Into Persia
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This is my very first story. It is a historical fiction based around Alexander The Great. It's told in first-person from the POV of Callias Attanios, an Immortal born in Sparta in 1500 BCE. He is recalling his time with the Macedonians at a later date. He has a twin brother named Demokritos. Callias and Demokritos are Spartans who, in 365 BCE, are hired to rescue Phillip II of Macedon from Thebes, they are then hired to be his Somatophylakes or bodyguards. After Phillip is assassinated in 336 BCE, his son, Alexander III of Macedon takes the throne at the age of twenty. He then goes on a twelve year campaign into Asia, and with him, Callias and Demokritos Attanios. If you are well-educated on this time period, you will notice multiple historical innacuracies. I will keep the chronologies accurate but I have changed troop numbers, casualties, and battle tactics. This is so I'm not burdened by keeping 100% true to history. I hope you enjoy. I hopefully plan on making sequels of Callias and Demokritos' journey through history, including their time with Rome, which I plan on being the immediate sequel, or maybe not, idc, no one reads this.
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