This entry belongs to the lexicon of Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer, free on Kindle Unlimited.
Styx, River
Known only from this scrollThe principal river of the Greek underworld, forming the boundary between the world of the living and the realm of the dead. Souls must cross this river, ferried by Charon, to reach the afterlife.
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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