🖋️ Otrera Before the Flames – The Battle of the Temple of Ares

From the Lost Scrolls of Herodotus, Scroll XIV – The Queen’s Stand

“Atop the sacred hill of Ares, under a moon cloaked in stormlight, Otrera stood alone at the broken gates. The Temple behind her still burned—its altars defiled, its columns cracked by Hittite siege. But she did not kneel.

Her hair, golden and ash-streaked, caught the wind like a banner of vengeance. In her hand, the obsidian-tipped spear burned with more than fire—it burned with memory. The cries of her sisters echoed behind her, Amazonian riders thundering down the slopes, arrows alight in the dark.

Talmi-Tesub, general of the Hittites, had desecrated the gods’ house. He had expected to conquer.

He would not leave with his name.”