Eridan Ampora

Intro Eridan Ampora is a major antagonist in Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck. He is a violet-blooded sea-dwelling alien Troll with a genocide complex towards lower-blooded trolls. He succumbs to the belief of the Hemospectrum, in which certain members of the Troll race are naturally higher or lower than one another based on the color of their blood. his Age is 6 Alternian solar sweeps/13 Earth years. The name Eridan was given by Tenebrais. His name may be derived from the river Eridanos, which was poured onto the Earth by Aquarius in Greek myth, or may derived from the constellation Eridanus. Alternatively, Eridan may have been based off of the user Terin's name for Alternia, which was Eridani. His first name read backwards is Nadire; a nadir is a lowest point, or a point of greatest adversity or despair. However, this could be a coincidence. Ampora is likely derived from the amphora, a type of Greek vessel for carrying liquids which is often seen in depictions of Aquarius. Ampora could come from ampere (the base unit of electric current in the International System of Units), since the energy he can create with his wand has a resemblence to electricity. Taking the first syllable of his first name and the last syllable of his last name gives Eri Pora which sounds somewhat like "Harry Potter", although that could be coincidence. Eridan also resembles the word eradicate, possibly referencing his genocidal tendencies. He presumably took his Trollian handle from Troll Caligula. Biography