![]() Their friendship will also blossom into love, one that will leave its mark on history. But a friendship forged in youth will carry Alexandros and Hephaistion through the angst of boyhood and into their first battle. Hephaistion doesn’t expect Alexandros to become the most important part of his life. But better to fight than to break his oath. It means defying his father and vowing to serve under the brutal but cunning king Philippos. Hephaistion made an oath when his elder brother was killed. ![]() Then a new boy arrives to serve in the Pages, a boy whose fate will forever be entwined with Alexandros’. He’s clever and impetuous and while he may have been born to be king, he still has to survive his childhood. But in reality, Alexandros is still a boy, isolated by his status and by his sheer determination to prove his worth to the world. ![]() His father is determined to forge him into man. ![]() His mother claims he was touched by divinity. ![]()
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