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In tonight’s story, you step into the sandals of a Persian Immortal — one of the empire’s elite soldiers — marching toward the Battle of Marathon with confidence in your training, your comrades, and the myth of your own invincibility."

But history has its own quiet truths.
And on the plains of Marathon, you learn that even the most “immortal” warriors can be broken, forgotten, and folded back into the soil they fought upon.

This is not a tale of glory.
It is a slow unraveling — a calm, immersive descent into the rhythms of marching, waiting, fighting, and finally becoming part of a land that does not remember your name.

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