: Achilles may have been a hero in Greek mythology, but he was also kind of a
: douchebag*. Hector of Troy/Ilium, on the other hand, acted more like an
: actual hero, to my knowledge...and, in the poem Orlando Furioso , is
: mentioned as the original owner of Durendal. I'm guessing that the guys at
: Bungie weren't aware of that poem; otherwise I feel that they'd have
: gladly jumped on it.
: Also, related art , among unrelated art.
: * yeah yeah, Bungie liked to encourage players to torment the BoBs, but
: canonically it's suggested that the Security Officer doesn't do that.
If you read the Illiad, Hector was on the side of the trojans, who are automatically the bad guys because the winners of that war in history wrote them as such. Hector is a villain-by-default thanks to protagonist-centered morality.
