Hektor is Priam's favourite son. He is renowned as a great warrior and general, and one of the finest soldiers ever. However, he hates killing, despite being so good at it. He is one of the most purely good characters in the series. Hektor loves his wife Andromache. He has been rendered impotent after an injury in a fight, and so agrees to bring up as his own her son by Helikaon. For most of the trilogy, they are the only two to know who the boy's real father is. Priam dotes upon his son, seeing him as the only man of worth among his many children. He is Priam's heir, and loved by the people.Hektor commands the Trojan Horse, Troy's mighty cavalry. He is greatly loved by the soldiers under his command and knows all of their names and those …show more content…
However, at the end of the first book he returns in time to save the city from the Mykene attackers. The author uses the term "Trojan Horse" as wordplay: he insinuates that the term was literal and referring to the elite cavalry corps of Troy, rather than the wooden hollow horse mentioned in legend. Hektor beats Achilles in a fistfight at his marriage celebrations. When he later kills his second in command, Patroklos, Achilles challenges Hektor to a duel. In the duel, Agamemnon makes sure that Hektor gets a poisoned blade. This mortally wounds Achilles, and Hektor is set upon for cheating. Enraged by the conspiracy, Hektor and Achilles die side by side, fighting off Agamemnon's bodyguard. Were a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War. As the first-born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, a descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy, he was a prince of the royal house and the heir apparent to his father's throne. He was married to Andromache, with whom he had an infant son, Scamandrius (whom the people of Troy called Astyanax). He acted as leader of the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing