Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon

“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”

– himself

Background and Character Information

Full Name: Alexander III of Macedon (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, Aleksandros)

Other Names: 

Born: 20 or 21 July 356 BC at Pella, Macedon, Ancient Greece and North Macedonia

Died: 10 or 11 June 323 BC (aged 32) at Babylon, Mesopotamia

Species: Terran Human x Deity

Nationality: Greek / Macedonian

Age: 24 (Weather Dragons only) / 32

Gender: Male

Occupation: Prince of Macedon, General, King of Macedon

Language Spoken: Greek, Albanian, Persian, English, others

Alignment: Good

Paraphernalia: Sword, shield, sling

Powers and Abilities: nothing

Partner(s): Roxana of Bactria

Relative(s): Philip II of Macedon (half-father), Olympias of Epirus (mother), Zeus (father)

Dynasty: Argead

Affiliate(s): others

Likes: Bucephalus, Aristotle, his friends, Roxana, his family, wine, wheat, strategy, training, polyglot

Dislikes: Mosquitos, Darius III (temporary), selfness, demanding, apple, azalea

Inspiration: himself

Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon (borders between North Macedonia and Greece) and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was introduced as main tritagonist and minor antagonist in Steal Scene of Gaugamela War.

Physical Appearance

Alexander is a Greek young lad that resembles his mother more than his father, pale skin, black hair and eyelashes, and hazel eyes. He wears metallic armor made of iron to brass, white brief to white and yellowish skirt and shirt, bronze bracelets, and brown long laced sandals.

Abilities

Alexander is the one of the students that teached by Aristotle since he was young, he was unbeknownst to him. He was inherited by Zeus as an accidental curse, as a gift to hide and forget his magical powers. According to the ancient Greek biographer Plutarch, on the eve of the consummation of her marriage to Philip, Olympias dreamed that her womb was struck by a thunderbolt that caused a flame to spread "far and wide" before dying away. Sometime after the wedding, Philip is said to have seen himself, in a dream, securing his wife's womb with a seal engraved with a lion's image. Plutarch offered a variety of interpretations for these dreams: that Olympias was pregnant before her marriage, indicated by the sealing of her womb; or that Alexander's biological father was Zeus.


When enraged, Alexander was mad when Roxana and Darius were unconscious by Azhi-Seruvara, an extraterrestrial from an unknown planet; he used magical electricity and coated his sword of lightning that instantly paralyze.

Personality

In his early years, Alexander was raised by a nurse, Lanike, sister of Alexander's future general Cleitus the Black. Later in his childhood, Alexander was tutored by the strict Leonidas, a relative of his mother, and by Lysimachus of Acarnania. Alexander was raised in the manner of noble Macedonian youths, learning to read, play the lyre, ride, fight, and hunt.


When Alexander was ten years old, a trader from Thessaly brought Philip a horse, which he offered to sell for thirteen talents. The horse refused to be mounted, and Philip ordered it away. Alexander, however, detecting the horse's fear of its own shadow, asked to tame the horse, which he eventually managed. Plutarch stated that Philip, overjoyed at this display of courage and ambition, kissed his son tearfully, and bought the horse for him. Alexander named it Bucephalas, meaning "ox-head".

Background

He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of 20. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Western Asia and Northeastern Africa, and by the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.


With his death marking the start of the Hellenistic period, Alexander's legacy includes the cultural diffusion and syncretism that his conquests engendered, such as Greco-Buddhism and Hellenistic Judaism. He founded more than twenty cities that bore his name, with the most prominent being the city of Alexandria in Egypt. Alexander's settlement of Greek colonists and the resulting spread of Greek culture led to the overwhelming dominance of Hellenistic civilization and influence as far east as the Indian subcontinent.


When Alexander was 13, Philip began to search for a tutor, and considered such academics as Isocrates and Speusippus, the latter offering to resign from his stewardship of the Academy to take up the post. In the end, Philip chose Aristotle and provided the Temple of the Nymphs at Mieza as a classroom. In return for teaching Alexander, Philip agreed to rebuild Aristotle's hometown of Stageira, which Philip had razed, and to repopulate it by buying and freeing the ex-citizens who were slaves, or pardoning those who were in exile.

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