Dragon Corruption
Known only from this scrollThe magical taint transferred through Kalaxes' death fire that manifests in Alcibiades after death. Beginning as golden veins beneath his skin, it eventually transforms him into something neither fully dead nor alive, with the power to transform and corrupt other underworld entities. This corruption contains fragments of Kalaxes' consciousness and carries the dragon's gold-lust, though redirected toward power rather than mere acquisition.
Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the reason the 300 died. Leonidas used the magic of the gods to bind Kalaxes beneath Taygetus, and the price was his life and his men's. Sixty-two years later a seven-year-old of the agoge falls into the dragon's crypt and inherits the unpaid balance.
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