Odysseus

Family

 * son of Laertes
 * husband of Penelope, a ward of the King of Sparta
 * telemachus is his son

Description
"'I looked up at the new voice. A man who had not spoken yet. He was the last in line, sitting at ease on the bench, his curling hair gleaming in the light of the the fire. He had a jagged scar on one leg, a seam that stitched his dark brown flesh from heel to knee, wrapping around the muscles of the calf and burying itself in the shadow beneath his tunic. It looked like it had been a knife, I thought, or something like it, ripping upwards and leaving behind feathered edges, whose softness belied the violence that must have caused it.'"
 * He is the king of barren Ithaca, of rocks and goats.

Helen

 * Oddly enough, he seems disinterested in Helen. He presents a solution to the issue of the losing suitors declaring war on the King of Sparta or on Helen's new husband. In exchange for this, King Tyndareus promises him the hand of Penelope.
 * The solution is to have Helen choose her own husband. Before she does this, every man present must swear an oath to uphold Helen's choice and to defend her husband against all who would take her from him. Helen accepts this proposal.
 * Odysseus is the first to make the blood-oath.
 * Helen chooses Menelaus.

Quotes

 * "I find the folly of men amusing." (ch. 2)