In the end, Achilles is the one to ask Chiron to teach him what Chiron was supposed to be teaching him all along. Chiron, meanwhile, doesn’t focus on Achilles’s skill but rather on its implications, warning Achilles that other people will want to use him. Chiron seems more interested in Achilles as a person than in Achilles as the half-god hero with a destiny. Patroclus, for his part, wants to avoid violence entirely, in part because he seems to think that by avoiding fighting he can help Achilles escape his destiny.