This entry belongs to the lexicon of Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer, free on Kindle Unlimited.

Golden Olive Branch

Known only from this scroll

A sacred relic in Athena's temple, said to have been touched by the goddess herself during the shrine's consecration. In "The Nemesis of Owls," the high priestess makes a desperate but futile attempt to protect this artifact from Kalaxes' gold-summoning power.

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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