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

Thermopylae

Known only from this scroll

The narrow coastal pass where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans made their famous last stand against the Persian army. In this account, it is revealed that Leonidas sacrificed his divine protection to imprison Kalaxes, knowing it would doom him and his men at Thermopylae.

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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