The Callapheia

The Callapheia is an epic story from the plane of Theros that recounts the adventures of Callaphe the Mariner after the Akroan War.

Callaphe was a human trickster from Meletis who sailed a ship called The Monsoon and was said to be the first mortal to decipher the secret patterns of the winds. In the tale, Callaphe sneaks into Mount Velus to steal Purphoros's tears, writes down the secrets of Phenax, and races Thassa over the waterfall edge of the world and sails into Nyx to claim her place among the stars. Her adventures are a mythic tour of the Dakra Isles and the coastlands of Theros, describing a panoply of creatures, nations, and marvelous phenomena — some of which still exist as described in its verses, though others are lost to history or myth. In one portion of the epic, the crew of The Monsoon are driven by a storm to the island of Ketaphos, which exists in Nyx during the night and in the mortal realm during the day. Callaphe and the crew are welcomed and fed by a band of Nyxborn centaurs, then find themselves stranded on a barren rock when the the island returns to the mortal realm at dawn. The work is also noted to include multiple heroic minotaurs.

Some of these verses are related through flavor text on cards in the Theros Beyond Death expansion set.

Trivia
The Callapheia shares a similar name and structure to the epic poem The Odyssey, written by Homer near the end of the 8th century BC.