The "Merope" gear style is one of the five Heroic level armor styles for the Warden hero; the others being the Executioner, Fendrel, Lederic, and Obscure Enigma styles.
Armor Family[]
- Common - Arcturus
- Rare - Elner
- Heroic - "Merope"
- Epic - Lionheart
- Legendary - Folville
- Event - Vengeful Instigator
Trivia[]
- "Merope" was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology. [1]
- One of the Oceanids, the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Merope married Clymenus, son of Helius, and had children: Phaethon and the girls called Heliades.
- One of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and Pleione.
- One of the Heliades, daughter of either Helios and Clymene or of Clymenus (Helios' son) and Merope, one of the Oceanids.
- Daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus. She may have been the mother of Daedalus.
- Also called Aero, was the consort or daughter of Oenopion.
- Wife of Megareus and mother of Hippomenes.
- A Dorian who became the foster mother of Oedipus; otherwise the wife of Polybus was also called Periboea.
- Queen of Messenia, wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus.
- 1051 "Merope" is a dark Alauda asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 68 kilometers (42 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 16 September 1925, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in Heidelberg, Germany, and given the provisional designation, 1925 SA. Reinmuth named it after the nymph Merope from Greek mythology. The asteroid has a rotation period of 27.2 hours. [2]
- "Merope", designated 23 Tauri, is a star in the constellation of Taurus and a member of the Pleiades star cluster. It is approximately 380 light-years away. [3]
- The definitions of "Merope" are: [4]
- 'a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus'.
- 'a queen of Messenia, the wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus, who with Aepytus sought revenge upon Polyphontes, the brother and murderer of Cresphontes'.
- 'one of the six visible stars in the Pleiades'.