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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9594623" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Some of the things Hercules did were things a person could, eventually, learn to do in myth or legend or fairytale or folklore. Because Beowulf--who is not a demigod, his mom is descended from a king and his dad was a local chieftain or the like--does things comparable to them. Other things he did, nah, that's definitely magical in some way. Consider, for instance, the Nemean Lion. Clearly a divinely-created monster (cut from the same cloth as, for example, Python), invulnerable to weapons...but not to good ol' wrasslin. The wrestling part? That's a thing a transmundane hero like Beowulf could learn to do. Using the lion's own claws to skin it and thus get an invulnerable-to-weapons cape? That's magic, specifically a magic item. Diverting a river? If Beowulf can swim home across the sea while carrying 30 sets of armor, I can't see how temporarily diverting a river would be harder. Ascending to full godhood upon being sacrificed on the funeral pyre? Definitely magical (of the divine boon variety).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9594623, member: 6790260"] [I]Some[/I] of the things Hercules did were things a person could, eventually, learn to do in myth or legend or fairytale or folklore. Because Beowulf--who is not a demigod, his mom is descended from a king and his dad was a local chieftain or the like--does things comparable to them. Other things he did, nah, that's definitely magical in some way. Consider, for instance, the Nemean Lion. Clearly a divinely-created monster (cut from the same cloth as, for example, Python), invulnerable to weapons...but not to good ol' wrasslin. The wrestling part? That's a thing a transmundane hero like Beowulf could learn to do. Using the lion's own claws to skin it and thus get an invulnerable-to-weapons cape? [I]That's[/I] magic, specifically a magic item. Diverting a river? If Beowulf can swim home across the sea while carrying 30 sets of armor, I can't see how temporarily diverting a river would be [I]harder[/I]. Ascending to full godhood upon being sacrificed on the funeral pyre? Definitely magical (of the divine boon variety). [/QUOTE]

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