The Spartan Lord

The Spartan Lord

There was once a Demigod named Rymalechai, in which the Spartans of old believed. The tale of the Spartans' great, disastrous victory over the Arab Empire before the battle of Thermopylae including the defeat of 250,000 strong against only 1,000 battle hardened Spartans was never recorded in history. This is that allegory.

Long before the battle of Thermopylae (as the date is known only by the gods), there was a very powerful Demigod, Rymalechai, who was trusted by the greatest warriors of all time, the Spartans. They worshipped this Demigod and all his terrific power. They were grateful for Him and He was grateful for their worship. He did many great things for them; building the Great Wall of China, and the creation of the Pyramids and the Sphinxes (the "Egyptians" are an uncommon misnomer, as are the "Chinese") of old. He would do anything the Spartans wished, so long as they did as He asked; and so their lives went on beholden. He asked only that they train from the age of six to be the most powerful influence in the entire world.

It is believed, as this account goes, that the Spartans received an ultimatum from the Arab empire. Now, not knowing the parlance of the Arabs, the Spartans had no other knowledge other than the fact that it contained a mentioning of the number two-hundred and fifty thousand within its lines of alien text. The Spartans believed it to be a challenge to war. They knew they had neither the warriors nor resources to take on the two-hundred and fifty thousand combat trained and kamikaze soldiers of the Arab empire. They prayed to Rymalechai. They prayed for anything to stop the Arabs from destroying them. They prayed for their waters to be poisoned, for their cattle to be destroyed (for in old times, cows were incredibly powerful sorcerers that have, with time, lost their craft), for their people to be injured by unnatural causes and for their airlines to be bombed (couldn't help it).

Rymalechai acknowledged their prayers as long as they march in two days. The Spartans were ready. On the fourth day, they arrived, in what is now known as Afghanistan, to find many sick and wounded soldiers,