Scion (far down the Dardanid line, his divine blood much diluted) — the aged king of Troy through the Trojan War, son of Laomedon, born Podarces and ransomed/renamed by his sister Hesione. Father by Hecuba and other wives of fifty sons and many daughters, among them Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Cassandra, Creusa, Polyxena, and Troilus. His night journey to ransom Hector's body from Achilles is the climax of the Iliad; he was slain at the altar of Zeus Herkeios by Neoptolemus when Troy fell.