworlds.
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Welcome, stranger. The gods have gone mad… again. All the underworlds have somehow merged together. I didn't think I'd ever see Brokk and Eitri again!
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~ Ajax meeting Yan Feifeng.
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Yan Feifeng: Will you join me? Ajax: Sure! Yan Feifeng: Just like that? Ajax: What can I say? We've followed crazier heroes on stranger quests before.
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~ Ajax agreeing to help Yan Feifeng.
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Ajax: I've been here before. There were many strange statues that seemed to pulse with life. Brokk: We should crack them open then! Maybe they have the stones we're looking for!
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~ Ajax providing the answer to the location of Nüwa's Red Stone in Erebus' remains.
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Those squawking Harpies will awaken Cerberus! We better avoid them!
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~ Ajax warning against letting the Harpies spot the heroes.
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A Harpy has spotted us! I hear the paws of Cerberus! Move quickly before he finds us!
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~ Ajax warning against crossing paths with Cerberus.
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Shades — they've helped us before. They can show us the way through this place.
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~ Ajax vouching for the Shades encountered in Erebus.
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Setna, old friend! You've been tossed about, too? We've come to find some stones to fix this mess!
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~ Ajax reuniting with Setna in the ruins of Duat.
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Go on, little men! We'll follow right behind!
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~ Ajax freeing dwarves in the wreckage of Niflheim.
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I will find this Huang Zhaowu and pull his head off!
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~ Ajax swearing to win the final fight against Huang Zhaowu.
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Brokk, Eitri, and I will delay Chiyou for as long as we can.
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~ Ajax volunteering to slow Chiyou down.
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Come on, you overgrown bull! I've defeated many of you before!
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~ Ajax facing Chiyou.
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Rip his head off for me, will you?
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~ Ajax defeated by Chiyou.
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So, they will be together after all…
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~ Ajax commenting on the irony of Huang Zhaowu and Xiaoli's final fate.
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