#something about the very vague flower regrowth imagery

Protesilaus Ebdoma
Prot-eh-sil-OW-us. EBB-do-mah. “Ebb” as in what the tide does. “Doma” as in “domain”.
NOTE: Protesilaus is the first hero to die at Troy. He is also the first man who dies as a result of the Lyctor Trials. “Johnny Quickdeath” would’ve also been a good pick.

—Tamsyn Muir, “A Little Explanation of Naming Sytems”, in Gideon the Ninth

The first to die was PROTESILAUS
A focused man who hurried to darkness
With forty black ships leaving the land behind
Men sailed with him from those flower-lit cliffs
Where the grass gives growth to everything

—Alice Oswald, Memorial (adapted from The Iliad)