Gargarensis

Gargarensis
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Mythology
Unit type	Hero
Creation
Population	3
Statistics
Hit points	500
Regeneration	2 HP/s
Speed	4.3
Line of Sight	16
Hack armor	65%
Pierce armor	80%
Crush armor	99%
Ability	Sacred Hands Divine Immunity Regeneration Throw
Collision radius	0.99
Weight class	9
Melee attack
Hack	18
Multipliers	Myth unit: 5× Animal of Set: 1×
Reload time	0.9
Attack range	1
Other
Gargarensis will collapse instead of dying when his hit points reach 1 and can be revived by approaching with a friendly unit

“	Cyclops hero. Regenerates.	”
—In-game description

Gargarensis is the main antagonist in the Fall of the Trident campaign of Age of Mythology and one of the main antagonists (alongside the Fire King and King Folstag) in the Mythical Battle Reginleif's Rally of Age of Mythology: Retold - New Gods Pack: Freyr. He is a Cyclops and the descendant of the Greek god Poseidon. Gargarensis orchestrates an elaborate plan to release Kronos and become immortal. Gargarensis is aided by the Minotaur Kamos, an Egyptian bandit-lord named Kemsyt, and an aspect of Loki named Skult.

Abilities

• Sacred Hands (Passive): Can pick up Relics and deposit them at a Temple.
• Divine Immunity (Passive): Cannot be targeted by enemy god powers.
• Regeneration (Passive): Regenerates hit points at 2 per second.
• Throw (Charged): Gargarensis picks up a human unit and hurls it, heavily damaging the unit, hurting anyone who is in the way, and knocking trees over.
  • Retold: ​30  hack damage in an area of 20. Recharge time: 10 seconds.
  • Before Retold: ​30  hack damage (15 vs Gaia units). Bonus attack: 5×. Recharge time: 15 seconds.
• Gargarensis can be revived after falling in battle.

Campaign appearances

Gargarensis sends Kamos to provoke Atlantis by stealing a trident from a monument to Poseidon (the civilization's patron). Kamos steals the object but is pursued by Arkantos, Admiral of Atlantis. Arkantos retrieves the sacred object and goes to fight at Troy. Sometime beforehand, Gargarensis had Kemsyt lead some bandits to Ioklos. After Troy has fallen, Arkantos and his ally, Ajax, a Greek prince, head to Ioklos to repair their ships. The duo learn what has happened and later defeat the bandits with various Militia, Centaurs, and other units.

Gargarensis imprisons Chiron, a centaur hero, and leads prisoners up a pass into cliffs. Ajax and Arkantos save Chiron and follow the bandit trail.

Here, Gargarensis is found opening a passage to Erebus. Arkantos, seeing this, fights Gargarensis's forces and makes it to the passage to see where the other slaves have gone. After taunting Arkantos about his city and son, he calls down meteors from the sky and kills the slaves and Arkantos's forces. Then, he walks into the open Underwold Passage. Down there he tries to open the first gate to Tartarus. Arkantos and some back-up forces manage to destroy his Giant Gate Ram.

Egyptian part

Meanwhile, Kemsyt attempts to stop Amanra, a Nubian leader, from defeating himself and his Set worshiping bandits. The three protagonists find a way into Egypt and aid Amanra. The heroes find a piece of Osiris and then try to reunite pieces of the god, bringing him back from the dead. Chiron meets Niordsir, a Norse soldier sent to defeat Gargarensis by the Valkyrie Reginleif. United by their common purpose, they retrieve Osiris' head from the great Tamarisk Tree. Amanra steals a piece from Kemsyt, and in the Levant, Arkantos traps Kamos and kills him, securing the fourth and final piece. Kemsyt attempts to prevent the resurrection of Osiris but the heroes reunite the pieces and summon Osiris. Kemsyt then flees Egypt with Gargarensis.

The heroes realize that Gargarensis is heading to Midgard, trying to reach Niflheim, the Norse Underworld.

Norse part

Kemsyt (disguised as Gargarensis) is beheaded by Ajax as vengeance for Chiron's death

On the way, Arkantos and Ajax free Odysseus from Circe and bid him farewell. The villains meet with the trickster god, Loki (disguised as Skult) and enlist his help. The heroes find Reginleif and the dwarven brothers Brokk and Eitri. The dwarves forge Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, closing the third gate, however Chiron sacrifices himself so the others can flee Niflheim. The heroes retreat into a town and fortify it. The villains besiege the heroes and are about to finish off Arkantos and his allies when Odysseus arrives with a huge army. Using Loki's magic, Kemsyt is disguised as Gargarensis and killed by Ajax, while the original makes his escape.

Showdown at Atlantis

Gargarensis heads for the fourth gate in Atlantis. He calls upon his ancestor, Poseidon, to help him break Kronos out from underneath the Great Temple Complex on the island, and Poseidon responds by animating one of the statues erected in his honor. Arkantos and the others evacuate Atlantis. Arkantos, after building a Wonder to Zeus, is later blessed by Zeus and strikes the statue down. It starts to crack and its trident falls impaling Gargarensis, who dies and vanishes into the ocean along with Atlantis.

Legend

Gargarensis (Legend)
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Mythology: Retold - Heavenly Spear
Unit type	Hero
Creation
Population	3
Statistics
Hit points	500
Regeneration	2 HP/s
Speed	4.3
Line of Sight	16
Hack armor	65%
Pierce armor	80%
Crush armor	99%
Ability	Sacred Hands Divine Immunity Regeneration Throw
Collision radius	0.99
Weight class	9
Melee attack
Hack	15
Multipliers	Myth unit: 5×
Reload time	0.9
Attack range	1
Other
Gargarensis will collapse instead of dying when his hit points reach 1 and can be revived by approaching with a friendly unit

“	Start with the One-Eyed Demigod, Gargarensis.	”
—Reward description

Gargarensis is also an unlockable Legend in the Gauntlet mode of Arena of the Gods, added with the release of Heavenly Spear. He has similar statistics to his campaign counterpart with the exception that he becomes stronger in later Ages. If he is chosen as the player's Legend, the player will also start with three Hoplites.

Abilities

• Sacred Hands (Passive): Can pick up Relics and deposit them at a Temple.
• Divine Immunity (Passive): Cannot be targeted by enemy god powers.
• Regeneration (Passive): Regenerates hit points at 2 per second.
• Throw (Charged): Gargarensis picks up a human unit and hurls it, heavily damaging the unit, hurting anyone who is in the way, and knocking trees over. ​45  hack damage in an area of 20. Recharge time: 10 seconds.

Further statistics

God bonuses

• Susanoo: -25% ability recharge time.

Myth technologies

• Olympian Parentage (Zeus): +25% hit points.
• Oracle (Apollo): +5 Line of Sight.
• Dionysia (Dionysus): +5% hit points.
• Beast Slayer (Artemis): +2× damage multiplier vs. myth units.
• Eyes in the Forest (Loki): Animals and natural objects within the unit's Line of Sight reveal their surroundings for 6 seconds.
• Freyr's Gift (Freyr): +10% hit points.
• Sessrumnir (Freyja): +10% hit points.
• Hall of Thanes (Forseti): +5% speed.
• Nine Waves (Aegir): +10% movement speed and +20% attack.
• Channels (Gaia): +15% movement speed when on Lush.
• Volcanic Forge (Leto): -15% pierce vulnerability.
• Heroic Renewal (Hyperion): +10% hit points, +1.5 HP regeneration per second.
• Celestial Weapons (Fuxi): ​+1  divine damage.
• Tai Chi (Fuxi): -10% hack and pierce vulnerabilities.
• Peach of Immortality (Shennong): +15% hit points.
• Shaker of Heaven (Gonggong): +30% hit points, +1× damage multiplier vs. myth units.
• Tempestuous Storm (Gonggong): -25% ability recharge time.
• Golden Kite (Hachiman): +15% attack, +1.25× damage multiplier vs. myth units.
• Eight Banners (Hachiman): +1.5 HP regeneration per second.

Relics

• Fur of Boyi: +0.25 hit points per second regeneration.
• Hermes' Winged Sandals: +5% movement speed.
• Kui Drum: +0.25% attack per 1% hit point missing.
• Ogre-Bitten Helm: +10% hit points.
• Pelt of Argus: +6 Line of Sight.
• The Khopesh of Horus: +1.0 attack bonus multiplier vs. myth units.
• Thundercloud Shawl: -5% pierce vulnerability.
• Tyrfing, Angantyr's Sword: Heal by 10% of damage dealt to units.

In-game dialogue

• Retold
• Original

• Select 1 Πρόσταγμα? [prostagma] (prostaghma?) - Order/command?
• Select 2 Ἕτοιμος/Ἑτοῖμος [hetoimos] (etimos) - Ready/willing
• Select 3 Πρόσεχε! (prosekhe!) - Be careful!
• Select 4 Λέγε [lege] (leye) - Speak or collect (archaic)
• Move 1 Ἔστω [estō] (esto) - Let it be / so be it
• Move 2 Βούλομαι [boulomai] (vulome) - I will/I want
• Move 3 Μάλιστα (malista) - Of course/absolutely (lit. 'most')
• Move 4 Ναί [nai] (ne) - Yes
• Move 5 Πανύ [pany] (pani) - Certainly
• Attack 1 Εἰσβολή! [eːsbolē] (isvoli!) - Invasion!
• Attack 2 Καλῶς [kalós] (kalos) - Good, well
• Attack 3 Εἰς μάχην [eːs makhēn] (is makhin) - To battle
• Attack 4 Πόρρω! [porrō] (porro!) - Forward!

• Select 1 Πρόσταγμα? [prostagma] (prostaghma?) - Order/command?
• Select 2 Ἕτοιμος/Ἑτοῖμος [hetoimos] (etimos) - Ready/willing
• Select 3 Πρόσεχε! (prosekhe!) - Be careful!
• Move 1 Ἔστω [estō] (esto) - Let it be / so be it
• Move 2 Βούλομαι [boulomai] (vulome) - I will/I want
• Move 3 Μάλιστα (malista) - Of course/absolutely (lit. 'most')
• Move 4 Ναί [nai] (ne) - Yes
• Attack 1 Εἰσβολή! [eːsbolē] (isvoli!) - Invasion!
• Attack 2 Καλῶς [kalós] (kalos) - Good, well

Toggle poetry

	“	And he strides among the treetops and is taller than the trees / And his voice through all the garden is thunder sent to bring... What is it, Kemsyt?	”
	—Gargarensis, to Kemsyt, in I Hope This Works

	“	Giants and the Genii / Multiplex of wing and eye, / Whose strong obedience broke the sky... Send Kamos, I want to speak with him.	”
	—Gargarensis, to Kemsyt, in I Hope This Works

	“	They rush in red and purple / From the red clouds of the morn / From the temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn... I will warn you, this once.	”
	—Gargarensis, to Arkantos, in Bad News

	“	The north is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes / And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise... [laughs]	”
	—Gargarensis, in North

	“	In the skies of morning hung / The stair-ways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young... our enemies still live, my friends. Save your anger for them!	”
	—Gargarensis, in Reginleif's Rally

	“	Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift / And the sea folk labor and the red sails lift... your resistance is daring but futile, valkyrie. The Old One will destroy all in the end.	”
	—Gargarensis, to Reginleif, in Reginleif's Rally

Mythology

• Retold
• Before Retold

“	Age -- 59 Homeland -- Lerna Occupation -- warlord Gargarensis is a cyclops and a distant descendant of Poseidon. His great-grandmother Amymone was seduced by Poseidon, an act which Gargarensis has never forgiven. Rather than try to exact revenge against the sea god, the cyclops figures that Poseidon owes him. He wants nothing more than to be a god himself and will stop at nothing to achieve this.	”
—In-game help section

“	Age -- 59 Homeland -- Lerna Occupation -- Warlord Special attack -- Cyclops throw Gargarensis is a cyclops and a distant descendant of Poseidon. His great-grandmother, Amymone, was seduced by Poseidon for which Gargarensis has never forgiven him. Rather than try to exact revenge against the sea god, the cyclops figures Poseidon owes him. He wants nothing more than to be a god himself and will stop at nothing to achieve this.	”
—In-game help section

Trivia

• Like Arkantos, Gargarensis is not based on any mythological figure.
• He was voice acted by J. D. Hall in the original game, and Omri Rose in Retold.
• Gargarensis is heard reciting verses from the poem "Lepanto" written by G.K. Chesterton in the ending cutscene of I Hope This Works and Bad News, and the opening cutscenes of North and Reginleif's Rally.
• Gargarensis is descended from Lerna (Greek: Lerne/Λέρνη), a lake close to the ancient city of Argos, where the Hydra lived, before getting killed by Heracles.
• Gargarensis is the grandson of Nauplius. Greek mythology invokes the name of the mariner Nauplius on several occasions, but it is not clear whether they are the same person, including:
  • Nauplius the son of Poseidon and Amymone, and the founder of Nauplia in Argolis.
  • Nauplius the Wrecker, the father of Palamedes, who shipwrecked the Greek fleet returning from the Trojan War, in revenge for the death of Palamedes.
  • Nauplius the Argonaut, who sailed with Heracles, Jason, and Atalanta aboard The Argo.
• Although Gargarensis is a hero and is revivable, he does not have the "Hero Soul" when he falls. Before update 2.0 in the Extended Edition, he did not have the message "A hero has fallen".

Gallery

Close-up of Gargarensis in Retold

Gargarensis pacifying and rallying the giants

Gargarensis standing on a hill in the original game

Gargarensis with Kamos and Kemsyt in the original game

Gargarensis at the Well of Urd in the original game

In All Is Not Lost

GARGARENSIS vs EVERY MYTH UNIT - Age of Mythology