Patience, Pride, Power.
Ares and Athena represent two sides of the same drachma: Athena is the patience and tactile mind needed to safely and successfully complete a campaign, while Ares is the fire and passion needed to win the day and inspire soldiers. Often trained in military colleges as sibling pairs or married couples, Patient and Prideful fighters are incredibly powerful, but just as they can be each other's greatest asset, they can also be one another's greatest downfall.
The Patient
The goddess of wisdom values planning in war, careful precision, and nonviolent solutions over ruthless bloodshed. Those who seek to emulate the style of Athena adopt a more careful style of fighting, seeking to defend themselves and their allies and strike only when the moment allows for it.
The Prideful
Rage is often seen as a trait of the barbarian, while fighters tend to be more trained and sophisticated. This is not true of all fighters, however, and the combination of brutish anger and trained technique are the specialty of those who follow in the path of Ares. Prideful fighters are full of rage and bloodlust, but still have the skill exhibited by any other fighter.
Timothy's art gives key to the stark differences between Athena and Ares, while Griffin's subclasses bring them closer together.
- from the publisher's blurb