Ulysses

Ulysses is a Summon sequence of the Mars element found only in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. When two Mars Djinn and two Mercury Djinn are on standby, and Ulysses’ Summon Tablet has been collected, the Ulysses Summon sequence can be activated. It resembles a glowing card transforming to a Japanese-themed mage that summons six slips of glowing paper, and each one transforms into a giant scissor-like object that bites and crunches the enemy party.

Ulysses has a base Mars power of 160 and also does additional damage equivalent to 12% of the enemy’s maximum HP. In addition, there is a small chance that each foe hit will lose its next turn in battle. Ulysses, however, is not automatically summonable once one collects the required Djinn. Ulysses can only be summoned once the Summon Tablet containing the sequence has been found and collected in the Izumo Catacombs. This sequence, along with the rest of the dungeon, can only be found with the Sand Psynergy. Unlike the rest of the catacombs, however, the Parch Psynergy is also needed to obtain the Summon Tablet.

Ulysses is not considered a very useful Summon sequence; it does roughly 2/3rds the damage as Meteor, which uses the same physical number of Djinn for activation, and its additional effect does not activate often enough to make up for the lack of damage. What would make it useful as an alternative to Meteor is that it uses two Mars Djinn and two Mercury Djinn; a Mars Adept casting Ulysses would only need two Mars Djinn on standby to summon Ulysses while the rest of that adept’s Mars Djinn would be Set and therefore provide statistical boosts and a better class to that Adept (it can happen that an Adept with four Djinn on standby may be KO’ed before he can use those standby Djinn for summoning due to his statistical weakness).

Cultural Allusions
Origin: Greece

The Ulysses featured in Golden Sun bears no resembelence to the original. Ulysses was a protagonist featured in the Greek poet Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'. Ulysses was king of Ithaca, but was sworn to defend the marriage of King Menalaus and Queen Helen of Troy. Therefore he had to lead forces against Troy to recover Helen, whom went with Paris. After the war was won, he had to sail home to Ithaca but encounters many trials and tribulations on the way.