In the blood-soaked fields of Lakonia, beneath a thunderstorm that split the sky, a child was born — not in a cradle, but among corpses.

His mother, Thaleia, a fierce Spartan warrior, gave birth to him as she lay dying on the battlefield, surrounded by slain enemies. Her final breath was a whisper to the storm:

"Protect him."

The storm raged unnaturally that night — thunder howled, lightning split the sky, yet the infant lay untouched by rain, blood, or flame.

The priests whispered that Zeus had marked him.

They named him Erevos — born of storm and war, forged in mortal blood.