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

King Leonidas

Known only from this scroll

The legendary Spartan king who led the 300 at Thermopylae. Before his famous last stand, he confronted Kalaxes and used a divine amulet from Zeus to imprison the dragon within a mountain, sacrificing his divine protection that could have saved him from the Persians.

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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