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Young Killer

Young Killer

θάνατος

   Pronounced Than-Does

          After years of war, with the growing kingdom of Greece gaining more and more land and citizens…

          A recent Hera-blessed poor couple birthed their fourth child, and at the same time another family, this one royal, was accepting their child's travel to Hades, although overwhelmed with grief.

The fourth child, Alexander, was left at the shrine of Hestia, as the family had fallen ill with a disease, was poor, and could not be treated for their illness. The lifeless royal child was put in a family tomb with three drachmas (ancient Greek coins), two were placed on the eyes and one in between the small dainty fingers.

          In Macedonia, a Greek goddess hears the whimper of a young child while she was checking up on her hearths and shrines in the South. Seven dawn-to-darks of cold cries, she was blown North and to her hearth in Greece by Cronus's will.

Once in her thermal hearth, she fed the infant ambrosia, a whisper of “Αλέξανδρος” pronounced Alexandros, escaped her delta.  

          She moved the babe to a monarch castle in her homeland. While placing the distraught infant within a royal family’s ward ship, the infant slept like a cub that just received mothers golden humor.  She placed the young infant in the Hades’s welcomed bastard’s crib.   (Bastard as in birthed before marriage)

           Hestia was giving this Alexander a new start with new health, favored parents who have lost their heir, and the crown of Doric Dominion. The child would never live another seven dawn-to-darks, if Cronus's willed it not, but Cronus's wills this babe to live, but will travel to Hades twice.

Over the years, the Royal Argead, pronounced Ara-ged, Dynasty raised Alexander to be the greatest possible. 

 At five summers of life he was known to attend many political standings with his father Phillip II, In addition, multiple sacred family stories were told to young Alexander.

Before ten summers of life had passed within the towering castle, the Colt of Serpents attacked the guarded palace, first attacking the Guards, then the Servants, all before dusk, while the queen slept in her  chambers.

As known throughout the kingdom, the Queen was a worshipper of Nagas. The Colt of Serpents requested the Queen to join, only to get a nix. In ferocity, the Colt bombarded the castle walls, unsuccessfully maiming the queen.

Little Alexander attacked the Colt's leader, resulting in him becoming the next Colt Head of Serpents. He then traveled to Hades to see them to their end then returning to his mother, the queen.

Poseidon, notified by Hestia's Co-Hearth Keeper that his blessed royal had been dead for ten summers of mortal life.

At eleven summers of life, Alexander travels to many islands, helping the survivors of Poseidon's rage, until training for possible upcoming wars.

By the time sixteen summers of life had passed, several attacks from the Babylonians on Macedonia had been known among the Mediterranean.  Alexander's father, King Philip II, decided that he and his heir were going to travel to the border of Babylon and the Mediterranean. Macedonia and Babylon were at war.

King Philip II was murdered three years into the war. Alexander did not take the throne yet, seeing as they were in the middle of war. King Philip's II third in command within the military took over the throne for the next years until the war was won by Greece.