Who was that one character in the Iliad who fought for the Trojans before he left to fight he said goodbye to?

Question

his son and wife but his son cried because he was wearing a mask, and he said a prayer upon him thaks for your help

Answer 1

ah, that's Hector.  During one of the battles outside the walls of Troy against the Greek invaders, a prophet sent him back into the city to ask the women to pray to the goddess Athena to stop siding with their enemies.  After he did so, he went to get his brother Paris out of bed with Helen since men were busy dying for them while they indulged and then he turned down Helen's invitation to stay with her to go find his wife, Andromache, who'd run to the city walls with their son because she'd heard the battle was going badly for the Trojans.  She was terrified for him but Hector told her that no man would kill him before it was his time and when it was his time nothing he could do would change it.  Then he reached for his son, Astyanax, but he was wearing his helmet still and its waving crest frightened the baby.  Hector and Andromache laughed and he took off his helmet to hold his boy and pray to the gods that his son would one day be greater than he was and bring his mother joy.  He held them both in his arms and then took up his helmet again and went back out to battle.  Its in book six of the Iliad.  It's also my favorite scene in the entire story.